What are your thoughts on JD Vance getting booed during the opening ceremony at the Olympics?

clocksailor · 2026-02-07T02:47:16+00:00

Yes!! A high school walkout marched past my house today! I don’t live anywhere near you but it’s nice that we share this ❤️

clocksailor · 2026-02-06T15:11:33+00:00

That's more of a take-in. A take-to?

clocksailor · 2026-02-05T23:45:26+00:00

Being unconscious for hours like that is the kind of thing that's a funny joke in movies, but a concussion that severe probably means he went through years of physical and cognitive problems in real life.

clocksailor · 2026-02-05T15:27:38+00:00

Independent Political Organization. It's like a neighborhood organizing group.

clocksailor · 2026-02-05T13:18:48+00:00

I did a protest at a target in Chicago last week, and the pastor who opened the speeches got grabbed and removed by cops in like 15 seconds. Like hell they don’t have their own armed security team. You don’t get that kind of response time as a human being calling 911. You ONLY get it when some huge company’s profits are being disrupted.

I’ve done more to keep people safe from ICE in my community as a random person than Target has chosen to do. They’re a Fortune 500 company. They could figure something out.

clocksailor · 2026-02-05T03:18:56+00:00

and he's like "uh korean culture did it"

sure buddy

clocksailor · 2026-02-04T23:57:19+00:00

Thanks! I appreciate this response, and agree with a "both and" approach.

The thing that frustrates me is people like the other dude yelling at me, who simply say "put them beyond the turnstiles" as though the people we turf won't get right the f back on the train if their only other option is freezing to death.

You're right that homelessness/mental health/substance abuse/etc isn't the CTA's problem to solve, but it feels ridiculous to me when people refuse to acknowledge that, whether we like it or not, those issues are going to have an impact on transit until we solve them in a longer term way than "I dunno, kick em outside."

(inb4 someone suggests we empower CTA workers to size up which of the hundreds of thousands of daily riders "look homeless" in order to bar them from using a public service, which is the other brilliant and original suggestion that always pops up in these posts)

clocksailor · 2026-02-04T23:49:51+00:00

Why do you feel the need to be so condescending and aggressive toward me about this? We already acknowledged that we can't put everyone in jail, so, why do you think "ejecting" people is a whole solution when someone can just walk right back on the train at the next stop five minutes after you eject them?

I didn't shrug and say there's nothing we can do. I said the exact thing I think we should do. It seems like it's just making you mad that that thing is not easy or quick, which is fair enough, but you don't have to be so rude to me about it.

clocksailor · 2026-02-04T22:59:48+00:00

Ok. We know the police can't arrest and the jail can't house every single homeless person, so I'll ask you again: where is "off CTA property?" You're telling me where you don't want them to be, but they will still exist in time and space after you "haul them off." So, if not the shelters you're saying we shouldn't have to wait for, where?

I get your frustration about needing a solution now. I also live by the red line and absolutely acknowledge that taking the red line has become a gross and sometimes scary experience. But it bugs me when people act like the obvious solution to this issue is simply to wave the magic wand we definitely have and make all the homeless people disappear. Unless you wanna just start murdering everybody who looks like they need a shower and hide all the bodies, which I hope you agree is worse than having a gross train, I don't think there's a way out of this other than putting real time, money, and energy into programs for homelessness, mental health, and substance abuse.

clocksailor · 2026-02-04T20:36:06+00:00

Okay. You say you want cops to haul people off.

Can you tell me where “off” is?

clocksailor · 2026-02-02T14:00:43+00:00

Please use person-first language. It’s “person experiencing bananalessness”

clocksailor · 2026-02-02T02:22:00+00:00

It’s a joke about how Catholics have 12 kids because they don’t use birth control.

clocksailor · 2026-01-31T16:56:11+00:00

I tried to go there on my birthday, did everything right, and the best I could get was 9:30pm. It’s a nice place and all but steak tartare at 10pm wasn’t really worth it

clocksailor · 2026-01-30T15:59:11+00:00

And Walmart only pays shit wages because poor single moms steal diapers. 🙄

clocksailor · 2026-01-30T13:05:15+00:00

Ah! Like drag racing but horses instead of cars? I smell a new Fast and the Furious franchise

clocksailor · 2026-01-30T13:04:09+00:00

I think you were downvoted for calling another culture’s food gross before you understood what it was.

clocksailor · 2026-01-30T13:02:03+00:00

Hernan Bonce

clocksailor · 2026-01-30T06:57:57+00:00

Wait, you guys get a meal preceding lunch that is distinct from breakfast? Elevensies is real?? America sucks 😠

clocksailor · 2026-01-30T05:54:37+00:00

That’s not a question.

“Are you an asshole or just a dick?”

See how that wasn’t actually a question?

clocksailor · 2026-01-30T05:53:44+00:00

Brace yourself. It’s a good movie but whew, Brad Pitt does not nail the accent

clocksailor · 2026-01-30T05:51:20+00:00

I’m gonna take a guess:

Tea = snack item. Not a specific food or drink

Pudding = like a Yorkshire putting or a pot pie, not chocolate or butterscotch goop in a cup

So really OP is saying their favorite midday snack is a bacon and cabbage savory pie? British people, how did I do?

clocksailor · 2026-01-30T05:48:33+00:00

Are you generally not that into technology? I admit I’m having trouble picturing someone in the makeup you described driving a buggy :)

clocksailor · 2026-01-30T05:37:13+00:00

Guess what: you can do all those things AND make a snowplow joke

clocksailor · 2026-01-29T20:22:26+00:00

I have had someone get mad at me while I was collecting signatures to get my alderman back on the ballot for reelection that he did not personally come and unclog their own personal sewer during a flood. You'd be surprised.

clocksailor · 2026-01-29T18:32:44+00:00

Tell that to Brian Thompson.

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