When I was a kid and beginning to drive, my dad would tell me that if I had the choice between driving on a road or bridge with or without trucks, that I should pick the one with trucks because the people driving the trucks are professionals. They do it for a living for decades so they should be the better and more predictable drivers.

This is clearly no longer the case today, thanks to yet another disastrous policy from blue cities and states.

Apparently I grew up in a different era.

And fyi I'm not that old.

In my 20s I had the same roommate for a ~4 year period. He is a muslim who was born and raised in America. I knew him because we grew up in the same town and went to the same high school.

Some things that happened:

— his parents once came over for dinner. he asked me to leave the apartment because he didn't want me there during their dinner.

— he got married to another muslim girl. literally zero white people were invited to their wedding. it was muslims only despite them both being born and raised in america.

— we used to watch game of thrones... in the show there was a group of people who followed the "lord of light". They literally killed people who didn't believe in the lord of light because he was the one true god. He voluntarily told me he believed the "lord of light" was a metaphor for islam.

— he would speak about jewish people as if they were sub human

— after the Charlie Hebdo killing in France in 2015 (for a cartoon depicting Muhammad)... he came home and went on a rant about how the people who died "had it coming to them" because what they did was so offensive

— he said white people who keep dogs in their house are dirty