wutcnbrowndo4u
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wutcnbrowndo4u
3mo ago
Huh, I'm pretty surprised to see anti-car in this bucket (though I don't feel particularly negatively towards vegans either). I've been around this forum and its predecessors for about a decade IIRC, back when the "discursive style" was quite a bit better[1], and I would say I hate cars. I drive plenty when I'm back in my hometown (LA), and even enjoy it, but would prefer to see equalization with other forms of transport of the gargantuan subsidies it gets for its enormous use of real estate, destructive right-of-ways, and effect on local health via air pollution. Driving is fun, but building a society around driving walkable/bikable/transitable distances is quite obviously insane, and I definitely hate it.
Given that you think these ideas "always crumble under pressure", I'm curious why you think this is so obviously wrong. I'm hoping you have an actual answer to this, and that this isn't just a (ironic, given the thread topic) sign of the precipitous decline of the intellectual quality of this community.
[1] from the perspective of autistic intellectual honesty and open-mindedness
wutcnbrowndo4u
3mo ago
Is this a new rule? I haven't been around much recently but I don't recall it from the earlier days of ssc/themotte. No judgment here, just curious.
Thanks for the context. I guess the ones I'm remembering being an accepted part of community norms were a little more lyrical than "Great post thanks", but the content was roughly the same.
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