>wake up>look at pocket sized rectangle of anxiety >carbrains openly discussing their intent to kill cyclists >"your safety isn't my responsibility!">"Get your toy off the road!">see video of car deliberately ramming cyclists or pedestrians>"HAH! high score! Great Job, i hope they can't get up again!">see car brains actively prevent lightrail and bike paths from being built, add more lanes only>"I'd never take a train, they are disgusting, i want to arrive in STYLE!">"But everyone needs a car anyway, so what's the point of mass transit?">"What next? apartments?!?!"what can be done about carbrains and car centric cities?
carnage
Stop looking at your phone and go for ride
>>2083210This. Social media will try to ragebait you 24/7
>>2083207Have you considered moving to a place with the cycling infrastructure you want instead of trying to force everyone where you live to adjust everything to your desires? Never understood why anons will buy a condo next to a stroad and then cry that they're next to a stroad.
why can't cyclists just ride where they belong and practice basic defense riding
>>2083207Get a clapped out motorcycle that's burning oil and idle in front of them while they're stuck in gridlock lol
>>2083207
>>2083222it turns out that zoning exists and jobs are not always co-located with housing. that is solveable, but not by the free market; historically, worker barracks have had rather poor conditions.
>>2083207"YOURE MINE MAGGOT""PREPARE FOR DIIIVE"
>>2083207For one, cyclists could try not being the most insufferable creatures imaginable. Your preferred method of transportation only works in the most densely packed cities which coincidentally have high crime rates on public transportation. If you really want #Change then you can start by paying road use taxes on your bike and register them. It's for your own safety, please understand.
>>2083257And this is why people believe you're a retard.
>>2083257>Pay more money to incompetent bureaucrats to line their pocketsGo fuck yourself
>>2083257>road use taxesthat's property taxes. everyone pays those. it's factored into your rent if you aren't a homeowner
>>2083278It's malice, not just incompetence.
>have kids >when they are old enough go around town with them on bikes>ride the bike lanes>have them invite their friends/friends' parents and do it regularly, NOT IN GEAR since it scares off the normies and those insecure in their machismo, just helmets and plainclothes>especially if you can get kids to come with perma-cagie parents you might sway the parents to be more careful there you injected some empathy in the next generationthere's no hope for current gen adults they have taste lock and are set in their cultural waysI'm just now realizing the new teenage ebike gangs are a good thing in this regardmaybe not the reckless wheelie dare into oncoming traffic but sure the gray market unlimited mode switch ones if they wear a helmet and don't get caught
>>2083325>be adult>choose where to live>choose place without safe bike infrastructure>endanger children in said unsafe infrastructure to "instill values" >realize you place your ideology ahead of your children's safety>don't care because ideology is more important than anythingIf you loved your children and wanted them to have a safe bicycling experience, you'd choose to live somewhere with that feature instead of using them as human shields in hopes someday they'll force change on the area that they could have had already if they had parents that actually care about their safety.
>>2083325Oddly enough, I'm seeing a lot more kids outside riding their bikes nowadays than I did during the 10s and 00s. I heard something like it explained as, because video games and social media has always been around, they're not viewed as "real" as going outside. Like I'm seeing a lot of kids getting into cycling and skating and it's feeling like the 90s again
>>2083279>that's property taxesnope, that's fuel and car sales and ownershup taxes
>>2083207this poster hasn't touched grass in a decade(his entire age)
>>2083337It depends where you are
>>2083326if you loved your children, then you wouldn't have bought that giant Ford F350 super duty and a Chevy Tahoe that runs over other people's kids because "i couldn't see them!"while you were distracted on your phone.The hypocrisy really speaks out loud.
>>2083257Really nigga? There is an infestation of Flock cameras popping up in every corner of every neighborhood, spying on everyone, dinging their social credit for going 0.3mph above the limit. You have idiots operating a 6000lb car that's basically a mobile iPad who can't even drive properly on the roads, and you're worried about some random guy on a bicycle? There's bigger problems to worry about, my guy.
>>2083347i'd run over your kid in a giant F350, because then other kids wouldn't have to deal with your genetic baggage in the future. truly a gift that keeps on giving.
>>2083351sounds like you're part of exactly the problem he was talking about.
>>2083340where i live does not have road tax. there's a fuel surcharge from the federal gubberment and thats it.
>>2083356>sounds like you're part of exactly the problem he was talking aboutAnd what problem is that exactly? I pay taxes every month to make sure the damn roads don't have potholes everywhere, so fuck you.Sounds like you're projecting.
>>2083356>>2083372Gentlemen, gentlemen stop. You're both just awful.
>>2083614>ur awful
It's the enemy's job to kill you. Can you really besmirch them for enforcing their position? Best you can do is make em work for it
>>2083207https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_world_syndromeMaybe stop using social media? It's definitely helped for me
>>2083623>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_world_syndromeAre you saying that cagers are not intentionally passing me as close as possible, given rampant social media posting about punishing two-wheeled vehicle riders for not being as far over as possible? Because the alternative -- that they are simply unaware of the size of their vehicle or are simply incompetent at driving in general -- is way scarier since it's harder to plan for
>>2083624OPs premise is him having a mental breakdown from exposing himself to social media, but if you're having paranoia about drivers on the road constantly targeting you, that might require you to seek professional mental health advice.
>>2083626I've tried that and it hasn't been helpful. And I say that as someone who has unironically been in a trauma unit after a self-mutilation episode with explicit doctor's orders to seek such help upon discharge! It wasn't helpful.The world is mean and does suck and it's up to you to manage living within it without further crisis
>>2083626>i watched a 10 minute psychology video therefore I'm an expert on human behaviors and then solely depend on AI to make sure I'm analyzing people correctlyOkay moron.
>>2083621>Temu harleyI love it.
>>2083331this is great>>2083326I was planning on showing my kids the ropes to road riding anyway, ideology or not
carry a bottle of hydrochloric acid under your bike and pour it over their windshield as you ride past
>>2083648NTA, but this board is full of "I watched a 10 minute video on cities/trains/transit/bicycles and I'm a qualified expert" type people.
>>2083691True, true.
>>2083257>>2083337cyclists also have cars
>>2083355People like you genuinely deserve to be excluded and disenfanchised and there is nothing unjust or wrong about such an outcome.
>>2083355I'd rather tie you and drag your psychotic degenerate ass on a gravel road with a giant F350 so society can be better off without you.
