PNW Policy Wonk

Another thing about the sterility of American suburban life. The usage of the car for the commute has robbed us of our human interaction during our commute. It's turned us into several ton steel beasts.

The obsession Holocaust deniers have with the gas chambers really shows how ahistorical they are, and how they prey on the not very informed. Millions died in the Holocaust due to death squads in the Holocaust by Bullets. But deniers never even mention those people.

Schadenfreude at their failure, that's the feeling I crave.

While internet libertarians and an-caps are crazy, I wish there wasn't so much resistance to them forming their own mircronations. Maybe it's the same inner feeling that makes you look at a train wreck, but I want to see what Liberland or Minerva would look like.

There's a chunk of suburban America that continues to hold fears that cities are festering with crime, and even fight transit development, because it may bring the violent to their enclaves. In Clackamas County, OR in 2012, the GOP actively campaigned against the "crime train."

Hell, I would argue that wealthy suburbs are only breaking towards Democrats right now because they actually believe in respectability politics and want to turn on the TV without hearing about the president doing crazy shit.

American suburban culture is why the puclic pushed for "Law & Order" policies against crime, why the MPAA fights sex in movies, why sex-ed is poorly taught in schools, the demonization of homelessness and poverty. We created a culture of scared people in a sterile place.

America's suburbs aren't just an environmental disaster, they're a social disaster. When you create these pseudo-sterile environments for the middle class, and they don't experience social problems, just see them on news, they get reactionary.

"Could my daughter be into some kind of blended cannabis-alcohol opioid painkiller solution?" This is why I hate suburbia. It creates a geographic region where wealthy white people terrified by the news can hide from all of society's problems, and lead extremely sheltered lives.https://twitter.com/bestofnextdoor/status/1097660745838284802 …

New rule. If you deny the Holocaust in my mentions, I'm blocking you. No engagement, I'm not going to play your little word games. You're just a terrible person that does not deserve a platform.

Imagine if a Democratic candidate criticized people for eating hamburgers, watching football, driving SUVs, or living in small towns the same way the GOP criticizes people for eating tofu, dying their hair, and driving hybrids?

The conservative monopoly on things perceived to be "all-American" and "real America" is sickening. A tofu eating women's basketball watching urban lesbian bike store owner is just as American as a suburban meat eating family that watches football.

The fear of technological unemployment from McDonald's ordering screens is a perfect example of people looking at headlines, panicking, and making assumptions about technology ruining lives. When in reality the technology is improving everyone's lives.

In conclusion, McDonald's locations that have digital ordering have seen increases in employment, improved service, and increased sales, while still offering counter ordering for people who hate screens. Stop predicting doomsday.

The reduction in labor taking orders has allowed employees to be reassigned to do other tasks. Thirdly, the digital ordering process has allowed for food to be purchased online, increasing the number of workers in the kitchen, to meet the increased demand.