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Been that way since before the founding. We have a half dozen examples of groups that were kicked out of their home countries for being too hateful setting up shop here. It’s a fundamental part of the culture. Brainwashing implies the (forcible) changing of one’s thoughts and opinions. That’s largely not applicable here since it’s all baked in from the get go.

My comment was addressing frisbirds jackassery, not the op.

You didn’t get hugged much as a child huh?

I agree that we should hold people responsible, but I’d argue mentally challenged toddler is much much closer to the average human intelligence than you think. The average person is shockingly stupid.

Why do you have the exact number of upvotes that the person you’re replying to has downvotes. Seems like an unlikely coincidence. Also weird how you don’t actually address anything in the comment. Almost like some bot brigade.

Yep, we’re our own great filter.

When speed cameras were first introduced they led to an uptick in accidents because people would brake suddenly when they saw the camera and get rear ended. This still happens but thought out implementation seems to result in a net reduction in collisions but more data is needed. All this is to say the primary purpose of speed cameras is still revenue generation.

Do you have evidence that speed cameras with fines are clearly proven to “keep people from getting killed” because I’m pretty sure their primary purpose is revenue generation.

Edit: looking into it, it seems the majority of the available data generally indicates a reduction in collisions and fatalities but apparently the methodology across the various studies has been pretty inconsistent so there’s no hard numbers. But apparently they range from no reduction at all to 70 percent from my glancing at the data, apparently how many cameras how far apart and how far from the high traffic incident area are the main determining factors in reducing accidents. I may have overlooked it but I didn’t actually see anywhere that shows the speed reduction after camera introduction though.

It’s backed up by all available data so whether or not it makes sense to you it’s the truth and the reality. Keeping up with the flow of traffic is always safer.

That would disproportionally affect the working poor.

So depending on how fast the flow of traffic is going, the person going the speed limit is the one creating the dangerous situation. If everyone else is driving sixty in a thirty and you’re driving thirty, you’re the one that’s going to cause a wreck. In many jurisdictions keeping with the flow of traffic actually supersedes posted speed limits.

A significant percentage of Americans have always been plenty hateful, no brainwashing necessary.

Oh look an ml account repeating the Ukraine nazi Russian propaganda talking point. How surprising.

What about the ss runes? Got a rationalization for that?

As an aside the recent trend of using compute as a noun instead of a verb really pisses me off, it’s so goddamn stupid.

If the punishment is a static fine it’s only illegal for the poor.

Even today we have a couple straight up lynchings every year in the good ol US.

Holy bad faith Batman.

The economic breakdown is the desired outcome. Destabilizing the global economy is an expressly stated goal of the technofeudalists. They intend to crash the dollar so they can balkanize the US into corporate owned states.

I do not trust Google with this. If there’s any way this could ever be possibly weaponized it will be. Best case scenario it’s another wildly successful google product that they straight up abandon for no reason after like 3 years.