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This is like when a 5 year old proudly tells you he found a stick with magic powers, and you completely agree with him, because you’ve been at the playground for too long and you’ll say anything to make sure he gets in the car.

I’m not sure this person has ever seen the movie.

@HistoryBoomer Love that Crazy Eddie is weighing in on transportation policy planning. Like buddy, I think maybe your ideas aren’t really that great or necessarily in the public interest.

Idle 98% of the time.

@kgelner @smod4real What’s the “this” you’re saying will happen this week? Regime change? lol. No. I’d love to be wrong, but that isn’t happening at all.

@smod4real Not tomorrow but pretty sure that happens this week. There are signs.

I will gladly take the L and publicly admit being wrong if that’s what it takes to see this war end. I would LOVE IT if the Iranian regime capitulated tomorrow, agreed to turn over control to secular leaders, and pledged new elections in 3 months. That’s not going to happen tho.

@The_real_colin @memechaotic How the hell do you convert a firehouse and not preserve the fire pole? I kept waiting for it…

@memechaotic One miss. No firepole

Whoever designed this did NOT miss once.

@HollyBell8 The obvious answer is to engage a confederate and reenact Robin Hood’s first bout with Little John.

Trying to decide if I want to start a PVC jousting contest or sword fight in Aisle 14.

@leylaaa31 Even funnier when your name is Ben Luigi

@TheWapplehouse She personally strangled my bichon frise after I gave it to a 9yo Slovenian orphan. True story.

When I was younger, maybe junior high, I got roped into watching my 3 month old niece while my sister got her hair done. So there I am, sitting in the waiting area of a hair salon with my niece, and who walks in but Chapell Roan! I was nervous as fuck, and just kept looking at her as she read a magazine and waited, but didn't know what to say. Pretty soon though my niece started crying, and I'm trying to quiet her down because I didn't want her to bother Chappell, but she just wouldn't stop. Pretty soon she gets up and walks over. She started running her hands through her hair and asking what was wrong. I replied that she was probably hungry or something. So, Chappell put down her magazine, picked up my niece and smacked the shit out of her. Smacked her right there in the middle of a hair salon. Chill chick, really nice about it. Anybody else met her and have any stories to share?

@TheLick17 @mikey3go @Primewave96 If the courts and law enforcement don’t agree with you, does it matter what you think is legal?

@mikey3go @Primewave96 No they aren’t. That’s a promise.

Traffic checkpoints are meant to check for licenses and impaired driving 🚦. But situations like this often spark debates about rights, ID, and police authority ⚖️. Moments like these show why it’s so important to actually understand the rules of the system you’re operating in 📚. Knowing what the law says, how enforcement works, and how these encounters play out can make a huge difference when you’re on the road 🛣️. Education changes how you move ✊.

@politicalmath I agree

1) This is a good community note and, while it technically is not in the spirit of community notes, I'm going to allow it 2) It's important to note that you cannot shame the liberal media monolith into acting like decent humans. They do not feel bad when they do evil things.

@RockOperaKMS @washghost1 Two different issues. And the latter is largely unrelated to whether your neighbor builds a bigger, more valuable house.

@RockOperaKMS @washghost1 I’m happy to concede your point about property tax assessments, though the mill rate x assessment IS a fixed percentage, with the result being that when the assessment goes up, your bill goes up, because the thing you own is more valuable. Property tax rates can be raised too.

They’re doing this where I live too. I live in an old neighborhood built in the early 80’s. We had a house that was for sale burn down and the built a house just like this in its place. They sold it for $450,000. Most houses in the neighborhood go for between 200 and 300k

@washghost1 Oh no! Stop making me more rich!

Now the house next to them will have their property taxes raised

@RockOperaKMS @washghost1 It’s a function of the home value, and you’re trying to change the subject because you know I’m right about gentrification.

@TimmyTimTom5 @washghost1 But the way you talk about taxes makes me think you don’t. For instance you saying “go from 5% to 7%”…what does that even mean? 7% of what? Property tax bills in 99.9% of America are a function of assessment and mill rate, not a fixed percentage like a state income tax.

@RockOperaKMS @washghost1 I know how taxes work dipshit. If property taxes go from 5% to 7%, it’s not bc of gentrification. If your tax bill goes up bc your house is more valuable, congrats. It is nonsensical to argue that when your neighborhood gets nicer, you are somehow suffering financially.

@TimmyTimTom5 @washghost1 Costs drive the size of the pie, individual property values decide how it’s sliced. Wealthier homeowners may and often do lobby and vote for increased services, but the market value of your home by itself did not increase the size of the pie (your municipality budget expenses).

@washghost1 Oh no! Stop making my property value go up, you monsters!

@washghost1 So now rural ppl are against gentrification too? This is incredibly stupid. Property taxes go up because the value of the thing you own is going up. That’s good. Stop pretending good is bad.

@RockOperaKMS @washghost1 So now you’re saying that the gentrification has nothing to do with it?

@TimmyTimTom5 @washghost1 Property taxes go up because what it costs to fund annual municipal obligations goes up.

@RichardHaass Honestly that seems like best possible decision now (after the obviously terrible decision to stick his sick in a beehive.)

President Trump appears to be setting the stage for US withdrawal and leaving local states the task of reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Think of it as a new Trump Doctrine for the Middle East: "We broke it but you own it." open.substack.com/pub/richardhaa…