They are elected TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT.
Ok...to do what is RIGHT....with definition of "right" being the will of the voter.
The politicians are not there to be the arbiters of right or wrong...they are there to represent the will of the people, whatever that may be.
We're a free country over there and are not going to force a lifestyle on everyone here.
We do have some dense urban areas and hey, great for them that want to live like that.
A very significant portion of us here in the US do NOT want that type life....thankfully it is a BIG country with very diverse climates, habits, cultures where anyone can find where they want to live, how they want to live and how they want their state and local governments run.
One size does not fit all.....and trying to make it so will not fit well with the US.
We may be in an era when people unashamedly only vote for their own immediate interests.
Err what do you expect people to do?
This is just human nature....since the dawn of time...are you expecting sudden changes to this somehow?
I do not want to share walls with neighbors first and foremost.
That's something I did as a college student and early professional when I couldn't afford more than an apartment.
I don't want to hear my neighbors next door, nor do I want to bother them...I bought a really nice AV system and I like to exercise the decibel range on it from time to time.
I also relish having a back yard....fenced in for my dog....
I like having room in the back for my firewood stack that I use to run my large offset wood burning smoker, I'm a big BBQ fan....
I also have grills I like to run...lump charcoal on those....I like live fire cooking, I also like having room out back for having friends over to hang, cook and eat, crawfish boil parties, etc. (I live in Louisiana)...
I also like having room on my property to set up and run a nice sized veggie garden in growing season.
I have great neighbors, we talk, interacts and have a great life together....not sharing walls.
I like having a place to park my car and motorcycle off the street in a covered area.
I'm pretty close to everything I need...going back to office, commute is maybe 10-15 min.....multiple grocery stores minutes away, even a Costco.
When I shop I do it once a week....and usually way more than I'd care to try to carry on pubic transport, even if we had it here in a meaningful manner.
It would be too much to carry....and with summer just starting here...way too fucking hot and humid to be trying to haul so much stuff around.
Why is no government doing this ? Because the populist shits ( of left and right ) are doing what people want them to do, not what people need them to do TO SAVE THE FUCKING PLANET.
Err....in free countries, the politicians, elected BY THE PEOPLE are there to do the will of the PEOPLE.....that is their purpose.
They are not elected to tell people how to live. The elected officials are answerable to the people....not the other way around.
You could hear the birds all the time. I don't care about cheap gas, but cars make cities noisy, ugly, polluted and dangerous. I only realised this in covid when almost all of the cars went and councils allocate more space for everything else for social distancing.
I"ve been trying to figure out what ya'll were trying to say about no cars, etc.....then it dawned on me that ya'll must be living where they had lockdowns.
Where I lived, sure, traffic was lessened due to more WFH, but it certainly didn't go away to any levels of no cars on the roads and hearing the birds chirping any more than normal....
Glad I didn't live where ya'll do.....for the most part my life didn't change all THAT much after the first month or so...it was largely getting back to normal.
Your hypothesis is that Japanese people aren't having as many kids because of climate change?
I guess so....apparently it is too hot outside for young people to fuck....?
Wow...that never was much of a deterrent to me back in my younger days...
Aww, I was getting excited for Jews in space.
I'm still waiting to see Hitler on Ice.....
Outage expected for at least the next week or two...
"We matched you with somebody who REALLY likes horses!"
Hey....Tim Walz needs love too you know....
I know I've seen channels like MAC and Sootch , etc complaining they couldn't show this or that without getting strikes...
but there was a major (and predictable) power outage in Lousiana two or three weeks ago that made the national news.
I LIVE in the New Orleans area in Louisiana, and I know nothing about this power outage you speak of....?
I never saw anything about this on local or national news....?
They ban videos showing someone screwing on/off a silencer these days.....it didn't used to be this strict....
Yeah, because "Al Gore" is a scientist.
... right? Maybe you should see what "the Science" is....
You are correct sir!!
I do believe the title of "the Science" has been claimed by one Mr. Faucci....
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