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[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Cars checks all the boxes to them - helps with segregation, creates demand for oil, multiple vectors for environmental destruction, weird nostalgia and culture war fodder, another subsidy for rural/suburban voters, and it's the embodiment of not giving a shit about anyone else's and being a big boy. But yeah each of the individual factors boils down to spite.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

They also make people a lot angrier. Angrier people are easier to manipulate