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NotJustBikes is getting dragged on Twitter for this post.

What do you think? Is he right? Wrong? Not wrong, but an asshole?

When I see how hard advocates and sympathetic planners have to work in 2023 to get a halfassed facility that would never make it off the drawing board in the Netherlands, it's hard for me to say he's wrong.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well, as a person who lives in North America I'm definitely low on hope for the US at least. There is a sort of "just leave" vibe to his particular phrasing though that's kind of off-putting in an out-of-touch way. Like, if I could just fucking leave I probably would have at this point, my guy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

NJB's typical viewer is an upwardly mobile rich yuppie shopping around for the best urban center to get a 200k consulting job.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know if that's true

That's who he is but I wouldn't assume that's his whole audience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm just being flippant but the whole "just give up on North America" thing is only really possible for those sorts of people. There are hundreds of millions that are essentially trapped here forever.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same energy as "Cut off Florida and push it in to the Caribbean".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

geordi-no : the bugs bunny solution to florida (unrealistic, goofy, requires comically large saw the size of which does not currently exist)

geordi-yes : The Escape from New York solution to florida (realistic, cool, tough, sexy, hot, smart, cool)