Scene: a wasteland of fascist car supremacy, stroads, millions dead per year, many more maimed, most of the rest coerced into working for their car and sitting in traffic awaiting extinction
Bike Advocate: "we should consider policy that prioritizes bikes, somewhat"
People: "not everyone can ride a bike."
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the need to defend car subsidies in 2024, we don't need to have a bike race a pickup to haul a calf to the vet for it to be a bad idea to subsidize EV trucks that haul fake executives to their couch in a sprawling landscape of mcmansions
Are the defenders of motordom knowingly agents of putin or just accidentally donating their labor to him like they do the gas money? (reacting in this case to my suggestion that we should have a usable network of lanes for bikes and transit instead of extra ones exclusively cars, as if I had said to ban cars, and that bikes can replace every car use for everyone...) If bikes can't do it all, then no extra car lanes can be repurposed because we might need them 🥴
If the only reason you can't ride a bike three miles is the car traffic, do you think the car infrastructure might be the problem, or should we just wait to find some perpetual motion and infinite geometric impossibility in a cereal box? #climateDenial#carSupremacy
People think the car addiction problem is different where they live because metric... 1/6 trips are under 2km (~1.2 american miles ~ 2.6 kbutts) but still nearly half of their traffic is less than a 20min bike ride. The geometry is the same everywhere, cars spend most of their time parked, or idling in the way of other cars. The money spent to help a small number of wealthy people buy electric SUVs could free your entire country from fossil fuels almost overnight.
And if your government is really so car-brained that bikes seem impossible, simply riding a bike to replace a short car trip on a nice day a couple times per year would have about 10x more impact than only voting.
Bike advocate: "can we please stop subsidizing cars?"
Normie left-of-center Dems: "Uh, we're not going to solve the climate crisis if the government doesn't transfer billions $$$ to auto-manufacturers under the pretense of a rebate on brand new EV purchases"
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