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I’m not sure. He set the stage for the wasteful, expensive Iraq war. He didn’t do anything about the atrocities in Bosnia (which had no oil). Incarceration rate in the US shot up 40% from 1989 to 1993. He didn’t do enough to end Reaganite “tough on crime, tough on drugs” policies.

He was decent on immigration and got the ADA passed (though ADA actually isn’t perfect since it enabled frivolous lawsuits and harmed public transit in the US).

In sum, he wasn’t the worst president, but we’d have been better off with Mike “ACLU” Dukakis. I didn’t know him, I didn’t know his family, why should I waste time mourning him?

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An eye for an eye makes the world blind. The madness needs to stop at some point.

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Ah, don’t be so glum.

Less money spent on enforcement of victimless crimes like smoking pot or being a homeless person, more money spent on actual rehabilitation and treatment, less money to the corrupt people profiting off of private prisons. Fiscally responsible, and gives law enforcement more time to go after people who ACTUALLY harm people or steal from them. i.e. do their jobs protecting the public, not be glorified tax collectors or morality police.

More money for education, more money for transportation and infrastructure, more regulation of predatory business practices (privacy/net-neutrality regulation on tech companies).

Illegal immigrants? Mostly work harder than you ever will, and they aren’t even eligible for benefits. At 4.2% unemployment, it’s not like Americans are hurting for jobs in California.

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Hopefully to be offset by rates shooting past 5-6% next year. A good neighbor is one who’s selling short 😀

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Well, another $1.50 or $2 maybe. At $3 per gallon extra, it would probably create a profitable black market for less-taxed fuel from Nevada or Arizona.

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California is fiscally responsible. Health, environmental, and transportation programs tend to pay for themselves in economic growth. They’re trying to be conservative where it counts, by reducing mass incarceration, predatory enforcement of laws, and getting rid of drug laws written in the Dark Ages.

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Miles per year is terrible — there’s no way to reliably track it without destroying people’s location privacy. You’d need a GPS tracker on every vehicle for this to work reliably, which is a God awful fuckin idea.

Better to tax tires as a proxy for miles driven and weight. Or just tax fossil fools for road use and essentially subsidize electric cars.

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I’m not suggesting making driving more difficult, just discourging CO2 emissions and capricious fossil fool use. You can buy plenty of 45-50 (or more) MPG cars or even electric cars in 2018 rather than driving an F-series pickup to work for vanity’s sake.

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You sound angry — maybe you’d be happier in flyoveria.

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Gas SHOULD be expensive if it encourages people to move to cleaner/more efficient means of transit. If you commute to a desk job in a tatted-up F-250, too damn bad. Yeah, bonds — guess we have to build schools and infrastructure somehow. Or should we privatize everything and put everyone at the mercy of corporate education and toll roads?

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Down the hill from SDSU, there appears to be some empty land between the 8 freeway and Adobe Falls Road. Can SDSU expand into this undeveloped land on the other side of the 8, or is there a reason why it’s undeveloped? (Protected habitat, floodplain, etc).

SDSU West/Qualcomm seems just far enough to be inconvenient from the main SDSU campus while being near enough to not serve a different “market” of commuter students. What’s the point?

Edit: apparently there have been proposals to develop this land, but have been tied up by NIMBYs. Will Qualcomm really be much better in this respect, especially since there may be fuel oil contamination on the land from the nearby tank farm?

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If stocks keep correcting, there may not BE a GOP Senate after this election.

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I wouldn’t have called the cops, just taunted her in several languages until her brain exploded from pure rage and frustration.

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Good. Let them embargo us. It might be just the slap in the face the US needs to start running away from fossil fools, and moving to an all electric economy powered by renewables and nuclear. The prospect of being stuck at home, freezing in the dark might just get the anti-science types to soften their stance on nuclear power.

Short-term pain for long-term gain and profit.

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Here’s hoping that this is the straw that breaks the camel’s (hah!) back and we come down on them like a ton of bricks. The short-term economic pain would be well worth the gain of not needing to support a parasite state in the Middle East militarily.

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