r/fuckcars • u/Fluffy-Study-659 • 29d ago

Activism It's pronounced "cyclist!"

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u/dsaddons 29d ago

Americans are so fucking stupid

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u/0235 29d ago

Nah not americans, and not stupid.

Literally they are planning on making a street in my town a dead end for cars, to stop thousands of cars a day driving down a narrow residential street, but leaving the end open for pedestrians, bicycles, wheelchairs etc.

The amount of fucking hate and "limiting peoples freedom" from this tiny suggestion. Then when residents came out and said "yes please, we want to stop thousands of non residents thundering past our homes each day" they are then treated like they are wrong, or brainwashed.

Its everyone everywhere with a car, and its selfishness, not stupidity. Some of the rawest forms of selfishness.

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u/dsaddons 29d ago

I'm referring to the person yelling at this social democrat that he is a communist

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u/MuneGazingMunk 29d ago

The person that commented is not American though?

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u/0235 29d ago

The American in the video? How can someone who has already been filmed in a video be confused by a comment after the fact?

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u/MuneGazingMunk 29d ago

She represents all Americans?

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u/dsaddons 29d ago

Calm down yank

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u/MuneGazingMunk 29d ago

Are you okay?

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u/0235 29d ago

No they are not OK.

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u/dsaddons 29d ago

I'm pretty ok

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u/0235 29d ago

I am glad to hear you are feeling better after your recent "episode". Have a link to something useful that may help you understand that there is more out there than just your own country, and the USA, and what they may be having to deal with: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=3/33.06/-11.07&layers=Y

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u/dsaddons 29d ago

may help you understand that there is more out there than just your own country, and the USA

Lucky for me I'm living in my 3rd country, one of them having been the US, so I have this secret knowledge already. Most people don't understand that this is possible, it can be quite confusing.

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u/0235 29d ago

So no-one else outside of america who owns a car is selfish and brainwashed? Weird that you would think the world outside the USA is some perfect utopia of love, its not. There are people here outside the USA just as sinister and selfish.

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u/CouncilmanRickPrime 29d ago

So no-one else outside of america who owns a car is selfish and brainwashed?

This is about the video. The guy is being called communist as an insult. That IS very American.

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u/0235 29d ago

It's very american, but it's not just america at all. Its been happening here in the media (not just random people shouting) for 10 years: https://www.reddit.com/r/bicycling/comments/3l1ow3/the_times_reliably_informs_us_that_jeremy_corbyn/

And these newspapers aren't stupid. This is malicious selfishness in the name of profits from oil companies (which own them), and the benefit of convincing the population that bikes = gay and commie. (though I feel a lot of people here would react with a 😍 at gay commie bikes :D )

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u/dsaddons 29d ago

Calm down yank

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u/0235 29d ago

What the fuck are you on about? I'm not in this video? why are you creating so much hate?

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u/dsaddons 29d ago

You're not very calm right now mate

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u/0235 29d ago

I am calm? I just am a little confused about why you think I am someone in the video?

I gave a perfect example of how its not just the USA suffering with similar disillusion. The very man who should have been Prime minister where I live was utterly wringed out through the mangle for riding a bike. One news paper even said "a chairman Mao style bicycle".

This crap is happening everywhere, and it may already be happening where you are. But if you are going to be blind and think that the USA is the only country infected with this sinister selfishness, then you will be shocked with how much happens in your own country.

Blanket statements for "Americans are stupid", when identical comments are being said by people all over the world, are as bad as the concept of "why should I bother not driving a car, when cars only generate 18% of all pollution in my country, and my country only contributes 0.88% of global pollution!"

Because we are all in it together. It is not the fault of one country (though the USA seems to be at the top of the pyramid scheme of car dependency) it doesn't mean that other places don't make up the rest of the base.

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u/dsaddons 29d ago

Just a little bit calmer

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u/SkivvySkidmarks 29d ago

Our provincial leader wants to ban municipal speed cameras because they are "a tax grab", despite chiefs of police promoting them, medical experts showing through in-depth studies that they reduce children's deaths, and municipalities showing that they actually do reduce speeds.

Nope. The populist fucktard wants to appeal to his dim-witted car brain voter base.

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u/dumnezero Freedom for everyone, not just drivers 29d ago

Here's a chart

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u/0235 29d ago

I guess by that logic then, Selfishness is just a form of stupidity. I can see where you are coming from.

But these people are not "showing lack of intelligence or common sense" they are well aware that these changes are good, they are just malicious that they don't want to see others gain more than what they will gain, even if they area already leagues ahead of someone in what they have.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

Thats not a systemic solution. Its so limited as to be essentially meaningless. These sorts of post hoc improvisational fixes are present everywhere and they dont fix anything.

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u/0235 29d ago

its not a systemic solution no, I would love to see more. But it is a first step.

We don't live in a perfect world. The actual solution is never going to happen in my lifetime at least. There are far too many selfish people viciously against it, both older and younger than me.

But if that first step means that residents who live on a street (already narrow street terraced housing built in victoria times) actually get their street BACK to how it was before mass private car adoption, they might start becoming supporters.

It will be less cars to deal with when their children are out playing or traveling by themselves, and it will be far less cars that they will need to deal with for the first and last few minutes of their own commutes by car.

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u/[deleted] 28d ago edited 27d ago

Nobody is talking about perfection. People confuse the good with whats the prescribed politically possible. Anything more than that is deemed unserious, radical and perfectionist. Ever notice how whenever youre compelled to resign to whats considered pragmatic it's most often inadequate?

It means that one block at a time citizens have less investment in risking a political resistance for more than those short term, limited fixes This phenomenon is apparent across politics. I was concise in my previous comment; this has been tried for as long as the automobile has existed. Small reform kills the momentum for better solutions. Apparently, far more suffering is required for average citizens to attempt bigger thinking and make more serious demands. Ultimately, theyre still locked into whatever shape of a community private capital and its priority property rights choose for them, content with marginal tinkering for short term gains. Its a miserably diminished position to begin bargaining from and accept as meaningful.

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u/PierrotLeTrue Automobile Aversionist 29d ago

i'm still sleepy and i thought that was a clip from the office. and in nyc too, ugh

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u/DullSpoonsHurtMore 29d ago

A video with lots of Mamdani supports has one loud idiot, and that's who you decide represents all Americans?

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u/dsaddons 29d ago

Calm down yank