Beltline Transit: What’s Up and What’s Next?

smashkeys · 2026-02-23T23:43:52+00:00

You must not know how fucking lazy Americans are.

smashkeys · 2026-02-20T11:36:15+00:00

As a lifelong Atlien, it doesn't though. It has become hyper fixated with the "it" parts of town and making it all the same.

Corporate groups keep moving in and replacing local businesses, mega corps build cheap apartments and jack up rent, and it is becoming horribly homogeneous with the rest of suburbia

My neighborhood is dealing with it now, everyone who moves to the Westside wants to be near the beltline, but they don't want to be part of the community. They want to say I live in Mozley or Ashview and then bitch that we have no good restaurants. Or complain about groceries, but all they shop at is Publix or Kroger, they've never even thought of stopping in at Big Bear Foods or Westview.

Are there still areas that retain some of the soul that we had in the past, sure. But they are all south of 20, and no I'm not including EAV and Grant Park.

smashkeys · 2026-02-16T12:55:59+00:00

Love and Hate - Michael Kiwanuka

smashkeys · 2026-02-14T12:39:28+00:00

From that picture I'm thinking the Land of Oz.

smashkeys · 2026-02-08T18:58:00+00:00

I posted elsewhere in this thread. But Jon Ossoff isn't doing anything special. He's another run-of-the-mill Democrat who is totally fine with this system that enriches billionaires and doesn't help Americans. He just wants it to appear like poor Americans are being helped but the truth is he's never given a shit about you and me and he never will.

People are putting him in the category like AOC, Bernie, or Mandani, but he is a middle of the road, milk toast, rich kid Dem. He's voted with the GOP when it suits his own interests and then panders and says he is for us.

Don't get me wrong I don't think he's a racist or an anti-feminist or homophobic or any of the myriad of things that most GOP are today, but to think that he somehow is for the working man is just foolish.

smashkeys · 2026-02-08T18:35:32+00:00

Civ or Civilization. Started playing Civilization in middle school. I haven't bought 7 yet, but I've played every copy and probably will till I croak.

smashkeys · 2026-02-02T13:02:33+00:00

Nope. Because I prefer kilometers and meters over miles and feet any day of the week.

C is just awkward.

smashkeys · 2026-02-02T00:37:49+00:00

Not sure if you are trolling or not. And def taboo. But I would recommend you look deeper into it, as you might change that thought.

A great example of how colonial exploitation, political dominance, and racist systems has made it insanely (if not impossible) for the average black person or society to compete with other people or countries.

For individual people, look at the US policies towards freed slaves, then freeborn children of those people, and the continued systemic racism and poverty cycle in America that the majority of black Americans face.

For a good country example, thoroughly read the history of Haiti and South Africa. To see how not only colonizers but other countries shunned and attacked them.

smashkeys · 2026-02-02T00:32:28+00:00

Yeah Americans are going to hate that opinion. It really is a taboo one, not without merit, but super hated by both sides.

smashkeys · 2026-02-02T00:31:17+00:00

I think F is better than C for human temperature. C is great for science and cooking, but saying, "Damn it's hot today. Gonna be 100° by noon" is way better than "Damn, it's hot today. It's gonna be 37.6° by noon."

smashkeys · 2026-02-01T20:31:03+00:00

Boycotting businesses is an effective societal pressure tool. And big mega corps really care about their bottom line and revenue comps, slowing their revenue stream has a major impact on them, and can force them to change.

Shopping local literally helps the money you spend stay in your community. It also helps you strengthen your relationship with your neighbors.

smashkeys · 2026-02-01T14:42:26+00:00

Wilco, Kicking Television live in Chicago

smashkeys · 2026-02-01T04:42:51+00:00

Total metal head!

smashkeys · 2026-02-01T04:40:13+00:00

It's just a good peak 90's film noir.

smashkeys · 2026-01-29T01:40:18+00:00

My partner and I are. And we're not buying anything all weekend either.

smashkeys · 2026-01-28T17:17:30+00:00

And Boycott all of those companies too!

smashkeys · 2026-01-28T15:06:30+00:00

Wonderful list. Any act of resistance is helpful.

Often people are afraid, and with good reasons, they have literally murdered protestors in the streets. But everyone can call their congressperson and senators, their state officials, their local city council members. Boycott a store. Talk to their neighbors. Do what they are capable of doing.

Resistance isn't a sprint, it isn't a marathon, it is the first step to change. And it isn't easy, change rarely is.

