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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
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The other thing is that they like "UBGs = good because density is good", but the problem is that increasing density doesn't lower housing prices, it makes it more expensive. Urbanists think that if we build mega-blocks of housing on "underutilized" parking lots, we can magically lower housing prices. The problem is that you can't just keep building mega-blocks, because the issues of supply and demand, even in heavily-regulated markets, still apply. Developers want to make a profit on the apartments they sell, and they won't have rock-bottom apartments because they don't make money, especially on high-value areas. (That's assuming that apartment building simply grinds to a halt, not a crash involving foreclosures and insta-slums).
If they want dense areas that's anywhere close to decent, it's going to be out of price range, and if they want cheap housing, that usually tends to be rentals out in the sticks.
The other option, is of course, is state-sponsored commieblocks, but those are going to have rotten quality of life, a long waiting list (POCs and/or immigrants would go first), and any quasi-libertarian economic argument like what Marohn argues goes out the window.
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A troll posted the bicyclists attacking a pickup truck driver article to /r/fuckcars:
The mod quickly removed it, but not before leaving a comment saying that they support the "bicyclists":
The other comments were also supportive of the mob:
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Redditor tries to ride the subway, but it's too fatphobic and racist for them:
I've never seen a penis while driving:
It's a normal thing to get pickpocketed on the train:
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The mod quickly removed it, but not before leaving a comment saying that they support the "bicyclists":
The other comments were also supportive of the mob:
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Redditor tries to ride the subway, but it's too fatphobic and racist for them:
I've never seen a penis while driving:
It's a normal thing to get pickpocketed on the train:
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Where's the evidence that the guy ran the "cyclists" over, and he wasn't just beaten because it's downtown LA aka nigger infested territory?
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I love how they cope around the downsides of riding the subway, yet bash traffic congestion as if it's the worst fate imaginable. So far their arguments against driving are mainly just that you get less exercise and have to sit in traffic sometimes. However in comparison the downsides of riding the NYC subway are that you might see a hobo jacking it and you'll probably get mugged.
If you're having to carry around a decoy wallet to avoid getting robbed, but you're still insisting that it's "not that bad", that is pure cope. My brother in Christ you live in a shithole city and refuse to admit it.
In regard to the "bicyclist" attack I've seen videos on youtube of this trend where these guys ride in packs doing wheelies and other reckless shit on the streets in front of traffic. My best guess is one of them swerved into the truck while doing something dumb and this ensued.A troll posted the bicyclists attacking a pickup truck driver article to /r/fuckcars:
The mod quickly removed it, but not before leaving a comment saying that they support the "bicyclists":
Either way it's somewhat disturbing to see the average redditor's propensity to justify violence for something that didn't require it. I'm just going to say that if the same people one day find themselves in a similar situation to not expect sympathy in the future when they're confronted by the mob.
I feel for the man who got attacked, but at this point if you haven't moved out of LA as a non-melonated individual it's just suicide. Hopefully he gets better in the future and gets out one day.
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Apart from the double post, the "ILLEGAL TO BUILD!" posts have zero evidence whatsoever.
Which makes sense--everything is spoon-fed to them through videos and meme pictures, they make no effort to actually look up what the building codes actually say or anything like that. Almost every suburb has some duplexes and townhomes, and even the occasional mixed-use building. If a city has a downtown that's not totally decrepit, there's going to be at least one building that has been renovated to have loft housing above.
Mixed-use development tends to command higher rents, but if it's too high for the market and/or has some weird parking situation that the rest of the city doesn't, it will struggle.
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This is the end result of renaming car accidents to "car crashes" to "traffic violence." Now violence is justified, you see, because the driver supposedly committed ""traffic violence"" first!
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I once noticed that there are similar death rates for private pilots and motorcyclists; but in the NTSB reports the private pilot is directly at fault like 80% of the time (and 10% more he should have not fucking pushed it) but something like 60% of motorcycle fatalities are not the biker's fault.
So fuck that.
The "illegal to build" usually refers to minimum parking laws, but what these fucks refuse to admit is that all this shit is negotiable, and variances exist. Nobody is building their goyslop meccas because nobody wants them.
I'm half-inclined to make the meme image reality:
find some decent enough shitty city that I can buy a square mile of near whatever fucking oversubsidized autistic magnet train they build, and then just literally raise funds to build as close to a copy of fucking florence as I can, and overcharge the fuck out of the idiots
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So during time our agriculture forum was down I have seen this video.
But @Radola Gajda it is like 5 years old it surely is no longer relevant. I agree, but he was still arguing in comment section with randos last time I checked . so if it still relevant for him it is relevant to post here.
