I grew up in NOLA. Everyone always asks “How crazy is it down on Bourbon St during Mardi Gras?”

So many internet free speech warriors, yet I can think of so many uncontroversial “exceptions” to this very stupid Americanized version of mythical absolute free speech. Let me list just a few: yelling “fire!” in a crowd, child pornography, running a tax-exempt church and not engaging in political activity, advocating…

I love it when liberals go to protests, are defended/protected/unarrested by people who are willing to put their own freedom on the line, and then go home and bitch on the internet about how “vandalism doesn’t work” “provocateurs are ruining our message” “only peaceful protest works”.

Giving someone water and supplies on a race like this would be cheating, that’s not self-supported.

It’s sort of the culture of this kind of riding - it’s a “race” sure but no one is actually going to “win” anything, there are no prizes or high stakes. IMO as someone who does this kind of riding it was more an offer of solidarity and sportsmanship than “oh noez I messed up now I must stop this woman”. This kind of…

“Go her and go you for cycling even with all that BS around. I can NOT believe he asked her to finish together! I absolutely maintain he wouldn’t have asked that of a man.”

Have you never lived anywhere with lots of mosquitoes? It is a regional problem handled by the local vector control authority.

LOL at all the “race has nothing to do with it” people. Contrast the police response to this to the bay area’s predominantly black sideshows. When black people do donuts at the port they send out the helicopters like it’s WW2.

There’s a lot of older people in my cycling club who are ex-runners because of knee issues. Cycling = no impact.

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