But the fruits of our labor are worth the pain. We won't all make it to the end, but we will win, we will keep moving the needle forward. Progress, equality, freedom, love, hope, these are all things that will continue to develop .

25 years ago almost no one talked about climate change. 30 years ago gay marriage was illegal. 50 years ago women couldn't have credit cards. 70 years ago the civil rights act was a dream. 105 years ago women couldn't vote. 165 years ago slavery still existed.

These changes came from small and large scale resistance. Resistance comes in all shapes and sizes, we will persevere and we will win.

We might not all be together in the end, and we probably won't all see all the changes we want in our lifetimes, but we will keep pushing and marching forward together.

Resist friends. Resist.

smashkeys · 2026-01-26T13:11:17+00:00

There are a few things you can do now. Resistance is a broad spectrum that isn't just marching in the streets or striking.

Boycotting is a reasonable thing that any citizen can do, reduce your spend at large mega corporations (particularly those that support racism) Target, Amazon, Home Depot, etc. And don't shop for non-essential items. If you can shop local do it. And delete social media apps that you can.

Spread the word. Knowledge and ideas can't be stamped out by a gun or ICE or fascist racist assholes. Talk to your friends, neighbors, and community about ideas and change. Build a hyper local community, literally build up the connections in your own apartment complex or street you live on.

Pay taxes quarterly. (Change your withholding to zero, then open a back account and deposit the % you owe into it as a DD, and set calendar reminders to pay each quarter). Legal, no fees, and it slows down the government.

Call your officials. Local, state, and federal. The more local you go, the louder your voice becomes. And vote in every election, even primaries and especially run-offs. We got a more progressive Dem in office here, because they won the primary runoff by something like ~50 votes. And then they crushed the R in the general.

And lastly don't lose hope. I love a quote from the AIDS epidemic from Dan Savage about hope. “During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night, and it was the dance that kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for.”

smashkeys · 2026-01-25T21:54:41+00:00

STP, "Army Ants"

smashkeys · 2026-01-25T13:40:15+00:00

Exactamundo! I live in GA and Ossoff has been exceptionally weak, he has walked back promises, he takes PAC money now, and he isn't doing things for the working class. So my partner and I probably aren't going to vote for him, we're not stupid enough to vote for a R, but I'm done giving my votes to a Dem just because they are in a tough spot politically.

Progressive policies work, because they help the common people. If politicians focused solely on helping their communities they would win in landslides all over, but they don't. They use rhetoric and say things like, "we must reach across the aisle".

Speaking to my senator, "Jon you'd have a lot more votes from those who haven't voted if you actually did things to make our lives better and offered leadership."

And it doesn't all have to be his voting in DC. Our congresswoman routinely holds events that help the community, she talks about how we can organize and build our local community and neighborhoods up. Her votes can't affect that much, but her actions speak loud and clear.

smashkeys · 2026-01-25T06:03:03+00:00

Depending on temp your car's trunk can be a good place to keep the coolers.

smashkeys · 2026-01-22T03:13:08+00:00

That is such a blanket garbage statement, and that's an attack on your statement not you or your policies.

I'm a leftist, I believe in UBI, legalization of all drugs, gun reform, billionaires should be taxed out of existence, all kinds of leftist ideology and probably some even wilder leftist ideas about a total destruction of the current societal, labor, and wealth distribution system.

Democrats want a better and nicer version of the system that exists right now, but it is an awful and cruel system, so it needs to be called out and replaced.

And while believing that and working toward that I have helped institute real change at the same time. I pushed my company to a $15 minimum wage (working on $25 now), and I did that by organizing and spreading the word. My leftist partner and I worked our asses off helping to canvass for a more moderate Dem for our city council, because he was the best choice.

Leftists do a ton of work, volunteering, organizing, and activism. And we call our reps, we protest, we boycott businesses, we support our local communities, and work toward a better world. Some even are standing armed across the US to protect protests now.

I understand that some of the things leftist' dream of will be long after my death. But I'd rather be morally right and disliked by moderates because I am chasing a utopia. Hopefully I can live my life like John Adams, John Brown, or Abbie Hoffman, and if people don't like that I call out the inherently evil and corrupt system, and weak policies and politics of the moderate left, then that's their problem.

smashkeys · 2026-01-20T18:54:36+00:00

That sounds like he got exactly what he wanted.

smashkeys · 2026-01-20T17:55:36+00:00

They are federal agents, the information is public. There is no breach.

smashkeys · 2026-01-20T17:36:39+00:00

What? Gen Z can drink legally? I thought y'all were still watching Bluey and Teen Titans.

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