JodaUSA

JodaUSA t1_j9uivvp wrote

Remove the sign. It’s not legal but fuck landlords. They are leaches and nothing more.

This is no different than a plantation owner putting up an anti-abolition sign as far as I’m concerned. Do not respect landlords.

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JodaUSA t1_j8xeujd wrote

It’s disappointing to see people responding to this with so much apathy and hatred…

We get it, vermont seems safe, but the democrats are maliciously incompetent across the union, not just the south and Midwest.

If you want to consider yourself a decent don’t get to choose to care about politics or not; if you want to be a good person you need to want the world to be better, and this apathy only benefits those who want the world to be worse.

Republicans aren’t going to stop radicalizing, they will only get more overtly fascistic.

This does affect vermont. Directly.

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JodaUSA t1_j6n4rvk wrote

My only concerned in sharing stories like this is that it really feeds into the Police’s propaganda that they are the “Thin Blue Line” and all the shit.

So just so someone is saying it, the increase in violent crime is 100% about growing economic hardships. That’s the reason this is happening. When people are desperate they are obviously going to turn to crime.

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JodaUSA t1_j6l0og8 wrote

Ok think the main thing to overcome here in terms of making such a plan viable is the private nature of most of Americas train lines. Private train lanes are never going to expand into rural vermont on their own, and the government giving them money to do it is a sure fire way to waste millions.

I could see this being viable through the public sector though. I have daydreamed about similar ideas for years; vermont is honestly just begging to have some good train lines to turn the state into a economic power punching far beyond its weight!

love from rail city Lmao ❤️

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JodaUSA t1_j6jrhl5 wrote

The social contract is bullshit because society is forced on you. You don’t agree to participate, you don’t get a choice. It’s not some consensual arrangement between you and the rest of society. You don’t get a choice in whether you participate or not, and so the notion of a social contract is just propaganda to make people think that they agreed to whatever societal woes they face. The theory was literally invented in the age of colonialism, its not exactly a theory to champion.

And the deer is only less important if you think American social values are inherently worthwhile, and to assume American social values are inherently valuable I’d by definition nationalism. To think you should go to prison because of the symbolic value of killing a particular bird is obviously nationalist bullshit.

The only actual reason that that poaching is bad is because it makes the ecosystem unstable. Killing a bird is equally impactful as killing a deer in that sense.

If both of these acts are materially the same, then any rational government would implement that same punishment, and I don’t think prison is really suitable.

Prison entirely ruins your life. It’s far too serious a punishment for this crime. Getting your life ruined cause you shit a bird? I think yanking away their right to own guns, so that they cannot repeat this act, and a fine to help pay for conservation efforts, would be an actually suitable punishment.

The social relevance of the bird should be entirely irrelevant to our justice system. But that metric killing a celebrity would be worse than killing a normal civilian.

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