What does a BIDEN Presidency look like?

[Sheilbh]

I see Mayor Pete launching "Momentum" an initiative to help countries around the world learn from the DoT's best practices and expertise in "planning and modernizing transportation infrastructure".

I have to be honest the impression I have of US infrastructure is that, much like the UK, it's not where I'd go for best practice at modernisation It may just be the famous ones but, like the UK, my impression is that it's generally always wildly expensive and often very late in being delivered - but maybe I'm wrong?

[Syt]

[DGuller]

It's painful because it's true.

[Eddie Teach]

That cartoon will annoy many and convince no one. Anyone who finds Handmaid's Tale plausible is already a Democrat.

[The Minsky Moment]

It's more than plausible in Afghanistan

As for America, lots of things that would have seemed implausible in 2014 have come to pass.

[Admiral Yi]

I'm agnostic about Handmaid's Tale as an imagining of a dystopia in which the vast majority of women are rendered infertile.  It would shock society and I can imagine efforts to reorganize the limited resource for optimal reproduction.

I'm less enamored of Handmaid's Tale as a critique of current society or current trends.

[Josquius]

That cartoon will annoy many and convince no one. Anyone who finds Handmaid's Tale plausible is already a Democrat.

It's hyperbole.
Nobody thinks things literally will end up the same as HT.
But moving in that sort of direction? Well yes. It's happening.

Who would be annoyed at it on what grounds BTW?

[Admiral Yi]

But moving in that sort of direction? Well yes. It's happening.

Who would be annoyed at it on what grounds BTW?

Because that's treating it as a smooth, continuous variable.  It's not.  It's discrete acts.

[DGuller]

I had no idea it referred to Handmaid's Tale, I didn't even know what it was until I googled it just know.  Apparently it's a novel by some obscure Canadian author.  I just assumed that the cartoon described some horrible vision of the future, and that we got there because too many voters vote for the dumbest of reasons.

[The Larch]

I had no idea it referred to Handmaid's Tale, I didn't even know what it was until I googled it just know.  Apparently it's a novel by some obscure Canadian author.

You're kidding, right?

[The Larch]

On the topic of US agencies, maybe they could nerf DHS instead of EPA?



Apparently that's a real letter that a woman in Dallas received recently. 

[DGuller]

I think calls for violence were never covered by First Amendment.  I'm not sure what the problem is here.  It seems like there should be some agency out there in charge of monitoring that.

[grumbler]

I don't think that it is possible for government agencies to distinguish between genuine incitements to violence and "I was just venting" incitements to violence.  Warning inciters without attempting to mind-read them for seriousness seems warranted.

Dallas woman should STFU with that shit.

[Grey Fox]

I had no idea it referred to Handmaid's Tale, I didn't even know what it was until I googled it just know.  Apparently it's a novel by some obscure Canadian author.  I just assumed that the cartoon described some horrible vision of the future, and that we got there because too many voters vote for the dumbest of reasons.

Do you even read this forum?

[Eddie Teach]

He probably doesn't get Hulu.