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[Altera]

Why is r/fuckcars so prominent? Do redditors hate cars that much?

It screams "no money, no bitches" to me but then again there's plenty of Redditors who cut their cocks off for fun so who am I to judge.

A lot of american cities are being built on literal ponzi-scheme tier shenanigans of using an old federal ordinance to get free money for building roads, the longer the road the bigger the grant. Because of this a lot of welfarestates build long ass roads to nowhere, and then because you have a long road to nowhere they start desperately pandering to businesses like target, walmart, etc who can build massive mall like structures worth going to. These company's always then want the government to build a giant parking lot as part of the deal of them moving in and opening up jobs. Well, it turns out a lot of economists have done that math and the grant pays for the first ten years of the roads life cycle, and then the normal wear and tear starts to cost more than the grant gave them in the first place. Well these were already welfare states and couldn't put any money in, so they don't have the money to maintain the roads... but if you think about it, theres something you could do to get some more money. So these State build, you guessed it, more roads, which means more wallmarts, more parking lots, and more giant scenic trips to nowhere.

All these roads and all these spread out companies mean that people need to buy cars, and cars are expensive, and driving for an hour to get to the wallmart you work out costs 20% of your salary, which keeps you pretty desperate for a job, which Walmart just fucking loves by the way. And, because of decades of masturbatory media telling Americans how fucking COOL you are for owning a CAR. The Americans just fucking love it.

European/asia nations were built primarily with horse and carriage and walking in mind, so for the most part they have none of these problems and almost everything is in walking distance. Because space is such an obscene luxury on the streets, theres like no parking, so everyone has bikes instead. They just fuckin love their bikes, and one day a European or asian national gets on the plane and comes to America, and by the end of the day they're on /r/fuckcars.

Hopefully this has been informative.

 

[PeggieBigCock]

Reddit imploding on hypocrisy & fart huffing neoliberal cult self immolation? Great, I’m sure this won’t happen again for another 5 days

 

[Mobster Monitor]

A bit of an amusing ending on the MagicTCG subreddit drama and Kodemage being demodded.

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[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

A bit of an amusing ending on the MagicTCG subreddit drama and Kodemage being demodded.

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These people are living stereotypes lol

 

[RedDelicious]

All these roads and all these spread out companies mean that people need to buy cars, and cars are expensive, and driving for an hour to get to the wallmart you work out costs 20% of your salary, which keeps you pretty desperate for a job, which Walmart just fucking loves by the way. And, because of decades of masturbatory media telling Americans how fucking COOL you are for owning a CAR. The Americans just fucking love it.

The car being billed the "epitome of freedom" for generations when being able to even use it is a privilege the government gives and takes is such a fucking grift.

European/asia nations were built primarily with horse and carriage and walking in mind, so for the most part they have none of these problems and almost everything is in walking distance. Because space is such an obscene luxury on the streets, theres like no parking, so everyone has bikes instead.

Worth noting that America wasn't necessarily that different, its just that the parts that were ended up being demolished for the car, which is why you now have so many middle-of-nowhere cookie cutter towns that look like this. While r/fuckcars just seems like the city planning version of r/childfree- that is, an ineffective circlejerk instead of trying to solve any real problems- I can definitely see where they come from. So much of America is an untraversable shit-heap without a car, and it never needed to be that way.

 

[Übertroon]

A lot of american cities are being built on literal ponzi-scheme tier shenanigans of using an old federal ordinance to get free money for building roads, the longer the road the bigger the grant. Because of this a lot of welfarestates build long ass roads to nowhere, and then because you have a long road to nowhere they start desperately pandering to businesses like target, walmart, etc who can build massive mall like structures worth going to. These company's always then want the government to build a giant parking lot as part of the deal of them moving in and opening up jobs. Well, it turns out a lot of economists have done that math and the grant pays for the first ten years of the roads life cycle, and then the normal wear and tear starts to cost more than the grant gave them in the first place. Well these were already welfare states and couldn't put any money in, so they don't have the money to maintain the roads... but if you think about it, theres something you could do to get some more money. So these State build, you guessed it, more roads, which means more wallmarts, more parking lots, and more giant scenic trips to nowhere.

