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[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 43 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Same guy earlier upthread

Public transit fares are generally malformed. I personally never pay the LA Metro fare. Why? Because I pay the Metrolink fare, which by their own admission covers same-day Metro transit. But police will actively seek me out as a person who looks like they have money and give me a hard time for not “tapping”, all while folks who very clearly have no money waltz on into the metro, stopping only to smoke crack on the elevator up. There’s a general problem in this country of what to do with law breakers who do not have money. It seems like the answer is to make them work and garnish their wages, but for whatever reason we are against that.

Yea the police are always giving such a hard time to people who don't look poor. It's so unfair that someone who can and does apparently pay for public transit has to prove they did.

[–] slopjockey@awful.systems 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Scrooge was a fucking pussy and he should have told those ghosts to suck him in hell

[–] self@awful.systems 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

so as I was reading that I was forming a sneer along the lines of “ghosts transcending both time and death to show me the consequences of my worldview is a classical fallacy, checkmate Dickens” but they just fucking go for it there at the end

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 19 points 2 months ago

Appeal to thanatority!

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 17 points 2 months ago

Appeals to fiction are a fallacy. Not let me explain why X group is bad based on an extremely contrived hypothetical.

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