Meme - meatball times @meatballtimes: "wait this graph is crazy. BART installed anti-fare-hopping gates and the amount of station maintenance and cleanup they had to do went to basically zero. strong evidence that the poor condition of public transit is fairly easy to fix + caused by a very small group of people"
BART @SFBART: "And there are other real benefits such as fewer corrective maintenance requests and time spent cleaning and fixing things.
Next Gen Fare Gate Successes. Hours spent on patron related Corrective Maintenance (CM) within the paid area of stations reduced significantly after NextGen Fare Gate (NGFG) installations"
Left wingers want to make public transport free. This suggests that there're many hidden costs to that (assaults on staff is another)
Crémieux on X - "I think it bears repeating that BART installed tall gates to enter the subway and they're gaining $10m in revenue a year plus the need for maintenance is down by *95.7%* Passengers who were unwilling to pay a few bucks were causing 96% of the public cleanliness problems!"
dandelion georgism 🔰🏗 on X - "I cannot tell you how many gun cases I worked on started with the perp jumping a turnstile. Turns out, “do you have the impulse control to not commit petty theft while carrying a loaded unregistered firearm” is a really good filter for bad behavior!"
big_pedestrian on X - "It is not progressive to let a very small group of highly dysfunctional people to occupy and degrade the public realm. They should be helped, treated and housed. But severe mental health and drug addiction result in wildly antisocial behavior that cannot be tolerated or indulged."
Garrett Langley on X - "Incredible example of a pattern we see all the time - simple rules, when enforced, improve public spaces across the board. Shopping malls that push back on shoplifting tell us the same thing."
Thread by @sivori on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "The frustrating thing about many of our social issues is that we merely lack the will to solve the problems. We are shouted down by lunatics who want to live like pigs in filth so that the outer world matches their inner world of chaos and disorder. “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity” while we sink into the abyss. Life will not improve until sober moderate people are making the decisions while the hysterics are treated for the unserious people they are."
Social chaos is a choice - that left wing elites make on everyone's behalf
SDL on X - "Cars kill 40,000 people a year. Homicide kills 20,000 people a year, ~90% among people who know each other. Not strangers on the bus. In New York City's worst year, it had 10 subway murders in ~1 billion rider-days. The average is 3. NYC has ~200 fatal car crashes per year."
HowlingMutant on X - "You guys burned cities down over a single black junkie overdosing in proximity to a police officer"
Right Wing Dice Squad on X - "Not even. He was alive when he got to the ER."
Time to force even more people to use public transport
Natalia Antonova 🇺🇸🇺🇦 on X - "“I care abt the sick and disenfranchised! This is why I think they should live like animals, urinating on public transport, and scaring little children!”"
constans on X - "A big resentment of the left is that society relies on participation of the middle class to have a functional society. You can’t fund schools unless they’re good enough that middle class people want to attend them. You need transit the middle class will use or they’ll just drive"
𝔽eral ℙawg ℍunter on X - "every six months left twitter debates whether people should tolerate riders smoking crack and pissing on the subway where one person meekly raises a concern and then they get dog piled by people calling them a reactionary"
constans on X - "The modern left has a noble savage view of criminals and the homeless and thinks they can serve as the vanguard of the revolution and feel that the working class has betrayed the cause because they see transit as a way to get to work that should be safe and orderly"
daniela on X - "My husband was on a crowded train yesterday when a homeless woman got on, pulled down her pants, and peed all over the train in front of everyone. He hasn’t stopped talking about it for the past 24+ hrs. It is the single most traumatizing thing that’s happened to him in nyc."
Kate Willett on X - "The other night I moved train cars bc of someone’s bodily functions and I managed to do it without becoming a fascist. Lived another day to keep fighting for housing as a human right too, if anyone needs inspo."
Thread by @constans on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "“Fascist” for you means “ wanting the person not on the train” Your problem ultimately is that you’re anarchist who wants to attack and destroy the lives of the working class and you hipe that the homeless & lumpenproletariart will assault and harm quality of life for workers. The arguments being made are that the working class has allied with the bourgeois and that they have to be punished for not trying to destroy the capitalist system. The homeless and criminals are the instruments of punishment who you believe are “pure” for refusing to conform. You guys all hate transit workers and working New Yorkers and like to watch them suffer disorder and crime on transit because you think they’re “squares” who didn’t become anarchists allying with criminals"
mindy🌷 on X - "agree that this probably isn’t the single most traumatizing thing someone could see in a city but it’s still not normal or OK and the left shouldn’t act like it is. we all deserve to live in functioning cities where public displays of anti social behavior are not tolerated"
Alexander McCoy on X - "Having a baby really changed my mind about this stuff (unwell people experiencing episodes on public transit). I went from “whatever, look the other way” when I was just a sturdy adult man on my own, to being like “fuck fuck this guy is gonna kill my baby strapped to my chest.”"
