For SCCA at least, a vehicle must be wider than it is tall to pass tech, so that behemoth would be ineligible.

I’m working from this definition of violence: “behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something.” In this definition I could physically restrain or impede someone and it wouldn’t be violence as long as my intention isn’t to hurt the individual.

Or personal revenge against Trump (I was hoping that Republicans like Romney would run against Trump, I guess they still could as Independents in the general which could have a bigger effect). Either way, we’ll never know if he’d have voted the same if he didn’t know that his vote was only symbolic.

That’s only true if you lack resolve or imagination. Just because non-violent solutions are more difficult don’t mean they don’t exist. And failed attempts (often halfhearted ones) at non-violent solutions don’t preclude non-violent solutions from existing.

“using violence to stop other violent acts on innocents is morally justified”, what if I don’t believe that? That sounds more like a justification than justice.

I just don’t believe that the ends justify the means. And I don’t want to support politicians whose first and often only concern is how what they are doing now ill impact them in the next election.

No one knows what will make a difference in the 2020 election. Abandoning duty and playing the game could turnoff or fail to motivate some of the majority of Americans who don’t vote.

You’re talking in moral relativism while I’m sitting here in absolutism.

I understand the sentiment; however, doing the wrong thing for the right reasons is still wrong (or, the lesser of two evils is still evil).

You nailed a bunch of very key points that are more important than most people realize.

He did a great job at being offensively minded.

I run my SCCA Chapter’s Street Survival school (teen driving clinic) and we rent the parking lot at the high school football stadium (it’s Texas so the high school stadium has seating for 12k people). A couple of years ago after the first Cars and Coffee meat in the area collapsed do to this type of behavior, one of…

We could just build one more round of nuclear (fission) power plants which are carbon free (aside from construction) and could easily supply our non-renewable energy needs. It takes almost a decade to get a new nuclear plant going, but about half that is due to regulatory hurdles that could be streamlined, especially…

Same thing happened to horses, prices increased but so did quality/specialization. You could also just move to a rental model where you rent cool cars instead of buying them, since you don’t need them anymore to get to work (not saying this is the ideal, just seems the way things should go for the sake of efficiency).…

No, only niche car makers will continue to sell to consumers, everyone else will sell commercial/ride share vehicles or go out of business.

What I mourn is the US losing the moral authority that comes with assassinating a foreign diplomatic in a third country. Sure, this was a ‘bad guy’ but if we go around assassinating people we feel are ‘bad guys’ then when another country does the same we won’t have a valid reason to cry foul.

The ideal is for cars to become like horses. No one needs one, but for those who like them there are still places to play with them and you no longer have to use them for mundane tasks.

My buddy put the Supra brakes on his IS300, and yes I’m faster around the track than he is. He told me about the diffs once, his roommate has an FRS and he has become our unofficial group mechanic (he’s an actual mechanic). While we put a new 2Jz into his IS300 a couple weekends ago, he confided that he’s about ready…

You missed the “at the wheels part”, my WRX was tuned to the limits of the stock turbo and injectors (the class I competed in for autox required I keep those stock). “Stages” are marketing gimmicks that don’t have any real meaning, but my WRX would have been a “stage 2+” since I had upgraded the headers, full exhaust,…

Just last week, I helped a friend drop a refreshed motor into his 250k mile IS300 that he tracks and autocrosses, surprised to hear that yours didn’t work out at the track. I’m more surprised to hear of someone who didn’t enjoy the S2000 and BRZ on track, your local track must be a power course. When I’ve run at…