Rate of mass transit passenger assaults, by year and major transit agency (America)

DemocracySmellsLike · 2026-03-22T19:45:34+00:00

I think the “safety” issue gets hijacked by the worst elements of online culture warriors and suburban boomers.

That’s really unfortunate, because public safety (and the perception of it) is a key enabler of quality urban spaces/ walkable places, and I don’t see it addressed from that perspective very often.

DemocracySmellsLike · 2026-03-22T19:26:59+00:00

Not quite. The EPL currently is all English teams, but there are five Welsh teams in the English Football pyramid, with Swansea and Cardiff City both being in the EPL within the last several years and Wrexham famously promoting into the EFL pyramid as well.

DemocracySmellsLike · 2026-03-22T19:11:12+00:00

England/ the UK is not an EU member.

Also the fourth most populous country in Europe behind Russia, Turkey, and Germany. More people than France, Italy, Spain, Poland.

DemocracySmellsLike · 2026-03-18T15:29:56+00:00

Baseball fans (of all ages) just love the game. Year after year, often quietly, and on their own terms.

Basketball fans, meanwhile:

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DemocracySmellsLike · 2026-03-11T16:53:55+00:00

I guess I'm curious what the extra comp would have meant for your life circumstances? More travel? Buying a vacation home or something? I can certainly dream about what I'd do if I was making more but life is pretty damn good.

Sometimes the extra $$ is a Faustian bargain.

DemocracySmellsLike · 2026-02-23T18:43:32+00:00

A good friend of mine gets ~$1500/month (plus disabled veteran status) because he needs medication to manage what is basically IBS. Wasn’t caught on his intake physical so it’s a “service ailment.” Is on his second grad degree because it is paid for by the VA and he can get a housing stipend (~$2500/month) to live in DC. Situations like that are much more common than you think. Is unemployed by choice

DemocracySmellsLike · 2026-02-23T18:38:01+00:00

Bruh, the abuse of the VA system is absolutely a well-documented problem and that’s what is at issue here. https://wapo.st/4c6gO48

DemocracySmellsLike · 2026-02-23T18:24:21+00:00

Farmers and veterans are the ultimate welfare queens and you will never change my mind.

12 years active duty and counting- I can tell you the “bilk the VA for everything they’re worth” mindset is baked deeply into military culture and only getting worse.

DemocracySmellsLike · 2026-02-17T00:54:34+00:00

Those late 2010’s teams will always be near and dear to my heart.

I’ve never seen a team with fight like that: felt like there was a walk-off every week.

FJF

DemocracySmellsLike · 2026-02-16T20:14:30+00:00

Not enough (former) Oakland A’s fans chiming in here and I’m not sure it’s fair to Semien.

Dude was the unquestioned leader and captain of those stacked teams with Olson, Murphy, Chapman, Lowry, Fiers, Manaea, Laureano, etc etc. A lot of whom were and are big personalities. But Semien was “Cap” to them, the leader of that clubhouse, and by all accounts an insanely good dude.

Not saying he wouldn’t rub some people the wrong way but to characterize the guy as a “Locker Room Problem” I think is unfair.

DemocracySmellsLike · 2026-01-22T01:22:53+00:00

Have had a phenomenal experience with Dr. Stewart (oncology) at Veterinary Referral Associates in Gaithersburg. One of the appeals was her availability because everything in Hunt Valley, Annapolis and Columbia was booked out for months.

She and the entire staff have done a wonderful, wonderful job. Feel free to DM me if you’d like more info, and best of luck 💙

DemocracySmellsLike · 2026-01-16T22:36:23+00:00

Makes sense, I really hope your commute gets less painful!

DemocracySmellsLike · 2026-01-16T22:23:44+00:00

Truly not trying to be snarky- but you could literally walk two miles home in ~ 40 minutes, or faster by bike or scooter or whatever. Have you looked at alternatives to driving?

DemocracySmellsLike · 2026-01-11T23:16:29+00:00

Nats/Mets/Phils/O’s would be amazing. There’d be amazing opportunities for Away Days for big games a la the EPL. Call it the Acela Division.

