I’m a Republican, and in nine months of advocating for safer streets, I have yet to meet another one.
You’re a hbthe wrong crowd…
Yet somewhere along the way, we turned roads into a political argument
Yeah. You know who is “we” here? Republicans
Nah this ain’t it. All shared resources, including transportation, are inherently political.
“I thought something obviously stupid because nothing is real unless it affects me. But then it affected me! ¡Que sorpresa!”
Welllllll, bike lanes ARE DEI! They’re inclusive of people who don’t have cars.
I don’t think you could explain the ideas behind DEI to a conservative though.
you are going by bike only if you don’t have a car? Oo
But when Republicans talk about freedom, the progressives hear privilege. Aren’t the Left and the Right essentially saying the same thing?
No. The fuck is wrong with you?
They only care when it impacts them personally. Fuck them, selfish pricks.
Oh, it impacted them.
What in the stupid?
I’m sorry for the loss, the road did indeed fail, and I am happy there’s at least one Republican who cares about road safety, but …….
There’s a whole lot of twisted logic trying to make it seem like “both sides the same”. I mean, I wouldn’t argue it since she does see the light after it affected her personally, but wtf
Why is it always the left that has to dumb things down for the right?
Because… they’re dumb?
So that is easy. Religion is based on tradition, and the right is heavy based on religion. Tradition is all about doing a thing without really knowing why. So it skews heavily toward the non-critical thinkers.
Most have ability to learn more, but the systems indoctrinate them not to learn more than they allow and be obedient, they go along to fit in, their team wins when others lose, zero sum thinking. It’s damaging and holds us all back.
Leopards Ate My Face moment
Republicans and Democrats are often arguing for the same thing using completely different languages.
That’s where I stopped reading.
And yet…
I thought bike lanes were a DEI project
I’m a Republican, and in nine months of advocating for safer streets, I have yet to meet another one.
The cognitive dissonance is strong with this one
Trying to make these threads meet, I guess the point she’s trying to make is that after the leopards ate her face, she came to understand that the reason Republicans oppose everything that benefits the public is not because they are stupid and/or evil, but because Democrats are failing to communicate in a way that appeals to them.
But of course that’s the Democrats fault. Thanks, Obama!
I hate people so much. Oh, whats that? The big authority man told you thing was bad? You’re just gonna accept it at face value and let him do whatever he wants? Oh nooo, your fucking beloved family member is dead now, and nothing less would have convinced you. Guess authority man was wrong about this one little thing
lol what an absolute fuckwit. This is a truly majestic and impressive lack of self-awareness.
The Left loses the Right as soon as bike lanes are tied into identity politics. Multimodal equity is simply “freedom of movement” to a Republican.
Bruh. Are you fucking kidding me? Everyone who has been arguing for bike lanes and public transit has been calling it something along the lines of freedom of movement for years. We’ve been mocking how “muh freedum” people also see a veritable tank as the only reasonable means of getting from place to place, and oppose everything else. You DO NOT need knobby tires and 4WD and a 6 inch lift to go to Sam’s Club. You’ll be perfectly fine doing it in a stock Toyota Corolla.
It’s always projection. In reality, the right-wingers are the ones trying to tie bike lanes to “identity politics.”
They tie anything they’re told to to identity politics. I don’t think they can comprehend reality at all without that filter on constantly.
Right-wingers are unable to distinguish between the content and the frame, so they assume that however conservative media packaged a leftist argument for them is just how it came from the source.
Classic republican. Doesn’t give a shit about a problem, until they’re personally affected by it.
Every single one has to get hurt individually to understand. It’s probably an undiagnosed learning disability
That and literal poisoning from a lack of environmental regulations and enforcement in conservative areas.
As someone with 3 learning disabilities, don’t put that asshole on us. Disabled people are often more empathetic in my experience.
Lack of empathy is a disability in itself.
I stand by my comment, with the understanding that this specific disability has turned these people into Nazi sheep. Unrelated types of disability are not part of this discussion.
I find this notion worthless and misguided. Being a fascist is a product of deliberate ignorance, not a failure to understand. Her mind wasn’t shockingly expanded when her father died. She just got angry enough about the injustice of her situation to slightly abandon her spiteful disdain for all things progressive and good for the people and the world.
