people just like having cars so they can uhhh kill anyone they want

the indoctrination of acceptance of the sheer amount of people who die from car related shit is insane and never fails to make me mad as fuck man

  • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
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    12 days ago

    well this is bleak

    Show

    Vehicular homicide is bad and so is forcing people work and drive in their late 60s stocking shelves on night shift just to pay off debts

  • SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]
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    12 days ago

    Car companies have been lobbying the US government for decades to turn the country into a car-dependent shithole. They are still fucking lobbying to the point where the US government is seriously considering "TURN EVERYTHING ON THE ROAD INTO SELF-DRIVING UBER" as a strategy for the future instead of investing in public transport. The "people" at the highest levels of power do not give a shit about human beings and have made life into a hell because their corrupt asses couldn't resist Ford's moolah in return for allowing the latest mcmansion colony to be built over 9000km away from any public transport.

  • chungusamonugs [he/him]
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    12 days ago

    Auto deaths are social murder. People look at me cock eyeed when I explain this, but I find this to be one of the least divisive, most radicalizing breakthroughs you can have for libs and chuds equally.

  • Weedian [he/him]
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    12 days ago

    i hate owning a car. I gotta get the oil changed every 10,000 miles and it would take me 4 hours to get to work and then 4 hours to get home from work if I didnt have a car and then I gotta spend the money I made at work to buy gas and make sure my car dosent explode on my way to work ever 3 years. i dont want to run anyone over, i dont want to get road rage and resort to honking a bike horn out my window at hoopleheads.

    • SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]
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      12 days ago

      I gotta spend the money I made at work to buy gas and make sure my car dosent explode on my way to work ever 3 years

      tfw the economy is so fucked that its becoming more "pay to work" instead of "work for pay"

    • ItsPequod [he/him]
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      12 days ago

      I've been reflecting on how much carbrained infrastructure is in effect just downloading the costs of transport and infrastructure to individual people. Instead of governments paying to maintain public transport, they've colluded with car companies and such to convince people to have to pay their own way around.

  • Gorb [they/them]
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    12 days ago

    I find it incredibly difficult to convince people not to like cars even if i can counter every single justification for it the argument basically ends with "but i want to drive" while demonstrably hating every minute of it.

  • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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    12 days ago

    slightly unrelated but you might want to know that poast are nazis and you linked nazi-owned nitter instance

    use xcancel.com instead they seem chill

    e: the same link but on xcancel: https://xcancel.com/ormondroyd/status/910244326567006211#m

    • SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]
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      12 days ago

      poast are nazis and you linked nazi-owned nitter instance

      Thats awful, could we get a source on this so we can have it ready for the future too?

      • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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        12 days ago

        their pleroma instance is on several blocklists, here's one https://seirdy.one/pb/FediNuke.txt and fediseer report https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/poa.st by now it's probably defederated by all non-nazis. they've been around for a long time. generally any pleroma instance, especially with soapbox is best assumed nazi until proven otherwise

      • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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        12 days ago

        because as you say they are in position to log everything

        if you want to reduce load at xcancel, some accounts are also on telegram or bluesky or mastodon