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bike rule (thelemmy.club)

submitted 19 hours ago by laserm@lemmy.world to c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[–] Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

I think you missed the part where they are lying to the conservatives to get them on board with things that are actively good for them

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[–] chunk6235@piefed.social 3 points 3 hours ago

Reframing a topic in verbiage that's amenable to your audience isn't lying, it's just not being a moron who knows how to talk to people.

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[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 7 points 7 hours ago (1 child)

I wouldn't call it lying. The traditional means of transportation is walking, people have been doing it for thousands of years.

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[–] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 hours ago

Unfortunately, conservatives are known to claim that things that have been happening for thousands of years are actually new

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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 points 10 hours ago* (1 child)

I know people do that and while this reframing is not exactly a lie, it's interesting it works even when they are lumping walking (Homo erectus) and buses, trains, trams and presumably bikes (all 19ᵗʰ century) while excluding cars (basically early 20ᵗʰ century)

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[–] MrChewy@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

If all transport was bikes, trains and trams - you most likely still can get everywhere by foot. If all transport was cars - not neccessarily; is what I think is the main thing that separates it from straight up deception

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