Busses were practically useless because the sheer number of downed trees and lines (or just hanging low) prevented them from using roads that regular cars and even those gawd-awful jacked up pickups could easily swerve around and under. And EV users were out of luck.
Plus, buses can adapt. A disruption in a route means that a bus can go around on an alternate route (if your road and street network isn't FUBAR), a train cannot.
They want small town amenities, like a populace resourceful and respectful enough to break out personal generators for public use during a major outage, but, they want them in concert with cosmopolitan neighbors and the progressive vanity politics of same and would have a conniption at the first red ball cap sighted in the crowd and demand he be kicked out, even though it's HIS generator in the back of HIS pickup that's powering the place......
It's not really the problem that they don't want Trump supporters or something similar in their place, it's that progressives can't reconcile the idea that diversity as a concept is fundamentally incompatible with human nature.
Generally, people on Kiwi Farms, even if they aren't politically "conservative", know what they want in their corner of the world and when someone talks about "no niggers" (on KF or adjacent) they usually aren't actually talking about "any and all black person", but rather a subset of people that has heavily overlap with American black people—rude, uncouth, violent, lazy, loud, and if not an outright criminal, most certainly a problem. (You know one when you see one.)
The same with homeless people, illegal immigrants, and all manners of vermin and incompatible cultures that have no real place in a good community. The problem is that progressives want the same sort of thing too. They're enamored with college life because you had young, left-leaning people just like them all living together in a "community". (Again, I've mentioned it before on this thread). However, they can't just come out and
say it, they usually project their frustrations on something else, instead something like the actual
design of the neighborhood. Obviously this doesn't solve any problems, there's always room for outrage.
NASA is not a publishing house, it is a spaceflight research lab. Its mission is not to help people get jobs-for-life as tenured university professors; it is to explore the final frontier.
With the space race over, the Space Shuttle program grounded for good, and its founding purpose completely hijacked by useless parasites, NASA really should be shut down or be combined with another agency. Problem is that Americans (including Trump) are still in love with NASA and its iconic logo, if mostly (entirely?) from nostalgia, and no one is going to dare touch it.
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