Newsmax guest calls bike lanes "communist garbage"
Newsmax guest calls bike lanes "communist garbage"
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Newsmax guest calls bike lanes "communist garbage"
Cars <---> Fascism
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I agree. We need roads dedicated for cyclists. I hate bike lanes. They're super unsafe.
Make every other road cyclist-only. Its easy.
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I hate all traffic equally. Teleporters can't be invented fast enough.
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Can confirm, i live in the Netherlands and the bike lanes here are painted red because they are communist.
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Here in America the bike lanes are painted red because thats the blood of bicyclists who are hit staying in their bike lane. As our drivers are swerving lanes as they watch tiktok on their phone while driving.
"BUMPBUMP!! Hey! Whoa! That's a weird place for a speed bump....."
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Fun fact. Not actually just paint. They use different colored alphant altogether. It's why it's so vibrant and never fades.
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as an american, i think we could use a little communism.
[immediately gets disappeared to cecot]
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His only argument against bike lanes is "there unamerican" XD Nothing about reducing traffic, helping the environment, being healthy, saving money, just unamerican.
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American here. I can confirm that >99% of the dumbasses here will absolutely trade all of those things for a car.
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@blandfordforever @hOrni
Bikes aren't unAmerican. Car manufacturers are a criminal cartel. Look what America looked like before car and oil companies destroyed our light rail infrastructure so they could sell more cars. #FuckCars https://youtu.be/lx6km37pC3U
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TBF unamerican does sum up the things you've listed pretty well
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Exactly, all those things are unamerican.
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Law enforcement is "communist" then, lets go abolish the police 😏
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I mean.....
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Fix suburban and semi-rural neighborhoods - and by that I mean make them walkable and bikeable with public transportation available, and make sure 95% of what you need is in every neighborhood.
THEN you can squeeze out the old systems. Otherwise you have under-resourced people with no access to anything they need stuck in their homes waiting for their much accelerated deaths.
That's so far from an American reality, it feels like a looming poor suburban genocide. Bike lanes are awesome. But there are FAR more places where they don't exist than where they do.
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Call a fascist a fascist: you're ruining the meaning of the word! It doesn't even apply!
Call bike lanes communist: yes yes very smart and true!
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Why repeat this garbage and give it more airtime than it deserves?
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Because it's obviously ridiculous and we enjoy laughing at it.
And also, it illustrates the class nature of owning-class car advocacy. News "journalists" don't just go and make bizarre claims that bike lanes are communist. This is a political decision, to use red scare rhetoric to propagandize on behalf of the motor industry. Historically speaking, the owning class fearmongering, anti-liberalism and anti-communism are core aspects of the historical fascist ideologies. This should not be brushed away as commercial idiot grifting, this is their ideological propaganda coming out.
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Meanwhile, this motherfucker would let Putin shit in his mouth.
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As a socialist I wouldnt mind bike lanes to be a communist value lol.
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Newsmax just bringing matinee movie theater ushers on to give random political opinions now
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Why do these people suck so hard?
As an aside I’m disappointed a connector from the bike path near me to a major state bike trail didn’t go through in the last two years. I think an alder held it up for some petty reason and then the funding deadline ran out. It’ll be at least 4 more years I bet until it can be done again arghh
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SCHLAPP: Yeah, well, and get rid of the bus lanes, too.
Yaay one more lane! No more traffic
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How dare cyclists own the means of propulsion. Capitalism demands people buy expensive modes of transportation that requires payments to car companies, oil companies, insurance companies, and extra taxes. Get out of here with your free pedaling and infinite parking spaces!
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North American food production involves all of those, so capitalism still wins!
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Shouldn't have watched that. Definitely lost brain cells.
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