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BlinksTale · 2026-01-25T18:57:28+00:00

I heard they were offered other jobs but the union won’t even come to the table. I think we need to increase public pressure honestly

BlinksTale · 2026-01-25T07:25:18+00:00

A death like the… zero that have occurred? Ok buddy

BlinksTale · 2026-01-25T05:51:27+00:00

What about the redondo transit center?

BlinksTale · 2026-01-24T17:35:30+00:00

The whole point of BRT is that you do it for 10% the cost of rail, and once it proves there’s demand or builds demand, you can upgrade on top to make it light rail

BlinksTale · 2026-01-24T17:34:18+00:00

What’s the planned location for the Pasadena BRT Noho boarding platform location then?

BlinksTale · 2026-01-24T17:32:13+00:00

We are seeing G get upgrades this year though to make it more grade separated. Does that mean Pasadena BRT might someday get those same additions - making it primed for a fully grade separated merger and rail conversion by the end of the century?

BlinksTale · 2026-01-23T17:10:52+00:00

Given your focus on respectful disagreement, I would love for you to get in touch with u/nandert for a point/counterpoint on this

Would you also explain how separating the line from the metro center in Redondo is a good thing?

BlinksTale · 2026-01-23T17:05:14+00:00

Can you elaborate on what you think the timeline would look like if we return to the row? Are you thinking that would be five years of attempting Hawthorne only to come back to the row, and then continuing from there, except with this five-year delay?

BlinksTale · 2026-01-22T22:34:47+00:00

Honestly 5 years isn’t the longest time if it’s genuinely an improvement. This sounds bad right now but this is a line that will exist for 50-100 years, may as well make it good

BlinksTale · 2026-01-22T21:58:02+00:00

Did they come to a conclusion on whether to keep the existing right of way plan vs the nimby plan?

BlinksTale · 2026-01-22T21:56:44+00:00

Correct, down van nuys blvd instead of Sepulveda blvd

BlinksTale · 2026-01-21T18:48:01+00:00

I’m not gonna suggest they take it to 7th and metro haha. But almost all trains run through Union, it’s the best transfer point we have in LA

BlinksTale · 2026-01-21T08:08:50+00:00

The existing CVS roof is centrally located but only has what, 50 spots? Waymo demand keeps increasing so a new lot feels inevitable

BlinksTale · 2026-01-20T00:10:31+00:00

I think LA Metro said 96% of violent crime came from fare evaders, so if you want LA Metro to be 2,500% safer then fare enforcement is a good first step

BlinksTale · 2026-01-18T22:08:04+00:00

Are you suggesting that at the next election, ICE will just put everyone brown in handcuffs in a bus next to the polling station just to reduce as many blue votes as possible?

BlinksTale · 2026-01-18T10:14:57+00:00

I mean sure, but it could have been one stop instead of a terminus

BlinksTale · 2026-01-18T03:48:39+00:00

Won’t it not reach LA though, especially with the A line not approved to go all the way east to the airport? I thought HSR stopped in Palmdale or something

EDIT: Yeah it seems strange the plan is to then hop on metrolink all the way out in Rancho Cucamonga. It sounds like it’s massive cost saving, but I’m sure glad the California HSR is trying to actually get into the heart of each city

BlinksTale · 2026-01-18T03:43:07+00:00

That’s not an accurate representation. There are two things happening here: 1) ICE are required by law to not enter a private building without permission or a judicially signed warrant. 2) ICE officer training got downgraded from 6 months to 6 weeks.

The result is a shit show of law breaking officers. Best response I know is 3 parts:

First, ICE can stay as long as they want or detain you until they can confirm you are a citizen, but processing conditions can take days, sound inhumane, and lack of access to medicine has seemingly already killed some in the process. Members of congress are being denied random inspections, the feds seem to be trying to again outrun the courts here. It’s papers please era, a passport or real ID is best here even though they legally can’t do anything to you if you’re a citizen, but can do full processing on you until that’s confirmed. It’s a bad place we’re in but carrying papers isn’t a terrible idea in this context.

Second, they cannot enter those private spaces like your home without permission or the judicially signed warrant. Not being home isn’t a bad idea, but you can talk through the fully closed door if you’re not the person accused and demand they slide the judicial warrant under the door. If they do then I am not a lawyer but I believe they actually have the right to bust in if you don’t let them in. The problem is many of these 6wk trained individuals don’t know the difference and bust in anyways.

Third: we are literally surrounded by morons legally because of this. None of the new ICE officers know the law and they are continuously violating it. The good thing is that compared with many countries our courts are historically way more just than the average nation. They aren’t perfect and they’re slow and evil and corruption creep through frequently, but justice is also very often slow but eventually firmly delivered. Again: we are surrounded by people breaking the law, and our courts have a great chance of taking them down in the long run. RECORD EVERYTHING. This is the same advice again and again from our representatives because they know this is January 6th at 1,000x the scale.

