If Biden loses the election this is why. Trump is a total fascist dictator but you can't ignore problems right outside your front door and that's where some of these migrants could end up sleeping soon.
I was talking to this old man from South Dakota last week. He stated “we’re being invaded because our president won’t do anything.”
When I explained that a President can’t run around making laws - Congress is supposed to make the laws, but they haven't, he snapped “Well, he should MAKE them!”
Isn’t it frightening that adults believe a POTUS is directly and personally responsible for state and local decisions? Like he has the authority to break any law and force all elected officials in the USA to bow to his tyrannical will? And that when he doesn’t do this, everything is his fault, so he shouldn’t be re-elected?
The past week saw Democrats take up Trump’s hard-right immigration policy as their own for campaign fodder, with the liberal press’s assent. The very xenophobia that Democrats decried as “fascism” has become their policy agenda.
Just from the word "go", this article smells of alarmist and hyperbolic bullshit.
This crisis is caused by every adult Texan who didn't vote against - or who voted for - Governor Greg the sadistic psychopath Abbott, who proudly values the protection of toxic waste more than human life.
The state of Illinois should place these 13,200 people in hotels with complimentary room service, and bill it ALL to the great state of Texas. I’m sure those taxpaying patriots are happy to put their money where their vote is.
honestly the most annoying part is he purposely times the busses to arrive in the middle of the night on weekends wherever. The city and state have asked that they just work with them to send them to designated locations at designated times. The other annoying thing is they want the feds to allow them to work as that will solve a lot of the issues.
The luddites were not protesting technology. They were protesting their labor being squeezed. That the factory owners, thanks to new technology, were going to be able to pay less and keep more. It was a labor movement.
The looms were the symbol, not the problem.
The luddites were, of course, crushed with great violence. Then all their predictions of the future came true. They were almost beyond all doubt right.
Driverless cars... the threat may be similar but the scale is tiny in comparison. I think these protests are actually about the technology, not how it affects labor. It's about these cars being seen as dangerous threats on the streets.
I only wish that ire were turned toward their city managers office instead of the cars. If people want safe streets, they aren't going to get them targeting driverless taxis. They have to go after all the fundamentally unsafe auto oriented design.
@allenmichie@livus Can't tell if your comment is pro or con but, yes, Luddites, absolutely.
And that's a GOOD thing.
It's time we do what they did, two hundred years ago.
"...workers knows as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the hands of factory owners who were using automated machines to erase their livelihoods."
Not the first time I've heard of the luddites. It doesn't matter if you're the workers getting replaced by automation or a cable company getting replaced by streaming television; fighting against changes in the economy and technology is an unwinnable battle. The problem with self driving cars is that they're worse solutions for transportation than other, lower tech solutions.
I thought I saw in another thread that the car entered an area having a Chinese/lunar new year party in the street. Does nobody really know the motivation here? Seems it works be easy enough with some on the ground reporting.
I will sympathize with the programmers that that would be an edge case that they might not have had forethought to program a response to. Informal closing of streets isn't the orderly logic that programming is built upon.
That said, it's just another example of why public roads are not the place to beta test and develop their products. Get these cars off the streets.
As an aside, my dystopian mind just makes me realize that the path we are on is a handful of corporations controlling transportation. When autonomous vehicles are commonplace, we will be reliant on them for approval on where we get dropped off. Imagine if it wouldn't take you somewhere for whatever reason a corporation wants to use.
At the moment, no outlets seem to have reported a motive for the attack.
I feel that anyone who writes a line like this hasn't spent any time at all with people who walk around on the streets of San Francisco. They don't need a motive, man! The destruction is the motive.
At the moment, no outlets seem to have reported a motive for the attack.
Okay…
The California DMV suspended Waymo rival Cruise’s robotaxi operations after one of its cars struck and dragged a pedestrian last year, and prior to that, automated taxis had caused chaos in the city, blocking traffic or crashing into a fire truck. Just last week, a Waymo car struck a cyclist who had reportedly been following behind a truck turning across its path.
The pedestrian in that accident was struck by a human driver, hit and run, THEN they hit the Waymo, which did a pull-over maneuver. It did drag the victim (of the HUMAN) in error. It did not strike them at all.
In fact the actual real issue was the C-suite trying to cover it up, intead of being upfront with the DMV. THAT’S what got Waymo in trouble. All fired now, as expected, the shitheads.
A vote for Trump is the same as spitting in the face of Ronald Reagan. Then again, Reagan's face should be spat in. I'm kind of conflicted, to be honest.
In a just world, Trump would be swinging at the end of a noose already.
"Oh no, now everyone knows I was part of a campaign to get people fired for being anti-genocide".
Police your own involvement with hate groups and white supremacists. If you get implicated because you were tangled up with those people, it's your own fault.
Anyone taking bets on if it's the deep state or one of those damn lone wolves that got riled into a frenzy by all the ridiculous conspiracy theories but it's an isolated incident because there is only one superbowl a year and no one even actually died so there won't be any consequences for the source of this person's anger?
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