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

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Cyclists are unironically a race. They're all white, leftist, bughive dwellers that enjoy making everyone's day worse.

I saw someone refer to them as on-your-leftists and I fucking lost my shit.

 

[Yamamura]

Kids like cars and trucks because cars and trucks are cool.

Meanwhile these fuckcars people have to literally get kids interested in bikes and trains by shoving them into the faces of their nieces/nephews (they don't have kids of their own), in order to get them to adopt urbanism.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Meanwhile these fuckcars people have to literally get kids interested in bikes and trains by shoving them into the faces of their nieces/nephews (they don't have kids of their own), in order to get them to adopt urbanism.

I don't know man, I loved bikes and trains as a kid as well as cars and trucks. I still love trains (at least old steam locomotives) but my love for bikes has been supplanted for a love of motorcycles because those are a more fun luxury/novelty as opposed to bicycles which are just a lot of work and also attract really really annoying people that are somehow even worse than motorcyclists.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

"No one is getting hurt in a smash and grab." The littlest things that are different to them freak them out when the world doesn't bow to them.

People get hurt all the time in "smash and grabs". Most of these felony murders in a "robbery gone bad" end up going that way because they don't like that there's less than $100 in the till or that the safe won't open for twenty minutes.

Not only that but they accuse anybody concerned about crime of using "dogwhistles" for racism.

Make it make sense.

They don't admit but they've fully bought into the "non-white = criminal" line of thinking.

I was thinking about this a little more, but what difference would it make even if Trump hypothetically couldn't ride a bike? It's not a slight at him, many people can't ride a bike due to disability or other reasons. There's a certain hypocrisy where these people will adopt all the -isms they usually complain about as long as they're the right targets.

Probably. They likely laugh at Greg Abbott for not being able to ride a bicycle (even though he literally can't).

You know I saw in some random X post this last week that SSRIs mess with your taste buds and make bitter flavors taste better. Makes sense that leftist hipsters love IPAs, they're all on prozac or lexapro.

Is that even true anymore? Hipsters are some of the biggest consoomers around and they should be the first to know that the microbrewery bubble popped during COVID and has continued to decline, especially as hard seltzer has muscled itself onto store shelves. (Fun fact, IPAs were originally made for the Indian market, take that as you will).

Meanwhile these fuckcars people have to literally get kids interested in bikes and trains by shoving them into the faces of their nieces/nephews (they don't have kids of their own), in order to get them to adopt urbanism.

I remember really liking trains as a kid—but then again, I was exposed to them because there was a large freight line that ran straight through town and paralleled a main road. Because of where we lived we always had to cross the railroad (for almost everything—restaurants, stores, church, school, clinics, services, etc.) and that often meant for waiting for a train, which means I saw it a lot.

Highway-parallel railroads also figured in prominently on road trips to the north and south, as well. But those were freight trains with long, varied cargo loads, not faggy streetcars with electric caternaries.

Kids like cars and trucks because cars and trucks are cool.

Kids like fast things and/or big things. I can't find the original article unfortunately, but I recall reading an article where a Rice University professor specifically built his house in a way that his young son could view the sunken highway from his bedroom window and see the cars going by.

I'm sure it was this house (though from looking at it, the highway is still kind of difficult to see unless you were standing up). I'm sure his political beliefs still line up closer to r/fuckcars than people in this thread but he's clearly neither a bugman nor a hippie with that sort of thinking.

 

[Yamamura]

I don't know man, I loved bikes and trains as a kid as well as cars and trucks. I still love trains (at least old steam locomotives) but my love for bikes has been supplanted for a love of motorcycles because those are a more fun luxury/novelty as opposed to bicycles which are just a lot of work and also attract really really annoying people that are somehow even worse than motorcyclists.

You're right, I worded that badly. My main point was supposed to be that they complain about "indoctrination" all the time but don't see the double standard when they ask their subreddit, "how do I counter car propaganda by introducing urbanist propaganda to kids". And they suggest buying them toy buses or some shit.

 

[The Jewel of the Nile]

We already know the answer to that:
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The world is healing

 

[pellegrino31415]

You know I saw in some random X post this last week that SSRIs mess with your taste buds and make bitter flavors taste better. Makes sense that leftist hipsters love IPAs, they're all on prozac or lexapro.
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It also much easier to make a sellable beer with a ton of hops than not, it also helps that Pale ales are easy to make. Thus you get every fucking craft brewer starting out with IPAs. As my brewing professor once said: Hops hide Sins.

 

[x3firehexx]

Might be offtopic, but guess what? Adam is, again, politisperging. This guy should have his own thread if he doesn't already

make up your mind, dude, is centrism a tragedy, is it dead, or is it a dangeroush myth. FFS i miss when adam actually did urbanism and not generic far left biased AF politisperging but... here we are

youtube video link

 

[Rubick]

Since when are Democrats centrists

 

[quaawaa]

Since when are Democrats centrists

"On the European World Scale, the Democrats are center-right" - something unironically said by American leftists.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Guessing he got in slap fights on what "real" centrism is.

 

[Midwit]

You know I saw in some random X post this last week that SSRIs mess with your taste buds and make bitter flavors taste better. Makes sense that leftist hipsters love IPAs, they're all on prozac or lexapro.

So being a miserable bastard means that you can't stand the taste of beer?

 

[BulkForceFive]

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hell yeah I just made a reference to Hitler, surely this will not backfire in our current political climate! haha maybe i should also paint the truck to have tricolor Werhmacht camoflage, there's no way someone would think that looks hella cool

I need to get a big truck now, this Hitler guy seems pretty kind.

