one of my central beliefs, really genuinely and sincerely is that cars are fundamentally evil and indoctrinate people into extremely reactionary ideology.
I am not joking.
I am not joking.
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It’s late 1934 and an American automobile magnate is supporting the German fascist party.
It’s late 2024 and an ‘American’ ‘automobile’ magnate is supporting the German fascist party. www.politico.eu/article/elon...
It’s late 2024 and an ‘American’ ‘automobile’ magnate is supporting the German fascist party. www.politico.eu/article/elon...
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Correlation does not equal causation.
It's the application.
But yeah, driving a large vehicle all the time when you're not actually hauling cargo sucks. It's insanely expensive over time, so it affects your personal economic choices. Multiplied across society, it's a problem.
"What an impeccable circular argument: give us more cars so that we can escape the destruction caused by cars."
I totally did this. I hated living near an urban highway, with the noise and pollution and negative externalities/
https://youtu.be/xuZA6qiJVfU?si=1hKeGWRVv9fLBrZ1
it's all tangled up in big oil/transportation/logistics/city planning/etc
But I do agree somewhat! I think cars, as designed, cater to our cognitive biases in ways that need more research.
Hitler was a huge fan. Just saying
cars make being in public isolated and fuck you up
old people being alone gives them dementia shockingly rapidly
society only works if we spend time with each other in public spaces. we don't even have to talk. just being there is good
"i live out in the middle of nowhere, i can't even see my neighbors!" yeah that's bad. you shouldn't do that. there's a reason farmers lived in little villages together in the center of their fields
This is my experience as well! When The Wife went on a trip for 10 days, I think the only real conversation I had while she was gone was with a guy on the bus, but I went out to eat, get coffee, and was generally around people the whole time.
In practice, the entire society gets upended for cars if you let it be the be all--and it made them lots of money doing so.
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/nazi-pork-and-popularity-how-hitlers-roads-won-german-hearts-and-minds
https://youtu.be/4ntoF4dYAyA
every mode of transport that can't be done with pedalling and/or small electric motors should be public.
Futurism leads to fascism
Fascism leads to suffering; the dark side
As someone who enjoys Car Guy Stuff I want to have a car. I do not want to HAVE TO have a car, and I especially do not want EVERYONE to have to have a car.
https://the-avocado.org/2023/10/25/michael-myers-is-cars-an-essay/
It feeds into the fraudulent "rugged individualist" identity/mindset, and necessarily implies massive externalities. It makes people FEEL independent, while connecting their identity and perceived financial well-being to a destructive and exploitative system
I hate the person my husband becomes when he is driving
I will never be reconciled because a bitch needs to travel somehow
But cars make people more isolated and hostile, train them to be fearful and angry towards everyone around them, and premise your own personal convenience over the wellbeing of everyone and everything around you.
An important reason why police who patrol in cars are the way they are.
But the internet makes people more isolated and hostile, trains them to be fearful and angry towards everyone around them, and prioritises one's own personal opinion over the well-being of everyone and everything around you.
I fear about causing a horrific accident some day and it will be all my fault.
https://bsky.app/profile/thewaroncars.bsky.social/post/3ldivjhqycc2h
No movement, but your eyes say different. Little effort, but so much force. Isolated activity, among collective circumstance and consequence.
It breeds a violent contempt, and an insatiable impatience
My little Western town used to have a train. They tore the tracks out for cars.
It would be a lot easier to do them if a lot of people used them less for things they didn’t need to use them for, and needed them less for a lot of things.
Your only interactions can be with coworkers, immediate family, and people you speak to through a screen.
I really miss her, and hope to buy another one day.
This was my other cross country car, even if I could only take one other person. The vertical trunk space was great for scuba tanks, too.
I feel safest of all
I can lock all my doors
It's the only way to live in cars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrjM8Fi7J58
I ride the bus or train everyday, always have, and I've never experienced the amount vitriol you see everyday coming from vehicles on the road towards each other.
Great handle btw!
It just wasn't worth the stress of it all for me.
Come on man public transportation is the same exact machinery, just dedicated to the public good.
The fact that you designed your life around needing a car doesn't mean that society would fall apart without them.
The thing about changing stuff is that after you do it the stuff isn't the same.
We would need 22 people to carry eleven, 300 pound sofas.
We have to generate the amount of power required to move around 3,500 pounds of furniture every where we go in the first place.
That something is the way it is now does not mean that is the only way it ever could be
Cars cost people hundreds or thousands of dollars a month to have and use, that they could just as easily spend elsewhere, and would probably prefer to, if they didn’t have to spend it on cars.
The idea that a car changes the way someone acts toward others has nothing to do with the car. It has to do with the person. And cars kill people because of irresponsible people.
Power corrupts, and if anyone says they're not at least a little seduced by that kind of corruption, they're lying or worse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwPSIb3kt_4
(that created an uptick in traffic deaths bc people decided empty freeway was a good time to channel their inner Paul Walker)