Not Just Bikes / r/fuckcars / Urbanists / New Urbanism / Car-Free / Anti-Car - People and grifters who hate personal transport, freedom, cars, roads, suburbs, and are obsessed with city planning and urban design

[TayandYou]

Maybe delineate it by "urbanite bughive proponents are lolcows" and just hammer forward people disagreeing- "This thread isn't for debating the concept, if the people who disagree are so lulzworthy go make your own 'cager/carbrain/etc' thread."

Sounds like a lot of extra steps to me. If the topic of the thread for whatever reason attracts enough debaters that you have to post disclaimers and repeated reminders about how this isn't a debate thread, you might as well just move it to mass debates and make it a debate thread.

 

[SocialDislocationAuto]

Some /r/fuckcars lunacy from their front page:
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If the Amish don't need cars, neither do you:
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How dare people not want to sit next to schizos and junkies on public transit:
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This woman isn't afraid of the homeless schizos on the train, but she is supposedly often catcalled by drivers:
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Could there be some reason other than "respect" as to why public transport is safe in Korea?

OMG a Truck exists!
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They're even invading the Holy Land!
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/r/fuckcars user discovers that having roads doesn't mean that you can't walk to the store:
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Your typical car-loathing zoomer redditor is also supposedly agoraphobic, gotta be a fucking scam if they're always this hot for public transport.

 

[Red Hood]

Wizard Street Cyclist
Virgin Scooterboy
Brad Car
Chad Motorcycle
Dad Single Cab Pickup
Lad Street Unicyclist

 

[UmQasaan]

Wizard Street Cyclist
Virgin Scooterboy
Brad Car
Chad Motorcycle
Dad Single Cab Pickup
Lad Street Unicyclist

Sigma flying machine

 

[Table Country]

>chemist

We call them pharmacists, lobsterback.

 

[Mender Bug]

Good god what a rabbit hole the tyre extinguishers are. Here is a link to their website and an archive.
Site: https://tyreextinguishers.com/
Site archive: https://archive.ph/L0l8O

Nothing in their site that is inherently funny unfortunately. However
I have never seen more obnoxiously European armchair activists in my life. They act as if SUVs are the cause of climate change. I bet they cannot even comprehend the true scope a phenomenon like climate change is. The real impact of climate change we should be worried about is shit that affects food production, things like drought, longer summers, hotter weather. Too these people, climate change means the inconvenience of smog and pollution in their cities. Nay,they say, climate change biggest imapct is how it affects me me me!
These are the same countries who governments and corporations are directly responsible for the neocolonialism that keeps places like Africa and China utter shitholes.

 

[Wilhelm Bittrich]

How come this "Not just bikes" guy didn't move to some African village? or how about Detroit?? I'm pretty sure you could ride your bike around Detroit.

Isn't Detroit and African village the same thing?

 

[Becky McDonald]

Protip: If you're uncertain as to whether or not a group of people who support slashing/deflating tyres, along with committing other acts of petty vandalism/annoyance on top of hanging out with/promoting known documented existing lolcows, and inventing a whole new SJW-style vocabulary to define various ambiguous things they dislike are in fact lolcows, you should re-evaluate as to whether or not this is the right place for you.

 

[Cesspit Clogger]

A lot of good points raised by AS and NJB just get obscured by the sheer bootlickery and you'll-own-nothing-and-be-happy attitude to solving urban problems. Pavement bike lanes are the best solution, because they make the spandex faggots seethe, as they can't race and endanger themselves and pedestrians anymore. I don't really care what people use to go from point A to point B, because in most cities it doesn't fucking matter; take the car/bike/bus/tram, or stop being a fat fuck and walk. All possibilities have pros and cons, and the only reason people need to discourage car travel is because it's the most convenient. If public transport companies would provide decent security on their rides, make their rides arrive on time and not be literally 20% the speed of a car ride, maybe more people would consider them.

