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[–] [M] 65 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (12 children)

As much as I LOL'd and agree with the sentiment, this is almost entirely about politics, not infrastructure -- the only tenuous connection is that the political shithead happens to own a car company. As such, please try to resist the temptation to post more stuff like this here.


Edit to address some feedback:

Yes, !fuckcars is political, but that doesn't mean everything political is on-topic. If this had been about Musk interfering with CA high-speed rail, it would be unambiguously on-topic. If this had been about the harmful effects of those trucks on other road users, it would be unambiguously on-topic (although for the record, I dislike threads hating on any one particular type of car because they risk missing the point that all of them contribute to most of the problems).

But it was neither of those things. It was just pointing out the dishonesty of people who bought a particular product with a particular political connotation. The fact that the product happened to be a vehicle was irrelevant to the idea being conveyed. That makes it a good fit for somewhere like !politicalmemes or !enoughmuskspam, maybe, but not here.

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  • [–] 100 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    It's also a shitty, unreliable, dangerous vehicle that allows them to be on the road because Elon is the richest dipshit on earth right now.

    He's pushed past regulations and forced his shitty vehicles to be on roads all across the world, including Europe, which doesn't have the road infrastructure to handle things like the cybertruck. It's bypassing regulation after regulation to show up on the road as a massive eyesore.

    The Cybertruck is the culmination of everything fuckcars is about imo.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago

    IMO while the post shows a cybertruck and it is the culmination of this community, the post clearly focuses on how horrible elon musk is, which would be better suited somewhere else (even tho I vehemently agree with the sentiment)

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    Where in the EU is it legal to drive a Cybertruck? Not in Germany as far as I know. I thought it was EU regulations that blocked it

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    According to this article (in german) the entire front section of the car would have to be redesigned for the cybertruck to be legal in europe.

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  • [–] 88 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I really think that you can't divorce the car-centric hell we are currently suffering in from the politics that made it happen.

    "Fuck Cars" is 100% a political statement.

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  • [–] 56 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Guys can we please talk about how we better organize society without being so political?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    "Guys can we please talk about how we better do politics without being political?"

    I hope your statement was satire. Otherwise I question your understanding of basic concepts.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    I don't know. People are writing and calling the government every day, protesting online to attempt to improve public transportation, yet in vain. Well guess who's in control. And it's not just public transportation, you know.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Elon Musk is not a "political shithead" he is a primary reason why we don't have better forms of transportation, and it's worth pointing it out every single time. Also, aren't virtually all of the infrastructure issues that exist that make cars such a prevalent force in our society almost entirely predicated on politics? Was Robert Moses not motivated by his own politics? But was it not his policies that essentially birthed the modern hostility to humans that urban areas have?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    Yeah, the whole hyper loop scam [1] he invented was to kill high speed rail in California. Fuck him.

    [1] just see it in Las Vegas all out is a tunnel for cars that you pray there's no accident because of fire starts you are stuck and can't escape.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    Elon Musk is why America doesn't have 5 minute cities and rail transport? He's only been politically active for a handful of years dude

    He's all sorts of bad, and was put in charge of gutting the government, but his year or two with the ear of the president has nothing on the previous 90 years of damage

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Before he was "politically active" he was a billionaire making his money off of selling cars. One of the way he achieved that was by buying up contracts for high-speed rail projects and then not building them, or turning them into an entirely different car-centric thing (like his tunnel in vegas). Elon Musk didn't SUDDENLY become a piece of shit when Trump was elected, he took advantage of that fact to be a bigger piece of shit.

    Elon Musk is why America doesn't have 5 minute cities and rail transport?

    So Yeah. He is. Or at least one of them.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    Elon musk himself is responsible for so much car centric bullshit. he has his own tunnels, his own chargers, he does everything he can to stop any anti-car development, and he has the most dangerous cars out there. this is only one of them by the way, the one that has sharp hard metal corners that are meant to slice pedestrians in half, but his other cars spontaneously combust.

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  • [+] -6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Thank you for being the voice of moderation! I bought a Model 3 in 2018, and the car itself has been great. Considering that it's now paid off, and that it's not okay to trash a perfectly usable resource, it would be irresponsible to replace it just to make a political statement. That said, I do have this same bumper sticker on my car 😅

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