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These people have no problem driving or taking care of themselves, I'm sure plenty shouldn't be driving, but doing something like shopping and then walking your groceries back home simply isn't an option for a lot of people even if public transportation was more robust. Sure, past a certain point everyone loses independence, but there are plenty that don't need to that you are advocating should

Rural life definitely, but I'm in suburbia hahaha. I just can't imagine public transportation being able to replace what a car can do for elderly people

I'm not like super pro car or anything but your argument in my experience doesn't really hold up. I work at a farm and we have a lot of elderly folks come in and shop by themselves. They drive themselves and shop themselves but I doubt they could do that with a walker and if they didn't have a car I doubt they'd be finding a different way to come out here.

Cause I'm lazy and cheap and would rather throw on one of the hundreds of N95s I have lying around in my garage

I blacksmith bro. I swing a 5 pound hammer with one hand for hours with a 1400° fire a few feet away from me, while wearing heat insulation gloves in the summer. I wear an N95 because if I don't I'll cough out coal dust for the next 2 days, and I'm sure as shit not looking forward to finding out how that feels when I'm 80. Oh and I'm significantly overweight. If I could do it everyone else is just bitching.

It might have a name but I honestly have no idea. Went to a nice butcher shop in new york that had a nice restaurant on the side and they had it on the menu. To be honest I don't know if I've had it anywhere else. I reverse engineered it after the dinner to make at home cause it was just that good, one of my favorite dishes to make if I'm having company over cause it's literally impossible to dislike. The date/bacon/brussel sprouts combo has that perfect mix of savory/sweet/smokeyness.

It is amazing, one of my favorite dishes

It's actually super good, like meat flavored butter

While roasting them add some diced dates, bacon, onions and maybe peppers and you have the best dish ever made

It is helpful because it's not about having too much precision, he made a bullshit argument and I found it ridiculous.

I don't particularly care as that wasn't my point. My point was to disagree with your comment prior which stated that authoritarian as a term was mainly used as a truncheon against communist nations in order to increase support for capitalism, which it isn't.

What? The term authoritarian is thrown at non-communist/capitalist nations all the time. Syria, Nazi Germany, Libya, Franco's Spain, Modern Russia, and a million other instances. Authoritarian is a clearly defined term and is in no way exclusively applied to communist nations in almost any circles. It also happens to have been applied to most "communist" countries because most of them have been authoritarian