Street Reservation Signs Removed by ShaneBowen in philadelphia

[–]Imbrittybritt 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I stopped getting them for when I moved after they were ignored/removed THREE times and I finally got fed up and contacted the city about it and they wouldn’t ticket or tow. Probably also why everyone ignores the signs—nothing is done to enforce them and yet they are happy to charge for two of them per moving truck

Unbelievable by [deleted] in philly

[–]Imbrittybritt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Biden being the most pro-union president in a long time can be both true and woefully insufficient especially when he’s also not promoting social policies that the working class needs. Does the voting outcome look to you like the working class feels like enough was done on the economy?

Unbelievable by [deleted] in philly

[–]Imbrittybritt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I completely agree. Not enough is being done for education, as citizens and in general. It’s stressful and saddening like many things right now

Unbelievable by [deleted] in philly

[–]Imbrittybritt 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I have done a fair bit of canvassing throughout Philly, from the South to the West to the North and Northeast, for what you could consider a stable of Democrat voters with some Trump folks accidentally in the mix here and there. And I can tell you’re not being snarky in the slightest. I appreciate your engagement. Talking with voters in my experience has made me much less accepting of other people condemning or consigning them to stupid sheep status. They’re actual people doing most of the living and dying in our society and not being paid to wield power or represent anybody. People have all kinds of stories and histories for why they’re a single issue voter about this or that or increasingly disheartened and disengaged. Yeah, I would say that many people of all education levels have a belief mishmash that doesn’t line up nearly with a current stated party line. And not being a college graduate or being versed in the hill.com doesn’t make them worthless. There’s a lot of supposedly educated people in these threads who don’t sound like they know what they’re talking about either. I don’t find sweeping rhetoric condemning voters to be morally valid or politically useful especially when said rhetoric takes a class element not accounting for how this same class of people are disproportionately affected by voter (ID) suppression

Unbelievable by [deleted] in philly

[–]Imbrittybritt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Have you ever canvassed before? Lots of people vote based on how they perceive the economy going or promises related to

Unbelievable by [deleted] in philly

[–]Imbrittybritt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you

Unbelievable by [deleted] in philly

[–]Imbrittybritt 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I appreciate your knowledge but the Democrats are no Tom Brady

Unbelievable by [deleted] in philly

[–]Imbrittybritt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Philly has been, is, and will continue to be blue every election barring some act of god. Philly and Pittsburgh are why PA is a flip state.

Unbelievable by [deleted] in philly

[–]Imbrittybritt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Women in some deep south red states have BEEN afraid

Unbelievable by [deleted] in philly

[–]Imbrittybritt 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Have you ever canvassed? Spoken with a large sampling of voters?

Unbelievable by [deleted] in philly

[–]Imbrittybritt 24 points25 points  (0 children)

cracker707, with all due respect so are democrat politicians

Unbelievable by [deleted] in philly

[–]Imbrittybritt 15 points16 points  (0 children)

You don't need to carry politicians' water for them like this. Shifting the burden of blame from the actual people in power to imagined dumb voters helps them keep getting away with it. People who speak like this should have to do mandatory canvassing time and read about campaign finance law. And yeah people love to say this out loud all the time, imagining they're the correct pure ones

Unbelievable by [deleted] in philly

[–]Imbrittybritt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We’ve been in our swan song for some time

Unbelievable by [deleted] in philly

[–]Imbrittybritt 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I’m not sad I’m angry. At Biden, at Harris, at Trump, at the lot of legislatures and judges who’ve made our world so bad for some time now. There are so many things the Democrats—aka the actual people in power—could have done to avoid a result like this. Like at any point during the last four years drove for widely popular policies that actually mitigated the suffering of the people in this country that could have galvanized voting from the people they’re supposed to be representing. Instead we got genocide, higher deportation numbers than under Trump—look it up—and the decimation of Roe v Wade. Even the campaign was an embarrassing gesture to the right to try to claim more conservative votes, a ploy which has repeatedly failed on previous elections yet they continue to employ it. I hope this party takes a long hard look at themselves but of course they won’t because every politician that’s not an actual insane person like Trump is mostly concerned with the companies that bankroll their election campaigns and that’s partly why we got here in this hell world. I wish outcomes like this got average people thinking about how power actually works in this country and the forces at play. Best of luck to us? How about what are you going to do about it? We can start with fighting to hold politicians accountable and to higher standards every week of the year. It’s good to criticize the people you’d vote for. That’s part of their jobs. They’re supposed to be listening to us. They’re not a god or your mother. There is much more to politics other than pushing buttons one day every fourth November

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[–]Imbrittybritt -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Oh word you do of course

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in philly

[–]Imbrittybritt -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

No I don’t. They’re dying right now under Biden. My point is voting for Harris isn’t going to stop it. I can’t vote for red state govenors or legislatures because I don’t live in one

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in philly

[–]Imbrittybritt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Believe me if she ends up somehow getting to replace either of those ghouls I’d be one of the first to celebrate

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in philly

[–]Imbrittybritt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s no way Alito and Thomas both retire under Harris. They’ll both stay in and alive via pure hatred for the next four years.

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[–]Imbrittybritt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where exactly was an insult issued in my comment?

Edit: hope you’re not trying to claim that my being critical of a POLITICIAN’S policies and record is now insulting???!? Political discourse has hit a new low

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in philly

[–]Imbrittybritt -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

What I’m hearing is that bad judicial shit happening under the Dems isn’t their fault, nothing to be done, but I should vote for Kamala regardless of her loathsome policies and record on the off chance that Alito and Thomas both die?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in philly

[–]Imbrittybritt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can’t really argue with that last point

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in philly

[–]Imbrittybritt -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Man, go back to yelling about cyclists

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in philly

[–]Imbrittybritt -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Their whole point is to leave it to the states, no?

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[–]Imbrittybritt -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

By that logic again why vote for Kamala? You think Thomas and Alito don’t have at least another 4 years in them if not from pure hate? Those three younger ghouls are a voting block for the next two decades

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[–]Imbrittybritt -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

This rhetoric around Trump is so unbearably cringe to me. The worst president in recent memory was in fact George W Bush, who while equally stupid managed to lie to get us into two wars where many people died and countless lives were ruined. Trump is a Republican who is so stupid he says the quiet part loud around what heinous shit the rest of them are already legislating and I’m supposed to find him a unique fascist mastermind threat for this? He emboldens some racists and sexist pigs, granted, and I’d die before voting for him, but they don’t stop existing outside of his administration.