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  • There were cars parked in no parking zones, including ramps, walkways, and fire lanes. There were cars parked on sidewalks. There were cars parked on the grass past the sidewalks. I could barely navigate the parking lot on foot. I have no idea how I’d do so in a wheelchair.

    When I lived in France some 20+ years ago, I had a friend who was blind. He lived right downtown, and (at least at the time) the French tend to park wherever in busy cities and don’t give two shits. So he would regularly walk on the sidewalk, and his dog would stop because there was a car parked right there on the sidewalk, blocking most of it.

    He had lived there all his life, so he knew perfectly well how to navigate around cars parked on the sidewalk. But he always made a point of stumbling clumsily around the car, feigning to be extremely inconvenienced and trying desperately to find how to pass the obstruction, hitting the paint job as hard as he could with his cane as if he was quite lost and distressed. Then, after having given the car a good walloping, he would stop, sit on the hood and call the police to have the car towed.

    He figured even if the car’s owner was around, they were at fault and they wouldn’t dare do anything to a blind man hitting their poorly parked car. And indeed, a few times he had a run-in with the owner. But while they screamed and shouted, they always stopped shot of getting physical. And passersby further ensured they wouldn’t dare.






  • It will only make JD Vance president

    Re-read what I wrote.

    the American population will just elect another psychopath a few years down the road

    Indeed, you’re correct. Trump and MAGA aren’t the problem, they’re a symptom. The disease is a population with the IQ of a lemming and a penchant for fascism.

    But you will note that I said “stop THIS madness”. The next madness is next. But at least this one could be halted quickly.

    We might as well get it over with and have USA destroy itself now.

    I’m hip about that. The problem is, America is dragging the rest of the world down with it.