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
Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 weeks agofor a country who’s core values is Car, they suck at driving
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks 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.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I think you’re focusing too much on the “individual freedom” bit and missing the “at the cost or inconvenience of others” bit
doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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.
kreskin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No one can make a profit on people walking, so I dont understand how your point makes any sense.
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 3 weeks 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)
Zink@programming.dev 3 weeks 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!
abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
you don’t have to be smart to drive, we made sure of that.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
Muh freedum to die in a raging, alcohol sparked ball of fire, metal, bone, and blood.
abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Just like the founding fathers intended
lars@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
A bunch of white landlords in their 20s‑ish who owned other human beings def understand me better than anyone else
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks 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.
Wilco@lemmy.zip 3 weeks 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 $$$.
lars@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
I reeeeal American I just don’t want my tax dollars going to fund other people’s firefighting costs. Can we privatize that??
Also a right to bear arms and own weapons is sacrosanct and very important to my people. Why can’t our people please finally be allowed go have nuclear weapons. Their kids need some too. Very important.
Idiots.
cheers_queers@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
My driving test consisted of making four right turns, then parking and verbalising how i would park on a hill.
No parallel parking, no back-in parking or even 3 point turn. I was never even taught to parallel park, but i saw the episode where kris kardashian taught one of her kids and it just clicked lucky for me lolol
Dont judge, the early seaons are great for cringe watching :p