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California high speed rail was something my parents voted on when I was a child.

I had this friend who was a year under me in school. Her kid voted for it too.

It still doesn't exist. California can't build something as modern and cutting edge as a train.

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Speaking as someone from america:

If you kill them, they'll try to spin it as justification for war. This can be mitigated. Might blow back on the administration anyway.

If you let them keep going, they'll see you as weak and try to invade. There's apparently a munitions shortage, so that could get pretty interesting.

If you try to stop them without killing them, you're so fucking fucked. They'll never stop coming, and it will become a weird racist/nationalist thing with lots of conspiracies. Peace will become domestically costly for any us admin to do. The dead are easier than the imprisoned. That's not to say you can't apply legal process, but you need high confidence there's a rope at the end.

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The only time I feel unsafe anywhere in Los Angeles is when a cop comes nearby, I try to ride a bike outside of a park, the cloud of tear gas the cops shot starts blowing towards me, when I am too close to orange county, when when I see someone who looks like they're from orange county, when I pass a Tesla, when its 3 am (7 pm in Venice beach) and the taco trucks are all closed and I'm hungry and a little drunk and there's just nothing to be done.

Or when the feds jump out and try to disappear somebody. That's pretty jarring.

Edit: also when the utility company given a state enforced monopoly decides to set half the city on fire and its really pretty but you know the carcinogens in that smoke be craaaaazy. Or when there's a lot of wind and I think for a split second it might be another earthquake. Or when the cops spam the emergency alert channel with 'please do our jobs for us' even though I set it to 'serious fucking danger only'. Or when the cops just blow up a fucking neighborhood. They do that sometimes. And I wasn't here for it but when the CIA was flooding the city with crack and having the cops move it around for them I bet it was legit scary.