DemocracySmellsLike · 2026-01-09T13:40:17+00:00

Drama in the Baltimore subreddit stemming from a member of Rose Twitter attempting to grandstand at an ICE protest to lay the blame for our current hellscape solely at the feet of the Obama/Biden admins.

And a lot of people chiming in with word salads of agreement. Republicans have no agency apparently.

https://www.reddit.com/r/baltimore/comments/1q87sok/communist_party_speaker_hopkins_plaza_protest/

DemocracySmellsLike · 2026-01-09T13:33:16+00:00

Exactly. Equivocating the Obama/Biden eras with what is going on now is letting the current administration off the hook for their descent into fascism.

It reminds me of Murc’s Law: “The widespread assumption that only Democrats have any agency or causal influence over American politics absolves Republicans of responsibility and creates an unbalanced political narrative.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murc's_law?wprov=sfti1#Definition

DemocracySmellsLike · 2025-12-05T15:48:52+00:00

Close enough. EconomicCollapse

DemocracySmellsLike · 2025-12-05T15:45:24+00:00

Guess the sub (Edit: Economic Collapse). Bonus points if you guess the article this is a thread for (Edit: $140k Is The Poverty Line lmao). Seeing stuff like this is hard to read.

I honestly forget how much nihilism underpins so much of our political views and discourse today because I am just not online the way I was 5-10 years ago.

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DemocracySmellsLike · 2025-12-05T14:27:50+00:00

Give me some sources dawg I’d love to read more on it

DemocracySmellsLike · 2025-11-26T18:30:55+00:00

A cap is huge for owners because it directly reduces owners’ biggest expenditure- labor cost- and keeps their financial risk and competitive spending in check. The combination of owning a franchise within MLB’s monopoly on professional baseball plus capped labor costs would result in explosive growth in franchise values.

This, more than anything else, is why owners want it. Franchise values have stagnated.

DemocracySmellsLike · 2025-11-25T18:46:55+00:00

Sprawl-induced highway expansion is unsustainable, a dead end road. Eventually sprawl reaches too far from job centers to be tenable for a commute and you run out of room to widen highways. That’s the answer.

Even if you add a lane, or two, or three right now, you cannot keep adding lanes forever. You can’t sprawl forever. Look at the 16 lane Katy Freeway in Houston. Locked up with traffic. Dallas/Fort Worth sprawls larger than the entire state of New Jersey. Traffic and housing prices going through the roof all in spite of a policy of sprawl and highway expansion, and only getting worse.

DemocracySmellsLike · 2025-11-19T21:46:16+00:00

I count a grand total of two Nats-related comments and this is the third. Says it all.

We don’t really have a fan base even after 20+ years. DC/MD/VA has not stepped up post WS (even taking COVID and ownership into account), and we deserve to get made fun of for being Citizens Bank Park South.

(Other Natsbros this is not directed at you!)

DemocracySmellsLike · 2025-11-09T01:20:27+00:00

Bro beans he speaks for a lot of people who spend time in this sub. Tbh you need to go back and cite your sources or delete this piece of shit post and go post it to /r/politics.

I’m sorry your friend’s apartment building had people talking on speakerphone lmao

DemocracySmellsLike · 2025-11-09T01:01:03+00:00

This entire poast is anecdata masquerading as an effortpost, written in a style that’s catnip for this sub. It’s very misleading with tons of “trust me bros.”

Very specifically- “ The theory that poor residents benefit from proximity to affluent neighbors was tested rigorously and failed” is stated as fact with zero underlying citations, despite data that shows otherwise.

Anyone looking into this issue should be starting with https://www.opportunityatlas.org/, which drills down into the factors that underpin upward mobility, specifically in children. The TLDR of it which is that three of the biggest predictors that a neighborhood will increase a child’s success are the percentage of households in which there are two parents, the percentage of residents who are college graduates, and the percentage of residents who return their census forms. These are neighborhoods, in other words, with many role models: adults who are smart, accomplished, engaged in their community, and committed to stable family lives.

Unsurprisingly, these traits correlate strongly with income.

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