• grue@lemmy.world
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    30 days ago

    As much as I LOL’d and agree with the sentiment, this is almost entirely about politics, not infrastructure – the only tenuous connection is that the political shithead happens to own a car company. As such, please try to resist the temptation to post more stuff like this here.

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      30 days ago

      It’s also a shitty, unreliable, dangerous vehicle that allows them to be on the road because Elon is the richest dipshit on earth right now.

      He’s pushed past regulations and forced his shitty vehicles to be on roads all across the world, including Europe, which doesn’t have the road infrastructure to handle things like the cybertruck. It’s bypassing regulation after regulation to show up on the road as a massive eyesore.

      The Cybertruck is the culmination of everything fuckcars is about imo.

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        30 days ago

        IMO while the post shows a cybertruck and it is the culmination of this community, the post clearly focuses on how horrible elon musk is, which would be better suited somewhere else (even tho I vehemently agree with the sentiment)

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        30 days ago

        Where in the EU is it legal to drive a Cybertruck? Not in Germany as far as I know. I thought it was EU regulations that blocked it

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      30 days ago

      Elon Musk is not a “political shithead” he is a primary reason why we don’t have better forms of transportation, and it’s worth pointing it out every single time. Also, aren’t virtually all of the infrastructure issues that exist that make cars such a prevalent force in our society almost entirely predicated on politics? Was Robert Moses not motivated by his own politics? But was it not his policies that essentially birthed the modern hostility to humans that urban areas have?

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        28 days ago

        he is the sole reason for trashing fast rail in california, long enough for trumps 1st term elaine chao to block funding which delayed things for like 5+years, and even now its being half-assed.

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        28 days ago

        Elon Musk is why America doesn’t have 5 minute cities and rail transport? He’s only been politically active for a handful of years dude

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          28 days ago

          Before he was “politically active” he was a billionaire making his money off of selling cars. One of the way he achieved that was by buying up contracts for high-speed rail projects and then not building them, or turning them into an entirely different car-centric thing (like his tunnel in vegas). Elon Musk didn’t SUDDENLY become a piece of shit when Trump was elected, he took advantage of that fact to be a bigger piece of shit.

          Elon Musk is why America doesn’t have 5 minute cities and rail transport?

          So Yeah. He is. Or at least one of them.

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        29 days ago

        Yeah, the whole hyper loop scam [1] he invented was to kill high speed rail in California. Fuck him.

        [1] just see it in Las Vegas all out is a tunnel for cars that you pray there’s no accident because of fire starts you are stuck and can’t escape.

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        28 days ago

        Politics is the way we make decisions that affect more than three people.

        Anything that affects society is politics. Even choosing to not do something is politics.

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      30 days ago

      Give me a break. This shithead intentionally sabotaged high speed rail in CA. Lots of other issues.

      Fuck cars and fuck this car douche.

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      30 days ago

      I mean there was the whole hyperloop thing he pushed in an attempt to prevent high speed rail construction in california.

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      30 days ago

      Thank you for being the voice of moderation! I bought a Model 3 in 2018, and the car itself has been great. Considering that it’s now paid off, and that it’s not okay to trash a perfectly usable resource, it would be irresponsible to replace it just to make a political statement. That said, I do have this same bumper sticker on my car 😅

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      30 days ago

      I really think that you can’t divorce the car-centric hell we are currently suffering in from the politics that made it happen.

      “Fuck Cars” is 100% a political statement.

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          30 days ago

          “Guys can we please talk about how we better do politics without being political?”

          I hope your statement was satire. Otherwise I question your understanding of basic concepts.

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            29 days ago

            It’s so hard to tell. I read it and thought “Good joke!” and upvoted right away. But I had the same reaction when r/TheDonald started, so my sensor is busted.

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          29 days ago

          I don’t know. People are writing and calling the government every day, protesting online to attempt to improve public transportation, yet in vain. Well guess who’s in control. And it’s not just public transportation, you know.

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          30 days ago

          It’s a really odd position to take when politics are literally the only route through which public infrastructure and services pass.

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      30 days ago

      Teslas are a general threat to the public, especially pedestrians. They and their owners deserve to be killed, named, and shamed.

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      28 days ago

      Elon musk himself is responsible for so much car centric bullshit. he has his own tunnels, his own chargers, he does everything he can to stop any anti-car development, and he has the most dangerous cars out there. this is only one of them by the way, the one that has sharp hard metal corners that are meant to slice pedestrians in half, but his other cars spontaneously combust.