Danie ❤️ you on X - "“Having a baby made me fascist” is a real phenomenon. That’s why we must abolish the nuclear family Homeless ppl have children too, homeless ppl are sometimes children. And instead of thinking of them as human, you’re falling into racist and classist anxieties"
This is a good reminder that you can't take left wingers seriously when they go on about "fascism"
This is why left wingers are anti-natalist
Cassie Pritchard on X - "Like on the left we fundamentally don’t care about ‘crime,’ it’s morally uninteresting to us—it’s just a thing that happens in the world, like the weather, so we are willing to excuse mentally people for theft, violence, etc."
indy5432 on X - "The weather analogy is very telling of the underlying fallacy here. Unlike weather, crime is in fact very responsive to policy choices, and a society that wishes to be civilized should choose wisely."
Ironically, left wingers obsess about climate change and think they can change the climate
ℜ𝔞𝔢 on X - "People in the replies think that leftists would start to care about crime if they were personally victimized, but this is a misunderstanding of the leftoid psyche. For many leftoids, their politics are a projection of self harm onto society. They fundamentally don’t value their own lives. They want to hurt. This makes them incredible ideological soldiers — unlike many rightoids (who have families they care for and cherished possessions), these people have no attachments and nothing to lose. It’s a mistake to model them with anything resembling a healthy, normal mind"
Wilfred Reilly on X - "If your "cognitive, emotional, neurological limits" make you less than human, we should put you down like any other mad dog, to save real people. Also....why exaaaaaactly would this horrible logic apply to the serial rapists and IQ 79 gang shooters she's explicitly defending, but NOT to moderate bigots? I say: sanction all bad behavior, some with fire and some with a light slap on the head. But, what IS her argument for sanctioning any? "Being poor white in a trailer park in 2025 MADE me say all that 'bout mah Spanish ex-bi*ch!!!" Gee, Officer Krupke!"
Meme - Covfefe Anon @CovfefeAnon: ""Keep your eyes on the ball guys - look at how much worse we've made everything over decades of *slowly* eroding public life while controlling media reports about it to not allow complaints. By going mask off like this you're endangering our ability to keep making society worse in the name of progress!""
Jill Filipovie: "l am begging leftists and liberals to not do this again. It is normal and smart to be nervous and on high alert when someone behaves in a profoundly anti-social way (peeing on the subway) and/or a threatening way (screaming on the subway). The more cities tolerate this, the fewer people ride public transport, the worse that transport gets, and eventually it gets to a breaking point and people wind up voting for right- wing politicians who come in and crack skulls and way over-police. It is possible to nip these problems in the bud early and using more human measures. "Toughen up" is a bad and strategically stupid answer."
welcome to our trash revolution @trash_panda97: "i've been on the subway with homeless people that peed, screamed, all sorts of stuff. it was mildly uncomfortable but truly didn't impact my day in any way. maybe your husband needs to toughen up"
shoe on X - "“clean, safe cities and social order is fascism” every normal person ever:"
"Oh wow, that sounds great. You told me that's fascism? Err, waiter, more fascism please"
Yeerk.P 🦆 on X - "Leftists are now arguing that women with little babies are "fascist" and have to be "abolished" so vagrants can piss on public transport in peace"
Toronto engineer turns commuter frustration into site that exposes TTC delay data - "The engineer says she was also surprised to find out that disorderly patrons were actually the number one cause of delays, and that track fires are a persistent problem, causing significant disruptions."
Too bad it's fascism to do anything about it
Thread by @Chris_arnade on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Yes it’s statistically true you probably wont be set on fire while riding the Blue line — but man oh man does American cities not get it. If you want Abundance — lots of people living close together having to share stuff like subway cars, parks, and neighborhoods - then you first need foundational safety. That is you need citizens who can fully trust their neighbors, and that means you need zero tolerance for antisocial behavior, including having someone walking around with a rap sheet that should have long ago eliminated them from free access to public spaces.
