American politics: imagine car...

I would be too embarrassed to post an Ayn Rand quote.

A broken clock is right twice a day too!

Thank you. I'm tired of people thinking Democrates are saints, they're scum too, just not as bad as the Republicans.

Just because the US doesn't have a left wing party doesn't mean it lacks leftists. There's a lot, but leftists have never had political representation thanks to decades of suppression tactics from the conservatives (that includes liberals)

That's why the political machine is scared of people like Zohran and Bernie, because they exist outside of the allotted window

You don't get it, we just need to buy time to build a new braking system. /s

Following this metaphor, I see it as: US Left: car's in neutral on a steep incline, foot is off the brake and they aren't sure if they're moving backwards or everyone outside is moving forward. Regardless they think they're doing a great job.

Center: same as above but they're complaining that everyone outside is going too fast that they may have even gone past their destination.

Right: same car, same place, but the car's in reverse and the foot is on full throttle. The center is still complaining about the speed but they're enjoying the view. The US Left is now fully aware of the backwards movement but it doesn't want to take the seatbelt off for the sake of self preservation at the cost of everyone else outside. The rest of the world is either steering clear or has been reversed in to like in one of rear-end insurance scams.

Driver changes every 4 years.

Right these days is basically "Let's back over those children over there and set the car on fire while we're inside."

I would add something like "Dumbasses: we NEED "extra drive"or we may as well just give up and throw it into turbo reverse."

Personally I prefer "OK let's have half a genocide"

Bikes are not feasible where I live. Temperatures don't go below 40°C until after 10pm for 7 months out of the year. Just going into town for groceries is a 20 minute drive through mountainous terrain, too difficult to pedal through in the scorching heat if you're not an athlete. Not even an eBike can go further than approx 10 miles in this environment. Heat and all the elevation changes drain the battery rapidly. Bike lanes and public transportation don't exist here.

So Lemmy can hate on me and my car all you want, but I have no choice but to own one. It's not right. It needs to change. All in saying is don't hate people like me because I have no other form of transportation. Hate on the corporations that pollute way more in two seconds than my little Nissan Z ever will in its entire lifespan.

I think you mean, "they should blow up their own car, I would totally do it if I was in that car"

i think it’s more that in latin derived language at least left to right indicates progress, so the direction of the car can either indicate progress by facing from left to right, or comply with the lexically similar reading by facing left… but i think given that left vs right isn’t definitively progress, direction of travel being left to right is probably apt

(i didn’t down vote you)

I got to the part about being concise, realized it was correct, and stopped there.