hobovision
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We need lots and lots of lawyers on our side to fight this stuff. Sometimes we will lose in court, but often we won't. A lot of judges actually do believe in the rule of law. Not everything will make it to the Supreme Court and not everything that does make it there will be upheld.
If we don't fight things in court, nothing stops them from taking effect, so that is priority number 1 in terms of funding. We need to pay good lawyers good money or else they'll watch the US crumble with the rest of us.
Rug puller. He got his, now anyone else can fuck off.
Oh, honey, oh no
All of the fires are :(
While the palisades fire is showing a lot of very rich folks that their money doesn't make them immune to fire, there are a lot of relatively regular people who were barely hanging on to their homes in a very expensive area who lost everything and could be financially ruined forever.
Don't get me wrong, vanishinlgy few of those in the palisades were poor before the fire. But a lot could be now if they were uninsured or if their insurance fucks them over.
There's a bunch of apartment buildings in the area that burned down too. Families who were protected by rent control lost their apartment and now where do they go?
Sure, but we aren't quite at Cuban missile crisis levels of heat either.
I'm soooo sorry I didn't specify that it would need to be invoked against a significant nation-state and that a concept like terrorism doesn't count. I understand that could be very confusing otherwise.
It's just the second cold war. You'll know WW3 started when NATO invokes Article 5. Until then, it's all just proxies.
In the first cold war there were proxy wars in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, etc. Now it's Ukraine and Israel/Syria/Lebanon.
I've ridden Amtrak but I've also seen videos about how Via Rail is basically unusable. Amtrak has improved significantly in the past decade as well, while Via seemingly regressed (again, Via info is based on other people's experiences, not mine).
Hooooboy is Via Rail going to impress you with how terrible it can be.