• Dookieman12@piefed.social
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    23 hours ago

    Drivers didn’t spend over 50 years secretly buying and dismantling public transit, forming zoning boards, and lobbying Congress to build car-centric infrastructure using tax dollars from everyone, including non-drivers; billionaires and corporations did those things. If you’re going to detest people, detest them. The people driving are just doing their best to get by using the only system they’ve ever known.

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      11 hours ago

      Oh I know it, and it’s not the drivers I hate… Unless they are coal rolling and/or trying to run me off the road, which is way more common than you would think. Car companies and lobbyists started it, but some people where I live seem to want to end it/me.

      I hate that the state DOT won’t just figure out how to put in bike lanes. It’s the antithesis of their MO, which seems to be highway widening. If it’s one or the other (doesn’t have to be!) then that makes me and my agenda extra threatening, I guess.

      • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        4 hours ago

        I’d just like to chime in and say it is the drivers I hate, they actively make society worse for everyone with their individualistic approach