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A list made by the Wall Street Journal of Tim Walz's radical liberal policies:
Funding "the North Star Promise Program, which provides free college for students with a family income under $80,000," including illegal immigrants.
Creating a state system for paid family and medical leave, capped at a combined 20 weeks a year and funded by a 0.88% payroll tax.
Mandating that public utilities generate 80% carbon-free electricity by 2030, ramping up to 100% by 2040. He's a fervent believer in "climate action."
Subsidizing electric vehicles by "requiring EV charging infrastructure within or adjacent to new commercial and multi-family buildings," as the Governor's office bragged.
Passing one of the nation's most permissive abortion statues that has essentially no limits and no age consideration for minors.
Declaring Minnesota to be a "trans refuge," with a law saying that the state will ignore a "court order for the removal of a child issued in another state because the child's parent or guardian assisted the child in receiving gender-affirming care in this state."
Establishing automatic voter registration and letting Minnesotans sign up for a permanent absentee ballot option.
@RickiTarr "See! Look at these terrible things!!"
Oh yeah, totally, so terrible, my goodness, WSJ. Just atrocious
@RickiTarr Minnesota suffering under the iron heel of considerate, good governance.
@RickiTarr such extreme
@RickiTarr I just keep thinking "are we in danger of American politics NOT being a bin fire of fake tan and creepy wigs?"
@RickiTarr These sound amazing to us and are simultaneously dog whistles to push conservatives into action. To better understand the coded language in political speech check out this lecture from George Lakoff - it’s like putting on the glasses from “they live”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f9R9MtkpqM
Maybe, instead of “illegal immigrants” we ought to start saying “undocumented taxpayers”. They work their asses off doing jobs most wouldn’t and pay more taxes than large corporations. (1/2)
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What a radical. Someone needs to stop him, or vote for him.
@RickiTarr Based on this list, I’d guess that “radical liberal” = doing nice things for people.
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"THIS MENACING GOOD TIME WILL SMOTHER US ALL IN ITS COMPASSIONATE EMBRACE!" shrieks the WSJ.
@RickiTarr Nice list, except for publicly-funded passenger EV infrastructure. Low wealth people can’t afford EVs. Everybody needs efficient busses and trains. The C footprint of the making of the passenger EV exacerbates climate instability, which disproportionately impacts low wealth communities. We all need walkable and rollable communities - and the municipal capacity to plan accordingly - so why induce sprawl with infrastructure for passenger vehicles? (#EVfleets are worth considering, however.)
@GDS Because the Midwest is much more rural, a lot more small towns and farming communities. Walkable means something different for us, when the closest large city is hours away. I'm not disagreeing with you, all those things are fantastic, and should be implemented where they are useful, but they aren't useful everywhere. We will need different solutions for different situations. We don't and can't all live in cities.
I had to replace my over a decade old petrol car last year…I had pretty much run it into the ground, it was getting too expensive for me to keep on the road.
I really didn’t want to replace it with another petrol car and I assumed I couldn’t afford an EV. I’ve only ever bought 2nd hand. But the surprise was that there was no difference in price between a 2nd hand petrol and EV of the same age and size. I have to drive to get to work 15 miles away.
I would love to live where I could get to work by reliable regular electric public transport (the buses within my city are now electric so we’re headed in the right direction! ) but we’re not there yet. And it is rural communities that will be hardest to make the sell of good clean public transport to. With no history of having it, they rely on cars regardless of income. This is true of US and UK sadly. EVs are not perfect, but they are not the worst.
Good points. It's as if vehicle consumption is induced.
I think we need to taper gasoline vehicle use as we simultaneously accelerate distributed #EV community transit.
It feels unsettling to invest in passenger #EV infrastructure (with associated costs of pedestrian fatalities, charging ports, road maintenance, and sprawl) when we know that it is not good for people or planet or prosperity.
Where is that grand plan for #EV community transit and the walkable/rollable community?
@RickiTarr Or as JD Vance says "hell on earth!"
This is like a conversation between two kids:
Kid One: What's your father like? Mine starves me and beats me every night before bed. (And reads the WSJ 
)
Kid Two: That's terrible! Come live with us--my dad gives hugs and plays with me and reads me bedtime stories every night. And there's plenty to eat.
@RickiTarr Just another capitalist tool whining and trying to hold onto the power they don’t deserve. This isn’t the 1950s but they still have the same editorial values from that era.
We’re not going back!
@RickiTarr It's radical for rich conservatives who like to keep things in dark ages because it suits them this way.
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Frightening how radical and irresponsible he is!! 
@RickiTarr Almost like making Minnesota a second Sweden?!?
@nichni @RickiTarr "Hell on earth!" according to Vance/Trump. Strange I kind of liked it when I visited.
@glennsills @RickiTarr Sweden does have problems/challenges, also with violent immigrant gangs.. but still I'd rather live there than in Alabama or Utah.
@RickiTarr: did I miss something? Has “radical” been redefined?
@cynthia There are people who seem to think humanity and basic decency are radical concepts. Or pretend to. Anything that stops the upward flow of resources.
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️ @RickiTarr oh good lord. the atrocities. 
so fucking radical, how absolutely insane. practically communism.
fuck the WSJ.
@rothko @RickiTarr Proposing a system of alternate side of the street parking in Minneapolis.
@Csosorchid @RickiTarr here in duluth (where nobody lives), that makes sense. minneapolis? oh god, what a nightmare. single-side parking like they do during snow emergencies SUCKS -- half the available spaces are just GONE and you end up parking like a million miles away from your apartment and have to walk home in the freezing cold. doing that all year would just suuuuuuck.
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Alas, how will the oligarchs and their toadies *ever* survive if any of these measures come to pass??? They can't bear the unwashed rabble having crumbs of dignity, let alone hopes or dreams of a life free from being under the thumb!
Will no one think of the techbros or their bootlicks?
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They sound like perfectly good centrist policies to me. Just shows how extreme the Republicans are.
@RickiTarr It is clear why WSJ does this. Educated and healthy (body and mind) people do not vote for the GOP.
@RickiTarr I would really like to reset conservatives' idea of "radical" to actual be radical some time. Guillotines have not materialized as promised though.
@RickiTarr Let's do it...
Sounds like a good place. Way to go Coach!