have you heard of this Minute Rice? they put it in front of you and you only have 60 seconds to eat before they yank your plate away!
This is the next dumb campaign that’s gonna infect every conservative brain isn’t it?
I don’t we don’t need anymore fucking targets for right wing weirdos to bomb.
it is the dumbest possible reaction, and as such, it will happen
Some Québécois drive his bus into children this week next step is multiple trucks into walkable buildings
I've seen the same buzzwords on a British ad earlier today, so yes, this is fully astroturfed.
I've gotta say, the tweets I'm seeing about this on twitter are some of the most unhinged and delusional I've ever seen chuds get over a topic. To the point where it's almost scary instead of funny.
Probably some rich lib they hate said "we want cities where everything you need is within 15 minutes" and they read it in the most bad-faith way possible
it's a misrepresentation of the Mayor of Paris' proposal
:so-true: I love driving 30 minutes for groceries! Everything else is Communist!
I have to drive 5 blocks for groceries because the sidewalks are completely nonexistent in the winter and pedestrians get killed all the time as a result
I unironically have a sled dog (at least the shelter is pretty sure she came from a sled dog team) lol
theyre called DISTRICTS, very scary!! just like District 9, and like the Hunger Games!! These 'DISTRICTS' are no good!
One time I went to the Gaslamps District in San Diego, it was so horrifying and I barely escaped with my life
My favorite place to hang out is near the clear bathrooms.
someone had a reading comprehension 100 moment when they were first learning about this kind of urban planning lol
I'm betting anything this is a campaign by fossil fuel industries, using a deliberate misreading to poison the well. This sort of shit is almost always astroturfed.
It's just because the WEF is using the same phraseology when they talk about urban planning. Considering how cynical that org is, I'd probably avoid the term entirely. It's not such an amazing description that I'd lose any sleep over abandoning it to the chuds.
They'll just do the exact same bullshit to whatever term you come up with to describe this concept, except that term will be less useful for people who aren't engaging in the most absurd bad faith.
If you start with the assumption that whatever the people you don't like do must be bad, you have to make the good things they do into bad things even if it means embracing baseless conspiracy. The only alternative is to engage with the cognitive dissonance.
People on Hexbear do the same thing sometimes.
Is this all just from some proposal to build walkable urban areas? Is there anything at all forbidding movement and making it so people “can’t go to any area that is more than 15 minutes from you”?
YES. I don't know why the chuds here are freaking out about this. They literally just want everyone in Edmonton to have the experience the rich do in Old Strathcona or Jasper, that you can walk out and buy your shit, go to school, etc all in your surrounding neighborhood.
I don't know why they think that making amenities accessible = no one is allowed to leave. Just chud anxiety and their desire for their own oppression. Or maybe it's just a paroxysm as the material world demands, like, a ghg-less or vegan future (our premiere here, like a governor, is I think the first one in North America to like demand regulations ensure gasoline cars are always available as they are phased out elsewhere lol).
NIMBYs have no arguments so they settle on emotional fearmongering about the words they put into people's mouths.
I'd actually somewhat respect them more if they were honest and said "I am too lazy to walk".
Ok, but we have to go in the complete opposite direction, make Canada spread everyone out evenly. No cities.
I'm pretty sure it was an attempt to make an anti-homeless public washroom. This news article has a picture of it https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-public-washroom-survey-1.3967585.
Is this the latest horror from the WEF?
It sounds like conspiracy theory nonsense but damn I wouldn't put anything past them these days. This is why they're so into the "Metaverse" and such...just put on the goggles and live in a world we control totally. You'll own nothing and be happy...or else.
maybe the wef has had some related ghoulish idea, but this is pretty clearly a conspiracy theorist who misunderstood the basic concept of walkable cities
There is a WEF initiative of the same name, or at least the WEF has latched onto the same phrase to describe livable places. Anti-lockdown forums are mostly chuds and have been buzzing about it for a while.
Probably best for mayors to avoid the term entirely unless it's really a hill they want to die on. Just focus on municipal solvency.
Even if the WEF aren't their usual cynical selves when discussing it and they do mean "you should be able to walk 15 minutes to satisfy the vast majority of your needs", because of the WEF association it will be spun as "globohomo wants you confined to 15min radius of your pod".
Ideally these chuds would spend 100% of their time within a 5 minute walk because they would be in the gulag, but I can compromise on walkable cities.
That’s ok no one cares about living in that petrostate that doesn’t even make profit
