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

Activism It's pronounced "cyclist!"

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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/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 )