Classic republican. Doesn't give a shit about a problem, until they're personally affected by it.
Every single one has to get hurt individually to understand. It’s probably an undiagnosed learning disability
That's a lot of people, let's get started.
Pretty sure, Republican is the diagnosis.
Remember a joke about how you don't need to have brain damage to be a Republican, but it sure does help.
As someone with 3 learning disabilities, don't put that asshole on us. Disabled people are often more empathetic in my experience.
Lack of empathy is a disability in itself.
And even then only that one very narrowly defined specific thing that effected them personally becomes an exception. Every other progressive thing is still bad without question.
"I thought something obviously stupid because nothing is real unless it affects me. But then it affected me! ¡Que sorpresa!"
I’m a Republican, and in nine months of advocating for safer streets, I have yet to meet another one.
You're a hbthe wrong crowd...
Yet somewhere along the way, we turned roads into a political argument
Yeah. You know who is "we" here? Republicans
But when Republicans talk about freedom, the progressives hear privilege. Aren’t the Left and the Right essentially saying the same thing?
No. The fuck is wrong with you?
Republicans and Democrats are often arguing for the same thing using completely different languages.
That's where I stopped reading.
And yet...
I thought bike lanes were a DEI project
I’m a Republican, and in nine months of advocating for safer streets, I have yet to meet another one.
The cognitive dissonance is strong with this one
Trying to make these threads meet, I guess the point she's trying to make is that after the leopards ate her face, she came to understand that the reason Republicans oppose everything that benefits the public is not because they are stupid and/or evil, but because Democrats are failing to communicate in a way that appeals to them.
But of course that's the Democrats fault. Thanks, Obama!
Maybe she should look into some of the other things she thinks are dismissable identity politics, other than the one that personally affected her.
You mean she should have some empathy and care for other people? Like some fucking libtard?
No of course not! Then I'd be using the language of the left (treating empathy as a virtue) to try and communicate with her. She needs to figure out how those DEI labeled things would personally help her and her loved ones. I'm already on thin ice suggesting she should learn about things before cementing an opinion.
But...if this one thing she learned about would have protected her from being sad, maybe there are other things? Maybe she or her loved ones won't eat glass in the future if there are third parties making sure there is no glass in popsicles? Wouldn't eating glass make her unhappy? Don't companies keep accidentally getting glass in our food now that there is less money for the government to go around and check? Sure, a liberal might also eat glass and that would be cool and fun, but - oh no! I fucked up! Now Chrissy is entirely antiregulation until someone she knows is actually poisoned.
We know they am have a problem with empathy, but it’s really introspection that is missing or repressed in their community and religion.
They are taught to replace introspection with prayer and hearing the word of God.
Like some sort of neighbor loving good Samaritan Christ cuck?
The Left loses the Right as soon as bike lanes are tied into identity politics. Multimodal equity is simply “freedom of movement” to a Republican.
Bruh. Are you fucking kidding me? Everyone who has been arguing for bike lanes and public transit has been calling it something along the lines of freedom of movement for years. We've been mocking how "muh freedum" people also see a veritable tank as the only reasonable means of getting from place to place, and oppose everything else. You DO NOT need knobby tires and 4WD and a 6 inch lift to go to Sam's Club. You'll be perfectly fine doing it in a stock Toyota Corolla.
It's always projection. In reality, the right-wingers are the ones trying to tie bike lanes to "identity politics."
They tie anything they're told to to identity politics. I don't think they can comprehend reality at all without that filter on constantly.
Right-wingers are unable to distinguish between the content and the frame, so they assume that however conservative media packaged a leftist argument for them is just how it came from the source.
Why is it always the left that has to dumb things down for the right?
Because... they're dumb?
So that is easy. Religion is based on tradition, and the right is heavy based on religion. Tradition is all about doing a thing without really knowing why. So it skews heavily toward the non-critical thinkers.
I hate people so much. Oh, whats that? The big authority man told you thing was bad? You're just gonna accept it at face value and let him do whatever he wants? Oh nooo, your fucking beloved family member is dead now, and nothing less would have convinced you. Guess authority man was wrong about this one little thing
They only care when it impacts them personally. Fuck them, selfish pricks.
Oh, it impacted them.
Welllllll, bike lanes ARE DEI! They're inclusive of people who don't have cars.
I don't think you could explain the ideas behind DEI to a conservative though.
Street safety and bike lanes are not a culture war
Yes they fucking are. The OP was just on the wrong side of the culture war, same as on all other subjects it looks like.
The fact that the culture war itself is bullshit propagated by capital to stop workers organizing is a separate discussion.
Agreed.
Motorists think ANY inconvenience is an impermissible affront to their freedom. (They're like gun nuts in that way.)
Here in Kansas City we had to fight hard locally to get our streetcar and its two expansions because it would reduce some roads to one-lane for long periods of time, and drivers were more concerned with getting to their destination five minutes later than normal than tens of thousands of inner-city residents having quality transit.
It is 100% a culture war and one everyone should be fighting, even if you're a motorist.
What in the stupid?
There's something about being in a car that makes people fucking nuts.
I was walking home from public transit yesterday and the street I was crossing (admittedly, jaywalking) was in a red light and the car I was crossing in front of was slowing down, coming into a stop behind another stopped car.
The motherfucker still rolled his window down and yelled: "Use the crosswalk!"
All I did was slow him up for one second, going into a stop, behind another car, at a red light.
Probably stupid, but I stopped, turned, and thanked him profusely and politely (though sarcastically too) for thirty seconds and the cowardly little prick didn't even have the balls to keep his window down.
Always remember that prior to cars, the street was a public place designed for pedestrians. They took that away from us with the "jaywalking" PR campaign.
I’m sorry for the loss, the road did indeed fail, and I am happy there’s at least one Republican who cares about road safety, but …….
There’s a whole lot of twisted logic trying to make it seem like “both sides the same”. I mean, I wouldn’t argue it since she does see the light after it affected her personally, but wtf
Yes, they are DEI, and that’s the point.
Leopards Ate My Face moment
Leopard meets face
How are bikes even DEI? Riding a bike is ableist and exclusionary. In order to ride a bike, a person must have two reasonably strong legs (or arms, in the case of a handcycle) and to go any great distance, the rider needs to be in pretty good shape.
I am not saying we should not have bike lanes, since they provide an additional, clean and healthy mode of transportation, but I just don't see them as DEI.
Easy, "DEI" means "some stuff that changes the status quo and makes my life 0.0001% different sometimes"
Words lose all meaning when held by a bigot
Using DEI as a negative adverb is just openly admitting being a fascist.
So you want uniformity, inequality and exclusion?
It's like being against antifascism.
because poor people or non-whites might use them to travel outside of their own neighborhoods and into the domain of white folk with more money.
Don't most bike lanes also allow things like Mobility scooters on them for people with disabilities?
It’s DEI because “everyone I know drives a car”
lol what an absolute fuckwit. This is a truly majestic and impressive lack of self-awareness.
God damn that leopard is getting fucking FAT.
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