I think it helps to have a nuanced opinion and make sure we don't spiral into an echo chamber. For my example, I've found that lefties are able to identify a lot of the right problems, it's just that they think gay space communism is the solution to it.
For instance, I completely agree that North American cities are really stupidly designed. The car-centric nature of them means you're stranded if your vehicle breaks down. The fact that you have to go into debt to buy this big stupid box to navigate your own city is ridiculous in the first place.
But when it comes to their solutions for this they can't separate their stupid idpol nonsense from it. My local city government keeps talking about "equitable solutions" to traffic and pedestrian fatalities. Typical "world ending, women most affected" type stuff.
Plus they keep droning on about high density housing which absolutely no one wants to live in. in their utopia we'd all live in depressing Soviet-style block apartments.
By design, cash for clunkers got rid of a ton of usable used cars off the market. Cars do not need to be 40-50k+. They are only this way because of the Government and activists who want you to be reliable on a centralized service. They do this by pricing you out and forcing you onto their shitty socialized transit services.
I love my car, always have, always will. I drive a 08 that runs like new because I take care of it and the thing has taken me all over the country. I don't care about cities at all they can go fuck themselves. They suck anyways, I don't know why anyone with a brain would want to live in one. Especially in 2024.
Cities are bullies.
Only people who live in cities, and have no reason to go anywhere but other cities, are against price car ownership. Those people seem to lack the ability to understand just how far apart rural America is from each other. To them, a bus, train or (ironically) someone else's privately owned Uber can get them anywhere at pretty much any time. They don't seem to understand that even 30 miles would become insurmountable in rural America without your own vehicle.
Although, they probably do understand and just hate us.
There is a massive disconnect between city dwellers and us more rural folk. They refuse to understand our way of life. They just assume you can uber to the nearest place. When in reality the nearest grocery store is 40 miles from me. How the fuck am I supposed to get to it with government funded socialized transit in bum fuck nowhere?
I don't think anyone but the most extreme lefties want to outlaw private vehicle ownership. What I'm getting at with the walkability stuff is that it would be nice to be able to walk around my own neighborhood without being put in mortal danger from mongoloids in Dodge Chargers.
I understand your concern and worries. I'm just worried about city dwellers dictating policy for the entire State or Country. California for example passes emission laws. My State did not, but car manufactures build their cars to suit California laws because they are bigger than us. Then they use the adoption as a wedge in to passing laws mandating California laws at the Federal level.
Therefore my stance is any pro city policy in the largest cities in the State will inevitably be used to bully the smaller areas of population within the State to fall in line. There are other examples, not car related, that have played out in our history. I will admit I have a huge bias against cities.
I don't believe humans were meant to live in the conditions of the city. I think it breeds moral decay. It can work to degrees under different circumstances but it is not ideal. All it does is create more problems in the end, especially given the changing makeup of the population, like worrying about mongoloids in dodge chargers running you down.
I think that issue is more of a mongoloid problem than a Dodge Charger problem, though.
That has more to do with crime than car ownership now doesn't it?
They want to outlaw it by strangling it to death with ridiculous burdensome regulation.
What you're getting at is you're a hyperbolic twatwaffle.
Except on public trans now I'm put in mortal danger of mongoloids sharing the public trans with me. Honestly, if there was a 100% white city, or even like... 100% non-black city, people would be much more inclined to use public trans and not have suburbs. I bought my home in my zip because there were no blacks when I moved in. Blacks are starting to move in, and now for the first time in 30 years in this community I'm considering moving out to a rural area. Vandalism, graffiti, littering, crime, noisy disruptions, blaring music at midnight have all spiked with just a 1-2% increase in blacks over the past 5 years.
Urban faggots don't lack the ability to understand, they actively despise anyone in "flyover states".
There is so much waste in modern cars that its fucking insane, so many 'upgrades' are already in the car and are just locked behind software you have to pay for. All the car prices are inflated because of all the un-necessary bullshit in em and most of the time the mileage they get is worse than cars from decades ago.
Especially when every car out there now apparently spies on you and reports you to your insurance how you drive and other such bullshit to make even more money.
One of many reasons I prefer pre 2010 vehicles. It is wild how much information they are siphoning from you with new cars. I'm sure all that data will be put to better our lives right? Rhetorical, fuck no its not, it will only be used to fuck you over in insidious small ways.
What's funny is that this was all a slippery slope from "seatbelt notifications."
Because once you have one "for your safety" program on by default in your car, then they will just keep putting more and more in until you have dozens of electronic noises constantly pulling the wheel in your hand, hitting the brake, and yelling at you.
Another big blame is the Euro NCAP deducting points from crash safety if such "features" don't come standard. The thing is though, despite all this technology being added the past 20 years, national crash safety rates have barely improved at all.
Literally my SAAB from 2002 has side curtain airbags etc.
I think the biggest improvement for crash safety that can be made is driver education, and getting rid of the light truck tax loophole and reduce taxes on normal passenger cars.
Just look at trucks. They have become status symbols because they are expensive, and they are big and expensive because of government mandated safety and economy. Meanwhile the Toyota Hilux Champ is a 3/4 ton pickup that will get 20+ MPG and costs less than a worn out Tabroma.
Please don't insult your trusty vehicle. If you've bought a brand-new car recently, you would realize what you said.
I saw someone write "The are only two acceptable reasons for living in NYC. 1) you're young and trying to get laid. 2) you're Hasidic."