@mbonsma "Self-driving cars keep running over 'jayhousers' - people who insist upon living in traditional, non-moving homes, despite municipalities having almost universally outlawed those homes due to the dangers they pose to self-driving cars."
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Walking is a right; driving is a privilege. Not the other way around. All views mine except for the ones I picked up at a thrift store.
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Snap up the tickets, people. Empty the seats so magats won't get them. Spread the word.
https://event.donaldjtrump.com/events/president-donald-j-trump-to-hold-a-rally-in-new-york-new-york
Today's mission is to snap up tickets for tfg's Madison Square Garden rally so that Maga won't get them. Spread the word & empty the seats. I booked 2.
https://event.donaldjtrump.com/events/president-donald-j-trump-to-hold-a-rally-in-new-york-new-york
Snap up the tickets, people. Empty the seats so magats won't get them. Spread the word.
https://event.donaldjtrump.com/events/president-donald-j-trump-to-hold-a-rally-in-new-york-new-york
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Today's amusement: Book tickets to his rally in Atlanta, thus depriving his cult. Then forward & share. Let's empty the auditorium!
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How 45 regains Presidency in 2 steps (without winning):
1 - Speaker refuses to swear in enough Democrats, keeping GOP control of House, bypassing voters.
2 - State certifications denied / Congress refuses electoral votes, preventing any candidate from reaching 270. House then decides presidency, bypassing voters.
Prevention:
- Undeniable landslide popular vote against GOP candidate.
- Widespread awareness of this plan, making it clear people won't tolerate it.
https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-new-over-the-top-secret-plan-518
Today's amusement: Book tickets to his rally in Atlanta, thus depriving his cult. Then forward & share. Let's empty the auditorium!
A whole lot of people and cities need to stop expecting cyclists to endanger ourselves in order to convenience drivers.
#WindshieldBias
@mattsheffield
Perfect. I think "Dirty hippie" is losing power, due to the hippie generation dying off. "Evil degenerate" fills its shoes.
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Reactionary messaging is based entirely on a series of tropes:
-Ungrateful youth
-Nasty woman
-Scary minority
-Evil degenerate
-Uppity intellectual
Ideally the tropes can be combined.
This is why they are so obsessed with lying about college Gaza protests, it allows the right to push dirty hippie, scary minority, and ungrateful youth all at once on an issue that has little public traction (foreign policy).
Most ppl don't care about the policy either way, so the tropes are what they see.
@mattsheffield
Brilliant!
I think "effing faggot" belongs in there somewhere. Maybe it is the offspring of several of these tropes.
@capntransit
And no one is louder or more profane than a driver caught in the wrong
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Earth Day Every Day
@ascentale @InkySchwartz
Q9: One upvote for pushbike or analog bike. One downvote for acoustic bike. My ride is not a musical instrument on wheels.
@LukeBornheimer Flexposts protect cars, not cyclists.
@kidskylark
I still use CitationMachine.
https://www.citationmachine.net/
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"The world has become inaccessible because we drive there." (Illich again)
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The neatest trick motordom pulled off was convincing peopleβmostly in developed economiesβthat widespread car ownership was a triumph for the "working people" of the world.
@MotherJones
Access to shade is going to matter a lot more to urban residents than access to sunlight, which means we can start ignoring NIMBYs who complain about new buildings casting shadows.
Maybe #LawProfs can chime in. How do I find US court cases in which a media outlet was sued for defamation for reporting "A driver struck X" instead of "A car struck X"?
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