All these roads and all these spread out companies mean that people need to buy cars, and cars are expensive, and driving for an hour to get to the wallmart you work out costs 20% of your salary, which keeps you pretty desperate for a job, which Walmart just fucking loves by the way. And, because of decades of masturbatory media telling Americans how fucking COOL you are for owning a CAR. The Americans just fucking love it.

European/asia nations were built primarily with horse and carriage and walking in mind, so for the most part they have none of these problems and almost everything is in walking distance. Because space is such an obscene luxury on the streets, theres like no parking, so everyone has bikes instead. They just fuckin love their bikes, and one day a European or asian national gets on the plane and comes to America, and by the end of the day they're on /r/fuckcars.

Hopefully this has been informative.

Personal experience is that roads or of better quality in the US than Europe. Some nations like Germany have very good road quality, but you can literally feel and hear the moment you cross from the Netherlands into Belgium as everything starts to shake.

And traveling in Europe is a bitch. Americans got fat and lazy out of privilige. I wish I could drive anywhere and that my workplace had plenty of parking space. Instead I have to decide every morning between walking for 40 minutes to work in freezing temperatures or be extorted $80 per month for bus fare so I can be coughed on by strangers and listen to black people shouting their gobbledygook language at each other.
And nothing is better than waiting out in the rain for 20 minutes because the bus is late. Absolute joy.

Oh and you still need a car unless you're some city rat student. Prepare to pay a road toll every kilometer, navigate maze like roads, and having to pay another extortion fee for parking because there are nearly no private garages, roadside parking cost a fee, and the garages in your neighborhood is owned by the company that built your house and they only lease rather than sell garages.

 

[DumbDude42]

I have actually seen it where STEM majors were resentful of the fact that they might have to make more than their wives (god help them if they wanted to stay at home and raise kids) because they only really cared about their career and consooming. It was a bizarre middle class phenomenon. I think it is because the programming works both ways. It is stronger on women, but does affect men, in that they also become anti-natalists, anti-family to serve corporate gods.

weird shit, never see that attitude myself among men
probably because im not in the >100k tier myself, and the only men i know who make that kind of money are 50+ years olds, and their wives either have no career at all or do part time work

 

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

also lol is this ronnie mcnutt's postsuicide head?
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This legit made me look up what the suicide did look like on film. Holy shit I forgot about shotgun to head postmortems and the butterfly that those vertical bullet wounds cause.

 

[WULULULULU]

The good communities are those that never participate in the larger reddit-esque events like r/place, likely because they are busy/dedicated to what their community is built around rather than a popularity contest. I say good because any community on reddit is bound to becoming a shit one in a few years tops. Its the nature of reddit afterall.

 

[Jones McCann]

The 2B part starts around 4:28:00, and the mods cheat-censor around 4:44:00

Go to 5:12:50 for

 

[Altera]

Personal experience is that roads or of better quality in the US than Europe. Some nations like Germany have very good road quality, but you can literally feel and hear the moment you cross from the Netherlands into Belgium as everything starts to shake.

And traveling in Europe is a bitch. Americans got fat and lazy out of privilige. I wish I could drive anywhere and that my workplace had plenty of parking space. Instead I have to decide every morning between walking for 40 minutes to work in freezing temperatures or be extorted $80 per month for bus fare so I can be coughed on by strangers and listen to black people shouting their gobbledygook language at each other.
And nothing is better than waiting out in the rain for 20 minutes because the bus is late. Absolute joy.

Oh and you still need a car unless you're some city rat student. Prepare to pay a road toll every kilometer, navigate maze like roads, and having to pay another extortion fee for parking because there are nearly no private garages, roadside parking cost a fee, and the garages in your neighborhood is owned by the company that built your house and they only lease rather than sell garages.

You misunderstand, our shops have huge parking spaces but most if our JOBS don't. So usually Americans end up paying for parking, where I live a garage spot is 45 dollars for my work shift. 45 dollydoos a day to park a car that I'd still need to gas up. I take the train.

The car being billed the "epitome of freedom" for generations when being able to even use it is a privilege the government gives and takes is such a fucking grift.

Worth noting that America wasn't necessarily that different, its just that the parts that were ended up being demolished for the car, which is why you now have so many middle-of-nowhere cookie cutter towns that look like this. While r/fuckcars just seems like the city planning version of r/childfree- that is, an ineffective circlejerk instead of trying to solve any real problems- I can definitely see where they come from. So much of America is an untraversable shit-heap without a car, and it never needed to be that way.

