the fact you can make a comment on an internet site is DEI.

you were DEI all along.

Can you show me on the Epstein Files where the DEI touched you?

More and more everyday. I don’t normally wish ill will on anyone but I sure ain’t gonna complain if it happens.

They never for once think that the more bikers there are, THE LESS CARS ON THE ROAD!!

No, you have it backwards. They do think about that. The issue is that their oil and automotive lobbyist buddies pay them tons of money to ensure there are always cars on the road.

It's coded language that helps racists feel better about themselves

They're kind of interchangeable. They only know that it's about stuff involving minorities that they don't like.

This is the answer. Follow the money, not the emotion. If this diverts profits in any way from the fossil fuel industry, they must disable it. Short term gains for the leaders and dying non-renewables industry.

We’re witnessing the conservative playbook in action. The tactic is to undefine certain words or phrases. By purging a proper definition from peoples’ minds, you can then use that label to turn your base against anything you dislike.

Phase 1 is to create a label. Usually by misappropriating something else that your voting base is already going to dislike. Find something they dislike, and start the messaging about how evil {label} is. The goal is to constantly hammer home how {label} is awful. Every conservative news org needs to be running constant smear articles about {label}. Newscasters need to talk about how {label} is coming for you. {Label} is coming for your job. {Label} is coming for your kids. {Label} is coming for your friends and loved ones. The bot farms need to be posting about how much they hate {label}, how much {label} took from them, how {label} is a slippery slope, etc…

Phase 2 is to begin broadening the definition of {label}. You find things that are {label}-adjacent, and begin calling them {label}. As time progresses, {label} is such a broadly defined term that it can basically apply to anything. By the time phase 2 has ended, {label} has effectively been undefined.

Finally, phase 3 is to weaponize {label} by applying it to anything you want your followers to dislike. You have been primed to dislike {label}, and now a figure of authority is saying “this thing is {label}.” So you’ll be instantly turned against whatever they were talking about, because of the transitive property of disliking {label}.

“DEI” as a label is currently in phase 3, and it’s where this post came from. It seems ridiculous to anyone who hasn’t been primed to hate {label}, and hasn’t been propagandized to literally forget the original definition of {label}. As an outside observer, seeing something erroneously branded as {label} seems stupid and obviously wrong. But that’s because you weren’t the target of the dedicated undefining campaign.

Some other good examples are “communism”, “socialism”, “woke”, etc… The real definitions for those things don’t actually matter to conservatives, because they’re literally working with a different language that has redefined those labels to simply mean “thing I should dislike”.

Imagine loudly calling someone a pedophile to win an argument in a crowd. It doesn’t matter if they actually are a pedo. Your goal isn’t to make a credible accusation. All that matters is the entire crowd heard you yelling about it, and is now less likely to listen to whatever they had to say. Any previous argument they had is suddenly irrelevant, because now they’re surrounded by angry looking people. Their entire argument has gone out the window, and they’re entirely focused on defending themselves from the “pedo” label instead.

The entire tactic is basically another arm of the (also extremely common) semantic laundering tactic. Where conservatives will find friendly-sounding words to disguise their awful plans. It isn’t “blatant racism”, it is “anti-DEI”. It isn’t “giving billions of taxpayer dollars to rich people to make them even richer”, it is “trickle-down economics”. Etc…

It's just a Nazi dog whistle to get their base riled up as the midterms approach.

They have to make the DEI bike lanes more important than affordability or their leader's rape and felonies. Just like they made Haitians eating non-existent pets more important than literally anything else heading into the last election.

They saw bi in the name and decided it must be banned.

Yes. My bike is super gay. It's so gay it did three seasons of Broadway and did great at Cannes

Fucking bicyclicans

Yes that’s the entire reason I no longer cycle. My bike has let itself get rundown, has not paid attention to its physical self, and looks like something that just hangs out in the garage all the time. I think it just gave up that it’s middleaged self can’t compete with newer flashier models

I think it's pretty obvious that only gay dudes ride bikes

Had to make sure his hands are realistically sized.

Added a rat paws version

Truly intellectual giants

I often think of the movie bugs life where the grasshopper says that the ants outnumber them 6 to 1, and if they ever figure that out, our way of life is over.

No particular reason, but there are more of us than them, by a lot.

I think even more so, they think riding a bike somewhere is a "gay soyboy" activity and that people biking are "in their way". Of course, bike lanes would get bikers out of their way, but they are too stupid to understand anything.

And they don't want the poors to be able to escape from their slums.

We need all terrain bikes and we just run them over anything in the bike lane. Gimme the Hummer of bicycles and let's make those bike lanes as dangerous as the main road. See how many people hang out in them then

It was a common criticism at the time: a lot of the infrastructure bill was to work with state and local organizations to get stuff done. Entire networks of groups and agencies needed to be established and planned. At government speeds, that means many years before results are visible.

Biden-area initiatives would have made fundamental improvements over decades, assuming they were allowed to continue. But in today’s world of limited attention spans and constant outrage, we can no longer see long term efforts

I doubt every project started at the same time the day after the grants were approved.