“True freedom is stumbling onto the subway drunk at 3am and making it home safe for $2” -Me, a few months ago
“True freedom is stumbling onto the subway drunk at 3am and making it home safe for
$2free”:stalin-shining:
That’s ideal but for some reason many people don’t understand that fares are stupid and pointless and weirdly think having to spend $2 would be more reasonable, so if you say it that way they don’t just call you a fool
Yes I know just the cost of collecting fares cuts out a huge portion of the income received by fares, they’re classist, they slow things down, they misunderstand the point of a public service, and the amount spent on car infrastructure far outweighs it, but a random commenter on tiktok doesn’t know that because they haven’t spent the 30 seconds of thought it takes to understand all of that because it’s incredibly obvious
“True freedom is stumbling onto the subway drunk at 3am and making it home safe for $2” -Me, a few months ago
- Me just now
Unlike me, a REAL AMERICAN, I get wasted at the bar and drive home, mowing down a family of 4 and a dog along the way.
youre supposed to spend every night in solemn study of the bible & prayer :very-smart: walkable infrastructure is the devils way to tempt you into sin & cosmopolitan ways
They never thought of how they're going to get to church in the first place...
i am agasp that you'd suggest i would join the devil's choir to worship the idols and false prophets of some profane temple they call "church"
the members of my community of faith, the true believers & knowers of God's will meet on a rotating basis in ev'ry home of our godly townshippe :very-smart:
how do they think russians can get so drunk
its all about material conditions
Americans are so backwards, we're a nation of alcoholics but we don't even do it right.
I know it's CNN but there's this they did a special with Lisa Ling about america's alcohol problem and how it got swept under the rug thanks to opioids. My mom lost her life due to alcoholism, I'm an alcoholic. It's pretty serious.
fair point I didn't mean to downplay a serious disease I thought you were using it in the more playful way it's sometimes used
You're good. But america really is full of people drinking to cope with late stage neoliberal capitalism.
that makes sense a family friend became addicted to gambling for a similar reason
Same, it was a real struggle to train them to pee in the tiny trough, but it was all worth it in the end
Are you talking about our megabreweries' beer? All sufficiently mass-produced beer is bad, tbh.
But with the craft brewing and distilling renaissance I really think it's never been a better time to appreciate alcohol in the US.
People talk about we need to go outside, touch grass, and get laid but hate on the development of any systems which would encourage and facilitate any of that. We would actually have friends and community if we could get around easily
Forgetting something? It hasn't forgotten you. :covid-cool:
I'm as vaxxed and boosted as a :my-hero: retweet caricature and I still wonder if I'm a plague rat to people I've worked with since New Years, especially because I still get shit for wearing a mask and am socially pressured to "live a little" when surrounded by people with wet coughs.
Good point author novel writing comrade (everyone checkout UlyssesT’s dope scifi novels. They are cool and rad). The vaccine is another example of a system that would help us touch grass and get laid if we could get folks onboard from the jump.
Public health and public planning is both the sorts of things that if taken seriously would ease the crushing burden of modernity.
I mean “touch grass and get laid” in the social rhetorical sense in that society would be less shitty as the tweet mocks if we didn’t privatize public concerns
And WE'RE the "nanny staters"? Let me guess, you're too lazy to walk anywhere.
:yes-comm: :yes-chad: :yes-sicko: :yes: :mlk-yes: :rocz-yes: :sicko-yes:
Only carbrains can think less drunk driving incidents isn't a positive regardless of your opinion on public transportation.
Those people that don't want walkable cities like the status quo so they can fantasize about the open roads on the commercials, indulge themselves with road rage, maybe do a violence on a bicyclist, get drunk and high on :grillman: sanctioned drugs, beat their spouse if that spouse didn't divorce them yet, beat their kids if their kids didn't disown them yet, and brood about the homes of everyone else in the neighborhood and how the lawns look disrespectful. :frothingfash:
beat their spouse if that spouse didn’t divorce them yet
Part of me wonders if a major appeal of the suburbs is the means by which it accommodates domestic abuse and infidelity.
thats what people have pretty much always done and wanted to do??
What is so wrong with that?
I'd just like walkable cities so I can do errands and go work without anxiety. A walkable city would do nothing to make their life worse but they're trying to find some reason to be a judgmental asshole.
That this is their best argument says a lot.
They think it’s wrong because they’re not “legitimate” reasons. Even if that’s true, you have two choices. Either build infrastructure to let drunks and druggies travel safely, or letting them ram into a family of 5 and killing everyone
This exposes the lack of political will to actually end the behavior. We've got sufficient historic data to know that with the current arrangement we'll always have a steady flow of inebriated drivers. There is no effort to equip these people to get home because in upside-down land (capitalism) the solution is to erect a profitable legal industry around the behavior (regardless of the toll on all humans involved on either side of the tragedy).
Like obviously don't drive inebriated but also don't delude yourself into thinking this isn't just another layer of systemic blight.
