https://twitter.com/MhacklerTV/status/1762518967199908286

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
    hexbear
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    4 months ago

    blows my mind when the republicans doing that are almost always in that city

    They're in the suburbs, often with remote work options. They see mass transit as "making life too easy for the poors". They do not want buses because they see bussing as "liberal" and they do not want liberals to win.

    • Dolores [love/loves]
      hexbear
      17
      4 months ago

      i'm sure they don't generally live there but having to go through a city i'm actively making worse & pissed at me seems inadvisable for the times i gotta go into the office or press the vote button lol.

      but yknow maybe i don't understand that stepping on vulnerable people and then gawking at them is the only thing that gets these ghouls hard anymore

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
        hexbear
        17
        4 months ago

        That's definitely a part of it. But I grew up in a suburb. They've got office parks and malls out there. It's possible to just exist on the country club and never actually go downtown.

        And there's a genuine hatred I can't adequately express towards people in the downtown area.

    • itappearsthat [he/him]
      hexbear
      14
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      4 months ago

      no they legitimately think a dedicated bus lane takes away a car lane they could use which makes traffic worse, they have no ability to conceptualize second-order effects. they also think cyclists make traffic worse (and "cause more emissions than cars" - an actual thing I've heard vocalized by a boomer) because cars have to wait behind them if they're going down a street without a bike lane