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Democracy is when the White House boasts about its king (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by merdaverse@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 43 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Is there a reason conservatives dislike congestion pricing other than spite?

Gods, they're just the worst fucking people.

[–] 2pt_perversion@lemmy.world 50 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Same reason congestion pricing is hated everywhere until it's implemented and people start seeing the benefits, people are cheap. Coincidentally also the reason congestion pricing works so well at regulating demand for a road and improving conditions.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 51 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The stupidest part to me is that toll roads work this way and are wildly popular with conservatives. They're just angry it's a public thing and that it's for public transportation support and not to make some private company money.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They're just angry it's a public thing [...] and not to make some private company money.

This is always the case

[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Money they dont get? Lol make sure they lick the toes

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 15 points 2 days ago

Thing is…this is just another toll. It bills you the same as all the other tolls in the city. They just gave it a different name. That’s it. In the first days, people were bitching because they took the trains and the busses, but everyone who isn’t an asshole (those of us who don’t drive) didn’t even realize it took effect and everyone was like “woah, what’s going on? Is it a holiday? It was so quiet on my way to work. It was awesome.”

But these motherfuckers

[–] spidermanchild@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Cars checks all the boxes to them - helps with segregation, creates demand for oil, multiple vectors for environmental destruction, weird nostalgia and culture war fodder, another subsidy for rural/suburban voters, and it's the embodiment of not giving a shit about anyone else's and being a big boy. But yeah each of the individual factors boils down to spite.

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 12 points 2 days ago

They also make people a lot angrier. Angrier people are easier to manipulate