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[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You can find people in europe living 5km away from a city center who consider themselves to be living in the remote monoglian steppe because there's a 300m gap between the buildings of the city and their town

Carbrain doesn't operate on rationality as such, it doesn't usually boil down to just not having experienced a different approach to it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I agree, that's why I said it's only somewhat effective

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

The point I was trying to get at here isn't that people don't think it can be done in their country, or area, but rather that it's much more invidualist - it can't be done to them

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Personally I also hate it because cars are effectively privatization of transportation costs. The government doesn't have to pay for your car repairs (which are inevitable given how much people have to drive), you get to pull yourself up with your bootstraps and pay for it yourself. And people wonder why this country is going to shit when there is no real support to even get people to jobs with the infrastructure we have.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Cars aren't even really just privatization in the sense that the cost is offloaded onto the invidual instead of the state, you just both pay your private car and also for the roads, which barring things like sea-connecting canals are about the most expensive infrastructure there is. Regardless of the mode of production the entire concept just doesn't work out on economics, like, at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Right, but I did outline cases where it's just pure carbrain shrug-outta-hecks

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

It's very illustrative of how hard it is to come up with a same and internally consistent set of morals in a society that's messed up on first principles.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Tag yourself. I’m “in the throes of a midlife crisis”

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

"just did roomates entire cocaine stash" is my aspirational character arc

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

"tried to smoke Kentucky bluegrass"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

"fiend in a human shape"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

I'm in two places. Bike thief who always has a runny nose. 😕

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Porch Pirate

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Congrats on the convertible

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

p-zombie sadness

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

I remember seeing the original post and apar of the comments were like "wow, this is deep, every car is driven by a real person. I never even thought of that." Like. So many people just adminitting to not thinking other people have thoughts or lives. Cars are just driven by NPCs on the road

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

stalin shouldn't have stopped at berlin

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

I'm Dave, and I'm on my way to off myself.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I can accept being called out for being from philly but wtf is wrong with bluegrass?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

That one's more in there as a little Rorsarch test

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Way too few drunk drivers

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

All motorcyclists are lane splitters they just don't know it yet.