Adam Something is a distinguished breed, he's one of those weird eastern bloc anti-russian anti-tankie communists, that praise the authoritarianism, yet downplay the enormous improvement in quality of living for thousands of the working class. But, he will never address his bootlicking head-on, the best he'll do is waffling about positive and negative freedoms, and describe how the paradox of choice necessarily leads to people being crammed into high-density housing with immigrants and criminals, and how anything but hardcore gubment intervention on a wide and massive scale can change the "problems" he and other bugpersonae see in today's society. Such people are a rare breed here (in the east block), especially since most actually mature people well remember the progress that the commies have done in the easter bloc, whilst also remembering the authoritarianism, and can BTFO their circle jerking with buckets upon buckets of personal anecdote.

A notable feature of his is also the constant obsession with debunking anything stupid that Elon Musk may utter (which, to be honest, is a bottomless pit in of itself), which right now constitutes about a sixth of his channel. A very common champagne socialist fetish of mass immigration is also intensively discussed and deboonked, especially in regards to Orban's policy of not taking care of the masses that Germany invited. He also hard-swallowed the "not real communism" pill, as indicated by his anarchocapitalism in practice series, where he of course shows how a theoretical anarchocommunist society would function in prosperity and bureaucracy galore. The idea of personal responsibility and free market economics, of course send him into a seething rage. My theory is that folks like these are fundamentally unhappy to the point that they aren't capable of discerning anything from being the product of their own life choices, but instead of a system that didn't spoonfeed and constrain them enough into the right choices. This anti-power fantasy can in the extremes boil into leaving the country to become even more cucked like in NJB's case, but in most cases it leads to having wet fever dreams like in AS's european federation video.

 

[Meriasek]

Some /r/fuckcars lunacy from their front page:
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If the Amish don't need cars, neither do you:
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How dare people not want to sit next to schizos and junkies on public transit:
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This woman isn't afraid of the homeless schizos on the train, but she is supposedly often catcalled by drivers:
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Could there be some reason other than "respect" as to why public transport is safe in Korea?

OMG a Truck exists!
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It's gonna kill the kid:View attachment 3597959
They're even invading the Holy Land!
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/r/fuckcars user discovers that having roads doesn't mean that you can't walk to the store:
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20 minutes walking back, didn't the coffees get cold by then?

Good OP, there a lot of these people around.
Most prominent example from Germany is Katja Diehl, an author with no qualifications that managed to stylize herself as some sort of "mobility expert", but her main expertise is just making every single happening about cars and banning or restricting them. Like, some mentally ill guy deliberately runs over people? "We need geofencing and harder speed limits in cities". Russia invades the Ukraine? "If we enforce a strict speed limit on our highways, it'll totally show Putin!". That sort of stuff, mixed in with the fashionable postmodern feminism approach where everything ever hurts women more, including streets with cars on them and bike lanes that are not perfect.

https://nitter.net/kkklawitter

She used to use "kkklawitter" as her Twitter handle, but apparently realized that "KKK" wasn't maybe the greatest thing to put in there. Also, "She Drives Mobility", very humble.

"Car traffic destroyed more in Europe than all the wars it suffered" is a classic take by her.
Despite her being a raging anti-car-cunt and cycling enthusiast, I remember her being unable to fold up a basic-bitch folding bike and complaining about it. Pretty sure she deleted it later out of embarassment. Likely a massive hypocrite, but I don't really know too much about her to tell for sure. She doesn't do Youtube or anything, just Twitter and public appearances and books.

"InterrailKatja knows the circumstances that lead to the levelling between cities [meaning that all cities look the same]. Shopping, reaching for 'higher levels' for housing and mobility than what their parents had, tourism. Still, it hurts to see how cities like Tallinn are losing their character."
Basically, she's even worse than most urbanists. She doesn't want actual urban development for modern, pleasant cities. She wants shit cities with no improvements for anyone, because that would mean gentrification and she's that type of German that loves the urban squalor of Berlin and the likes because she romanticises it as "flair" and "culture". She calls herself "mobility expert", but she doesn't actually want mobility at all. Everybody stay where they are, not move further than what you can do with a bike.


