Nah
People get influenced all the time to change their opinions and attitudes
I think that the pronouns thing from a few years back did a lot of damage and pushed a lot of people to more right wing ideas. It's stupid, of course, it's an annoyance at best, but it has helpt right wing talking heads to have easy material to lure unsuspecting viewers in
Okay, a few things to unpack here.
Yeah, you need service roads. In the Netherlands they have the city center streets completely blocked off from traffic, only bicycles and pedestrians are allowed.
Once a day, usually 7-9 am, a hydrolic pole will lower at the entrances, allowing small supply trucks in to supply the stores. These trucks will have two hours to get their business done and leave. If the poles go up before they're out, no worries, they can be lowered on demand for special circumstances or will just auto lower from the inside, not the outside.
Also only small delivery trucks are allowed. I'm in Vancouver and I'm amazed how they sometimes use trailer trucks in the fucking city center. What is wrong with you? You don't need enormous trucks, literally.
In the Netherlands, all centers gave tile roads and it isn't a problem because we use smaller trucks there.
The result is predictable. The city centers are amazing, everyone loves them, and ita always crowded like hell because these are human spaces, not car spaces
Car spaces are awful, dangerous and nobody wants to be there. Make human spaces!
JFC
Then move. Go away. Yes you can, it's just a matter of what you're willing to give up. Walk to a different state if you have to, because at this point even homelessness sounds better than what you're experiencing.
I feel for you, I really do, but your life -in part- is what you make it. Yeah, life throws lemons at you, but its up to you to respond to that and make it something. You have the choice of staying there, brooding and complaining, or you can do something.
Join a protest group? Find like-minded people to hang out with? Maybe star driving somewhere, leave your state? Whatever you do, do something, don't just accept the status quo you're in now. Anything is better than just being miserable
You have only one life, make it fucking matter. Make a differece for yourself, then once you're okay, go in and make a difference for others. If not that, start first with others and that difference for yourself will come.
Of course, I get the statistics part but statistically, heterosexuals still get diseases. Less or more doesn't matter, it's a non zero chance so you have to check everything, no matter the sexuality of the person.
Statistics actually say the rule is dumb because statistically heterosexuals still have cooties too.
So if you gotta check anyway, why reject homosexual blood? Afraid that you might suddenly get the urge to play with a cucumber?
(And with "you" I mean whoever made those rules)
That's like saying that a car does not allow food to be digested.
Capitalism can and should be used as a driver for economic wealth whilst being controlled and capped by law.
You are poor? You pay no taxes. Anybody else pays in brackets and when your net worth reaches 10 million? Anything above it gets taxed 100%. Same for companies, limit them to 500-1000 employees maximum, net worths maximum 100 million or a billion or something like that.
This makes it that nobody gets too rich, nobody gets too powerful and the government gets a huge amount of tax wealth which it can use for a giant social system that gives free healthcare, education, housing, you name it. You could then egen umdo universal income and it requires no communism, no forcing people, no taking away of rights.