He act smug and have this holier than thou attitude.
My favorite parts:
There is war between carbrains and bikers. Lmao
He acknowledges there is some town in England with infrastructure he wants, but suprise suprise nobody uses it. His solution? Use goverment power to force people use bike.And if you get wounded on bike it is always carbrainers fault so you dont need bother with bike helmet.
Also he said he likes Mayor Terrorism is natural part of living in big city.
Another masterpiece of his is this one.
There almost no bridges in half london and thats good thing becauce cars will use them.
But @Radola Gajda it is like 5 years old it surely is no longer relevant. I agree, but he was still arguing in comment section with randos last time I checked . so if it still relevant for him it is relevant to post here.
He act smug and have this holier than thou attitude.
My favorite parts:
There is war between carbrains and bikers. Lmao
He acknowledges there is some town in England with infrastructure he wants, but suprise suprise nobody uses it. His solution? Use goverment power to force people use bike.And if you get wounded on bike it is always carbrainers fault so you dont need bother with bike helmet.
Also he said he likes Mayor Terrorism is natural part of living in big city.
Another masterpiece of his is this one.
There almost no bridges in half london and thats good thing becauce cars will use them.
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No one has ever decided not to build an apartment building because of minimum parking laws. They just build a garage. Urbanists typically enact maximum parking laws as soon as they realize that the free market wants parking.
Seattle has a condo tower that is half empty because the city forced the developer to build only 62 parking spots for a building with 262 units, and the units without spots didn’t sell:
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The failed tower is a luxury building located in an area without street parking. The "successful" parking-free buildings mentioned in the article are all in areas with street parking, and despite being filled with single recent college graduates, still have a high car-ownership rate.
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Cars are freedom and these people don't know how to live without the ball and chain. I really wish these people would just fuck off to Europe and see what a diverse, enriched, multicultural, public transit heaven it is.
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Some of them do, but they only live in the wealthiest, most protected parts of the cities, or detached single-family homes in the suburbs while preaching about how great big city life is.
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Indeed, sadly the only option left is to sit on that ball and chain.
And yes, I did make this in Microsoft Publisher. And yes, I can't make memes for shit.
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To further play off this, the Garage in general is the domain of the fixer. Not just for your car but for anything. You can paint stuff for your house in there, work on lawn equipment, hold your BIKE, and much much more. A garage built into a home is independence. Manliness.
It's the meme they deserve, may they wear that chain for eternity
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The hilarious part about it is the only people I've ever met who are MORE into American Car Culture than Americans ... are Europeans.
I am still remember the first time I am visit to the Oslo (the Oslo is famous because it is European and White and Perfect and Transit Heaven) - I am walk down the street like as if I am native and I have to stop for a huge line of American muscle cars straight out of the 60s. They were beautiful - top specimens. I am to ask the Norwegians how this is, why the King permits it (they still have a King, it is very Europe) and he says that they are often cheaper than new car, but everyone loves them so much.
You've not lived until you've seen a giant American boat of a car emanate from an street barely wider than it is.
who the fuck is paying $500k for 600 sq ft without parking lol!?!
Also their website is broke af , even more broke than brokebackfarms: https://theemeraldseattle.com/plans/ but the main link tries to go to 47.105.126.186 what a shit
https://theemeraldseattle.com/penthouse/#ph-land (a) my goodness it's full of homosexuality
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And I will chime in with a few funfacts here.
Along with the american car culture, a lot of Norwegians choose to drive around with the dixie-flag and not giving a flying fuck. Every year the Norwegian state media( basicly a version of the BBC) is seething about this, and how little people care, see link: https://www.nrk.no/osloogviken/ragg...atsflagget_-_-hva-er-galt-med-det_-1.15086875
While alot of the people engaging in that culture are degenerates, they are sometimes hilarious. Personal favourite is when they are so many driving into SwedenYES from Norway they block the highway and parade through Swedish towns flying the dixie-flag in front of the populace.
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The BBC caring about a American rebel flag in Norway is peak britbong. I hope they fly those things from every Volvo semi truck in the country, just out of spite.
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Not the actual BBC in Norway, but Norwegian state media. I've edited my post to be more precise, sorry.
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Its entire meaning is little more than being a rebel, in a very generic sense. The only reason Norwegian media get pissed off about it is because they're infested with american idpol bullshit, same as every other media org the world over. The have almost no connection with the people in their own country.
Swedes are also surprisingly baste once you get outside of the stockholm or goteborgs centrum. "Nigger" is just a rude word there, instead of a deathcurse that will see you executed in the street for crimes against colour.
He said the norwegian version of the BBC. He means their state broadcaster, NRK.