That's what she tries to look like in promo shots, but it's a very, very flattering pic.

Here she's with Mario Sixtus, german author/screenwriter and fellow block-button-enthusiast. Between the two of them they do not just have the most haughty facial expressions in the world, but also likely the longest blocklists on Twitter, where it's a common joke when "Sixtus" trends on Krauttwitter, 99% are just asking what happened because nobody can see it. And it's usually because he had a really, really retarded take on something. Prime example that if you're a bald faggot without even a high school diploma, you don't have to be a Neonazi to be an absolutely vile piece of shit. But he's not mainly a car-hater, just a hardcore leftist writing shitty screenplays mostly for public broadcasters.

 

[Kuchipatchi]

I'm feeling paranoid as I've been getting ads about campaigns for compact cities. I had a quick glimpse at this one and it talks about having no roads or cars.
I can absolutely imagine these car fuckers cumming over something like this. Looks like pod-sleeping hell.

Link

Actually, I hope it succeeds so normal people can live in normal cities. Also, I bet a place like what they're promising will be expensive as hell.
When these bugmen emerge from The Line and see the real world, they won't be able to apprehend how big the world really is as they won't be able to simply press a button on an app to get what they want.

 

[potato in mah painus]

Oh, this is 100% gonna be the next big thing that gets shoved down everyone's throats. Perfect OP, I'm getting in on the ground floor with this one, thread watched

https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/world-economic-forum-calls-reduce-private-vehicles-by-eliminating-ownership

Since nobody seems to have pointed it out. The pod boys are the ones behind the push for this lately.

 

[Meriasek]

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I'm feeling paranoid as I've been getting ads about campaigns for compact cities. I had a quick glimpse at this one and it talks about having no roads or cars.
I can absolutely imagine these car fuckers cumming over something like this. Looks like pod-sleeping hell.

Link

Actually, I hope it succeeds so normal people can live in normal cities. Also, I bet a place like what they're promising will be expensive as hell.
When these bugmen emerge from The Line and see the real world, they won't be able to apprehend how big the world really is as they won't be able to simply press a button on an app to get what they want.

Seen that one, too. Adam Something will probably hate it, though, his car-hate has a strong commie edge to it and he absolutely hates anything done by and in Saudi Arabia on principle. He might do an interesting video on "The Line", and will likely end up comparing it with commieblocks and how said commieblocks are vastly superior.

 

[DumbDude42]

He might do an interesting video on "The Line", and will likely end up comparing it with commieblocks and how said commieblocks are vastly superior.

and he'd be right, cause at the end of the day commieblocks at least exist in reality, while neom exists only in the fever dreams of a megalomaniac oil sheikh

for context, saudi royals have a habit of announcing and starting grandiose megaprojects, then quietly abandoning them as they get stuck in development hell forever

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Abdulaziz_Bin_Mousaed_Economic_City

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Abdullah_Economic_City

the neom meme is just the latest iteration of this retarded saudi tradition, and the most absurd and over the top of them all.

 

[Hot Soda Aficionado]

To an extent I can get behind some of their ideas, such as being able to take the train from suburbs into the metropolitan areas, most of what they have to say just comes off as pure whining. "whaa whaa this city isn't designed exactly how I want it, literally hostile to human life."

Take this aspiring urbanist's video for example. Peter Davies seems to be relatively new, his first upload on the subject was 2 months ago. His videos bring absolutely nothing new to the table. its the same regurgitated rhetoric. "Roads bad, based European cities good". His examples are rather cherry picked too, only showing particular bad examples of American cites and claims they're all like this.

