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Akiba April 7th, 2015 3:53 AM

37.

Live in Tokyo for a month and you'll forget that cars even exist. Your life will be filled with metro. Although half the time you won't even take it because you'd rather walk the length to breathe some fresh air and see the skyscrapers.

Weeaboo Name April 7th, 2015 4:12 AM

38

Is the average burgerclap really that brainwashed that he believes that a well run public transport network is counter productive to muh freedoms?

:DDDDD

donavannj April 7th, 2015 4:22 AM

39. NIMBYs are complaining about a train route "spoiling nature" by passing within 100 feet of their 300 unit apartment complex, yet want to reroute the train over a nearby swamp area instead.

WELL IF YOU LIKED NATURE SO MUCH, WHY DID YOU CHOOSE TO LIVE IN A 300 UNIT APARTMENT COMPLEX? Some people's kids, I tell ya.

Granted, the line they are complaining about isn't exactly following the optimal route to get from its endpoint to its start point.


And it's not "MUH FREEDOMS", it's "KEEP THE UNWASHED AND FILTHY POOR AWAY FROM MY EXURBAN LIFESTYLE". The next town over from my town actively boycotted bus service because it's full of well-to-do people who own mansions or mcmansions, have luxury cars or gas guzzling trucks and SUVs as their daily drivers, and have a sports car or two to drive on weekends in the summer.

As if the poor who would steal would actually use public transit to get out this way. The only thieves "from" the core cities who're willing to come out this far to steal stuff are the crackheads who grew up out this way and just so happen to live in one of the core cities currently, and those types use their own cars and friends to transport shit.

Second most common argument: "Mass transit should be able to pay for its own costs." As if our highways actually do that (spoiler alert: they do not).

Third most common argument I've seen and heard: "Well I won't benefit from it, so why should we build it?" Then why should I pay via my taxes to widen that road you use daily just because it's over capacity by double its capacity? I won't benefit from it! I only drive on 6 different roads each day!

If you couldn't tell, I'm a filthy liberal in an area dominated by self-focused conservatives and mass transit makes me angrier than it should.

Weeaboo Name April 7th, 2015 4:50 AM

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You know, I had not even considered public transport is for the poor angle. It is a bit of a weird one because even if you removed the poverty stricken slum areas of cities you still have a massive portion of the population, ''hard workin' folk'', living paycheck to paycheck.

If you reduced your military budget to, I don't know, just 3x that of the second biggest spenders, imagine what you could do. I guess that's another issue entirely though.

donavannj April 7th, 2015 5:17 AM

41. If even a quarter of what was spent on the military in the past 30 years was instead split evenly between public transit, NASA, and federal subsidies for school districts, so much would be different.

Pokestick, good times. April 7th, 2015 6:11 AM

42

The poor can hardly pay for public transit here as it is.

Quote:

Originally Posted by donavannj (Post 8694817)
well-to-do people who own mansions or mcmansions, have luxury cars or gas guzzling trucks and SUVs as their daily drivers, and have a sports car or two to drive on weekends in the summer.

Sure feels great to make environmental choices when you're reminded these people exist and nullify everything you do ad infinitum.

Yukari April 7th, 2015 6:31 AM

43

I am totally lost right now...

donavannj April 7th, 2015 6:40 AM

44. Granted, a lot of those trucks are newer trucks that actually get decent fuel economy despite being a truck.

A town further out, and it starts becoming "sledneck" (a redneck who drives a lifted truck and can constantly be found snowmobiling or in branded snowmobiling gear in the winter)/redneck territory, where the trucks employed actually are decade old gas guzzlers, but more people actually are using the trucks for their intended purpose rather than as a daily driver for a suburban commute. Crossovers are actually quite popular in my area (basically compact SUVs and SUV/sedan hybrids).

And a lot of commercial recycling actually goes straight into the trash at the end of the day because actually paying for commercial recycling is "too expensive".

@ Orpheus: Politics is happening itt rn.

Pokestick, good times. April 7th, 2015 6:59 AM

45

Well, I'm glad I don't live there so I don't have to interrupt my everyday life to cry all the time.

Yukari April 7th, 2015 7:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by donavannj (Post 8695028)
46

@ Orpheus: Politics is happening itt rn.

Well, that explains why I don't know what the fuck you're talking about right now.

Twilight-kun April 7th, 2015 7:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Weeaboo Name (Post 8694749)
34

Perhaps he travels by police box.

Mother of god those things are a pain to park though...

Spoiler:


45

Akiba April 7th, 2015 7:07 AM

48.

