John Q McDonald

@jqmcd@sfba.social
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Eeyore was a childhood hero
… another dopeless hope fiend …

I'm getting really f'n tired of these "6-3" rulings in the Supreme Court that allow #Trump's agenda to continue as normal. The guy has a death-grip on all 3 branches.

#uspol

@0xabad1dea of course, the date is 7/14
@ai6yr Not a rocket, but a space capsule, without the explosive power you’re implying here

@GottaLaff Due process? Nah, what a waste of time!

(first they came for the criminals, then the people who hang out with criminals, and the people who hang out with them, then the guys at the convenience store where they shop, then the convenience store suppliers…)

@jwildeboer along with those e-bikes that are essentially electric motorcycles

Let's be clear. This is a car. Four wheels. It weighs 225 kg empty and you can add up to 200 kg of cargo. That's not an electric bike, as the manufacturer claims it is. This is a small car that occupies and blocks the bike lane. This concept shouldn't exist. Us cyclists already have to deal with bad infrastructure. I see this as a provocation, not as the positive change it pretends to be. Such vehicles belong on the road, not the bike lane.

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@GottaLaff Notice how people aren’t saying so much “this is not who we are”? It may not be who we are, but America, sadly, very much is…
@jeffjarvis
It's absolutely insane how journalists have completely normalised this notion of "reaching a deal" as the natural outcome and legitimate resolution of public bullying, extortion, and blackmail by government officials. Some kind of new public governance model.
“They made healthcare a commodity, education a debt trap, and housing a speculation market — then told you that poverty is a personal failing.
They privatized survival and called it freedom."
~ from Michell C Clark
The same people who deny that releasing 40+ billion tonnes of chemicals annually into the atmosphere changes our climate think that an airplane spraying a few tonnes of chemicals into the atmosphere definitely does. I want the world to be less stupid, as well as less evil.
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@vicgrinberg yeah this is pretty much what it looked like when I was there in 1990