David Axelrod and David Brooks clutching their pearls because El-Sayed didn’t roll over for a racist is such a perfect example of America’s white guy politics that it would sound made up if you put it in a novel

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"and you arent dutch" Why would a dutch person be uniquely allowed to get upset over the reaction of american traffic planner and their takeaways back to america here, if anything it makes more sense for the american to be upset with their fellow american than the hypothetical dutch person??

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Is the Netherlands a dictatorship? Do they have a single personalist leader who rules with an iron fist? No, they are clearly a democracy, they simply have a functional transit planning system the prioritizes outcomes over process and does not have a million veto points.

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The problem is that this is literally the exact mentality that leads to less transit infrastructure that costs more, serves fewer people, and takes longer to build. The end product is, across the board, fucking worse in every way.

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I'm no Carry Nation, but if you want a better world, a good place to start fast would be ending this nascent age of network-partnered, league-endorsed online sportsbooks

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