Never pre-comply with fascism. You think it's bad if you don't comply, it's worse if you do.

Better raise usage fees on normal people instead

Yes, I'm sure. Americans would also rather see some return on investment from their tax money instead of seeing it used to kill brown people. Note that this is different from Republicans, who tend to be antiamerican.

I'm sure that sounds better in the original Russian.

You might have a better point if we had public transportation or bicycling infrastructure in this country. Instead we're a third-world banana republic courtesy of decades of right-wing extremism abandoning everything but motor vehicle subsidies.

Then they can move to Wyoming. 80+% of the population lives in just 1% of the US by area. Most of us literally don't have the room for cars and would rather see freeways removed from the cities and suburbs in favor of something that actually scales to the space we have, instead of wasting literally half of that space around where people actually live for the movement and storage of cars.

We don't want to spend the $10k/year each car costs on average to own in this country. We want reliable, frequently scheduled, public transportation. We want safe bike routes to work and shopping. We only want to worry about driving so rarely it's more practical to rent a car on the odd occasion one is actually needed.

What kind of judgmental prude lives their life like you?

They have a bot problem for the same reason every other commercial site has a bot problem. Every person has vacated commercial social spaces for greener, self-hosted pastures like the fediverse, personal blogs and *gasp* going outside.

Still a conservative.

OK, racist.

Kate Brown is solidly conservative. Just not an extremist about it.

Given that the average speed city of traffic in the US nationwide is 7 MPH, you might as well just switch to a bicycle.

Pamplin Media Group is a right-wing extremist propaganda outlet. They also own KPAM, one of the region's 24-hour hate speech radio stations. I have serious doubts as to the veracity of anything in this article as a result.

Extremely. He did a bunch of promos for Border Patrol 20 years ago.