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

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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
No one can make a profit on people walking, so I dont understand how your point makes any sense.

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cows_are_underrated@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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