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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Gross.

It's "fewer."

[–] [email protected] 61 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (11 children)

Less bike lanes

100% he's going to make that happen

and cheaper parking

0% he's going to make that happen

Free market, bitches! Prices. Only. Go. Up!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

wait why would less bike lanes make anything cheaper?? it's just sectioning off a portion of the road?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

You turn the bike lane into street parking. No idea how this makes things cheaper, but I guess the argument is two extra parking spots per block is going to make all the difference.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

But he's posing in front of a tram? Make it make sense!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

It won't make sense if there is no need to

[–] [email protected] 152 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (16 children)

We had some winners in my city a few years ago.

Here's my favorite quote from that article:

“The money is in the car,” Comrie insists. “Who’s the spender? Does a bicyclist go and buy sporting goods, or furniture, or clothing? Or are they just out for a ride?”

Does this guy think cyclists are sitting naked in empty apartments wishing they had clothes and furniture? Luckily he did not win the election.

[–] 9488fcea02a9 34 points 5 days ago (5 children)

I have a lot more money to buy shit ever since i rid myself of that money pit we call a car....

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 days ago

The carbrained can’t see cycling as a form of transport, only as a type of exercise. In their minds people only cycle to cycle, not to fulfil other tasks. Only cars are for going places, like shopping.

[–] yonder 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Why, the cyclist needs no clothes or food, for the cyclist is sub-human and is therefore an animal (what these car-brained people probably think)

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[–] [email protected] 108 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

THANK YOU.

(Obviously this doesn’t matter. Language evolves. And no one cared about this rule until the last 200 years or so. But my parents drilled this particular correction so firmly into my brain that it bothers me when others get it wrong. “Fewer in number, less in amount.” Similarly, “farther in distance, further in degree.” And you stand on a PODIUM, you speak from behind a LECTERN.)

(I might have some lexicographical trauma. 😅)

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (39 children)

“Fewer” since they are countable.

ETA this is basic grammar and not something you can just take exception with because you feel like it. The responses I’m receiving are very odd.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

good news. car brained loser is sitting on 3.36%.

well funded campaign (assume oxford st small biz tyrants and paddington geriatrics), posters everywhere.

https://vtr.elections.nsw.gov.au/LG2401/sydney/mayoral

i wish this would be seen as a vindication for active transport... but we all know the anti bike blow hards wont miss a beat.

edit: big fucking lol. dont think they will get a single council seat.

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[–] [email protected] 107 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This is your brain on cars.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The candidate for rich people who resent poor people.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Bike lanes might have lead to cheaper parking due to fewer cars.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 days ago

Car-brains don't do standard logic, only car-logic...

[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Is that a Tram in the background ?

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 days ago

Oh look, another old white man with stupid ideas

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago

That just means more cyclists on the roads.

That will just make people like him angrier. Good

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (3 children)

He has fewer brains than his opponent.

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[–] Grass 25 points 5 days ago

I guess regardless of country, people pushing shit like this can't seem to make a natural looking facial expression. Its like they try to replicate what happy people look like to them in order to get the response they see others receive but the best they can do is the trail leading into the uncanny valley

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

You need to carry a marker and draw devils horns whenever you see his poster. Colouring in the QR code to make it not work is a bonus too.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago

God please no, Sydney actually has viable public transport compared to something like the US.

There's so many cool JDM type stuff there probably because enthusiasts keep cars around the city.

I'd much rather be able to see all the slick WRXs and Evos while walking than having to drive a crapbox into Sydney.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Nosferatu needs to lay off the blood of the innocent for a bit - he's clearly over-indulged.

Being less evil would be nice, but we can only reasonably expect so much.

[–] akilou 25 points 5 days ago
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