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Re:In Colorado, an Ambitious New Highway Policy Is Not Build... by gotoeleven on Saturday June 01, 2024 @05:31PM (#40549247)
While there seems to always be someone willing to spend money on new public goods, there doesn't seem to be much will to maintain the ones we have.

Physical public goods, like public transport or public restrooms or sidewalks, are left filthy and full of hobos because enforcing basic laws is racist (in the critical race theory sense of disparate impact).

Social public goods, like norms related to civility and manners and integrity and competence, are actively attacked because one or the other of them impinges on someone's conception of freedom or justice.

It's not surprising that people don't want to expand the scope of public goods when we can't be trusted with the ones we've already inherited.

Re:In Colorado, an Ambitious New Highway Policy Is Not Build... by anon84873628 on Saturday June 01, 2024 @07:18PM (#40549954)
Wow, these are really bad takes. You think "culture war" explains it all? Nah, it's not that easy.
Re:In Colorado, an Ambitious New Highway Policy Is Not Build... by gotoeleven on Saturday June 01, 2024 @07:51PM (#40550141)
Re:In Colorado, an Ambitious New Highway Policy Is Not Build... by lazyasciiart on Saturday June 01, 2024 @08:58PM (#40550498)
That’s completely inapplicable to what they said.
Re:In Colorado, an Ambitious New Highway Policy Is Not Build... by gotoeleven on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @05:47PM (#40590998)
"Wow, these are really bad takes" is just name calling with no argument. I guess the comment is not technically ad hominem, just a more generic kind of irrelevant assertion.

Edit: here it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_the_stone

Re:In Colorado, an Ambitious New Highway Policy Is Not Build... by geraldwhen on Saturday June 01, 2024 @08:33PM (#40550366)
Ding ding ding. It’s a running meme that my downtown bus station is constantly an area of violent crime. Because it is.