Americans are not an intellectual people
this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2023
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Normies think buying a completely new electric car is a solution to the climate crisis, in other words, yes normies are oblivious.
Weird. Maybe they misheard/misunderstood you?
Definitely possible.
Most people can't actually read that well, so there's that. And also once things get into political boxes people are going to be clumsy at putting you into the correct box, assuming there even is one. Anonymity and the passive-aggressive dunks on sites like Reddit and Twitter encourage this. It feels like they're trying to out-manoeuvre rhetorically so they can't get pwned.
How did they get you criticizing private car ownership to supporting urban sprawl? Isn’t that the exact opposite of what you were stating?
That's why I was so confused by their response. Hence this post.
Where was this? Here? I feel like I would know that you were proposing public transportation as an alternative/solution to the massively inefficient system where every individual gets their own vehicle.
Reddit. And it was in reply to a commemt complaining about the cost of car parking too. So yeah I probably should have seen it coming. I was still genuinely surprised enough at the response to warrant this post.
Like, I was prepared for comments about "freedom" or "only poor people use public transit" but not for people to completely not understand why I hate cars.
Like I said in another post, I really need to stop engaging with these kinds of takes. That's on me.