Yeah, that one was on you. If you want to drive that fast, it’s your job to keep an eye on the right and look for people stuck behind a truck. They are idiots and you can honk or flash your lights at them.

Anybody who paid a tiny bit of attention to key NATO member and previously avowed secular state Turkey would have had a hard time lumping the country together with most other Muslim countries or associate them with sharia. One of the noticeable things Erdogan did when he started out was lifting a ban on head scarfs in…

For what it’s worth, I understand that Turkey was for the longest time run by western-oriented ‘elites’ mostly based in Istanbul. Erdogan was the first president to be elected with popular support from the anatolian hinterland that was never really fully integrated in the modern secularist Turkey.

Yeah, that will show the EU when the UK loses a bunch of benefits and still will produce everything to EU specs because that’s where they want to sell their stuff.

Sorry, but that’s bullshit. If you are camping out on the road holding up traffic you can’t complain being passed. If the person then in front of you uses a reasonable line you can’t all of a sudden demand that he takes a worse and less safe course just to let you pass because all of a sudden you decide to speed up.

Remind me again, who was bitching about instant gratification?

Maybe it’s just a difference of how you use the term car culture? For me, it can both mean a positive embrace of cars and things car-related as a hobby and a culture where cars are a huge part of the culture because they are a necessity to get around, resulting in stuff like drive throughs and drive in cinema.

They are Russians so I guess yielding is a practical impossibility to either of them. It’s not a culture that handles conflict very constructively.

OK, I am not trying to pretend that there is a way to convince you, but there is a difference between doing something that has no effect on anybody else or blowing toxic particulate matter in their faces.

Not sure why you bring up the WB or IMF. People working there would have to pay between 1-3 annual salaries to afford those cars. And getting some $150,000-200,000 a year by the time you are 40 sounds a lot, try supporting a family with that in DC or surrounding areas. In most zip codes you are barely median income.