stay in and drink til you go home. Olympia sucks lol. Don't go near their historic waterfront unless you want to step on needles and human poop

I get what you mean, I'm less familiar with those roads. Frankly, it seems more common in rural areas. Maybe they're bored? 🤷‍♀️

Speeding absolutely does not warrant tailgating, brake checking, and veering into someone else's lane.

And I don't play the game. When someone starts acting like this, I make a very conscious choice of switching over to the middle lane and slowing down, because I'm actively trying not to engage with that behavior.

>This tribal belief that your party is the second coming of Christ and can do no wrong, and the other party is the reincarnation of Statan himself.

I just don't understand why people don't see how cringe it is to base their personalities around politicians. It would be so much better if we could all go back to understanding that politicians are all pieces of shit.

>actually trying to make laws about banning books

Which states are making laws banning books? If you're referring to individual school districts, you should know that many leftwing districts have banned books as well...books like Huckleberry Fin and To Kill a Mockingbird (the first because of the n word, the second because of "white saviorism")

It seems to me that you inhabit a media bubble, and that's ok it's your life, but it's probably good to check outside of it once in a while.

> You replied

Notice how I ignored your bad faith argument? That's what I meant by "an actual reply".

> my comments are upvoted

A lot of seals clapping a valid point does not make.

> You still haven't said if you've been to Idaho.

Several times, yes.

It is oddly specific. Especially odd considering it's individuals doing it, not exactly an institutional rejection of higher authority, which is what he was implying before.

The reason that the Senate is 2 for every state instead of by population is because the USA was formed as an alliance between independent states who didn't want to give up their autonomy and didn't want to empower a central government.

Why would a small population state with lots of natural resources join the union if it meant they'd never have a say in anything as a state?

To think about it another way, imagine another reality where California and most of the north eastern states were full of people who thought Trump was awesome and senate seats were awarded via population just like the house, would a liberal WA benefit from being part of a union where WA would never have a meaningful say vs. the pro-Trump states? If no matter what the states with the most population could set the agenda for everyone else, like deciding to build a wall on WA's border with Canada and because WA has a small population compared to CA or NY we'd never be ablet o say "no"...wouldn't it feel pointless and shitty that people thousands of miles away from WA could steamroll the people who live here and do stuff in our state we didnt' like?

> But why should the status of "living in a rural area" allow one to get more votes, at any level?

I never actually advocated for this. I just pointed out that it's clearly something that was thought about on some levels and not others.

The point is that systems should be set up in a manner where nobody is disenfranchised. People should have a say in the rules being applied to them.

Personally, I think the solution is reducing the scope of federal and state power in favor of regional autonomy.

> as currently falsehoods spoken in conservative media fuel the culture divide more than anything

Lmao, it's not just conservative media man. They are all propaganda machines, right and left.

Oh absolutely…

Yes it is…. 🙏🏽🙏🏽

Do you mean Bremerton and Silverdale? If so, yes.

Trump's administration was a good lesson in how the devolution of power can provide a powerful check to dumb shit. Put another way - the less centralized power we have, at the state level and the federal level, and the more local governments are empowered to act the more responsive democracy becomes and the less vulnerable to people like Trump the system is.

Reducing the power that the executive branch has, whether at the state or federal level, is beneficial to everyone regardless of politics.

I'm reading the comments that this has been worse since the pandemic, but I definitely dealt with it before. I used to drive to Bellingham frequently for class, and it was over an hour drive there and home every day. I had to through I-5 and into the Skagit Valley, and I always had people play games. I didn't always notice it until I looked over and people are making faces at me. I'm not a bad driver, I'm told I'm not, anyway.

I just like to get where I'm going and avoid the semi-trucks, apparently some people think that means they should keep me from passing, getting over - I've had to hit the breaks so I can get behind. I've had people try to race me - a lot. I've had one person block a two-lane road all the way back to the main town, and do their best not to let me pass, while continuing to go ever slower, for no reason - and when a car was coming towards me, they wouldn't let me get back over to the right side. This was all pre-pandemic. Thankfully, I am done with that commute.

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You can also see it in the Olympics. It's gotta be something to do with the data for people living on federal lands.

Says more about your shitty driving than anything else 😂

Just slow down and follow those in front of you 😂

Poor people live very different lives than rich people, black people live very different lives then white people, women live different lives than men. All those groups are vastly underrepresented politically, should they also get extra votes?

If the status of living in Wyoming get you three votes for president to everyone one a Washingtonian gets, should not like people get two? Poor Middle Eastern women get four?

The issue that needs to be addressed is some people get more votes than others. Living in a different area should not get you an extra vote, and land mass should not get to vote either.

Right now 60 to 75% of the country supports Medicare for all, But senators that represent only a small percent of the nation are able to prevent it because of the outdated way the United States government represents people.

The only fair way to do it is one person one vote. We need to change our laws to acknowledge that and move from a flawed democracy to a true democracy.

You can't persuade people if you don't understand them, and you can't understand them if you engage in thought terminating cliches like mentally inserting "voting against their own interests" instead of trying to understand what those people regard as their interests.

It’s only a game if you get involved as well 😂

Newsflash: you’re not a “fairly safe driver”; you ARE the asshole. Slow the f down. There wouldn’t be a game if you didn’t play. Just go 5 above and take your time. People who whine about left lane campers are 99% of the time trying to go 20+ above. Stay behind the Prius drivers and eat ass 😂

I took the pandemic as an opportunity to retire and I've spent the last three years traveling a lot in my '99 Tacoma with a slide-in camper. So I'm rarely going over 65 mph, which gives me a lot of time to observe other drivers. I see it all the time on i-90, on 84 through the Gorge, heading out through eastern WA, OR, SLC, I-80. So yes, I get what you mean, and I don't think it's limited to our I-5 corridor.

7:30am-3:30pm ish

But why should the status of "living in a rural area" allow one to get more votes, at any level?

Why is landmass the one area where we allow this?

Women are disproportionately represented in government, so are black people, young people, etc. Should they get extra votes?

If living in Wyoming gets one 3 votes to every .8 California vote, why doesn't being from Laos get you 4.5 votes? That underrepresentation certainly drives the culture divide between white America and Asian America.

The only way to do it is one vote for one person. The electoral college, gerrymandering, and any other scheme that allows one group to disproportionate voting power should be abolished.

Currently rural populations have disproportionate power in politics, and that has done nothing to resolve the cultural divide. If anything it is worse than ever. I would argue that if you want to try to get rid of the cultural divide we should bring back the Dennis doctrine intermediate, as currently falsehoods spoken in conservative media fuel the culture divide more than anything.