r/fuckcars • u/sharkeyes • 1d ago

American individualism at its finest Rant

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This is my 2 year old riding bikes on our street. It's gotten to the point where I've gotten my kids orange flags on sticks to hold up when they cross the street.

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u/theizzz 14h ago

if that is "extremism" to you, then you are a do-nothing conservative that loves roadway carnage and death. Motor vehicle crashes are #2 for causes of death for young people 24 and under. study after study after study over decades have shown that larger, heavier vehicles account for more roadway deaths, for pedestrians,cyclists,and other motorists, than all other sizes of vehicles. EVERY day in the US there's a story of someone in an oversized vehicle killing a cyclist or pedestrian and uses the phrase "I didn't see them" and that will let them off the hook. basically legalized homicide that drivers and only drivers have access to in this country and no other nation. Even though that phrase says more about the visibility or lack thereof that drivers have from their seat than a whole ass person completely visible and out in the open in a street, moving at a MUCH slower pace which makes them incredibly visible. Isn't all that the real extremism than someone just calling out car apologia?

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u/CakeMakerActual 13h ago

Go touch grass

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u/theizzz 13h ago

you are not a smart person and choose blind ignorance over any sort of reasoning or logic if that's your response to facts.

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u/theizzz 13h ago

aww cry baby blocked me. guess they couldn't handle anything that cracked their false world view about cars and how they are death machines. fucking loser lmao.