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Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch
Its social capital is so high and political systems so functional that most policy disputes boil down to mitigating the blowback consequences of affluence?
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my little suburb (which meets that def) had just passed a human rights law by a 70% vote. it extended non-discrimination that is found in the state's law from gender/religion/race/nationality to sexual orientation.
then some overweight commissioners tried to pass a law that anyone running had to wear a reflective vest. a committee was charged with a draft ordinance, and the committee head came to the town meeting to read his ordinance. he opined that many runners and walkers were quite rude and he often had to wait for a few seconds in his car until it was okay to pass some in the street- he said "these people think they own the roads..."
we were like the last legal "these people..." in our city.
ps fuck the bikes, they're worse than cars.