US-style growth: "I was an idiot and then something bad happened. I am still an idiot, but I got one good take now at least."

Her complete inability to articulate what exactly the "left" does to turn off the right from bike lanes is super telling in this. But it's such a part of The Discourse (TM), that the right is not a conscious effort, but a constant reaction to whatever "the left" is doing. Any time the right does something crazy, like somehow link bike lanes to DEI, it's somehow the left's fault.

the only things that matter are the things that have affected me personally. everything else is communism

Seems like op-eds have similar qualifications to being a cop: gotta be dumb

bike lanes are DEI, it's too bad your dad's continued existence is woke

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They should take a page out of The Onions playbook and post the same article title with different bodies.

"Chud thinks obvious issue is woke bullshit until it impacts them personally"

I don't really give any credit or have any faith in people like this.

Some THIS dramatic had to happen to you for you to have such a minor epiphany? I'm sorry that just means you're a deeply unserious person who has no capacity to analyze the world beyond your base emotions, and I'm pretty sure next time a nonbinary person on Facebook is slightly rude to you you're gonna rubber band back into the asshole you were before.

How we frame the issue matters. The Left loses the Right as soon as bike lanes are tied into identity politics. Multimodal equity is simply “freedom of movement” to a Republican. But when Republicans talk about freedom, the progressives hear privilege. Aren’t the Left and the Right essentially saying the same thing?

Except even if the left had framed bike lanes as "Freedom of Movement" the right would have still forced Identity politics into it. People who ride bikes are seen as nuisance on the road to reactionaries. I don't know how often I heard jokes from someone I was riding with about how hitting a Bicycle would be "20 points" or something similar.

If the problem I had with the the right was their insistence that we name things terribly, I would be an (actual) centrist! I would be okay with calling bike lanes "Trump lanes" if it meant we actually got good bicycle infrastructure.

Not sure how much of this is AI hallucinations and how much Republican hallucination but what republican bike lanes bills that the opposition just talks past is she talking about?

This could've been an Onion headline and I would not have bat an eye.

Article or video title I saw last night was "Why aren't conservatives 'tough on crime' about cars?"

hope she gets mown down next

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