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Fun fact: that image was recycled from the cancelled animated sitcom "Hitler's In My House" about a suburban American family that, in explicably, have the fuhrer living with them. It was deemed a little 'too soon', being proposed in 1955
none of the above is true it's a joke

 

[CFC-12]

Kids like cars and trucks because cars and trucks are cool.

Nobody has to convince kids cars and trucks are cool. When I was a kid I'd stay by the front window every Wednesday morning just to watch the garbage truck go by. When I was about six or seven, my dad took me to a Monster Jam show and it was one of the coolest goddamn things I've ever seen. Why was "trucker country" a genre in the seventies? Why do kids like Hotwheels cars? Why was Bob The Builder such a big deal? "man drive big machine" just tickles something in our male ape brains. It is literally no more complicated than "they're neat".

You know I saw in some random X post this last week that SSRIs mess with your taste buds and make bitter flavors taste better. Makes sense that leftist hipsters love IPAs, they're all on prozac or lexapro.

I'd go for Banquet Coors myself, but the sentiment applies.

Meanwhile these fuckcars people have to literally get kids interested in bikes and trains by shoving them into the faces of their nieces/nephews (they don't have kids of their own), in order to get them to adopt urbanism.

Trains are neat too to kids for the same reasons as above. "Man drive big machine." Bikes are cool to kids because they're essentially the fastest a kid can go under their own power. I still like going for bike rides as an adult. It is simply just fun to ride around places. See local trails and neighbourhood sights.

But do I want to rely on that as my sole form of transportation? Do I want to hop on my bike and ride for miles first thing in the morning to get to work, rain, shine, snow, or sleet? Do I want something as simple as getting groceries home to become a complicated ordeal? Fuck that noise.

 

[x3firehexx]

Since when are Democrats centrists

since trump won i guess

 

[Lovely Kin]

Meanwhile these fuckcars people have to literally get kids interested in bikes and trains by shoving them into the faces of their nieces/nephews (they don't have kids of their own), in order to get them to adopt urbanism.

Judging how they also are the "childfree" types complaining about children or the occasional antinatalist types, I really wouldn't want them around kids. I'm sure they are seen as the strange uncle who never says anything and never makes an effort to bond with them.

Since when are Democrats centrists

Chased the last few out, and replaced everything with social activists who scorn the same people they are fighting for, and still not backing off on letting troons play female sports. I don't think they will recover until 2032 since they are still on the infighting phase.

 

[Yamamura]

Judging how they also are the "childfree" types complaining about children or the occasional antinatalist types, I really wouldn't want them around kids. I'm sure they are seen as the strange uncle who never says anything and never makes an effort to bond with them.

When the weird reddit uncle who usually rants against having kids suddenly takes an interest in your kids all of a sudden, be suspicious. They only see children as moldable political pawns.

Trains are neat too to kids for the same reasons as above. "Man drive big machine." Bikes are cool to kids because they're essentially the fastest a kid can go under their own power. I still like going for bike rides as an adult. It is simply just fun to ride around places. See local trails and neighbourhood sights.

Yeah after reading back my original comment I realized worded that poorly. what I intended to say was fuckcars redditors have asked in their subreddit before "how do I groom convince my niece/nephew to be into urbanism over cars" and don't see the double standard of pushing their own indoctrination while complaining about car "indoctrination" and doing the same thing.

Would be nice if they bought a new bike or a train set for them, but we all know they aren't shelling out the cash for that sort of thing. After all the goal is to get them on the correct side, not to do something nice with no strings attached.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Yeah after reading back my original comment I realized worded that poorly. what I intended to say was fuckcars redditors have asked in their subreddit before "how do I groom convince my niece/nephew to be into urbanism over cars" and don't see the double standard of pushing their own indoctrination while complaining about car "indoctrination" and doing the same thing.

Would be nice if they bought a new bike or a train set for them, but we all know they aren't shelling out the cash for that sort of thing. After all the goal is to get them on the correct side, not to do something nice with no strings attached.

It's not even that.

Remember the "transit friendly" car carpets? They'd seem to be the ones that would be throwing a fit if little Billy drives his Hot Wheels car through the wide "pedestrian walkway" because kids really don't care what it looks like--the normal car carpets are already completely estranged from reality.

It's the second-worst kind of autism short of being a violent pants-shitting retard, it's the kind of autism that requires people to do things the "right way" without bothering to understand how anything works or functions. They know nothing about the trains they claim to love (a true train autist would know all about the rolling stock of any given metro system), they know nothing about the cities they idolize, and they know nothing on how to form a cohesive argument. It's just an obsession of an arbitrary "right" and "wrong".

 

[BulkForceFive]

I used to like Johnny Strides, mostly because he tours interesting areas of Toronto so I don't have to, but lately he's getting more and more on the urbanist bandwagon.

Comments are full of faggot sprouting basic talking points with zero evidence. "Uhh these business owners don't realize that more bikes and pedestrians mean more business" hey RETARD Bathurst is ALREADY accessible to cyclists and pedestrians and business is not booming! What hole are all these future customers going to crawl out of?
He's pro-streetcar which is probably his worst sin, the savings that would result from switching to trolleybuses would put a lot more transit on Toronto's streets but he insists on choo-choo trains in the middle of the street.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Does he also not realize that a skull and crossbones is still the international symbol for poison on consumer packaging?
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This is from a while back, but symbols are used on a lot of industrial equipment, not just packaging. Got a gas cylinder you don't quite know what's in it? Well you have different colors and symbols so literally anyone in the world in that industry can figure out what's in it. It keeps people safe and from blowing themselves up. Language changes, symbols don't.