• Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          It is just as irrational for me to make the claim I made as you to make yours without evidence. Fortunately the arguments against car-dependent infrastructure planning go far beyond “we don’t like 'em”. The human and environmental benefits of walkable cities with robust public transit and the unsustainability of car-dependency speak for themselves. What other issue of political advocacy would “some people disagree” fly as a reasonable argument? The whole point of advocacy is to shift the tide of popular opinion enough to make material change

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              It’s not “some” people though is it?

              ??? It is indeed “some” people lmao. Not all people, not no people, some people.

              What I’m against is people taking it too far to the extreme and punishing car owners like the little eco fascists they are.

              Ah I see, so you’re against an imaginary straw man! Glad we got that sorted out.

              You are a completely unserious contrarian and there is no point in talking to you.

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      I have plenty of friends and family in the us and Sweden who own cars. I dont know a single person who enjoys driving to work.

      My point still stands, cars are nice for the first 10k people to drive, but they fucking suck for the other 40k+ people in your city.

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      Yep most car owners whose cars are not unreliable pieces of shit do enjoy their cars. I’ve been careful over the years to only buy cars that I would enjoy driving and owning. Zero regrets about any of my 5 car purchases. I only sometimes regret selling a couple of them.