These same people when I bring up the idea of not using cars: But I like having my car! You can't make me use public transport and walk everywhere!

  • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Most people hate car culture. They just think their grievances with it are completely isolated and in a vacuum, are purely the results of individual actors, and not part of a wider systemic issue.

    • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
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      3 years ago

      They don't see an alternative because nobody has built transit-friendly houses, or business districts, or office parks in the past 50 years. You legally cannot build transit-friendly cities in a lot of the country because of laws about setbacks, minimum road widths, etc.

  • BelovedOldFriend [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    What, they're gonna run a train thru my subdivision in the suburbs?! Lol you train people don't plan at all

  • TankieDukakis [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Me on the road: oh my gosh I'm so sorry. Please don't hate me. Let me leave 300 car links between me and you.

    I'm not even a bad driver I just get stressed lol

  • DickFuckarelli [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I love my car but seriously, fuck my car. Put me on a bus or train and let me sleep on my way to and from work. I don't even care if there was still traffic. Just let me not drive.

  • NeverGoOutside [any]
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    3 years ago

    Is this the reddit/twitter thing of making up a person to hate? If so, congrats. You’ve brought the worst thing about the internet to hexbear.

      • NeverGoOutside [any]
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        3 years ago

        How people are in real life and how they are on the internet are two totally different things, I feel like.

    • guppyman [any]
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      3 years ago

      Have you never been in a car with someone during even mild traffic?

          • Biggay [he/him, comrade/them]
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            3 years ago

            I make it a point not to get mad about traffic or people's driving most of the time, instead I just explain how traffic is literally man-made by poor designers. So Engineers are the reason everything is terrible essentially.

            • guppyman [any]
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              3 years ago

              Same, but this takes effort (it did for me, at least)

              Most roadragers just turn their brain off while behind the wheel.

  • Wojackhorseman2 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I’m the first type but I would kill to never have to look at my car again

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Never did like cars. People really don't know how to drive safely and road rage is awful. I'm luckily able to walk where I need to for work or anything else. Would hate to be on those long highways to get anywhere