You can complain, but youre getting mad at the symptoms and the cameras are only a solution to the symptoms and dont address any real problem. People should be holding their governors, mayors, city councils, and police departments 100% responsible for poor planning and decision making and not applaud them for a band aid solution like cameras. The proper response on cameras to your government should be: Try again, with effort this time. People should be visiting neighborhood meetings to talk about these problems cameras instead of getting angry at people running lights, all Im saying. Lets direct that energy at the real problems and the people who are the only ones capable of making the necessary changes instead of just picking the pickets of the poor please.

No, this is a transportation problem as well. Cameras arent a solution to the problem of too many cars and carcentric infrastructure design lol, its literally a bandaid solution that only affects the poor negatively and no one else. People who complain about the cameras have every right to complain.

Before any camera is installed, cities should instead be spending that money on reworking street design and getting more buses and banning more cars. Capitalism fixes these problems by letting poor people foot the bill, socialism solves this by making rich people pay their fair share. Are you against taxing the rich instead for safer roads by banning cars on bus-only streets?

You gladly admit you think canada is immune from the american surveliance state.

at least you admit your ignorance

very few people would complain about traffic police if the cops didn’t carry guns or were not trained to pit maneuver you for not wearing a seatbelt

No, I just want traffic lights enforced without being in a surveilance state, but the better solution is just to make more streets illegal to have cars instead of adding lights, and add bus routes instead

But people will be lazy and say eh, surveilance state is good enough for me since Im not affected! More buses. Fewer cars. Fewer lights necessary and fewer surveliance cameras necessary.

we both know thatll never happen in america, and until then its a law for poors only, as designed. Its continued existence only affects poor people

You sound like someone who can likes rich people getting away with just paying fines for being rich assholes

I actually enjoy the history of holidays, very relevant to the post!

I think the original quote was something like “Eraserhead is my most spiritual film” “Elaborate on that.” “No.”

active gang?

sorry, I’m an old fart on the internet, my comment was covered in sarcasm haha. I get that negative people drain the positivity out of things, but I think history would call this era in america a trump-led republican-manufactured depression. Negativity happens in depressions, I don’t think it’s wise to curse it like the person I was originally replying to was alluding to. Positivity is useful as well, and much more so when it comes to organizing things that bring about immediate relief.

Saying ‘stop being negative’, right now in this moment, is saying “stop being unhealthy” to people losing their medical coverage or “stop being unhoused” to people being kicked out of their apartments or “stop crying” because your wife lost her white collar job too and now youre both working door dash to stay afloat in this economy. Some people are literally trying to survive to not die and don’t have the literal privilege of being in a positive mood when a random person on the internet graces upon the comment section of a lemmy thread. How dare they. Fucking people who dare think differently than them because they forgot the random internet person who needs positivity constantly around them might feel a bit sad about negativity.

What people need are good neighbors. I’m obviously not one yet but damn just leave people alone please. Not you but people like the person I originally replied to

I completely agree, angry people have never complished anything ever. Not once have people channeled negative emotions into action or art. It’s impossible. Just be positive and use that, as it is the only known way of success. Never be negative. Always positive. Positivity only from now on!

which is why they made a comic instead of a revolutionary thought leading blog post

I agree, its sitting right there. It’s so obvious.