Red side bad.

That's not really true.

I saw more trump 2020 signs in Bremerton and Kent than I do in Spokane.

Ah yes, valid reasons like bigotry, hatred, and christian nationalism leading them to vote to try and ban books, strip rights from others, and enforce their delusional beliefs about a magical sky daddy on the rest of us.

This is awesome. Any chance you could do one of Oregon too?

Which laws would you like to see enforced in rural areas that are not being enforced in rural areas?

Most interesting thing I’ve looked at all day

Lol, rural areas in Washington already openly flaunt that they don't enforce state laws while also being massively subsidized by King County. If anything they have too much autonomy.

Hello fellow Angeleno. Imma tell you right now: don't.

This time last year I was transitioning to moving from Portland to LA. My boyfriend and I spent Christmas day with my family and planned to drive back down to LA the day after.

Well, a snow storm started coming through that day. The roads on the pass on I-5 were closed, and they can be dangerous even when they're not closed. We ended up having to take the 101 (coastal roads) all the way down to SF before we could even get back onto I-5. And the coast still had snow, just not a dangerous amount.

All-in-all it took us 25 hours to make the entire drive when it should usually be 16 hours, breaks included.

I can not stress enough how much better off you are spending your Christmas in 80 degree weather.

People tend not to be "scared" of things if they're exposed to it often enough

Kinda need people to make food tho, and then you need people to work providing services to the people who make food.

Tomorrow it will be raging

In terms of the EC (and the Senate), its' because the US is a Republic, and state's participation in said Republic is in part based on the promise that they won't just be steamrolled by larger population states.

To put this another way, the EU would have a very difficult time getting low pop or small countries to join if they weren't assured of some ability to advance their interests even if those interests were not shared by the high pop or large countries.

There's more decent people out east than you'd think. Not all of us are inbred maga dumb dumbs. Those ones are just loud. I wish they'd shut the hell up and crawl into a hole, and stop voting against their own interests so we can start making some forward progress. It's exhausting.

I see my house!

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014/

Check out this article by one of the billionaires doing it, Nick Hanauer. It's basically an open letter to other 0.1%ers saying "We need to disarm the peasants to they can't rise up against us."

Ironically, the left leaning population that claim to hate billionaires are the tool he's using to disarm the public.

I was gonna ask, is pullman during the semester or in summer break?

I pointed out that they have very little autonomy, at no point did I say they should be tyrants with total power.

I know this is the internet, but c'mon man, argue in better faith if you want an actual reply. You're not scoring any points like that.

City of Seattle itself is fine, albeit flooded a bit. Be careful of hydroplaning.

Thank You SO much 🙏🏽🙏🏽

Thank You SO much 🙏🏽🙏🏽

Thank You SO MUCH 🙏🏽🙏🏽

> “yeah, it’s fine if 5-10% of the landmass decides everything for the rest of it”.

You advocated for more agency with 5% of the tax base. Why should 95% of those who pay taxes be decided by the 5%?

You honestly don't see that the tax money rural areas flourish from is from the tech companies? You've been to Idaho right?

Wow, I didn’t know it was this bad. My hatred for Seattle grows once more

This is the last 10 years of gun control legislation in the state.

We have state preemption, which means it's all or nothing, the entire state has to have the same gun laws.

WA has had a system of ballot initiatives since 1912, where you can bypass the state legislature by gathering enough signatures to get the initiative on the ballot. If it passes it becomes law.

So Seattle billionaires have been bankrolling initiative campaigns in King county (paying signature gatherers, media campaigns, paying for transportation to polling stations, etc.)

Beautiful picture..my son and his wife have taken us there several times during the fall when we have gone to visit..it’s amazing in all seasons!