doingthestuff

Left authoritarianism is a scourge just as much as fascism, but I'm an anti-authoritarian centrist. Yes it is normal to fear authoritarians. The proletariat must not be disarmed.

Thank you, this is what I was looking for.

The car I drive was only $22k new and it's able to drive moderate jeep trails and get me deep into the forest and up mountains on unmaintained roads/trails which when I'm not on a trip for work, that's where I'm going. You can't rent vehicles like that in my area. I have a Thule hard sided cargo carrier on the roof to hold the extra gear.

This is why there are no plans to try to sell something like this in the US. I drive three hours each way on day-trips fairly often, and a couple times a year I drive around 1000 miles per day for longer trips. Even people who live in cities with short commutes often want to travel to places several hours away pretty regularly. Here you can drive for hours and hours and hours and not even leave the state. It's not like we can take a train either.

Do you suspect me of a crime? Am I being detained?

I understand that infrastructure is more important to be able to cycle in the winter, even eclipsing temperature in very cold areas. I live in an area where there is no bicycle infrastructure, I'm actually 100x safer riding my motorcycle well below freezing on the road, than riding my bicycle on a beautiful fall day. And I do, I have gear for it .There are cities though, where temperatures don't regularly get super cold and people don't actually have the clothing and gear to cycle in the winter. I would guess in those areas, temperature is more of a factor. In areas where winters are consistently very cold, people already have what they need and are able to cycle if the infrastructure is there.

That would work for much of the population that lives within 100 miles of the US border, but there is a lot of rural and green space in Canada, and bikes aren't great in Canadian winters. Canada needs good car options too.

It's funny because a lot of conservatives started boycotting target years ago because the company pandered just slightly left. Now they pandered right and people on the left are mad. It's what that shitty corporation that pays slave wages deserves. The company could fail, and I'm here for it.

I hate those fucking cameras in the thumbnail. They went up all over my area last year, hundreds of them and at every major intersection. You can't avoid them, there are essentially no routes to skirt around them all. The surveillance state is tracking everyone's movement and financial transactions, and it started before the orange man came into power. The people need to push back and the effort needs to broader than Ds or Rs making the push. If we want to stop a bipartisan surveillance state we need to mobilize We the People.

Yeah when I was 20, $100 was grocery money for the month. Now it's groceries for 3-4 days. It doesn't help that I always have a house full of teenagers.

You're describing how a lot of people have been living for a couple of years now.