• atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
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    10 days ago

    America is not the only car centric culture. What is up with all the ‘America bad’ bullshit on Lemmy lately?

    Also, I literally live next to a fully separated bike lane in an oil state…

    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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      10 days ago

      Bullshit? It’s like comic book super villan axis of evil bad. Hard to even make hyperbole about how bad the US is. Are you living in Israel perhaps? That’s the only way I could see maybe by comparison not thinking everything the US is doing is just horrendous.

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        10 days ago

        The government is. What did I do as a Native American just trying to live my life and not voting for the current administration? And what does that have to do with cars?

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      9 days ago

      America is not the only car centric culture. What is up with all the ‘America bad’ bullshit on Lemmy lately?

      Also, I literally live next to a fully separated bike lane in an oil state…

      Because unlike other car centric places, the US federal government is actively opposed to any improvement in bicycle or walking infrastructure, though some states are willing to defy the federal government

      Add to that how the US federal government is opposed to renewable energy, opposed to protection of the environment, opposed to protection of threatened species, opposed to immigration, opposed to past immigration, opposed to assigned at birth gender nonconformity, opposed to non reproductive sexual preferences, opposed to education — especially of women

      Your oil state is probably more responsive to people’s desire to ride a bike without being killed than the US, and yours is an oil state.