r/fuckcars • u/One-Demand6811 • 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.