Comment on Australia, why are you still obsessed with freeways – when they’re driving us away from net zero?

AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Nath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I don’t think anyone looks at the USA and wants any of that noise. Possibly maybe the image the USA thinks it is a little (like what is portrayed in Friends). But those guys are not driving on any freeways.

  We certainly don’t want anything like their car culture.

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  • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The unfortunate fact is that there are a shit tonne of Australians who absolutely do idolise that aspect of Americana. They probably don’t usually identify it with Americana though, and would go on about how they need a car because they drive out in the country or they need a wankpanzer because sometimes they carry a heavy load. There’s a big overlap with the kind of people who would identify themselves as “true Australians” (though the car problem is far more ubiquitous). It doesn’t change the fact that this whole thing, especially when applied within cities, is thanks to American imports from the '60s and later.

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  • SaneMartigan@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Gina looks at America like that. She fucking loathes having to pay FIFO rates for workers.

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