Fuck Cars
This community exists as a sister community/copycat community to the r/fuckcars subreddit.
This community exists for the following reasons:
- to raise awareness around the dangers, inefficiencies and injustice that can come from car dependence.
- to allow a place to discuss and promote more healthy transport methods and ways of living.
You can find the Matrix chat room for this community here.
Rules
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Be nice to each other. Being aggressive or inflammatory towards other users will get you banned. Name calling or obvious trolling falls under that. Hate cars, hate the system, but not people. While some drivers definitely deserve some hate, most of them didn't choose car-centric life out of free will.
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No bigotry or hate. Racism, transphobia, misogyny, ableism, homophobia, chauvinism, fat-shaming, body-shaming, stigmatization of people experiencing homeless or substance users, etc. are not tolerated. Don't use slurs. You can laugh at someone's fragile masculinity without associating it with their body. The correlation between car-culture and body weight is not an excuse for fat-shaming.
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Stay on-topic. Submissions should be on-topic to the externalities of car culture in urban development and communities globally. Posting about alternatives to cars and car culture is fine. Don't post literal car fucking.
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No traffic violence. Do not post depictions of traffic violence. NSFW or NSFL posts are not allowed. Gawking at crashes is not allowed. Be respectful to people who are a victim of traffic violence or otherwise traumatized by it. News articles about crashes and statistics about traffic violence are allowed. Glorifying traffic violence will get you banned.
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No reposts. Before sharing, check if your post isn't a repost. Reposts that add something new are fine. Reposts that are sharing content from somewhere else are fine too.
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No misinformation. Masks and vaccines save lives during a pandemic, climate change is real and anthropogenic - and denial of these and other established facts will get you banned. False or highly speculative titles will get your post deleted.
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No harassment. Posts that (may) cause harassment, dogpiling or brigading, intentionally or not, will be removed. Please do not post screenshots containing uncensored usernames. Actual harassment, dogpiling or brigading is a bannable offence.
Please report posts and comments that violate our rules.
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I think that's the case with a huge amount of things that casual conservatives don't like. They would actually agree with a lot of leftist/socialist ideas, but they just can't get past the bad associations they have with the names of those ideas.
You could probably get most regular (non rabid) conservatives to agree that big businesses not paying any taxes is bad, and that politicians should not be allowed to take ~~bribes~~donations, and that billionaires have too much influence on politics etc. etc. but as soon as you mention the word socialism they immediately run away and continue to vote for politicians who favour tax cuts for the rich.
@bobthened @MentalEdge A great example of this was with free trade and tariff reductions, alongside free markets, which were a shibboleth of the American right for decades.
Through most of the '80s, '90s, 2000s, and 2010s, protectionism, tariffs, and any opposition to free trade agreements were denounced by the right as "socialism".
Reagan was a free trader, at least in his rhetoric. (Albeit one who in practice provided state subsidies to important rural constituents, such as corn and dairy farmers. He also imposed tariffs on some Japanese electronic goods.)
Bush Snr was a free trader.
George W. Bush was a free trader. (Albeit one who invaded Iraq to prop up the oil sector, and ended up beginning the bank bailouts as the GFC hit.)
Meanwhile, the Seattle anti-WTO protests opposed neoliberal free trade: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Seattle_WTO_protests
Then comes Trump.
His policies included imposing massive tariff barriers, and opposing free trade agreements.
Economic policies the right had just spent decades denouncing as socialism.
But because Trump had dressed those same policies up in nationalistic rhetoric, those same policies were suddenly embraced by the American right.
Because it's often not about the policies themselves.
It's about who advocates for them, how they're communicated, and whether (or not) they're the politically correct (in the original sense of the term) position for the IS right to support.
That's part of the propaganda. And conservatives have to be told what to do to fit in.