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[–] [email protected] 102 points 11 months ago (4 children)

We need to have a serious discussion about the time I got downvoted

[–] [email protected] 72 points 11 months ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago

He made a perfect post and they downvoted him!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago

We have 25000 users and yet my posts and comments aren’t getting 25000 upvotes. Some of you aren’t pulling your weight

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago

SILENCED ALL MY LIFE

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

I did everything right and they downvoted me

[–] [email protected] 75 points 11 months ago (6 children)

The Car is the hill westerners really are going to die on. As the rising cost of energy crimps our access to treats, the ability to just do donuts in a parking lot for hours on end will become the gold standard for American success. Westerners fucking worship the damned things. Wouldn't be surprised if the car becomes a religious icon in the near future.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's absolutely fucking weird to me because I hate driving

My car? An absolutely irritating piece of junk that costs me money just to own

If I drive it, it costs me gas and maintenance

If I don't drive it, I still have to maintain it because they break from not being driven too

And best of all, I still have to pay excise tax, registration fees and safety inspections every fuckin' year!

I miss being able to walk and take the bus sadness-abysmal

[–] [email protected] 37 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I know more than a few people who dump tons of money into their vehicles precisely because they know they're doing multi-hour commutes.

And the reputation of public transit in the US has always been trash, in large part because we have heavily invested in segregating our populations and taking sadistic glee in making the lives of the lesser halves miserable.

I miss being able to walk and take the bus

I love taking trips up to the East Coast, because I do get a taste of functional public transit. But NYC leadership absolutely hates its subway-using population. They make it abundantly clear every time they make entering the subways a bit harder and using them a bit less pleasant by degree every time I visit.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you really wanna angry up your blood, read about National City Lines, a GM front company that bought and dismantled streetcars nationwide.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago

I'm familiar with that story and... yeah... very upset.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago

Sorry sweaty public transport had to be cut for more auto and oil profits. Don't you know driving is FREEDOM?? maybe-later-kiddo

[–] [email protected] 37 points 11 months ago

Same in the UK. There's a shop maybe a minute's walk from my work, and last week I walked there while someone else from the same building drove. They might have made it back a few seconds before me if their parking spot hadn't been taken, causing them to spend just as long as their total trip to the shop and back looking for a new parking spot.

I tried pointing out the irony but they completely missed it.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure car and gun are already US religious doctrine.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If around today, Jesus would be crucified on a cross made entirely of AR15s

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

And the nails would be SUVs

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

AR-15s and pickup truck frame members.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't be surprised if the car becomes a religious icon in the near future.

Mad Max

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Mad Max

australian

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago

Wouldn't be surprised if the car becomes a religious icon in the near future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnQXRxW9VcQ

It's been that way for a minute. I believe car commercials marrying jingoism/freedumb with car ownership is where a lot of opposition to safety from car policies come from.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The Car is the hill westerners really are going to die on. As the rising cost of energy crimps our access to treats, the ability to just do donuts in a parking lot for hours on end will become the gold standard for American success. Westerners fucking worship the damned things.

Well, that and fireworks. China has moved onto drone light shows and displays to curb unnecessary emissions and pollution, but I can't see grillman parting with their damn "patriotic" explosives/explosions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

"If we don't give all the combat vets ptsd for 3 weeks straight every summer the terrorists won"

[–] [email protected] 60 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I love how all these people come to lemmy only after redditgate to talk shit on the political leanings of the people who created it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

"Now that capitalism ruined every good aspect of the website I like time to go to a website explicitly set up to avoid that and complain were not doing the stuff that ruined the last site"

[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago (1 children)

something non-offensive, non-argumentative, and non-political

Right, sure. What specifically?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

"They censored me for my conservative beliefs"

"Wow they censored you just for saying you want smaller government and less taxes"

"Welllll not those beliefs...."

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Most everyone here dislikes car infrastructure, yet we have a cars community. Sounds like a skill issue on behalf of the other instances.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Cars, purely as machines that go vroom vroom, are awesome. It's just that 99% of people should never have to own or think about one, and the ones that do should have them purely as track toys or for work that involves carting around arbitrary bits of stuff.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago

Exactly, and since chapo.chat users are centrists, we understand you can appreciate the machine but hate its effects. The other instances are not so enlightened!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

DAE love cars but hate getting downvoted?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Last time the question was posted a top reply literally complained about hexbear without it ever getting brought up and then went on to say they wish there were more spaces dedicated to Christianity and Sam Harris.