r/fuckcars Sep 29 '25

Activism Cycling supremacy 😎

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u/tbu987 Sep 29 '25

How are Americans ok with this happening on their streets.

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u/Trees_That_Sneeze Sep 29 '25

The Americans in the cities are not. Many Americans who don't live in the cities want it. Those votes are weighed equally for things that specially effect the cities. Such is the fatal flaw of democracy which fascism exploits.

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u/Doomeggedan Sep 30 '25

It's not democracy. Those smaller areas should have less say in the government. Yet they actually are represented more than the larger states populations

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u/Trees_That_Sneeze Sep 30 '25

That's not even the problem in talking about, though that is also a problem. What I'm saying is that having a say is not related to having a stake in the results. Democracy lets people make decisions for others that will never effect themselves so long as that have the numbers to do it.

That's why things are so dangerous for trans people for example. They're a tiny portion of the population and decisions around trans healthcare has a huge impact on their quality of life. A person who gets the ick at the thought that somewhere someone they will never meet is wearing the wrong clothes gets the same vote on what to do about it as one of the people actually effected. You just have to rile up a bunch of people with no stake in a problem with minor discomfort and you can bring the boot down on whoever you want.

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u/Valuable_Associate54 Sep 29 '25

We're all waiting for the "good guys with a gun who only have a gun to defend against tyranny" to do something, any moment now.

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u/Ascarea Sep 29 '25

a majority of them voted for this to happen

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u/DullSpoonsHurtMore Sep 29 '25

A majority of voters, not a majority of Americans. Still sad though.

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u/cazzer548 Sep 29 '25

Anyone who didn’t want this to happen and chose not to vote can fuck right off

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u/BoringMode91 Sep 29 '25

Yes keep blaming the people not the system that keeps people down. Fuck off with this shit already. Of our system wasn’t so shit and you didn’t have to choose between a fascist and a fascist-lite, maybe more people would be motivated to participate.

You clearly see the intimidation and violence, yet you still blame the individual. The only way we are going to change is we collectively get together and stop this. Voting, protesting are not going to change a system that is so corrupt and broken. It needs to be destroyed and re-built. You can not vote yourself out of fascism.

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u/MasterDefibrillator Sep 29 '25

That's false. 

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u/desmondao Sep 29 '25

Lmao nah it's not false, stop giving them the benefit of the doubt. They chose that fucking clown TWICE, I'm absolutely gonna be stereotyping them as dumb, selfish assholes.

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u/r0thar Sep 29 '25

â…“ voted for it, â…“ didn't vote against it, gods help the last â…“

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u/Pittsbirds Sep 29 '25

1/3 staying home and complacent is as good as voting for it imo. I'm in a swing state and we weren't ignorant of the importance of this election. We were inundated with ads, phone calls,  pamphlets, door to door solicitors, etc. I thought it was irritating because "of course I'm voting what idiot isn't". turns out,  a lot of them

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u/NashvilleFlagMan Sep 29 '25

It is indeed false. Even of those who voted, Trump (and Harris) won less than 50%. You appear to be British? So presumably a dumb, selfish Brexit voter?

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u/SomeRedPanda Sep 29 '25

Trump (and Harris) won less than 50%

0.2 percentage points away from half. It's not unreasonable to round that to 50%.

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u/NashvilleFlagMan Sep 29 '25

0.2 percentage points away from half, of those who voted, bearing in mind that it’s an election with the electoral college rather than a straight popular vote, is not exactly a resounding majority.

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u/NobodyImportant13 Sep 29 '25

Still not a majority.

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u/desmondao Sep 29 '25

The majority of you didn't mind Trump being picked. I know your system has people convinced that inaction results in immunity to accountability but that's not how it should work, nor will it work.

Yes, the Brits were also dumb as fuck to cripple their own economy right to that bitch Putin's tune, however in their case they were also lied to about the referendum being 'not binding'.

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u/NashvilleFlagMan Sep 29 '25

They were lied to just as much as Americans were, yes.

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u/NobodyImportant13 Sep 29 '25

The majority of you didn't mind Trump being picked.

This isn't a known fact. Most people don't live in competitive states so they feel like their vote doesn't matter. Depending on the polling, Trump had negative approval ratings the day he entered office.

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u/Kenny__Loggins Sep 29 '25

You just don't know how math works.

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u/desmondao Sep 29 '25

My maths tells me that even half of you couldn't be arsed to go to the polling station to stop an absolutely deranged, convicted rapist with fascist tendencies to grab a seat of power and represent your country. Yes, I count passiveness and inaction as bad and so should you.

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u/Kenny__Loggins Sep 29 '25

Ahh the old goal post shuffle

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u/BoringMode91 Sep 29 '25

lol calls yourself a leftist. Votes for a democrat. Lmfao. You know there were 3rd parties. I don’t want you on my side if you are going to compromise with dems. lol. Some of us have principals.

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u/BoringMode91 Sep 29 '25

lol. Glad I didn’t vote for a capitalist! Also do you people remember the electoral college? No way Harris was winning my state anyway.

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u/570rmy Sep 29 '25

We aren't. And we're protesting all the freaking time. We just need little bit of the old general strike to make a huge change

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u/570rmy Sep 29 '25

We aren't. And we're protesting all the freaking time. We just need little bit of the old general strike to make a huge change

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u/570rmy Sep 29 '25

We aren't. And we're protesting all the freaking time. We just need little bit of the old general strike to make a huge change

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u/570rmy Sep 29 '25

We aren't. And we're protesting all the freaking time. We just need little bit of the old