• Raltoid@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Nope.

      It’s insane to me how the fuckcars movement went from “we should have walkable cities and more public transport” to “ban all cars”.

      The stupidity of not realizing that farmers, plumbers, electricians, etc. need cars to keep modern society working is baffling to me. Not to mention that they fully expect people to go grocery shopping every single day, or it never crosses their mind because they have no idea what it takes to feed a large family.

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        2 years ago

        Should have added a winky face. We can’t ban cars, but definitely need to use cars less. Mostly a joke about how the current state of EVs is just green washing.

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          2 years ago

          That’s fair.

          I was mostly venting my frustration over those silly posts anway. Since as long as humans have physical bodies, we will at times need individual transportation. And they sometimes act like literally everything in life can be done through public transport and excpeting people to bring home a couch on the bus.

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        2 years ago

        Not to mention that they fully expect people to go grocery shopping every single day, or it never crosses their mind because they have no idea what it takes to feed a large family.

        I had to do the grocery shopping for a household of 7 (3 of them teenagers) and the only reason I used a large vehicle to get those groceries is because there was no infrastructure for bicycles in that town. I didn’t haul anything that couldn’t also be hauled by a decent cargo bike.

      • Takatakatakatakatak@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 years ago

        These people live in a tiny little bubble, but the glass is dirty and they can’t see outside. They probably have zero idea where their food comes from and how far it had to travel to make it to their wholefoods, or how different the lives of the people that grow it are to their own.

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      2 years ago

      Yes, I agree on this with you, like cars are extremely inefficient way of transportation, especially considering how overcrowded our cities are and the general trend of making bigger and bigger cars that take even more space on the streets, on the parkings, etc.