The current court has made it clear "civic lore" is fundamental to interpreting the Constitution, though curiously this seems to only apply to certain causes.

The US version: kill the national flood insurance program so we stop subsidizing property owners in disaster prone areas.

Government is the means by which the electorate acts collectively. Pushing for policy changes is not giving up.

People need cars because we designed our environments to require them. It was a choice, not an inevitability.

And here we are. Needing cars. Unless you want to spend the big money of rebuilding cities.

To be clear, the money is already being spent, it’s just a question of what we make the priority. Even just keeping the current roads useable costs billions of dollars, let alone the amount of money spent on highway expansion (which, due to induced demand, causes even more traffic).

In 30 years, every road that exists currently will have been replaced. The question is if it should be replaced with another road, or should some of them have larger sidewalks, bike lanes, bus lanes. Amsterdam has been doing this for decades and it’s going very well. They spent money that would’ve been spent rebuilding a road on making it a better general transportation option.

The two party system is the game theoretic result of first past the post. No amount of wishing will change that.

Can you seriously look around at the wild policy swings we observe and say that Reps want the status quo?

If yes, you might want to look at your information environment.

Because their information environment was convincing them Biden was corrupt because... Hunter's laptop?

How can you prove the negative?

Why fact check it? Facts are kinda of irrelevant in this brand new world anyway.

Where are you getting this 15 year old average? That seems highly unlikely to be accurate.

Gruez was spot on, our last car was 15 years old. Though I don't know if his stat considered resold cars. We wouldve kept it too but the work it needed was $8k. Parts were available and already imported, just that mechanics in the area had all raised their labor rate. I support liveable wages but that points to tarrifs having higher order effects than just the goods that they apply to.