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its not the cars that are bad, its the way you are forced to do stupid earth destroying work for billionares to have higher numbers on their account. if you limit driving to what you would need without the rich ripping you off, how much would you need to drive then? would you have the time to use slower public transport?
"People drive cars because of billionares." - (C) Lemmy 2025
The last generation of billionaires. The ones that ripped up trolley tracks.
'Member those trolly tracks that served all the rural communities in the world until they were ripped up? Hey I 'member!
This is literally right-wing propaganda. The anti-car movement is about cities where most of the population lives. No one is saying people shouldn’t drive around rural areas, until a better system becomes practical.
And how is it right wing propaganda if I've pointed out a reality? Public transport is not available or viable for all rural communities. Propaganda?
It’s right wing propaganda to distort the conversation to be about rural people when it never was about that.
It would be like arguing against vaccines because they don’t work against heart attacks. Like… OK? No one claimed they do.
I also want to say our usernames are very apt for this debate
Would be better if it was drive against the lizard. I’m pro-riding!
Joke's on you I only own a bike 🚲
Explain how the meme excludes rural areas, because it seems pretty general and not city-specific to me.
Are you trying to argue that rural populations are not included in the full set of populations who use cars? Of course you're not, because that would be silly.
"Right wing propaganda" - what a ridiculous claim to make
You’re the one that brought up rural areas, both in the comment I replied to and implicitly in the meme by saying people are against driving everywhere on earth. It’s a straw man and no one is saying that.
Again, the argument you are critiquing, which you don’t seem to understand at all, is that cars are inefficient, dangerous, and polluting, and that better alternatives exist in cities. Rural transportation is not relevant to this conversation so by bringing it in, you are engaging in propaganda.
I think we're coming at this from different angles - I'm criticizing the response a lot of people have when electric vehicles are brought up, which is "they're bad don't buy them" and usually backed up with a belief that public transport is the solution. The obvious rebuttal in my opinion is that that doesn't work for every area where cars/vehicles are needed, and it's still worthwhile investing in and celebrating the transition of these existing systems. I 100% agree that car density in urban populations is a huge problem and I hate how much cars dominate our lives.
You didn't state that in your response though, right? Your response was general.