Note her repeated insistence that the right and the left both want safer roads. It is not and never has been the left pushing for roads to be less safe. The fascists adopted road safety as another cause they could ideologically appropriate for the cause of disdain. The fascist ideology requires a constant never ending source of outrage, even after they have taken power. The enemy must always be present and scheming with trivial political matters. Everyone is aware that roads being less safe will result in more people dying. They just do not care. They disdain the idea of caring. They disdain the idea of doing something to make roads safer.
just decades of republicants sabotaging public education, on top of even more decades of lead pollution and exposure.
That’s a lot of people, let’s get started.
Pretty sure, Republican is the diagnosis.
Remember a joke about how you don’t need to have brain damage to be a Republican, but it sure does help.
Pennsylvanians know that joke too well
And even then only that one very narrowly defined specific thing that effected them personally becomes an exception. Every other progressive thing is still bad without question.
Oh he gave a shit before. It was just the one that was more convenient for him personally, fuck everyone else.
Every conservative people ever.
There’s something about being in a car that makes people fucking nuts.
I was walking home from public transit yesterday and the street I was crossing (admittedly, jaywalking) was in a red light and the car I was crossing in front of was slowing down, coming into a stop behind another stopped car.
The motherfucker still rolled his window down and yelled: “Use the crosswalk!”
All I did was slow him up for one second, going into a stop, behind another car, at a red light.
Probably stupid, but I stopped, turned, and thanked him profusely and politely (though sarcastically too) for thirty seconds and the cowardly little prick didn’t even have the balls to keep his window down.
Always remember that prior to cars, the street was a public place designed for pedestrians. They took that away from us with the “jaywalking” PR campaign.
Absolutely.
Just didn’t get why the guy gave a damn under the circumstances. It didn’t (and doesn’t) make any sense, though I sincerely hope he thought he was going to get shot when I turned around and pissed himself.
I once saw somebody literally red in the face, slamming their hands against the steering wheel, while driving a car, just because they were in bumper to bumper traffic.
Then they revved the car, sped forward like a yard, and slammed on the brakes.
Clearly this person was more inconvenienced than the one who had to slow down for you, but i think it illustrates how frustrated and helpless car drivers can feel when affected by “traffic”, all without realizing that they are themselves the traffic.
When you’re walking or biking, I think you are much less affected by traffic, hence bicycle messengers.
I’ve also read somewhere that public transit bus drivers have some of the worst stress of all jobs, because they have so much pressure on them, but so much of their job is outside of their direct control (traffic, passengers, etc.)
There’s something about being in a car that makes people fucking nuts.
It’s such a well-known phenomenon that Disney was making cartoons about it 76 fucking years ago!
I held someone up for about 10 seconds the other day while getting out of a parking spot. I couldn’t see him for all the other cars until I was about 1m out of the spot. I was reversing carefully so people could react to me coming out, and so I could spot someone if they didn’t. This dude comes speeding up, honking his horn, waving his arms around giving me the finger as if I’d just tried to kill him. His honking surprised me, so I block the brakes in case I’m about to cause an accident. If this dumb fucking cunt, who I wasn’t even close to hitting, and who had plenty time and opportunity to see me hadn’t honked, and instead just slowed slightly down, I would’ve been out of his way in half the time.
People in my area have become a lot less patient in trafic, and have become a lot more agressive about any slight inconvenience.
I’ve always tried to make plenty of room for other drivers, letting them get out of their parking spot with plenty of space, since they can’t see me nearly as well as I can see them, but seems I’m the only one trying to make driving easier for other people.
That is legit scary.
It’s hard for me to understand what it is about those micro-seconds of inconvenience that flips people’s switches so intensely. In my mind, anything that takes a few seconds to rectify isn’t worth freaking out over.
And if you’re wondering why someone would do this, the sequence of crossing signals makes going to that other side of the street faster for my walk home.
The driver might have been angry that you were being unsafe and he didn’t want to see you hurt or be the one to hurt you.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been driving down a unlit road and had to slam on the brakes to avoid hitting someone who was jaywalking and wearing dark clothes. Or seeing kids driving on the road on bikes/e-bikes and being unsafe in traffic.
Some of us just don’t want to see you hurt or be the one to hurt you.
LOL
I’m sure that was it.
Did you actually read what I wrote?