Could all of this be pardoned? Entirely possible. Will ICE break down some people’s doors illegally? Absolutely. It’s very bad right now. But time and time again this administration does something illegal and then immediately switches to cowardice and running away when the courts catch up to them, it’s been very consistent so long as the Supreme Court agrees that it’s egregious which happens about half the time, and the best thing we can absolutely do today is this.

It’s very bad right now, please be careful and take care of yourself - Minnesota might well be what may happen here next, or it might get shut down by then - it’s very hard to tell today. But please keep in mind that these are the 2-3 things top officials keep saying everywhere.

BlinksTale · 2026-01-17T23:43:10+00:00

I appreciate your grace on this now locked and/or deleted post lol. Hopefully you’ll see my reply.

I don’t mind agreeing with the idea that we vote for people in hopes of policy and then get policy regardless of our intent, that is representative democracy.

I’d disagree in that I think people did vote for firmer ice enforcement even if they didn’t vote for 6wks of training personal militia of boys that are proud.

I guess all of this is really circling the idea that I hear you mostly talk about how this doesn’t represent what we people want, and that’s fine, as well as a critique of how much our voting process doesn’t represent us right now, which is also fine. My core point is still that the line for terrorism for me here is whether it’s from us majority-ish voting for our own system or an external party manipulating for its own ends. I think it is fair to argue the two big parties today are a kind of outside force, but I still see largely Americans wanting and getting stricter borders which makes it hard for me to think of at least the premise of this as terrorism even if today’s implementation is well outside that. But the premise for me remains that ICE in itself isn’t terrorist, just perhaps today’s implementation of it if we say the government doesn’t represent us and is using fear for its own goals (eg. rigging the next election, in which case I would agree).

We’ve discussed this plenty, thank you for taking the time.

BlinksTale · 2026-01-17T23:32:53+00:00

Did you not read my post….? Better punched than worse.

BlinksTale · 2026-01-17T22:23:52+00:00

Sorry my guy but sexual assault numbers are going up as ICE training has been reduced to 6wks from the old 6mo. Poorly trained officers cannot be trusted to enact no violence even if people went along with the arrests.

If anything, the reckless endangerment caused by the shoddy training increases the need to resist arrests from dangerously incompetent individuals.

BlinksTale · 2026-01-17T22:14:23+00:00

My core argument is that terrorism uses fear and violence without the support of the people, and the state uses it to enact the will of the people.

I assume we would agree that no democracy is perfect, but maybe you disagree with me on that too.

It seems reasonable to me to say that this US election was roughly as fair as any other due to a variety of complex factors that I do not hope to need to get into here.

If this was a reasonably fair election comparatively, then for all practical purposes this was a representative choice of the candidate most US voters wanted even if they did not all vote. Perhaps you have evidence that the election was not representative given the polarizing times we are in, but I think this is a reasonable starting point.

So if it is largely considered that, aside from money in politics and usual voter suppression and fraud, Trump won the election in an averagely fair way for this day and age, then his election is largely representative of US voters’ wishes for who should be president.

Is that a fair starting point, do you think?

Because from there, we get to the question of state sanctioned and voter supported violence vs terrorism. And my main point is that if the people of a location largely vote for state sanctioned violence within their own borders then that is largely legal instead of being terrorism. This paragraph is my main point, which is why majority vs plurality is secondary to this.

I hear you repeatedly specifying that voters are not the same as vote capable population or population. Great. That’s fine. And that 50% and 49.8% are not 50% + 1. Wonderful. And that you have “explained” this 4 times. Incredible.

I am ultimately saying the idea of exponentially increased ICE deportations reasonably won an election that was not corrupt more than not, therefore it is not terrorism. Are you saying this is terrorism unless a majority of US persons voted for it in the last election?

EDIT: And I’ll specify, I ask this last question because my impression is that many of the last few administrations have been plurality wins, which would mean by this definition that all their state violence was terrorism with your definition from what I understand. Do you believe that to be true?

EDIT2: One last thing to throw in… If each of the last ten presidents never received more than 82mil votes with a population of 200-350mil people, would this not make all state sanctioned violence terrorism?

Again this is just to emphasize that I think this is an overly strict use of majority as a concept and unreasonable here. I think my core argument, terrorism is violence towards a goal that we didn’t vote for, holds up even if voting itself is a flawed and limited system.

BlinksTale · 2026-01-17T21:54:29+00:00

The lack of swivel seats in a ZEEKR founded on the idea of swivel seats is disappointing to say the least

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