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  • Yeah, you want me to explain you quite complicated concepts in a single comment, while using all the terminology wrong, and doing zero work yourself.
    Patriarchy isn’t just “men are in charge of everything”, women aren’t “in power of changing the social norms”, responsibility isn’t just “i did something bad and need to fix that”, and privilege means something completely different from whatever you’re implying there.
    To elaborate on that I would have to write paragraphs upon paragraphs for each of them, and I’m just not doing that. Since we’re already here, I don’t need to teach you how to look what the words mean beyond the basic five words definition, so I encourage you to do just that.









  • It’s the other way around. Cities in US are expensive now because there is not a lot of those compared to the amount of people who would like to live in them. If you allow builders to build more walkable cities they will become more affordable. And the scale is only part of it, the fact that city brings revenue to the government and suburbia isn’t is a big part too.


  • Yeah, it is indeed a good approach for Walmart. They get to crush the competition due to their size and the economy of scale, be effectively a monopoly, and convince everyone that it’s not only logical and inevitable, and the result of something normal, but good actually.
    The question is, is it good for people who aren’t Walmart shareholders?


  • No, good public transportation will not eliminate all the misery in the people’s lives, but also it isn’t suppose to, and nothing will. Good public transportation however helps with making it the same level of misery as anywhere else, and usually even more. The particular issue of harassment isn’t an issue in a good public transportation, because there are people there, there are structures, there are authorities and systems that can help. And besides, it’s not like people just decide to harass other people the second they go into metro.


  • It’s, once again, comes with infrastructure. When I moved to Germany from the country with no bike infrastructure, I only thought of a bike as an expensive stuff, but here I bought a used commuter for 40 Euro and it’s fucking great. I love it, but if it gets stolen, I would be mildly frustrated and buy another one of those for 40 Euro the next day.


  • People might talk about banning privately own cars, but nobody seriously talks about completely banning cars at all. Service vehicles have their place in a walkable city, and taxi and carsharing is part of that, and even the most fuck-cars people are in favour of those.
    I mean, there is always someone with a weird position, but those are flat-earthers of the movement, nobody cares about those.






  • Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.detoGreentext@sh.itjust.worksAnon likes bikes
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    10 months ago

    The reason you’re not afraid of being in public in any other circumstances are in public transportation is exactly, precisely because public transportation in US is shitty and stigmatized and the expectation is that only the poor are using it. This is the source of the problem, and the way to fix i is to improve it so everyone is using it, and the crowd in public transport will be the same as everywhere