@mondoman712 Good thing we have these utopian “blue states” to flee to as the fascists consolidate power nationally.
Enemy of car culture and cisheteropatriarchy
Profile & banner image: bad so-called pedestrian safety campaigns. Profile pic is a poster saying “WALK SAFE most pedestrian crashes are the pedestrian’s fault” & banner is a cartoon crab on a lifeguard stand holding flags that say “save yourself” and “use crosswalks”.
@mondoman712 Good thing we have these utopian “blue states” to flee to as the fascists consolidate power nationally.
@lgsp @mondoman712 I remember my preschool having a big stack of cardboard bricks to build with. Maybe they still have those in toy stores?
@GottaLaff@mastodon.social Finally, a bit of media focus on his extreme misogyny. So many articles about his extremism list his bigotries as anti-semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, and transphobia but inexplicably leave out how much he hates and wants to disenfranchise the largest block of voters. We have to stop normalizing and overlooking misogyny.
@tetris11 One of the many reasons our transit systems suffer from disinvestment while our roads suffer from overinvestment is that transportation planning decision makers are disproportionately white, male, and abled and all of them make enough money that driving is at least an option for them if not a job requirement.
@ASegar @ajsadauskas @fuck_cars The vast majority of Americans live in either a city, a small town where many of those things are accessible (both towns in Maine I used to live in had at least 10 of the things in walking distance), or sprawling suburbs where they’re surrounded by roads, parking & other people’s houses and not living off the land at all. Rural lifestyles can work (but depend on town centers where one trip can accomplish numerous errands), suburban ones aren’t sustainable or fun.
@diskmaster23 There should be one, but there is not. Cars (or more accurately, their human makers and promoters) have been waging war on nature, communities, and people for over a century with very few of the victims developing the courage or the will to fight back in any meaningful way.
@scrubbles @mondoman712 Car company propaganda 100 years ago started these arguments. Prior to the invention of “jaywalking,” there was broad consensus that streets were public spaces for civic life including children’s play and motorists who barreled through them with entitlement to kill whatever got in their way were the bad guys.