President Joe Biden on Friday ordered a historic change to the Uniform Code of Military Justice by transferring key decision-making authorities outside the military chain of command in cases of sexual assault, domestic violence, child abuse, murder and other serious crimes.
Ya I get how it feels like nothing ever gets done, or only the ‘little things’ but that seems to be how it works. I have some things I harp on about (first past the post voting in Canada) and everything else to me is something small. We all have our major issues we’d like to see handled (anti-trust/corruption is high on my list as well).
But you can still count this as a win and complain about what is left to do. It is a huge deal to some people, for those people it was probably their #1 major issue, potentially life changing. Not you or me, but doesn’t mean we have to be angry about that.
And just an aside, but I’d kill for more protected bike lanes. I don’t know if you are able to bike where you live, but it makes getting from a to b not a total pain in the ass.
Yeah and I have no issue with solving problems of course, I come from small town Canada and an lgbt so I’ve seen a fair share of homophobia, but like if these tiny issues are used as smoke shields I don’t think people can properly rationalize that nothing I’d changing about the controlling powers, they’re only dangling such things in front of us like a carrot on a stick.
Get 80 year old crusty men out of office and we’d have climate change solved in a year and starvation in too - but you gotta walk before you run. I only see this as a (net) negative, because its convincing people ‘things are getting done’ while the scotus is actively saying they’re above the law.
That being said I do love biking and I’d die for an entirely bikeable city. But I’d be wrong to not first die for the people around me that can’t even afford a bike, nor could their farther, grandfather and most likely their children.