DudleyMason -8 points 2 days ago

Anyone driving a car has already made the decision that their minor convenience is worth the possible death of someone they don't know and also worth the definite degradation of the shared environment everyone needs to live.

Expecting such a person to give any more of a fuck about the people around them than is necessary to avoid the "hassle" of hitting a pedestrian or cyclistsl is a laughable concept.

Good people don't drive cars as personal transportation.

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Goforce5 6 points 2 days ago

Honestly, this is such a fucking privileged take that it hurts. How do you expect people to get to work? I cannot bike 25 miles to work in 107F heat. I will literally die. I fully support making cities completely walkable, and making public transportation make more sense. I also can see that tons of GOOD people only own cars because they have to. Cyclists, however, always seem to have a stick up their ass while also unapologetically breaking every road rule as they cry about car people. I think at least half of the times I've collided with something while skateboarding, its been a bicycle. I dont automatically assume that every cyclist is a bad person, even though my anecdotal evidence seems to support it.

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DudleyMason 1 point 2 days ago

this is such a fucking privileged take that it hurts.

From where I'm sitting the privilege belongs to the people making zero changes to their daily lives in response to climate change. Why the fuck do think it's ok to live 25 miles from work? Why not move? Bcs it would be inconvenient, got it.

People should not live in places where a car is required. Unless they are doing jobs that have to be done outside of the city. You wanna live like a modern hermit? Ok, but you need to get a job working on a farm, in a mine, or at a logging camp.

Otherwise, move your ass to a denser area with good transit or stop pretending that anything but selfishness and a desire to avoid inconvenience motivated you to stay in suburbia.

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Goforce5 3 points a day ago

I drive 25 miles to work because I cant afford to move closer. Closer would mean property values skyrocketing and quadrupled rent. I have a very specialized skill set and these jobs do not exist everywhere, but unfortunately I'm also not making six figures. There is also basically no public transit in my state, city or not. Hard to believe if all you've known is big city privilege, but there's a whole world of people like me and your utopian fantasy cant work for us unless someone foots the bill.

Maybe instead of attacking people who drive cars, you could focus that energy on the giant corporate polluters who are the ACTUAL cause of our climate crisis and show absolutely no signs of letting up. I think youd be surprised to learn that you and I probably agree on what needs to be done, and yet here you are angry at me for some bullshit that makes no difference in the bigger picture.

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DudleyMason -1 points 15 hours ago

There is also basically no public transit in my state, city or not.

And yet you still choose to live there. That's the problem.

Hard to believe if all you've known is big city privilege,

And as hard as it is to believe with terminal carbrain, I grew up in the suburbs and lived for a while in rural Appalachia before moving to "the big city". And it was a sacrifice to move here, it sucked for a few years. But now I don't have to destroy the environment to get to and from work. You should try it. When nobody is willing to stay and pay taxes in car dependent shit holes, the assholes who run them will start "footing the bill" for decent transit infrastructure. Til then, staying just means you value your convenience over a habitable planet just like every other carhole on Earth.

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