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addctd2badideas t1_iy5h88x wrote

Reply to comment by FlimFlamMagoo728 in Elon Musk’s Boring Company Ghosts Cities Across America by bmore

  1. I can have any opinion I like, thanks. That's how this works. I was just speaking of bad faith arguments and your "I only acknowledge opinions based on an arbitrary litmus test that I set" is a great example

  2. There's a major difference between maintenance and an entirely new project.

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FlimFlamMagoo728 t1_iy5ijs5 wrote

  1. Your ROI concerns are just stupid if you fail to consider the alternative

  2. all money is fungible.

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Angdrambor t1_iy5x383 wrote

You are just another dupe in america's blind worship of cars. I appreciate the accuracy of your username though.

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addctd2badideas t1_iy60g6t wrote

It's a World Inferno Friendship Society reference.

And LOL I don't worship cars but it happens to be the world we live in. Wasn't my idea. I'd be down for some luxury space utopia in the future but I can't see mass transit working well in Baltimore. They can't even maintain the system they have currently. I can't imagine the boondoggle that would be if they actually built it.

I'm not a worshiper of cars, I'm just not an ideologue.

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Kmic14 t1_iy63nr7 wrote

I've been an Infernite for over 15 years and you are not doing this band justice unless you really took to heart the song "we will never run into one another on trains" because you don't support building the infrastructure.

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addctd2badideas t1_iy6acpz wrote

So one must agree with every single thing a band says in their lyrics to be a fan? Are you for real?

I made the mistake once of reading Jack's blog and he basically said he doesn't vote. I find that to be an abhorrent view. It's anti-democratic. But he's an "anarchist" (whatever that means) so I decided to just simply find beauty in their music.One needs not be an ideologue to do so.

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[deleted] t1_iy6c0yt wrote

His choice not to vote is anti democratic? But haven’t we democratically decided that voting isn’t mandatory?

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addctd2badideas t1_iy6c8x5 wrote

To openly eschew voting in favor of some cockamamie ideology that is both impractical and contrary to human nature... yes, that's anti-democratic. To be pro-democracy is to encourage voting. I don't see what's hard about this.

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[deleted] t1_iy6epcu wrote

No. Being anti democratic would be if he prevented you from voting. His refusal to vote is a first amendment right.

To be pro democracy is to encourage the right to vote. Not to force others to vote or judge them for not voting

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addctd2badideas t1_iy6kic0 wrote

Who said anything about forcing. He made a choice. I'm criticizing the choice.

Are you really that dense?

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