You know who has an abundance agenda? China, and I’m guessing America won’t accept that level of surveillance, anti-liberal policies, and authoritarianism. Also, Japan, but again, America doesn’t seem to want (or enact) their level of personal responsibility, immigration restrictions, and self control"
Max on X - "I think we underestimates how much all the ideological insanity today is solely a function of modern life being too easy. There is literally just no selective pressure against retarded ideas anymore. If you were this much of an idiot even a century ago, you died. Today we have so much safety net that these people just stack up at “basic sustenance” and then continue on their merry retarded way."
End Wokeness on X - "Nassadir Tate punched a 55 year old on the NYC subway 2 days ago. The man died. Nassadir got a misdemeanor ticket. He's already out of jail."
WPL (subscribe on YouTube) on X - "In America you’re just allowed to kill people if you’re black, there’s no consequences anymore."
Nate Fischer on X - "Leftists want the state to replace Jesus as the source of salvation. Thus—instead of removing a criminal to protect law-abiding citizens—they look for every excuse to give him another chance, every theoretical path to rehabilitation. Category error on the role of the state."
Bama Chan on X - "Yes. Tax the rich to care for the poor, rather than the church doing it. Universal healthcare instead of the church helping the sick. Food stamps instead of the church feeding the hungey. Government is God. It's terrible."
Relentless_Dissent on X - "Everybody wants to be the savior. But they want someone else to hang on the cross."
This is a more profound aspect of secular religion - the State becoming God. This also ties into how left wingers believe that government intervention is the solution to all problems
ZUBY: on X - "Many people are OK with crime as long as it isn't affecting them PERSONALLY. The same people often consider themselves 'compassionate'."
Daniel Concannon on X - "Remember the 2021 shooting in Oregon, where a drunk Black man attacked a White man and his White fiancée, was shot by the man he attacked, and then the White male victim went to prison? Last month, the Oregon Court of Appeals reversed the decision and remanded the case for a new trial. Here's a refresher on what's transpired:
~ Barry Washington (Black man) gets drunk at bar, hits on Allie Butler (White girl)
~ Allie tells Washington she's not interested
~ Washington pursues Allie outside, continues to knowingly make unwanted advances
~ Allie's fiancée, Ian Cranston (White man), tells Washington "move along, she's taken"
~ Washington becomes belligerent, shouts "fuck you White boy," and smashes Cranston in the head twice, resulting in a mild traumatic brain injury
~ A face-off ensues between Washington, with 3 male friends, and Cranston, with a male friend and his girlfriend
~ Allie begins recording, at which point Washington strikes her, attempts to knock her phone away, and then lunges at Cranston, who he's already violently assaulted
~ At this moment, Cranston shoots a single round at Washington in self-defense, killing him
~ Anti-White justice systems charges Cranston, the victim, with second-degree murder, first-degree manslaughter, and second-degree manslaughter
~ Jury finds Cranston guilty on both manslaughter charges, which then merge into the higher (first-degree manslaughter) charge
~ During trial, Shitbag judge Beth Bagley refuses to inform the jury that, in the State of Oregon, Ian Cranston had no duty to retreat
~ In October of this year, the appeals court reverses the decision due to shitbag Beth Bagley's withholding of information from the jury
~ Ian Cranston, the White victim, remains locked up, awaiting the state's inevitable petition to review the rejection of the verdict, which will result in either restoration of the original verdict, or Cranston being tried yet again
For four years, Ian Cranston has been locked away - all for defending himself and his girlfriend from a violent, drunken attack. While the decision from the appeals court is good news, there remains a hell of a long road ahead. At best, Ian, now 31 years old, will have to endure yet another trial. At worst, the original decision will be reinstated upon state's petition and the recent reversal will prove inconsequential. Defending oneself while White remains a high crime in the United States of America, but we see here a rare chance for a (singular) course correction. Justice would dictate Ian Carroll exiting his prison cell and "Judge" Beth Bagley being led in, but hopefully we'll see the part where Ian walks free sooner than later."
J͎Λ͎Y͎ on X - ">Black guy keeps hitting on a White guy’s fiancée, refuses to back off
>Gets aggressive, punches White guy hard enough to cause a TBI
>Comes at him again, gets shot and killed
>White guy is convicted of second-degree murder and manslaughter after judge intentionally withholds from jury (despite being explicitly asked) that he had no duty to retreat
>Years later, appeals court overturns the conviction (due to judge misleading the jury), but White guy’s still in prison while the state decides what’s next
Judges are anti-White terrorist scum"
memetic_sisyphus on X - "If you search for this judge there is nothing but ethics complaint after ethics complaint. She is constantly using her position to rule in favor of those she has personal connections to. She’s had serval cases overturned or she has been forcibly removed from cases for not disclosing conflicts of interest. In one lawsuit she was presiding over, she was going to be called as a witness due to direct pertinent communications she had with the subjects of the lawsuit."
