Image transcript:

The “what if you wanted to go to heaven, but god said ____” meme template, but here it says, “What if you wanted to walk to get groceries, but city planners said DRIVE”. The last panel is an image of a massive freeway full of cars.

  • EbbyAEnglish
    -3•8 months ago

    A car free life is great for some, but there’s no need to call people names if they enjoy driving. I’m sure I could come up with a bike/pedestrian/public transit version of carbrain, but someone has to stop the hate.

    From my side of the fence, you identified the “angry” position as the one responding to an insult. That’s trump-onomics 101: preemptively demean your adversary by name calling.

    Yawn

    • peopleproblemsEnglish
      1•8 months ago

      You’re commenting on a post in a community literally called “fuckcars”. I don’t think “stopping the hate” will be effective if you are saying that “the hate” is being given a name of “carbrain.”

      That’s like being upset that I call every gun rights advocate a gun-nut. Guns and cars are tools. Cars are for transportation, not an identity. Guns are for killing things, also not an identity.

      • EbbyAEnglish
        0•8 months ago

        I like Fried_out_kombi’s post https://lemmy.world/comment/4875407 about the fuckcars community. This isn’t a community of hate and anger, but of development, ideals, and dreams. There is a balance to be had.

        There are actually things I like about alternative transportation and close knit downtown city design. I visit those places frequently.

        I live here on the outskirts in less dense residental areas and practicality means a car. I like light rail, I like trains, I like ferries, and I think cars are getting too heavy and big.

        But I am a car person. I love the freedom; the control, the exploration, and act of driving; being one with a machine and working together.

        I was brought to this community because Fuckcars is shitting outside the box into other communities to the determent of lemmy; you guys brought me here.

        But I didn’t bring hate with me; that’s not why I’m here. But I do bring real world experience and I will speak my mind in this echo chamber if there glairing logical fallacies.

        Or am I mistaken and this is a community of hate?

        • peopleproblemsEnglish
          0•8 months ago

          I don’t know jack shit about this community, I don’t sub to it, as mentioned in my first comment.

          Also, you are not a car person, you enjoy cars/ or are a car enthusiast.

          I am not a video game person, I am not a gunpla person, I am not a miniature painting person, I am not a computer person, or a sweets person. These are not identities. It’s very dangerous to attribute something like that to an identity.

          For instance, think about if you had your driver’s license taken away from you because of safety concerns by the government or health care providers. how would that impact you?