@destructdisc @BilboBargains Our culture normalizes constant car use in so many ways, from how retailers and professional services offices give directions to their businesses to what is shown and how in pop culture. People for whom everyday car use has become normalized often just need to hear alternative voices consistently and persistently for a while to realize that they can and should at least reduce if not eliminate their car use.
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@destructdisc @BilboBargains Yes. We can show compassion without indulging the habit and certainly without caving to their demands that everyone else live in a world designed to cater to their addiction. If your sibling is an alcoholic, you might only invite them to your home for an alcohol-free party. If they're a car addict, you can invite them but make clear there isn't space to park their SUV and give them transit and/or bike directions.
@Tattorack @Davriellelouna Trump himself is completely out to lunch. He doesn't know what his own policies are, only that he's been told that whatever he just signed will make him look powerful and manly. The handlers running his accounts are just having fun knowing they can make abundantly clear that the dictator has no idea what's going on and civil society is (for now) powerless to do anything. That can only go on for so long...
@youCanCallMeDragon @SwingingTheLamp Emotion is what causes people to be more scared of violent crime than the everyday consequences of their transportation choices when cars are much more likely to injure, kill, or sicken them. Data showing how many people are killed by motorists instead of murderers is necessary to help people overcome that emotion and make decisions based on realistic risk assessment.
@sharkfucker420 @Davriellelouna Or, "I enjoy trashing the planet but realize that's shameful so I need an excuse."
@Jesus_666 @RejZoR I agree, as long as non-car owners are considered. If a kei car owner gets a rebate, non-car owners should get an even bigger one.
@nanook @aeischeid No one capable of basic logic thinks 15 minute cities have anything to do with restricting travel. Either you're being disingenuous, or you're sorely lacking in the logic you think you possess.
@pixxelkick If children can't walk to their neighborhood grocery store safely, that's a societal problem, not an individual one. Instead of looking for a scapegoat to punish, fix the fucking neighborhood so it doesn't keep happening (to adults as well as children).
@pixxelkick There was no negligent behavior. Why have we become a culture that criminalizes every aspect of motherhood (ignoring the father's role as an equal co-parent) from having an abortion or even a miscarriage to not keeping your children on a leash for the entire 18 years they are minors (or at least 16, at which time if you can afford to buy them a car you can let them loose to kill people) and then bitches that women don't make enough babies?
@pixxelkick You haven't traveled much outside the United States of AmeriCar, have you? Building stroads through neighborhoods, making it unsafe for people of any age to walk to their nearest grocery store, is the problem. Almost all other high income countries have been steadily reducing their traffic fatalities for decades while the US does the opposite. Which system represents progress?
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@destructdisc @BilboBargains Unfortunately, public transportation is one of the many public goods that has been in decline for decades due to neglect by both major political parties in the US and is now getting absolutely demolished under the new fascist regime, and people who walk and cycle have also had targets painted on our backs by hatemongers. We need to fight more actively than ever for our freedom to travel freely by the mode of our choosing.