The fact that 'fifteen-minute cities' is now a dirty word really puts into perspective all the time people spent agonising over whether 'defund the police' and similar slogans were too radical.
@Loukas i think the response to 15 minute cities reaffirms my affinity to really brazen slogans like "literally eat the rich" and "fully automated luxury space communism".
@em the history of successful reforms suggests they are often granted because of fear of really radical demands, rather than because of recognising moderate demands as sensible.

@Loukas @em

That's how the US got an income tax

To the oligarchs, the income tax was far less scary than the guillotine

@trochee @em England got income tax to fund war with France, so I like your version better.

@Loukas @trochee @em

Just moving that Overton window. And I thought it was fully automated luxury gay space communism. Don't deQueerify it. 😉 Otherwise it doesn't work as well!

@Homebrewandhacking huh. i can amend the way i say it.
i thought since the internet decided a while ago that space is gay, it was redundant to say gay AND space

@em

I'm just messing around but I guess it's a big Internet since I hadn't heard about space coming out.

Who am I to assign gender to the infinite? 😀

@Homebrewandhacking @em

Can confirm. Space is gay.

(Okay, strictly speaking a flat Minkowski spacetime is straight, but as soon as you put any mass in the system, what does it do? It bends.)

@passenger

Ahhhh... an unexpected reason. Very good. 😀

@em