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- Great, more ammunition for bad faith arguments from all sides.
Unfortunately there's a healthy subset of the Democratic party which is also against road infrastructure improvements like bike lanes and traffic calming. Car brain is an affliction which does not discriminate.
by foco_tubi - People who dislike this situation need to stop taking the Trump administration's (and allies') statements at face value, like David Harkey does in the article, and stop calling them crazy. Either way, they are playing you and distracting you, and you are inadvertently acting as their messengers.
Using the universal analytical tool cui bono (more powerful than an LLM) and their own explicit words, there's a consistent, non-crazy strategy: Support the fossil fuel industry in every way possible (which appeals to some people; I'm not writing a critique; you should understand this.):
Regarding 'crazy', it's a form of aggression - demonstrating there is no length to which they won't go, to intimidate the other side into backing down. It's been the American neo-right rhetorical tactic going back decades - be aggressive, and if that doesn't work, be more aggressive. Because nobody else has figured out this very basic tactic (used by even by animals), people keep backing down and the tactic keeps working. You see people every day saying they are hopeless, tired, resigned, etc. Why would the neo-right stop - this is working amazingly well!* Destroy or acquire national competitors: Venezuala, Iran, even Nigeria * Buy off domestic competitors: using tax dollars to bribe renewable energy developments to stop * A million other policy and political actions, major and and minor; even opposing bike lanes.(If you doubt it, see if my hypothesis predicts future events.)
by mmooss - “DEI bike lanes” heh, despite cycling being over represented by middle aged white guys.by fassssst
- It's pretty clear that from the other side of the border that the man in charge is literally acting like an 80 year old 4chan b troll.
He's just trying to get under everyone's skin and it's working.
Look at those crowds of bikers... ICE protesters... no king protesters...
He's a showman and he loves it.
Stop giving him airtime.
So what if federal funding doesn't recognize bike lanes or whatever this is about?
Vote in competent city Councillors that will get bike lanes prioritized in your city if that's what you care about.
- How do children get around? They bicycle. For a party claiming to be pro-life, pro-family, pro-child, they don’t act like it.by paj26
- "This is a common sense approach despite the Left's belief that everyone should ride a bike to their shoebox-sized apartment to eat crickets to achieve a phony climate agenda."
The government we deserve.
Nobody bother thinking coherent thoughts, insults and spurious non sequiturs are policy now.
by f17428d27584 - "Since nearly 80% of the population uses cars to get to work and their important medical appointments, we are taking a closer look at federal guidance to ensure American families have the infrastructure they need," the spokesperson said. "This is a common sense approach despite the Left's belief that everyone should ride a bike to their shoebox-sized apartment to eat crickets to achieve a phony climate agenda."
Jumping straight into the middle of the article you might believe you stumbled onto The Onion.