Car drivers be like car gives you freedom
My brother in christ you spent 25% of your entire lifespan on this green Earth stuck in the traffic
And at least another 10% on maintenance, fees and taxes
Also a bike will always work, a car needs gas and maintenance centers. It literally ties you into a monopolized commodity market.
And you can get pretty good at completely disassembling and reassembling a bike in a matter of months. Good luck doing that with a car. Short of learning to do metallurgy to create my own new parts, there’s no part of a bike that I can’t replace. A car computer is another story.
Car drivers be like car gives you freedom
I dont use my car often anymore because I cant park when I get home.
With cars you literally have to stop and purchase gas. Ooh so anonymous and elusive. What a dumbass
And you have to pay high registration costs to the government for the privilege of using govt paved roads
The UK has tons of CCTV cameras everywhere, not even for just traffic. You're just literally always monitored.
This us one if the stupidest things I have ever seen. Has this person ever owned a car?!?! Some have built in GPS electronics and wifi now, and even if they dint you are registered and tagged 5 ways to sunday.
One thing i recently learned is that a lot of cars also have a data-recorder that saves info about the cats speed, braking, g-forces, etc in the event of an accident and the police can use that data to prosecute the driver.
Not necessarily against that feature, but if we are on the topic of tracking...
the cats speed, braking, g-forces, etc in the event of an accident
:kitty-cri-screm:
- unless the driver strikes a pedestrian or cyclist, in which case lol oh well must have darted into the street
the auto company or some third party, eg. to extract money from you
I think it's generally used to give a discount since they will need to assume a "worst [or at least worse] case" if they don't have any way of knowing how you drive. It's also used by people who drive short distances or not very often and have per-mile insurance.
The Tire Pressure Monitors on your wheels constantly send individually identifiable radio transmissions. These aren't in any kind of central registry, but you can walk by someone's car, read the TPMs, then set up monitoring stations to read TPMs and find out where a car goes.
I always wondered how they wired sensors into tires. Guess I'm not surprised that the answer is they didn't.
Thinking about Tesla saying they want their FSD cars to be able to impound themselves.
Sitting in my car in traffic for thirty minutes trying to go home, just thinking about how this definitely doesn't limit my personal freedom and mobility
Somewhere in their comment history is a comment soyfacing over Teslas self-reposessing once the self-driving tech is sorted out.
WHAT'S NEXT REQUIRING A LICENSE PLATE TO MAKE TOAST IN YOUR OWN DAMN TOASTER
My car’s sitting in my garage because I can’t afford gas but yeah I guess a bike would be more authoritarian
Freedom is when you need like 10 governments to all remain stable so that you can get to the grocery store
Bicycles were invented by the Chinese government to sell more authoritarianism
Modern cars are full of computers, most have navigation systems, and have to drive on hard mostly flat surfaces (paved roads that are regularly maintained) or they tear themselves apart
Like your car doesn't have a snitch box on it. Plus your phone.
There definitely aren't countless people who do backpacking across Eurasia on bike, no sir!
100% chance this dork is carrying a GPS-enabled radio transmitter in his pocket at all times
People always forget this when talking about freedom and shit in the USA. My dude you are not some bastion of annonimity and freedom. You got a device that can literally at any moment pinpoint your location and hear everything your doing.
This is why I never understood the qanon conspiracy theory about microchips in the vaccines.
A good general propaganda idea is to:
- find a post about a harmless hobby
- contort your brain into finding a diatribe for why that hobby is Chinese and evil (important: try to actually sound like you believe your own shit)
- post it in a context where it's totally irrelevant
- followers of said hobby will start to see the inanity of anti-China rhetoric. The "socially inept halo" of your diatribe will naturally be associated with all anti-Chinese rhetoric
You can see in the OP from the -7, that 6 other people agree with our resident hexbear user, and have been slightly conditioned to be exasperated by anti-China rhetoric.
"In China, beekeeping is mandatory, they force every slum-'house' to host at least two wild colonies. This is because the chinese destroyed their natural populations of bees when Mao banned birds and that's why fruit crops must still be pollinated by hand in China. Of course bees aren't birds, but the chinese peasants were so stupid and eager to comply to their grand master that they killed all the bees along with all the birds, which they boiled in a big comunal broth, feathers included, because they were so hungry"
okay effort, but it needs to also attack the hobby itself. You're trying to associate the hobby with China. Maybe something like:
"except in a modern free country, beekeeping isn't even necessary. It's a waste of time, and a dangerous hobby to boot. You know that in China, lots of peasants are actually FORCED to keep bees because Mao literally extinctified the natural population decades ago?"
I now realize due to your recent edits that your take is satirical
Hmm, you are right.
It's not intended to be satirical-satirical, I'm want to do as you said and screenshot it as a real reddit comment, and post it in beekeeping subs with the title "the bees understander has logged on" or something.
I'd say it's way too over the top in the last half, you sound like a China-supporter who's making fun of chuds by overly exaggerating their disdain for the Chinese people.