Well I definitely never said fuckcars was productive. Reddit rarely is, just that people get annoyed and they end up at a reddit called fuckcars.

 

[Altera]

The good communities are those that never participate in the larger reddit-esque events like r/place, likely because they are busy/dedicated to what their community is built around rather than a popularity contest. I say good because any community on reddit is bound to becoming a shit one in a few years tops. Its the nature of reddit afterall.

No community participates in r/place. One person buys 1000 bots and like 5 people add in and think they are fighting the good fight with their community

 

[RedDelicious]

Well I definitely never said fuckcars was productive. Reddit rarely is, just that people get annoyed and they end up at a reddit called fuckcars.

To be fair, there's so much money in keeping Americans driving that it'll probably never fucking change- it's just annoying to see internet slacktivists pretend like botting up a space on a virtual pixel canvas is winning hearts and minds. Ted would weep.

 

[Altera]

To be fair, there's so much money in keeping Americans driving that it'll probably never fucking change- it's just annoying to see internet slacktivists pretend like botting up a space on a virtual pixel canvas is winning hearts and minds. Ted would weep.

There's something poetic about a community of people who want to stop car culture from ruining things drawing a massive fuck off parkinglot over peoples art and calling it a victory.

 

[Factual OST Aficionado]

being outraged and throwing a fit over some meaningless shit is fun?

YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO SAVE THE WHITE RACE KIWIFARMS

 

[BonerMan]

There's something poetic about a community of people who want to stop car culture from ruining things drawing a massive fuck off parkinglot over peoples art and calling it a victory.

The biggest issue with "car culture" is that its completely degraded. You can't afford to drive anything cool anymore, because either gas is way too expensive or the car itself is overpriced as shit. Everyone is forced into the same things, Honda Civics, Toyota Corollas, or an SUV if youre a mom.

My dad's first car was a '66 mustang fastback, my first car was a VW Golf. There is no joy in driving it, its just boring to drive anything modern. I guarantee all of those people on /r/fuckcars all live in the city and if they do drive its something like a civic

 

[Shaka Brah]

The biggest issue with "car culture" is that its completely degraded. You can't afford to drive anything cool anymore, because either gas is way too expensive or the car itself is overpriced as shit. Everyone is forced into the same things, Honda Civics, Toyota Corollas, or an SUV if youre a mom.

My dad's first car was a '66 mustang fastback, my first car was a VW Golf. There is no joy in driving it, its just boring to drive anything modern. I guarantee all of those people on /r/fuckcars all live in the city and if they do drive its something like a civic

The only thing I disagree with you on is your hatred for the humble Civic. You'll never find a car easier to rice than a Civic (ca. 1990-2015), but their insistence on going to un-maintainable electric and hybrid models is really messing with the ability to have fun with them.

 

[JesusBuiltMyHotrod]

Not a nerd
Uses reddit

Biff I have some bad news for you.

Posting pics of real women in r/transpassing with titles like "18 months on hormones, do I pass?" to make the troons depressed was fun though.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

There's something poetic about a community of people who want to stop car culture from ruining things drawing a massive fuck off parkinglot over peoples art and calling it a victory.

These people seem like huge faggots. As usual the community is nothing close to the sensible critique one would expect.

Like this massive cunt. "Haha my neighbors now have to pay 5000$ if they want a place to park. Epic"
Rest of these man's posts is hard shilling for China saying he lives there and some commie bullshit. Clearly a man of the people

 

[quaawaa]

I have actually seen it where STEM majors were resentful of the fact that they might have to make more than their wives (god help them if they wanted to stay at home and raise kids) because they only really cared about their career and consooming. It was a bizarre middle class phenomenon. I think it is because the programming works both ways. It is stronger on women, but does affect men, in that they also become anti-natalists, anti-family to serve corporate gods.

It's because if you are going to have a wife who insists on working, like many young women do, she better be earning at least as much as you. I've know many men who earn multiple hundreds of thousands a year and the wife earns less than his yearly bonus, and she will not quit her job. Never mind that her salary is negative after the taxes (they are married, so she pays the highest marginal tax rate on her entire salary due to his income) and childcare (aka paying some other woman to raise your kids), she must work to own the patriarchy!