I used to live next to this park with a lake that’s critical bird habitat. Every morning this 84 year-old lady would patrol that lake removing fishing lines/hooks. Genuine give-her-a-plaque shit. One day I was working next to the lake and she stopped to talk. It turned out she doesn’t believe in climate change and hates bike lanes because a single biker can cause a miles-long traffic jam. Something about the casualness of her brainworms stuck with me like few other reactionaries have. Even people who do actual good things for their community in some atomistic way are completely hostile to that thing in their politics. The burger reich destroys fundamentally good people.
Carbrain is pretty unpolitical in the sense that for many people it is the axiom and then you just work backwards from there, according to your politics, to justify it.
Conservatives will harp on about not having to sit next so smelly strangers on public transpoirt, liberals will harp on about how if car bad how come so many car???. Apart from about 100 guys worldwide the libertarians will harp on about freedom to kill other people and the leftists mostly get there on grounds of rent prices, meaning everybody who doesn’t need a car for transportation is the bourgeoisie and needs to be shot to ensure more roadspace for the proletarian individual automobile
everybody who doesn’t need a car for transportation is the bourgeoisie and needs to be shot to ensure more roadspace for the proletarian individual automobile
Depending on the country this is sort of true, because many workplaces require a full licence to even be considered for work.
But it’s also missing a few important things. What about disabled people? People who can’t afford lessons or even the tests? People with no support network (no family, friends to teach them to drive)?
There are many such cases of these, even here on hexbear, we have users in these situations. I was one of them for a period of my life and it fucking sucks, socially it’s embarrassing to admit you can’t drive, and professionally? It limits your options so much, even in cases where it shouldn’t.
Carbrain is awful.
Depending on the country this is sort of true, because many workplaces require a full licence to even be considered for work.
love to be the homless bourgeoisie
Point begin even this argument among class lines always ignores the low end of the working class who do not have cars because those cost a decent amount of money
Right, but I did outline cases where it’s just pure carbrain
What about disabled people?
I have a processing delay that makes operating a car feel way too abrupt and terrifying to me, so I’ve never had a license, I have always biked and bused. Not that I have ever been able to afford a car, I would be terribly vulnerable in a place where you absolutely need one. A cluster of hidden disabilities that make exploiting your labor unprofitable by a thousand cuts has a special sort of stigma attached to it, and it’s a special sort of mindfuck to gradually break free of the cloud of eugenicist denial you were raised under and see it for what it is.
The only somewhat effective way of countering carbrain is by travelling to different countries, and experiencing decent public transit for the first time. Still, there are people who do see it and are stuck at the idea that it just can’t be implemented in their own country.
I almost lost my mind once when someone was telling me that a train is less scalable than a car. Like dude, do you think paved roads just spontaneously burst out of the ground?
Literally had a conversation with a guy who assumed that all roads were just paved over old ‘naturally made’ wagon trails, and I had to explain to him that for most American parceling, the roads usually came first, then the government parceled the lands, which is why areas without roads are usually unparceled, and that most American cities were created by proximity to either trains, harbors or highways. It genuinely escapes people that you don’t build infrastructure around development, you develop around infrastructure.
It wouldn’t surprise me even a tiny bit if this woman moaned that the local council didn’t clean up that area whilst also voting for right wing cost cutting governments.
The Parks Department supervisors are definitely aware of her for that reason. I even made the effort with them to call attention to it and the fact that she’s pulling out so much debris every day. The same NIMBY bloc she’s a part of also wants to reserve that lake for fishing despite the fish being inedible due to pollution from the road next to it. The only thing separating the two- get this shit, this shit’s wild- is a bike lane.
she’s pulling out so much debris every day.
That’s the thing, if she’s keeping it clean they might think that there’s no need to clean it…
The only thing separating the two- get this shit, this shit’s wild- is a bike lane.
Lol.
stalin shouldn’t have stopped at berlin
Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler Treatler TreatlerI can accept being called out for being from philly but wtf is wrong with bluegrass?
I just learned you can’t smoke it, which is good to know I guess?
Tag yourself. I’m “in the throes of a midlife crisis”
p-zombie
undead
I’m in two places. Bike thief who always has a runny nose. 😕
“just did roomates entire cocaine stash” is my aspirational character arc
