https://nitter.net/Lubchansky/status/1580952330496708609?t=waTgS7mBcA79A39Ge8dUjA&s=19
Light cameras are shit. They're just another way of commodifying transit.
That said...
"Unlike you liberals! I follow the LAW!"
"Wait! I have to follow laws too!?!? I DIDN'T KNOW!1!!1!! I AM NEVER AT FAULT FOR ANYTHING!"
Party of personal responsibility, everyone.
I'm guessing Howie here is a liberal in the sense meant in the first sentence. I'll stalk his twitter profile now and report back.
EDIT: super lib
Criticizing cars and our transit system really does bring out the most reactionary ignorant side of people. Like "I know technically the car is completely at fault every time and the dangerous behaviors that caused this incident happen all the time because the system is very clearly about profit to the detriment of public safety, but that's just how things are".
Yeah, so millennials are supposed to give up having a house, making anything above minimum wage, and the good life for the sake of shareholder value....
but boomers should not give up their treat-mobile for the sake of clean air, clean water, and livable communities?
Cars turn people into something between solipsists and egomaniacs. No matter their usual ideological position about laws that aren't really enforced, with cars it reliably lands on road anarchy for me, stringent enforcement for everybody else, including some rules I just made up.
For more entitlement from the same guy:
https://nitter.net/HowardArenstein/status/1549484130504687622#m
Fuck cars but also fuck surveillance culture and fuck punitive revenue schemes like cameras that rely on the reality that no one strictly follows the rules to harvest cash from people, with no intention what so ever of actually encouragin people to follow the rules. Half the time it turns out that the cameras are rigged or they're manipulating the signals to trip people up so they can sponge more revenue without raising taxes. It's the same thing with traffic tickets - No one in that process cares about enforcing driving regulations, it's purely about meeting quotas to accumulate revenue.
These motherfuckers literally put up red light cameras and then move the "no turn on red" sign back so it is not visible from the stop line. And this shit always gets done in the poor urban neighborhoods. Never in suburbia. Oftentimes, the company which makes the cameras pays the up front costs in return for a cut of every fine that gets collected.
Fuck cars but also fuck surveillance culture and fuck punitive revenue schemes like cameras that rely on the reality that no one strictly follows the rules to harvest cash from people, with no intention what so ever of actually encouragin people to follow the rules.
I don't think this line of argument holds up to scrutiny. It doesn't work because it's done so little, the panopticon would actually lead to the rules being followed. You don't want that for other reasons, but it'd really do a good job for the problem described here.
"I'm sorry, but" is :LIB: magic that transmutes an apology into more smugness and condescension. :maybe-later-honey: :maybe-later-kiddo:
