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[Yamamura]

Hm, who uses "stupid" a lot and accuses anyone who disagrees with him of killing people?

There's something to be said about only attracting the company of people who only want to be negative. Something tells me if it wasn't pickup trucks this type of person would easily find something else to be mad at. Just find something that is mildly inconveniencing and frame it as the worst thing in the world.

Among the urbanists I find it funny Jason is synonymous with only attracting an audience of angry retards.

Those retards play HOI4 and SimCity 24/7 and dream of being a part of the machine that dictates their favorite worldview onto others and wants to crush or ridicule any dissent.

They think of themselves as benevolent dictators who actually know what's best for humanity. The people are just too stupid to realize what they want, they say to themselves. It's hilarious how they chastise Elon Musk for having these wild eccentric visions for the future, but they themselves would be just as much of a lolcow if they were put into positions of power leaving behind a failure of a project.

 

[LeChampion1992]

This is one of the scariest lolcow community threads to me.

Those people would feel right at home with the STASI or the KGB as a either neighborhood watch or as a midling typist or some bureaucrat at the file section, thinking they have all the fucking power over their neighbor:
"Heh, That drunk Roman who plays beattles on his x-ray record knew, knew! that anytime i could have him re-educated if he doens't close the trash lid of our building"
Meanwhile his asskissed boss who is probably more worried about smuggling some Marlboro's or that nice casio digital watch probably says "thank you and you can go now" and quietly throws his report on the trash.

It's not Biden or the mega-jew or whoever the fuck that runs the world and says shit on WEF that scares me, its how many of those fucks would willingly come as mid-level management and fuck us over with glee, it's not even the low level enforcers or rats, who more than likely work for a paycheck and nothing else, it's the mid-level, the extreme fanatics.

Those retards play HOI4 and SimCity 24/7 and dream of being a part of the machine that dictates their favorite worldview onto others and wants to crush or ridicule any dissent.
We already see how deranged they are with just being mods of reddit and moaning and bitching about their neighbors SUV on reddit, or how cool and hip they are with their decaf coffee cup in one hand and the other gripping a 5000$ carbon bike, or their retarded 500000+ video channel about urban planning, imagine if somehow those retards ended up in a council board or any other actual positions of power.

These tend to be people who have helicopter parents and tyrannical households. These also tend to be the people that have an anxiety attack because they don't know what food to get.
What makes these people dangerous is they tend to be the exact types of weak and dangerous folks when given any sort of power.
There is a sort of weak, violent outburst you see from someone, the type who's temper tantrum was allowed to occur.

This channel came into my recomended recently after a long break from these bugamn channels being shilled at me.

https://www.youtube.com/@alexanderrotmensz

Recent video which got shilled to me

TLDR whining about a declining city and blaming it on the suburban sprawl around the city leeching the population, as well as crying about the downtown center. This downtown center however is the seat of several large insurance and medical companies, meaning the highway is being used by people who commute to work, and is built exactly for their commutes.

Look I can get the sentiment of how elevated and ground level freeways definitely helped increase white flight and urban blight in many cities. But they existed for a reason.

 

[quaawaa]

/r/fuckcars now supports wearing a bike helmet, not for safety, of course, but rather to show that cyclists exist:






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[Car Won't Crank]

The thing that they forget is that in most cases, even the downtown highways went AROUND the downtowns, not THROUGH them. Even now, the roads make a loop around a significant chunk of area, not cutting straight through. Anything that looks like it was cut straight through was developed later.

France did the biggest brain version of this of them all: the Periphery. The kicker is the French govt isn't even done yet. They're planning for an outer ring road too.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

All lies. Europe doesn’t have cars let alone roads or highways!

 

[Womble of Wimbledon]

/r/fuckcars now supports wearing a bike helmet, not for safety, of course, but rather to show that cyclists exist:
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We can tell they're cyclists already because they wear those hideous fluorescent lycra bodysuits that show off their cock and balls to an uncomfortable degree.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

France did the biggest brain version of this of them all: the Periphery. The kicker is the French govt isn't even done yet. They're planning for an outer ring road too.

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Speaking of Paris, part of what makes Paris what it is was because of cutting large swaths of "stroads" into the central city. Some 12,000 buildings were razed for this project, mostly dirty, overcrowded slums.

I'm sure the 19th century counterpart of urbanists probably bemoaned the project with similar sentiments. "They demolished a FUNCTIONAL CITY for EMPTY SPACE, reeeeee".

Also, their airport is as far away from the city center as Houston's IAH is.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

I'm sure the 19th century counterpart of urbanists probably bemoaned the project with similar sentiments. "They demolished a FUNCTIONAL CITY for EMPTY SPACE, reeeeee".

If the faggots actually cared about reaching their end goals, they'd do blanket promotion of redevelopment, because that lets the city grow and breathe and evolve, usually toward more and more density, but not always. Cities die and get replaced over time, too.

 

[Corpun]

Why don't these urbanist types love small towns? They usually have a historic district with historic architecture going back to the 1700s in some cases (But usually the 1820s-1880s). They have pretty vibrant businesses with tons of locally owned restaurants and markets. They are very walkable.

The only downside to them I can think of from an urbanist perspective is that they might have some important road going through or near the town for transit or that there isn't public transit, when most of them are small enough you don't need it.

 

[quaawaa]

No images day always produces some of the craziest things:






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This one was so dumb even his fellow carfuckers called him out:


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"I'm oppressed because the police won't lock up someone for not committing a crime":





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Someone wrote a whole essay in response:

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[biglurker]

I'm sure the 19th century counterpart of urbanists probably bemoaned the project with similar sentiments. "They demolished a FUNCTIONAL CITY for EMPTY SPACE, reeeeee".

People TODAY bitch about Haussmann evicting poorfags from the slums and destroying historical medieval Paris. Most would admit it was for the best though.

If the faggots actually cared about reaching their end goals, they'd do blanket promotion of redevelopment, because that lets the city grow and breathe and evolve, usually toward more and more density, but not always. Cities die and get replaced over time, too.

The ones I have spoken to want that, but they also don't want the generfication that comes with tearing down slums. Their solution is to essentially develop cities but also in a way that leaves areas "affordable" to poorfags. Basically niggers get their neighborhoods developed into rich neighborhoods without a rent increase all on the taxpayers dime. This is apparently how Detroit is being redeveloped with the money Biden sent their way.

 

[NSA]

/r/fuckcars now supports wearing a bike helmet, not for safety, of course, but rather to show that cyclists exist:
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I love how passive-aggressive this is. I guess it's just impossible to clearly tell someone in charge what you want in a respectful way. Argue your case? Nah, better to be an annoying asshole weirdo and make them hate you. That always works!

It's so easy to get what you want if people like you and what you want is mundane, but they have no experience with people liking them, so nevermind.

 

[blue gopher snakes]

The fact walmarts always have like a dozen or more mobility scooters available at the front for customers to use is insane to me. Why do we need these? The people on them always move slow as shit and get in everyone's way- you'd think that if someone really needed one, they'd be coming into the store riding their hoverround from the start.

If a person has a broken leg, they aren’t going to invest in a disability van and a personal scooter just for the length of time it will take their leg to heal. You try pushing a shopping cart while on crutches.

 

[Apple Porcupine]

/r/fuckcars now supports wearing a bike helmet, not for safety, of course, but rather to show that cyclists exist:
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"This is a side topic of NJB most recent podcast" god these people truly don't have an original thought in their heads, do they?

 

[BulkForceFive]

I love how passive-aggressive this is. I guess it's just impossible to clearly tell someone in charge what you want in a respectful way. Argue your case? Nah, better to be an annoying asshole weirdo and make them hate you. That always works!

It's so easy to get what you want if people like you and what you want is mundane, but they have no experience with people liking them, so nevermind.

Passive-aggressive is all you've got when being acutal-aggressive will get your half-inch bones crushed like balsa wood.
What they 'want' is to harm other people, also. There's a pretty easy litmus test to apply: does this person support policing measures to reduce street crime and make public spaces and transit safer? If they say yes, and for example they are pleased that NYC put the National Guard into the subway systems, they're a genuine utopianist. Most of them will get angry and start talking about social justice and equity and a bunch of other stuff that makes it clear: they want you locked in the monkey cage with the monkeys.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

If a person has a broken leg, they aren’t going to invest in a disability van and a personal scooter just for the length of time it will take their leg to heal. You try pushing a shopping cart while on crutches.

They aren't wrong—realistically, the people who actually need them are a tiny minority of people that you'll almost never see, and in reality most of the mobility scooters will be vacuumed up by fatties and Shaniquaas.

A more extreme example is adult changing tables, extremely useful for extremely unfortunate individuals but it's Kiwi Farms and we know what they'll really be used for if word got out.

People TODAY bitch about Haussmann evicting poorfags from the slums and destroying historical medieval Paris. Most would admit it was for the best though.

The slums of Paris are just another example of how until technology and wealth increased, density was only for the poorest of the poor, and anyone with a bit of money had nice countryside villas and estates...or at least, less dense areas, because those conditions were absolutely miserable. One the reasons why Paris was re-developed was because of a cholera outbreak that would claim the lives of 19,000 people in a single city. While knowledge on germs and hygiene was still yet unknown, the dominant thinking was that disease was caused by bad environments, of which the slums were definitely bad environments. During the time of Paris's Haussmannization, John Snow in London was able to stem an outbreak in London by figuring out that it was spreading through consumption of bodily fluids (basically the water system in both cities was mostly sewage), and started to shut down wells in the outbreak areas, saving lives.

As much as urbanists like to glorify the past, it was only in the mid-20th century when density started to become tolerable thanks to modern sanitation and logistics.

 

[teriyakiburns]

I'm sure the 19th century counterpart of urbanists probably bemoaned the project with similar sentiments.

They're mentioned right in the article.

To his republican compatriots, however, Haussmann was an arrogant, authoritarian vandal who wrecked Paris’ historic centre by cutting through its shantytowns in order to enable the French army’s repression of popular uprisings.

Just replace "French army" with "Dodge Ram" and the sentiment is basically the same.

 

[FILTH Tourist]

No images day always produces some of the craziest things:

There are a wide variety of serial killers and removing cars would only make certain styles impractical. Black widows, angels of death, and hiker ambushers are all still very viable.

Also public transport is very vulnerable to terror attacks and mass killers. If that catches on as a fad like serial killing did then good luck enjoying that car free utopia.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

There are a wide variety of serial killers and removing cars would only make certain styles impractical. Black widows, angels of death, and hiker ambushers are all still very viable.

Also public transport is very vulnerable to terror attacks and mass killers. If that catches on as a fad like serial killing did then good luck enjoying that car free utopia.

There's still "stabbing in poorly-lit alleys". I would also guarantee that driving home also makes the chances of you getting raped, robbed, or stabbed infinitesimal number. I'm not a feminist by any stretch of the imagination but just think of how many womens' lives have been protected by a vehicle.

 

[quaawaa]

Also, their airport is as far away from the city center as Houston's IAH is.

They bring that up all the time as an argument for high speed rail: that train’s total trip time is faster because the station is in the city center whereas the airport is in the outskirts. This of course, ignores that most people would still have to travel to a HSR station in the city center and that the only reason why those stations are in what is now the city center is because they were built hundreds of years ago. Paris' stations, for example, were all built in the outskirts of 19th century Paris:

The place I've highlighted is Saint Lazare, which today is a large train station in the center of Paris, but in the circa 1800 map (archive), it's a cemetery located on the edge of town.

Many young cities have centrally located airports (e.g. DFW, PHX):

and most new railways stations are built on the outskirts. For example, Shanghai's HSR station is located next to the airport, 10 miles from the city center.


Even in New York City, an airport is closer than an Amtrak station for much of the city (NYC is more than just Manhattan!):


Ironically, the plan for the Dallas-Houston HSR line includes razing half of downtown Dallas (the convention center area) rather than building the station on empty land at the airport like Brightline did in Orlando and China did in Shanghai. The urbanists want it to stop in downtown no matter the cost despite DFW being a much more convenient location for everyone who doesn’t live downtown. They’ve managed to piss off a major real estate developer by derailing their plans to build a massive mixed-use complex as well as half of the city council.


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They also want a Dallas-Fort Worth HSR line supposedly to connect Fort Worth to Houston, but they let it slip that the real reason they want it is to allow the handful car-free people in Dallas’ upscale walkable neighborhoods to get to concerts at the stadiums in Arlington (I would have said games, but we all know that the soys don’t watch sports). The stop in Arlington brings the average speed of the proposed Shinkansen train below (Texan) highway speed:


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Honestly, building car-only express lanes with autobahn speed “limits” in the medians of I-35, I-45, and I-10 would be cheaper and result in faster travel times. Texans already drive at 80-95 on those roads, a factor not taken into account when computing the time “savings” of a potential HSR train. Imagine driving between cities at the gentleman’s speed of 155 mph.