• EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Our core value is taking necessary services and pricing them like a luxury.

      Spread everything out really far, get rid of public transit, and, since everybody still needs a license to drive your expensive cars, make the driving test super easy to pass so almost everybody can drive. Boom, 1.2 passengers per car and nobody can actually drive them well.

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        Yep. This person gets it. The auto and gasoline industry basically ruined the environment and our culture so a few select people can make a few $$$.

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        I reeeeal American I just don’t want my tax dollars going to fund other people’s firefighting costs. Can we privatize that??

        Also a right to bear arms and own weapons is sacrosanct and very important to my people. Why can’t our people please finally be allowed go have nuclear weapons. Their kids need some too. Very important.

        Idiots.

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      Our core value isn’t Car, it’s “individual freedom, especially at the cost or inconvenience of others”. It just so happens that Car aligns pretty well with that

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        So interesting to me that Americans think being dependent on a car is “freedom”. Individual freedom should be the freedom to get to where you need to go with viable options to walk, bike, train, bus, tram, or drive.

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          I think you’re focusing too much on the “individual freedom” bit and missing the “at the cost or inconvenience of others” bit

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          We rarely have other viable options. Long before most of us were born, the U.S. built an infrastructure centered around cars, sidelining other forms of transportation.

          In America, owning a car is often the key to freedom of movement. So it’s no surprise people equate cars with freedom. Getting people to see how car dependency actually limits our freedom is like trying to wake someone from the Matrix.

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          To be fair the mindset that a car means freedom is also quite common in Germany too. Especially in the countryside (tbf its often required if you dont want waste a lot of time due to shitty public transportation)

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          No one can make a profit on people walking, so I dont understand how your point makes any sense.

          edit: oh wait! footware and sports drink companies. OK, well, you’ve made some compelling points here. And we use small handed children to in America to make these shoes and sports drinks, right?

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        Yeah, you can’t drive like a dangerous asshole on your way to park your full size truck based SUV across two handicap spots if you don’t have a car in the first place!