Convicted felon Donald J. Trump thread XXX: It's not a Loomah!

[DrChesspain]

@bigt2k4

I personally don’t mind cyclists going through stop signs or intersections as long as no one is turning or walking.

I mind cars coming to full stops at 4 way stops when I’m behind them. I’m expecting you to do a rolling stop so I will do a rolling stop behind you, nope have to break hard because you stopped for a full 3 seconds you noob driver…oh wait you’re 50 and drive like that? hyachyachyach.

Is this a joke or do you really not know how to drive?

[LFS]

@DrChesspain

Is this a joke or do you really not know how to drive?

paging @suzzer99

[bbb7979]

I understood the rolling stop is a standard thing in SoCal (never lived there myself). Depending on the speed of the roll through, I really don’t think it’s less safe for pedestrians in a suburban or small town setting.

There’s still plenty of time of see and yield when needed without the complete stop. Attentiveness and defensiveness in close situations pretty much trump everything else in terms of being a safe driver.

[gman42]

@bigt2k4

There’s probably 5-10% of Americans who don’t care that much and just kind of see headlines and what their friends think (who tend to be republicans).

Those are the ones who are likely to hear convicted felon and think nah I’m not going to vote for that and go against what my friends say. A good chunk don’t vote at all, but some think it’s their civic duty.

I think the percentage is even higher than that, and I agree. It’s segments like this that will make up a crucial extra fraction of a percent that could easily tip the balance in most or all swing states.

The problem is that these uber low info people could just as easily be swayed the other way by any random thing, like “Um I saw some headline about how stocks were down 8% in the last week before election day (I don’t own any stocks lolol) and that must mean recession so it means the current guy isn’t doing good and it’s time to switch to the other guy”.

[freddbird]

@wiper

.8 felonies

34/46 = .739

[kerowo]

@Melkerson

It may be wrong, but I think there is a rational basis.

If a person is convicted of a crime, he is more likely to have committed a crime.
If person committed a crime, he is more likely to be a bad person.

I don’t think the problem with the above logic is that it’s irrational.

Like all blanket statements, equating all crime with being a bad person is problematic. How often do you exceed the speed limit? It is very likely you don’t anyone over the age of 18 who hasn’t committed several crimes, some habitually.

If you want to say you think convicted rapists are bad people, that’s a different thing. We’ve been taught by 50 years of TV cop shows that all criminals are bad so your view probably isn’t unusual.

[LFS]

@bbb7979

There’s still plenty of time of see and yield when needed without the complete stop. Attentiveness and defensiveness in close situations pretty much trump everything else in terms of being a safe driver.

While I guess it’s possible to pay as much attention while slowing down as when stopping, in my opinion and experience that is not how it plays out in practice.

[Hired_Goons]

Check your denominator for any non-contiguousness

[freddbird]

Mornings are hard. Thanks

[bbb7979]

Well yeah, every aggro asshole also isn’t doing close to a complete stop, so the stats are going to be skewed to rollers being unsafe drivers, but I think it’s totally possible to roll stop signs on the regular and be a safe driver as well.

[pvn]

he didn’t say “all criminals are bad”

also I would note that “exceeding the speed limit” is not (necessarily) a “crime”

[geewhysee]

Typical Americans can’t handle the subtlety and nuance of Give Way.

[LFS]

@geewhysee

Typical Americans can’t handle the subtlety and nuance of Give Way.

Typical Americans can’t handle the subtlety and nuance of “stop”, so really anything beyond that isn’t a very big surprise.

There’s one traffic circle (in Massachusetts we call this a rotary) that I know of in Los Angeles and it is an absolute shitshow.

[Melkerson]

@geewhysee

Typical Americans can’t handle the subtlety and nuance of Give Way.

Did they change the Yield sign to that at some point? Not in US?

[Riverman]

IIRC only like a third of Americans have college degrees and most of the people who do are idiots. It’s borderline impossible to wrap your head around how dumb people are if you’ve spent your entire adult life in highly educated / credentialed environments.

[bigt2k4]

One can see if there aren’t any pedestrians in an intersection or around it, if there aren’t and you don’t see any cops either then slow to 5 kmh and accelerate again.

[bigt2k4]

They stopped putting yield signs in Ontario because too many people didn’t understand them, now they are stop signs…thanks stupid drivers.

[Devil]

https://www.axios.com/2024/06/01/poll-trump-conviction-election-independent-voters

By the numbers: 54% of registered voters “strongly” or “somewhat” approve of the guilty verdict compared to 34% who "strongly or “somewhat” disapprove.

49% of Independents and 15% of Republicans said Trump should end his campaign because of the conviction. [Also 8% of “Trump supporters”.] The polls found the race effectively tied nationally in a 1-on-1 with Biden at 45% and Trump at 44%.

[CaffeineNeeded]

lol what at the bottom line

[Devil]

Yeah. Oh well, what can you do?