
E-bikes are great but there are a lot of brands out there and not all of them are trustworthy. The RadRunner they have in their article image for instance isn’t very reliable. In a little over a year of lightly using it and following maintenance procedures, its battery and drive board died at the same time. Customer support told me to fuck off as it was just out of warranty and I couldn’t find a way to repair either component independently. I couldn’t even find a spare drive board in their online shop or through third party vendors. The whole experience has made me realize I spent almost 2 grand for a giant paperweight.
Be careful when selecting your bikes, people.
Reconciliation was only part of the equation. Every single Confederate traitor should have hanged from a noose. Every piece of pro-slavery propaganda should have been burned down. The lionization of Confederate generals and politicians should have been stopped. The romantization of the South during the Civil War should have been stamped out at its earliest signs. The racism used to justify the enslavement of black people and later to terrorize, disenfranchise, economically harm, and murder them should have been made illegal from the very start of Reconstruction.
All this evil slowly rotted away at the social fabric of this country until where we are now. We now have those who wish to racially purify this country through increasingly violent and less democratic means, those who wish to stop them but are paralyzed by the legal hurdles put in place by Confederate apologists, and the apathetic ones who are too tired and burned out to even know the world is burning around them.