• Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    A big reason why I’m all for public transport is to get people off the road who shouldn’t be there in the first place so they’re out of my way when I’m driving.

    Kind of like how I support new urbanism because it means less wilderness plowed under for suburbs, so I have more native habitat. I don’t want to live in a city, I just want most people to live in them so I can ve alone with my woodland friends.

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      13 days ago

      “… get people off the road who shouldn’t be there in the first place…”

      i get the sentiment but i think this is problematic.

      who deserves the right to drive then?

      i hear you, “people who are capable”. but real life isn’t so cut and dry. the way it works in america now is awful fs, you can back this up with death statistics fairly easily; however, i think this tribalistic “us vs them” attitude drivers get is emblematic of deeper problems in our culture.

      everyone is all for the animal farm until they’re the other. cliche, i know, but it’s true.