Covfefe Anon on X - "The number of delusions that make up the progressive world-view is astonishing. "Funding" for "mental health services" has (of course) gone nothing but up everywhere - "funding cuts" always exist in the progressive mind as a catch-all excuse for the results of their policies not being what they pretend to believe they would be. "Education" is another area - every education fad is only ever undermined by "funding cuts" - when every year there is nothing but more and more funding for "education". "Mental health services" don't actually stop "violence" - they're an excuse for leftists to unleash evil people who should be executed ("we can't punish him for hurting people because he just can't help it and will always hurt people"). The murderer in this case is not meaningfully "mentally ill" - he's a lifelong criminal who should have been executed years ago or imprisoned for life at minimum but that was stopped by people progressives. Absolutely no one on the left was begging for there to be more people locked in mental institutions - the idea has always been that saying someone is "mentally unfit to stand trial" is a way of getting him out of prison. Trump literally addressed this with an executive order and leftist pro-crime groups (naturally) fought it. I would say that everything these people believe is contrary to reality but actually, these people don't even believe this - it's just a nervous tic of "the only reason for progressive failure is insufficient progressivism" as an excuse but in reality, all of these progressive policies are working as intended to create the crime and disorder these people crave because they are driven by spite and envy"
I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 on X - "🚨NEW: Just-released chilling video footage—previously withheld from the public by Chicago officials—shows the brutal “Loop Puncher” attack on an Illinois mother that took place two months ago. The video captures Kathleen Miles walking home from work with a friend when she is randomly assaulted by William Livingston, a career criminal with more than a dozen prior arrests since 2012 for battery and aggravated assault. Livingston can be seen running, placing himself between two women and punching Miles without warning, knocking her to the ground. Disturbingly, he remained at the scene, casually watching her lie unconscious in the street as bystanders rushed to help. The footage, which lasts over 10 minutes, shows Livingston calmly observing the aftermath of his attack. Miles sustained multiple facial fractures, a black eye, and a concussion. Records show that Livingston has a long history of similar violent attacks. Despite repeated arrests, he has benefited from progressive policies that downgraded felony charges to misdemeanors and from lenient rulings by activist judges—allowing him to be released time and time again to reoffend, targeting women."
SaltyGoat on X - "On November 7, 2025, 40-year-old James Bowman III was arrested in Maryland for assault after punching a woman in the face. A District court commissioner released him with NO BAIL! One hour later, he returned and assaulted her AGAIN while she held her child, a toddler. NO BAIL NEEDS TO BE COMPLETELY ABOLISHED!!"
Driver who killed Grammy-nominated musician walking his dogs had been arrested over 100 times - "The driver, 41-year-old Shannon Godbout, hit multiple objects, including two telephone poles, before striking MacLeod as he walked on the shoulder of the road with his dogs."
A Gene Robinson on X - "See this filthy savage? She killed a man in Rhode Island this weekend. Now here’s the part that should make every sane American furious… She wasn’t a first-time offender. Not a second-time offender. Not even a tenth-time offender. She had been arrested… over 100 times. Let that settle in… 100 arrests… 82 warrants… 40 traffic citations… And she was still free to get behind the wheel long enough to take an innocent man’s life. This isn’t compassion… this is engineered chaos. This is what happens when a system protects predators and punishes the people they victimize. This is what happens when ideology replaces accountability. This is what happens when criminals are treated like “misunderstood citizens” instead of what they are… dangers. A man is dead because a repeat offender was cycled in and out of a justice system that refuses to deliver justice. You want to know why America is breaking? Because too many in power would rather virtue-signal than safeguard human life. This didn’t have to happen… But when you design a society where consequences don’t exist, tragedies like this become inevitable. You know what makes this worse? There are thousands of people just like her walking our streets right now… scott-free… dodging accountability… stacking arrest after arrest… released again and again as if innocent lives don’t matter. Ask any cop in America… they’ll tell you the truth. The same five percent of offenders commit most of the violence, most of the theft, most of the destruction… yet they’re the ones the system keeps protecting. Meanwhile… law-abiding citizens are left to bury their dead. We are being governed by people who think consequences are “harsh,” but body bags are not. You want engagement? This is the formula. This is the truth people feel in their bones. #SilentMajoritySpeaks #AStoneGroove"
