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[-] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 93 points 10 months ago
[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 40 points 10 months ago

Literally 1983 and Super mario Bros just came out and I really want my duck hunt light gun to work on modern televisions.

rage-cry

[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 93 points 10 months ago

15-minute cities is such an obviously good idea that the only way to argue against it is to come up with these nonsensical paranoid fantasies

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 90 points 10 months ago

I mean, when you're not white this happens pretty frequently either way

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 61 points 10 months ago

Was just going to say, this shit is all a projection of what they want to do to POC people. Try going into a gated community at night if you're black.

[-] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 39 points 10 months ago

Doesn't even have to be gated. Just any neighborhood with an HOA or 90% of the households are making more than median income

[-] NotErisma@hexbear.net 77 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Dont these kind of people realize it would be (just as) easy to control and survey everyone's movements if they drove in cars?

>Everyone's forced to register their vehicles with insurers and the state

>Everyone's forced to ride the same roads

>Those very roads are bursting with cops and surveillance technologies

>Even your own car is packed with surveillance technologies

>Lifetime subscription to consume oil and auto loans packaged as "personal freedom"

[-] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 30 points 10 months ago

I had a libertarian tell me once that we shouldn't have drivers licenses because its against freedom. He said people Iran are more free in this aspect, because "they can just hop in a car and drive at age 13", which I doubt is even true.

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[-] YearOfTheCommieDesktop@hexbear.net 76 points 10 months ago

all of life should permanently be inconvenient and dangerous because otherwise the bike-toting commies are going to outlaw going to the less convenient stores that are further away

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 42 points 10 months ago

So cool how the Koch Brother(s) and other right-wing billionaires got us cheering for shit that's actively killing us. From more carbon emissions to ending masking and vaccines for covid.

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[-] biden@hexbear.net 68 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Isn’t it more dystopian to be forced to own a car? Mf most Americans are coerced into paying ridiculous amounts of money just to be able to get anywhere!

“The government wants to trap us in 15 minute zones” I say from my gated suburban neighborhood that I couldn’t survive in if my car broke down or got repossessed because I defaulted on my loan

[-] Lerios@hexbear.net 39 points 10 months ago

Isn’t it more dystopian to be forced to own a car?

no, something can't be dystopian if middle class americans already do it, that just means its normal. and coercion is when someone is pointing a gun at you - economic coercion, material conditions? never heard of them.

neoliberalism has become pure self-replicating ideology, nothing real required

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[-] Judge_Jury@hexbear.net 60 points 10 months ago

You might think your delusional utopian fantasy of "food near home" sounds cool, but what will you do when they start making you put poop in your hair huh? What about the people without hair? What will they do?

You fucking tankies never think anything through

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[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 59 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

sicko-biker

whatever pigs!

I yell as I weave my way past them on my sweet bike

[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 59 points 10 months ago

I really don’t know how they got that from “I’d like to be able to walk to the grocery store”

[-] Rom@hexbear.net 37 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Propaganda shat out by oil industry lobbyists after they calculated 15 minute cities would cause their profit growth to drop by 0.1% because people would end up buying less gas because they're walking/biking more and driving less. Naturally frothingfash believe it uncritically just like anything else fascist media tells them to get mad about.

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[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 56 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

WHAT. WOULD. BE. THE. FUCKING. INCENTIVE. FOR. THAT. hasan-smash

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 59 points 10 months ago

To genocide the white christian cishet male gamers sweetie

[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 42 points 10 months ago

another pronounjak down, unlimited nato-cool on the international-community-1international-community-2

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 28 points 10 months ago

Ok sounds rad I'm in

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 31 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They're absolutely convinced that the government is gunning for them personally

Would be really nice to just fucking walk five minutes to the store to grab some nice fruit or fresh veggies before dinner everyday, but nooo

I have to drive 20 minutes to the nearest store with decent produce at an affordable price because freedom or something

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[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 51 points 10 months ago

it is legit insane to me how widespread this particular brainworm is. like was it something being broadcast on foxnews? because this shit is legit everywhere and it makes zero sense.

[-] NotErisma@hexbear.net 31 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This is right up there with the "eat bug live in pod" meme.

These kind of memes are extremely disgusting because it brings to light a very apparent and real issue (the collapse of material conditions largely caused by ecological decline brought on by capitalism) but then shifts the scope of blame from the actual perpetrators (the ghouls in power) to marginalized groups.

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[-] Lerios@hexbear.net 47 points 10 months ago

chuds whenever something good might happen:

[-] NotErisma@hexbear.net 44 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This already happens to non white people who dont have cars, they're called "loitering laws".

But- im just gonna let them indulge themselves with the "im a big brain becos I just whipped up a gotchta" only because of how pathetic it makes them look.

Loitering laws have also been used to push kids in general back inside their homes. Obviously happens less to white kids, but it still happens a lot to kids and teens across the board. People are really wild with it.

[-] SerLava@hexbear.net 26 points 10 months ago

meemaw WHY DONT KIDS GET OFF THEIR PHONES AND GO OUTSIDE

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[-] kristina@hexbear.net 42 points 10 months ago

isnt this basically what happens to black people in cities

[-] SerLava@hexbear.net 26 points 10 months ago

dystopia is when things happen to white people

[-] ZapataCadabra@hexbear.net 40 points 10 months ago

So you agree, police exist to oppress citizens?

[-] newerAccountWhoDis@hexbear.net 30 points 10 months ago

They know. They're just scared the to become the target demographic us-foreign-policy

[-] O__O@hexbear.net 38 points 10 months ago

There is no grassroots opposition to 15 minute cities. All outrage is being whipped up by the fossil fuel companies terrified of people not having to drive everywhere.

Of course there are plenty of dim-bulb car chuds who buy into the outrage because they can’t imagine not riding their penis extension for every journey

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[-] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 37 points 10 months ago

Also, shouldn’t conservatives want a return to the US before car companies ruined everything?

Starting to believe that “conservative” thing is a bunch of horseshit. Pure ideology.

Change I like = good

Change I don’t like = bad

[-] MerryChristmas@hexbear.net 33 points 10 months ago

How many of these chuds have ever left their hometown for more than a business trip?

[-] Elon_Musk@hexbear.net 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I travel to my beach house / cabin/ boat / condo/ home town AT LEAST twice a year

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 33 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Why though? What motivation exists for that?

Also is it just me or is it literally only the right that is talking about 15 minute cities?

[-] MultigrainCerealista@hexbear.net 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Walkable streets are basically fascism when you think about it

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[-] axont@hexbear.net 31 points 10 months ago

i have yet to have it explained to me why reactionaries think this will happen. What's the incentive? The only thing I've heard is utter gibberish about Jews reducing population growth for completely unspecified reasons.

The average adult at a good pace can walk 1 mile in 15 minutes. Do they really think every single square mile will be a locked off box patrolled by cops in guard towers. They think it'll be like the movie Equilibrium where they only jobs are sad factory worker and cops. And the ratio of cop to civilian is 1000 to 1.

Oh, I've got it. We should tell them 15 minute cities would increase wages for cops, then they'd be on board.

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[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 28 points 10 months ago

Lol. Westoids really think cops are going to respond to calls that fast. But hey, guess we should defund them to ensure they don’t oppress us in a nice and convenient city, right?

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[-] GeorgeZBush@hexbear.net 27 points 10 months ago

Don't have much to say other than I fucking cannot stand wojaks anymore.

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 27 points 10 months ago

Don't care do it anyway fuck kkkars death to america

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 26 points 10 months ago

That feel when you can't do figure eights while burning rubber and blasting dadrock in a parking lot at 3am grill-broke

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