Fuck Cars
A place to discuss problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all. Let's explore the bad world of Cars!
Rules
1. Be Civil
You may not agree on ideas, but please do not be needlessly rude or insulting to other people in this community.
2. No hate speech
Don't discriminate or disparage people on the basis of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, or sexuality.
3. Don't harass people
Don't follow people you disagree with into multiple threads or into PMs to insult, disparage, or otherwise attack them. And certainly don't doxx any non-public figures.
4. Stay on topic
This community is about cars, their externalities in society, car-dependency, and solutions to these.
5. No reposts
Do not repost content that has already been posted in this community.
Moderator discretion will be used to judge reports with regard to the above rules.
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- [meta] for discussions/suggestions about this community itself
- [article] for news articles
- [blog] for any blog-style content
- [video] for video resources
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- [discussion] for text post questions, rants, and/or discussions
- [meme] for memes
- [image] for any non-meme images
- [misc] for anything that doesn’t fall cleanly into any of the other categories
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Please please tell me you understand why it's not okay to call someone brain damaged for starting a conversation about the nuances of the fuck cars ideology.
What is your end goal? This attitude and lack of basic human respect is not going to do anything but generate hostile conversation. I'm on your side ideologically but tanj... this is not a healthy way to communicate those ideas.
Even if they're asking in bad faith, it would be much more useful to be able to read well thought out reasons as to why they're wrong, because comments like this aren't going to communicate why we will almost always need to use cars for niche applications. (Transporting construction materials and workers to remote areas, for establishing wind farms, etc.)
It's not about the cars, unfortunately. The user noticed a specific line of attack that the community was vulnerable to and exploited it.
It's not an actually reasonable position. It sounds emotionally like a belief someone could hold, which is what made it so effective, but the logic of their replies is what gives them away. They are not actually making reasoned, rational arguments about how this could be done, nor are they fairly addressing their critics.
If not inoculated against this behavior by learning how to specifically not engage with trolling behavior, this community is doomed to lose to it eventually. The trolls always win once you let them in. They enjoy this process and find it a pleasurable recreational activity, even though nobody else does.