Four hours?

Where the hell are you commuting from - Delaware?

Yes, when there’s a massive power failure, the system doesn’t work

Then there’s the 99% of the time when everything goes without a hitch - you don’t hear about those times in the media, because that’s not news, only the rare system failures are.

Also, traffic jams are a thing, and commuting by car in a congested area…

It still works out cheaper in the sense that I don’t own a car.


I don’t have to make car payments

I don’t have to pay for car repairs.

I don’t have to pay for auto insurance.

I don’t have to buy gasoline

I never have to pay for parking.

That’s a huge savings.

On the rare occasions when I need a car, I have a zipcar account…

Not all criminals - just the ones who play pro baseball

People already live in cities - lots of us never left.

Waterfronts were meant for unloading ships and other industrial activitives

Traffic circles suck 

New Yorker here

The majority of New Yorkers do not drive - hell, most of us don’t even own a car or even have a license.

Why?

Because we have really cheap 24 hour 7 day a week mass transit.

Car owners spend thousands of dollars a year on gasoline, insurance and car payments - I pay $2.75 a trip, with a free transfer - or…

So...what’s wrong with people in big densely populated cities living in apartments and having access to subways (that’s what people who live in cities that actually have them call them - nobody but policy wonks calls them “light rail”)?

I’ve literally lived my entire life in apartments and have always used subways and…

Yes

Since Noah’s Arc was totally fictional, no.

As a matter of fact, America is a very violent country that’s awash in guns

The statistics prove that jailing violent criminals has - surprise! - reduced crime rates (especially here in New York City)

Lots of nations (hi, Mexico! Hey, Brazil, what’s up? How are you,
Colombia?) “deal” with crime....by not dealing with…

The fact that the American Revolution had succeeded made the French Revolution that much more of a realistic project - also the leaders of the French Revolution were directly influenced by the ideas of American revolutionaries 

It’s hilarious that you think I’m a Republican.

My politics are much further to the left than that - and further to the left of your politics as well

No way these questions are real

Um....they didn’t have plastics in 688 AD...so, no garbage bags

Oh I concur...but in the 1780s the bourgeoisie were still a historically progressive class

Remember, without the American Revolution, we don’t have the French Revolution, which means we don’t have the Haitian Revolution, or the collapse of the Spanish and Portuguese empires in the Americas. 

All that said, the Magna Carta was a huge historical advance 

So, woke liberalism has decayed to the point where you all are neo monarchists now?

Look, if you’re going to ad hominem you can do better than that!

Slavery and serfdom were abolished by...SLAVES AND SERFS RISING UP IN ARMED REBELLION not by upper class people getting woke and thinking that slavery and serfdom were bad.