Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this.

• EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Our core value is taking necessary services and pricing them like a luxury.

  Spread everything out really far, get rid of public transit, and, since everybody still needs a license to drive your expensive cars, make the driving test super easy to pass so almost everybody can drive. Boom, 1.2 passengers per car and nobody can actually drive them well.

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  • Wilco@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yep. This person gets it. The auto and gasoline industry basically ruined the environment and our culture so a few select people can make a few $$$.

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• zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Our core value isn’t Car, it’s “individual freedom, especially at the cost or inconvenience of others”. It just so happens that Car aligns pretty well with that

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  • AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So interesting to me that Americans think being dependent on a car is “freedom”. Individual freedom should be the freedom to get to where you need to go with viable options to walk, bike, train, bus, tram, or drive.

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    • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think you’re focusing too much on the “individual freedom” bit and missing the “at the cost or inconvenience of others” bit

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    • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      To be fair the mindset that a car means freedom is also quite common in Germany too. Especially in the countryside (tbf its often required if you dont want waste a lot of time due to shitty public transportation)

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    • doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We don’t often have other viable options. Long before most of us were born, the infrastructure was created so you could drive anywhere in the country, and other forms of transportation were marginalized.

      Having a car in America is honestly the door to the greatest freedom of movement available to you. It’s no suprise people here start to conflate cars with freedom.

      Getting most of us to realize the car centric world we live in restricts our freedom is like trying to wake someone up from the Matrix.

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    • kreskin@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No one can make a profit on people walking, so I dont understand how your point makes any sense.

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  • Zink@programming.dev ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, you can’t drive like a dangerous asshole on your way to park your full size truck based SUV across two handicap spots if you don’t have a car in the first place!

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• abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  you don’t have to be smart to drive, we made sure of that.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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    Hey, I represent that implication!

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  • RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Muh freedum to die in a raging, alcohol sparked ball of fire, metal, bone, and blood.

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    • abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Just like the founding fathers intended

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