• theplanlessman@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    It’s been surprising to see just how many pro-car users seem to lurk on these anti-car/pro-alternative transport communities.

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      1 year ago

      They’re probably imagining me as that Prius or something slowing them down in traffic. My neighborhood is basically one lane when people are parked, and there are a lot of kids, so if they drove the road they’d understand.

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      1 year ago

      This community regularly makes it to the front page of Everything. It’s really not that isolated from the rest of Lemmy

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        1 year ago

        I guess that’s the difference in scale between here and Reddit. r/fuckcars was tiny compared to the whole of reddit, but I guess this is large enough to be prominent in Everything.

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          I dunno, I didn’t subscribe to /r/fuckcars on reddit, but I got their posts all the time on /r/all back in the day. I think a lot of people just don’t like having to rely on cars 😅

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      Fuck cars is regularly in my “everything” feed. And most of these measures aim to reduce traffic, which ultimately benefits the remaining car drivers.

    • Adkml [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      I live in a super rural area and would have an almost impossible time working, buying groceries or getting medical care without a car and even I think the vast majority of the arguments against this are dumb as fuck and the epitome of car brained.