I'm not interested in your advice, your gaslighting, or your worries. Injustice makes me emotional. This is a good and healthy thing. Unfortunately, I can't block people on here, but please don't ever respond to me again. End of conversation.

I agree that Rockefeller should fry in Hades and that his name should be erased.

This being said:
(1) The penalty for possession of small amounts of weed was liberalized to a $100 fine in the late 1970s, likely when you were a toddler.

(2) Under Bloomberg, the NYPD was in the habit of arresting people for possession of small amounts citing "public display", which was a misdemeanor, so didn't affect voting rights.

Pig: turn out your pockets
Joint falls on ground.
Pig: Oink! Oink! It's on public display now.

Most of those cases were dropped in court in any case, judges knew the game.

I'm fine with less assimilation ... hearing different languages, seeing different cultures makes my city (NYC) worth living in. You mean the WHINING of everyday citizens, right? Oh, ohhhhhh, there's food other than meat, potatoes, and burgers. Boooohoooboooohoooboooohoooo!

I'm OK with reasonable enforcement of immigration laws, not with stopping people not engaging in overt criminal conduct on the street and asking for papers like it was the USSR in 1985. (And sometimes, still harassing them AFTER they've shown proof of legal residency or even citizenship.)

Yeah, I have a temper. You've only seen a tiny sliver of it. Be glad.

If there's no letter to deliver, they don't need to do a full route, unless picking up mail in the box is also a service.

The problem is that the alternative to government ends up being Snow Crash style corporate authoritarianism. I prefer having a society that's fairly egalitarian ,,, Poland has a much lower GINI than the US or even Western Europe. It's great,

Then it will be time to go after the companies hawking the things, legally or otherwise. Or simply go Cambodian on anyone wearing glasses in public :D

That's a very US centric view ... in many EU countries, there VERY MUCH is an expectation of privacy in public. Set up a doorbell camera in Germany that films anything but your own front yard, and enjoy the lawsuits from your neighbors. Store the footage more than 72 hours? More legal problems. It's great ... they take personal freedom seriously. don't just pay lip service to it.

Then knock the ecahnamy down. Maybe it's not worth saving.

Maybe the solution to having less violence is regulating the tools of violence (a handgun is basically a point-and-click destructive device) and having a functional society that doesn't create an undereducated underclass with a culture that glorifies violence. The things that many EU countries that ALSO regulate surveillance in public also do. Also, 50% of homicides go unsolved because no one cares - it's dismissed as black-on-black crime or chalked up to gang violence and seen as deserved. There's a lack of will to investigate, even if the footage were right there. This being said, I'm fine with some murders going unsolved as a tradeoff for more personal freedom in society ... I'm not one of those who bleats "anything to keep the children safe, nine eleven" several times per day.

Bulk it up a bit, stick it in a bubble wrap flexi-pack?

I'm not rooting for it ... this is why I love Poland and prefer it to the US. It kept the best aspects of socialism. The national railway or one of the local successor companies runs trains to virtually every city of 50k people or more, as well as may smaller places. Generally, decently fact, clean electric trains. Public schools and certain higher ed are publicly run and of fairly uniform, if not of top-notch quality. National healthy system. Anyone working on the equivalent of a US W2 is enrolled by default and employers pay ~9% of income for employees getting insurance with very low deductibles ... none of this annual minimum or HSA nonsense like in the US. Feels much like the US and UK in pre-enshittification days, and it's absolutely glorious.

If they're delivering the packages, why not just deliver letters along with them? Basically same infrastructure.

Yeah, and risk their bodies for Big Oil? Or perhaps risk their good names following orders to commit war crimes? Fuck the US military ... anyone with half a brain should stay far away from that band of filth and vermin. War is a racket. Let's create good jobs, not more murderers and thugs.

And yet, we squander over a trillion per year sending our military thugs all over the world, buying them gold plated toys, and on abusive domestic lawn forcement and mass incarceration. USPS is a drop in the bucket. Fuck austerity.

And, I will add, fair is fair. If blue states supposedly inflate their representation, red states deliberately cut their voting rolls ... got caught growing weed in 1985 at age 18? No vote for you since you have a felony drug conviction, and the process to restore your franchise is deliberately tortuous and expensive.