If fascism was a car

  • ChapoBapo [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Cars are bad, but if an enthusiast subculture wants to use them for a hobby and drive/race them in designated places I don't have a big problem with it. Mostly I hate that we've built our entire world around requiring universal private car ownership.

      • ChapoBapo [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Imagine being on a leftist website and being surprised at the take that cars are bad.

        How about electric cars

        Also bad. Even a hypothetical electric car that doesn't have the negative externalities of lithium battery manufacturing. Carbon emissions from gasoline are bad, but not even the worst thing about car culture.

      • all_or_nothing [they/them,she/her]
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        4 years ago

        cars are manufactured by an industry that has put untold amounts of money into ensuring that our transportation infrastructure is individualized to the point that you need a car to get around

        cars bad, but could be ok under socialism

          • all_or_nothing [they/them,she/her]
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            4 years ago

            cars could be good if they were manufactured and used solely as the most practical mode of transportation in certain circumstances i.e. rural communities.

            cars right now are manufactured as goods for capitalist profit for an industry that has worked to systematically destroy any alternative to the personal automobile.

          • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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            4 years ago

            Cars are not neutral, nor do they really make things more accessible, all things considered. Needing a car is like the most regressive tax you can imagine, costing you upwards of $300 a month and requiring poor people to spend more, even in absolute terms, on gas and repairs.

            Please read The Social Ideology of the Motorcar if you haven't already.

            @ChapoBapo and @all_or_nothing too.

      • Melenkor [he/him,any]
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        4 years ago

        Cars are cool as a hobby/sport thing. Cars are bad as a mode of transportation. Electric cars are bad because lithium batteries are bad.