this post was submitted on 24 Sep 2023
1900 points (96.9% liked)

Memes

50980 readers
293 users here now

Rules:

  1. Be civil and nice.
  2. Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.

founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
 
(page 2) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

No no, you see, they WON, that's why! /s

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I've seen Facebook nutters screaming about 20mph limits in residential neighbourhoods.

Apparently this is a Chinese scheme called "20 minute neighbourhoods" to prevent anyone travelling outside their hometown. I'm not entirely sure of the fucking mental gymnastics required for those leaps of logic. I decided not to argue, because nobody wins pigeon chess, and also she was kind of hot.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The concept of 15 minute cities is just urban planning being used as the boogeyman.

[–] phoenixz 13 points 2 years ago

And that basically is what we have in the Netherlands and it's awesome. Literally everyone raves about how nice it is when they see it but they hate evil government 15 minute cities

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's amazing to me how that happened. It almost feels like it's part of some one-upmanship campaign for different propagandists.

One says "Ok, I'm going to take a boring, UN plan about sustainable development called 'Agenda 21' and make people think it's some evil conspiracy, despite the full text being available online."

The other says: "Nicely done, but you think that's good, I can make people hate the concept of pleasant, walkable cities!"

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (5 replies)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (5 children)

They are projecting. It would be nice if we as a society had enough resources to ask them what really makes them feel bad.

load more comments (5 replies)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

they think they won a giant victory sigh

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Because they got called out, questioned about their reasoning, and had no good rebutle. Question everything, and show your sources.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm very happy I have very little real-life experience with any of the anti-vax idiocy, and that it wasn't really a big thing in my country. Seeing all of the conservative 'muricans loose their minds over it has been both hilarious and frightening.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›