One of his latest videos almost feels like a parody but its entirely sincere whining like an absolute whimp for 5 minutes straight that beautiful tree lines suburbs are un-liveable because he had to walk 20 minutes to the grocery store. He cant bike either because the empty roads don't have a separate barrier and grade separated bike lane running along every possible route of travel. "Americans are so fat and lazy I'm glad I'm not one, oh whait". Also I hate the faggy wide screen aspect ratio for a 5 minute rant video.

These people have truly created a hug box around them. Everyone wishes they can sculpt the world around them to conform to their ideals, why do they feel so entitled that it should be their way? I bet none of them have ever been packed into a bus where you're the only white guy in a sea of pajeets eating stinky masala and face timing with their moms. Then they might understand why one might choose to rely on their own transportation.

 

[Meriasek]

and he'd be right, cause at the end of the day commieblocks at least exist in reality, while neom exists only in the fever dreams of a megalomaniac oil sheikh

for context, saudi royals have a habit of announcing and starting grandiose megaprojects, then quietly abandoning them as they get stuck in development hell forever

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Abdulaziz_Bin_Mousaed_Economic_City

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Abdullah_Economic_City

the neom meme is just the latest iteration of this retarded saudi tradition, and the most absurd and over the top of them all.

Yup. He did a video on commieblocks once that was also quite reasonable, those apartment blocks used to be really good for the people, but only compared to the state of urban housing before. From today's perspective they're shit, but the principle can work with modern construction techniques and standards quite well.

 

[TurdFondler]

The one part that really bothers me about anti car propaganda is the refusal to admit sometimes cars are necessary. What is your plumber or HVAC guy gonna do? Get a horse & buggy?

Or is the idea to abolish car ownership so you can never, ever be a an independent contractor?

Also the fuckin amish kids example. Because riding across an Amish colony is exactly the same as riding a bike 50 miles down a gravel road to the nearest town.

 

[DNA_JACKED]

The city I live in has bike lanes for the fags who want to do that. I don’t see why more cities don’t just adopt bike lanes. I rarely experience any traffic because of it. Win-win for everyone.

Bike lanes generally get built like shit in the US, even in cities, though at least cities can generally build ok sidewalks even if they still require you cross active traffic half the time. But bike lanes are either painted on the side of the road, still inviting danger and for retarded bicyclists to just do what they'd already do, or there are certain parts built as actual pure pedestrian paths but usually only for scenic routes. The farther you get away urbanity, the less anybody gives a shit about anything other than cars. You end up with bike lanes painted onto the side of the road all the time if any, and sidewalks that just end in someone's empty lot. 50+% of pedestrians I see in areas built for single family suburbia have to walk through overgrown unpaved areas to get back to sidewalks if they can find any. And it doesn't have to be that way.

My city finally came up with a viable solution, that is the bike lane is placed next to the road and a physical curb is poured to keep the bikes in and cars out. Makes WAY more sense. It's how it should have been done in the first place, there's no reason that a line of paint would be sufficient to keep cyclists in line.

The one thing I agree with NotJustBikes on is bike lanes are dumb. What if we took a sidewalk, made it twice as wide, and called it a bike path? These retards would cream their pants and I wouldn't have to deal with cyclists pretending traffic laws don't apply to them. They want multi-modal streets, I want multi-modal sidewalks.

Because many cities and states consider bikes to be "vehicles", and as such they are banned from sidewalks. It's retarded, but thats how it is.

 

[Wally]

Some /r/fuckcars lunacy from their front page:

What could he be buying from Ikea that is that small?

One of his latest videos almost feels like a parody but its entirely sincere

Man literally can't walk 20 minutes, is scared of riding his bike on the street, won't take the clearly available bus, and won't bike on the sidewalk. I'm sensing this is more of a him issue than a suburb issue,

 

[Agarathium1066]

Extremely high quality OP. I already had an awareness of this 'fandom' or whatever you want to call it. I'm also not shocked to see the thread was infected on page one by someone who espouses it.

I'd rather public transportation not suck shit so not needing a car in an urban city is an option myself but that's a pipe dream.