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.
Other than the 1.3 million people that are killed by them every year, sure.
This has emasculated urbanite energy.
This has Dodge Ram energy
"Electricity is pretty great."
"But people die due to electricity!"
That's you. You're an idiot pearl clutcher.
If you think cars benefit people anywhere close to the level electricity does then you're silly. In a lot of ways they make peoples' lives harder.
Hell yeah, Dodge Ram ENERGY!!!!!!
Roll coal, brother.
I'll say the same thing I usually say to liberals.
If you really want to compare causes of death, we can...
I'm not saying cars are evil, I own three of them myself. I think that calling them the greatest enhancement ever developed for human life is kind of silly, however. They have pros and cons like anything else. But the culture about them in America is really silly.
Well yes it's silly but only because the greatest enhancement for human life in history is the semi automatic firearm.
Personal vehicles on the other hand are a distinct aspect of not just personal freedom but personal sovereignty. In much the same way that owning a weapon is.
If you are armed and you can go where you please, you aren't a subject, you're a citizen.
Liberals falsely claim that freedom is being free of burden. This is because their philosophy has its core in selfishness, jealousy, laziness and greed.
Freedom actually is being free from imposition. Possessing the means of defense, mobility and sufficiency.
And I'm not arguing against private vehicle ownership in any way. Just illustrating how many people needlessly die each year because of garbage city infrastructure and careless design.
Get rid of two of them. Keep only the smallest, most fuel-efficient one. Your wife/husband can drop you off at work in the morning while she/he uses the car to take the kids to school and buy groceries during the day. Only one car per household. Then you can have your le heckin' wholesome walkable cities.
Then go fuck yourself, you fucking hypocrite.
I don’t believe I ever told anyone they need to get rid of their cars bud. But congrats on beating that argument I never made.
Just stop letting feral animals drive, problem 70% solved.
Gay comment.