i don’t drive. if you live in certain parts of the US, not driving significantly impairs your ability to find good housing, good jobs, do laundry. upstate new york is a perfect example. public transit has been all but eliminated in the US.
Anyone can choose to go live in a location like that? There’s enough room in all the big cities? For all of humanity? All of humanity could afford life in a big city?
By your standards you make shit. But I’ve actually looked into this. For me moving downtown which is the only real walkable place in my area would increase my rent over $400 a month. I just can’t afford that. Many people have to live away from the city’s. This country is not designed to be walkable, very few places are and you are trying to say that everyone could afford to live in those tiny walkable areas and those tiny walkable areas could fit everybody if they all wanted to be there.
Where I am, the only place I can afford, the nearest grocery store… Which also happens to be the nearest bus stop… Is 5 mi away. And because of the ass backwards bus system here after I walked those five miles it would take me nearly 2 hours to get to work when the drive is 20 minutes.
What? I’ve said nothing pro exon at all. All I have said is that it’s bullshit to try to pretend every single person in this country could live a walkable lifestyle if they want to right now. This country isn’t designed for that. The walkable cities that we do have are not affordable for everyone and could not fit everyone.
Hell if you dig through my history just a few days ago I literally called for the death of the CEO of Exxon and I mean that with every fiber of my being. He is a man who deserves to die.
Now please, in 100 words or less, explain how you believe it’s an intelligent thing to say that I am somehow being pro-exxon right now? I’m really scratching my head how you possibly got to that conclusion.
When the hell did I or the OP say anything that’s shitting on you, when you and I both know you are being forced to drive, if I’m explicitly shitting on Exxon and the powerful?
Ah…yeah I guess you aren’t part of the whole other thing that actually got deleted lol. i lost track of which of the threads here on this post this is.
A dude said that if you are still driving you are to blame, and then flat out said if anybody REALLY wanted too they could live in a walkable city and those who still drive are simply ignoring the walkable cities that anyone can afford to live in because they love cars.
Lemmy is weird as fuck. Deleted comment chains still exist for the people who are part of them? I thought this was part of that whole ass conversation.
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i don’t drive. if you live in certain parts of the US, not driving significantly impairs your ability to find good housing, good jobs, do laundry. upstate new york is a perfect example. public transit has been all but eliminated in the US.
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Anyone can choose to go live in a location like that? There’s enough room in all the big cities? For all of humanity? All of humanity could afford life in a big city?
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By your standards you make shit. But I’ve actually looked into this. For me moving downtown which is the only real walkable place in my area would increase my rent over $400 a month. I just can’t afford that. Many people have to live away from the city’s. This country is not designed to be walkable, very few places are and you are trying to say that everyone could afford to live in those tiny walkable areas and those tiny walkable areas could fit everybody if they all wanted to be there.
Where I am, the only place I can afford, the nearest grocery store… Which also happens to be the nearest bus stop… Is 5 mi away. And because of the ass backwards bus system here after I walked those five miles it would take me nearly 2 hours to get to work when the drive is 20 minutes.
And if you typed that from a phone or computer you are doing your part to insure slave labor continues to exist in the world.
We are all complacent, we are all part of this. You are not, and never will be, innocent.
I don’t intend to be innocent. I intend to make this shit better and the most crucial step in that is that the powerful must be humbled
And how does shitting on people who have no option but to drive factor into that?
Are you Exxon Mobil? Are you some sort of Exxon fanboy?
What? I’ve said nothing pro exon at all. All I have said is that it’s bullshit to try to pretend every single person in this country could live a walkable lifestyle if they want to right now. This country isn’t designed for that. The walkable cities that we do have are not affordable for everyone and could not fit everyone.
Hell if you dig through my history just a few days ago I literally called for the death of the CEO of Exxon and I mean that with every fiber of my being. He is a man who deserves to die.
Now please, in 100 words or less, explain how you believe it’s an intelligent thing to say that I am somehow being pro-exxon right now? I’m really scratching my head how you possibly got to that conclusion.
When the hell did I or the OP say anything that’s shitting on you, when you and I both know you are being forced to drive, if I’m explicitly shitting on Exxon and the powerful?
Ah…yeah I guess you aren’t part of the whole other thing that actually got deleted lol. i lost track of which of the threads here on this post this is.
A dude said that if you are still driving you are to blame, and then flat out said if anybody REALLY wanted too they could live in a walkable city and those who still drive are simply ignoring the walkable cities that anyone can afford to live in because they love cars.
Lemmy is weird as fuck. Deleted comment chains still exist for the people who are part of them? I thought this was part of that whole ass conversation.
Oh, yeah I didn’t see that chain, sorry for flying off the handle too
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