Nathan MNov 24
Preston Austin

Wisconsin's Republican lawmakers propose new fees for hiking, biking, cross-country skiing on state-owned land

😒 “Hikers would need a $20 permit to hike on state land”

Because public land ain't for the poors, amirite? $20's a material expense to you? You only use parks once a year? Too fuckin bad. Get a minimum wage job and work for a few hours to earn enough to pay for that privilege of walking on the land the people of Wisconsin set aside for the people of Wisconsin

https://www.wpr.org/news/republican-proposal-wisconsin-fees-hiking-biking-cross-country-skiing

Republican lawmakers propose new fees for hiking, biking, cross-country skiing on state-owned land

A Republican-led proposal would require new fees for people looking to hike, cross-country ski, bike, canoe or forage on state-owned land. 

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Nov 24 at 3:37pmTusky
Show threadPreston AustinNov 24
Fees for public goods and services, means tests to get around those, and elaborate apologies for such an ugly approach to shaping society around race, class, and their intersections are the favored preoccupation of a petty, small, and far too self-satisfied cross section of humanity 🙄
Show threadPreston AustinNov 24

Anything to get another way for some surveillance. Another point of data collection. Another justification for labeling people's stuff. Another reason to challenge people who aren't where "we" want "them" - a pretext for Ken or Karen to report to the nearest bastard with a badge

We're going to have to discuss this as tho adding a fee and enforcement mechanisms for it isn't adding more of the dangerous contact with carceral violence nice white people can't see 🙈 to every brown person's Wisconsin

Show threadPreston AustinNov 24
it would appear that i'm absolutely hands-shaking goddamn fucking furious about this 😅