pinkdrunkenelephants

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pinkdrunkenelephants,

It’s not that way in most other cities on the planet and you and I both know this.

And it doesn’t address one of the many serious problems with car bans – denying the disabled the right to travel on their own terms and not the bus services.

What happens when they cut routes or service?

Or refuse service for political reasons like during the lockdowns?

Or otherwise dictate when and where you get rides, or who can go with you, or how you travel, or how much stuff you can bring with you?

Or if the service becomes overwhelmed and they simply can’t provide rides to everybody?

It’s terrible and fucked up to expect the disabled to put up with it just so the c/FuckCars chucklefucks can get rid of what they deem as eyesores.

pinkdrunkenelephants,

And that just shows a lack of empathy or life experience.

You can’t always get help so you need to be able to get where you want to go on your own, and that means disabled people need cars.

pinkdrunkenelephants,

By having specially designed cars that enable them to drive.

Even the ones who by the nature of their disability can’t do anything mentally or visually taxing, like drive, don’t disprove or negate the need for cars because everyone else with disabilities need them to get around. Public transport simply isn’t suitable enough for them.

Even old blind people who can’t pass driving tests use Uber or Lyft, because public transport simply isn’t safe or suitable enough for them, especially during grocery runs.

pinkdrunkenelephants,

No, they do, you just didn’t read the article and you don’t care to because the only one getting emotional about this – and trying once again to derail the conversation because you think this about winning – is you.

You are never going to solve sexism and you certainly can’t do it overnight, and if I can’t convince you to put your feelings to the side and stick only to facts in a simple forum conversation, how the hell do you think people are going to undo millennia of toxic sexist ideas in time to implement car bans and avoid needlessly jeopardizing other people?

That’s right, you won’t, because ultimately, you don’t care about the safety or well-being of others. You just want to get rid of eyesores.

pinkdrunkenelephants,

Lol yeah, who would want their own personal vehicle they can use to go where they want and on what route they want without having to share with total strangers who can and will hurt you when you can ride the filthy, bedbug-ridden, urine-soaked train next to the crazy homeless guy jacking off right in front of you?

pinkdrunkenelephants, (edited )

That’s not what’s happening but thanks for showing the class you haven’t been paying attention at all.

You know, if all you invested a fifth of a third of a quarter of the energy you’re investing trying to get something over on me onto building these walkable cities you supposedly care about, we’d all be on Saturn by now.

pinkdrunkenelephants,

And I am assuming that because they are the norm you’re complaining about in the first place.

If they’re not, then go move to one.

It’s as simple as that. But you don’t get to demand other people lose their cars just because you don’t like them, especially disabled people that will always need them as no walkable city will replace the individual autonomy, carrying capacity and convenience a car provides.

pinkdrunkenelephants,

That’s exactly how it will be if the Nazis you’re protecting aren’t suppressed.

pinkdrunkenelephants,

Thanks for sharing with the class that you want corporations to control speech and do the government’s job for it, you clown.

pinkdrunkenelephants,

The .world admins have always been corrupt and they’re doing it on purpose to ensure the internet remains censored and that Americans never have a free place to converse about what they need to converse about.

pinkdrunkenelephants,

Por que no los dos?

pinkdrunkenelephants,

Nothing says bootlicking by applying the same bad-faith thinking you accuse others of having without caring about the fact that humanity has had to operate on good faith the entire time it’s existed.

pinkdrunkenelephants,

Antidisestablishmentarianism. That’s functionally what it is.

pinkdrunkenelephants,

Bootlicking’s easier for people to type and say, and most people do have an understanding of what it means. It’s just not really officially codified yet.

And it’s all good. There is far too much bad faith bullshit going on on this platform that goes unabated for me to not at least try to speak in good faith. I wish the others would learn to do the same. 🤦

pinkdrunkenelephants,

Lol it literally just happened again now to another account. Site ban with no explanation. Clearly the way link aggregator sites are structured is just authoritarian and we need to create democratic social media.

pinkdrunkenelephants,

It happens on Lemmy all the time. I’ve been shadowbanned at least three times, all on the bigger instances.

I really, really suspect that the big Lemmy instances are being run by Reddit admins or spooks or some-such. They’re moderating their instances in the exact same way Reddit did minus the profiteering. The censorship is the exact same.

Also, the fact that it’s possible to shadowban people and the software itself doesn’t circumvent that by auto-messaging you or putting a banner on the top of your screen when you are banned from an instance or community is reason why Lemmy fucking sucks ass.

pinkdrunkenelephants,

Or just accept that bootlicking is synonymous and stop quibbling over semantics.

There is no definition that will be clear enough for bad faith actors and pressing the issue just makes you look sus. Using language requires some effort on your part. It is impossible to just be on us.

pinkdrunkenelephants,

In principle, in a free country, you should be able to. But you can’t, so it’s not actually free.

pinkdrunkenelephants,

If the browser itself could check those fragments though… 🤔

pinkdrunkenelephants,

Then purchase a hosting service. Off-shore VPSes are pretty cheap, and they take Bitcoin. Even fucking Paypal uses Bitcoin nowadays. Only hurdle in your way is you.

pinkdrunkenelephants,

Then start building community ISPs that allow for individuals to have their own IPs again.

If you want to solve the problem, you have work to do.

Or you can sit around and complain like you’re trying to justify and defend doing, and live without access to ad free quality videos. Your choice.

pinkdrunkenelephants,

Then start convincing people to use it.

The only one who is going to be hurt by you constantly making excuses is you. No matter what hurdles you face, you have to overcome them, even if you have to build your own separate network from scratch, or you’ll never be free from the yoke of corporations and more importantly for you, you’ll never be free of the blame.

pinkdrunkenelephants,

You’re right, I haven’t. What dumb bullshit were they saying?

pinkdrunkenelephants,

Anytime you all want to go back to making your own websites

Anytime

pinkdrunkenelephants,

Do they ever explain where they get the gas for those things?

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