Murica's not all like that. Granted, I'm not living in smalltown (insert generic state). But I never really see a truck go around here. It's peaceful, yet busy. Not too modern, but pretty nice. Kind of special. Probably due to my proximity to D.C.

donavannj April 7th, 2015 7:42 AM

Farms are everywhere around my town and west of it, so the trucks make sense for those people. The lifted trucks are dumb, though. Granted, my previous 2 vehicles were gas guzzlers, first one being a minivan that got 18 to 22 MPG on a V6 and then a sedan that got 18 to 22 MPG on the exact same style V6 the minivan had. And my current one advertises 22 city/30 highway.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Reisen (Post 8695072)
Murica's not all like that. Granted, I'm not living in smalltown (insert generic state). But I never really see a truck go around here. It's peaceful, yet busy. Not too modern, but pretty nice. Kind of special. Probably due to my proximity to D.C.

That and the nature of what constitutes "rural" in Maryland and on the rest of the east coast reduces the prevalence of trucks.

49.

Weeaboo Name April 7th, 2015 8:04 AM

50

Anybody here taken any interest in British politics recently? If you have then I expect you will fully understand why the younger generations are so apathetic on the topic. For the average man on the street it really is a case of voting for whom you dislike least, or not at all.

My local area has been shifting in the direction of UKIP during recent months. ''I'm nawt raicist...but it's bout time we try suttn new #bantheburka''.

That being said.

Twilight-kun April 7th, 2015 8:22 AM

51

I don't vote, that way I can say "I had nothing to do with this" when the country goes to heck

donavannj April 7th, 2015 8:42 AM

There's a problem with that, though: you not voting implies you're fine with whatever everyone else chooses. Which is currently (and has practically always been) a total circus-like sideshow.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Weeaboo Name (Post 8695145)
Anybody here taken any interest in British politics recently? If you have then I expect you will fully understand why the younger generations are so apathetic on the topic. For the average man on the street it really is a case of voting for whom you dislike least, or not at all.

I know that your MPs have had a colossal scandal come to light in the last few months. And that some sort of internet filter has been implemented.

And that the same apathy you see there is rampant in the USA, too.

Quote:

My local area has been shifting in the direction of UKIP during recent months. ''I'm nawt raicist...but it's bout time we try suttn new #bantheburka''.
Tell them that would make them even more like France (which has in the past banned them, iirc). That should scare 'em right off it. The other thing UKIPers don't want is to become more like Europe.

My area is GOP dominated despite the farmers being slightly more DFL (Democratic-Farmer-Labor) leaning. I had the misfortune of being represented by Michelle Bachmann during her last term in office.

Quote:

That being said.

Oh good lawd, my sides. Especially knowing what UKIP is.

52.

Weeaboo Name April 7th, 2015 8:47 AM

53

http://i.imgur.com/zpBGTBd.jpg

donavannj April 7th, 2015 8:53 AM

54. Does he say ridiculous things and make ridiculous comparisons to get attention like Michelle Bachmann?

Akiba April 7th, 2015 9:02 AM

55.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Weeaboo Name (Post 8695145)
Anybody here taken any interest in British politics recently?

All I know is that you guys name call like 5th graders in Parliament

Weeaboo Name April 7th, 2015 9:22 AM

56

BNP are more likely to come out with horrific sweeping statements with the sole purpose of getting people talking. Those are our far right no hopers.

Farage is just another of those guys that pop up after a recession, pretend to know about the common man [see him waving that pint around] whilst simultaneously blaming people at the bottom for the problems.

Although it isn't only the hateful groups that haven't got a clue . >mfw the Greens are far more likely to send a male drug dealer to prison than a female
http://i.imgur.com/6Is8yXO.jpg

Spoiler:
Yeah, I know she was more of an enforcer but whatever, if you get the reference you get the reference.

Twilight-kun April 7th, 2015 10:57 AM

57

Too much politics in here

Ivysaur April 7th, 2015 11:03 AM

Okay, this thread title cracked me up in 58 different ways.

Pokestick, good times. April 7th, 2015 11:23 AM

59

Britland is political funtown. Heard they banned female ejaculation and sent people to jail to make a point of how loli is disgusting. UKIP will of course fix everything.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Twilight-kun (Post 8695167)
I don't vote, that way I can say "I had nothing to do with this" when the country goes to heck

If someone said that to me IRL I'd be legit pissed.

Twilight-kun April 7th, 2015 11:37 AM

60

Leave me out of your self-destructive suicidal tendencies

machomuu April 7th, 2015 11:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pokestick, good times. (Post 8695404)
61

If someone said that to me IRL I'd be legit pissed.

Well, you could take it the opposite way.

"You know how the country's gone to shit? Yeah, sorry about that."

As someone who doesn't vote, myself, I generally don't try to avoid blame for whatever comes with not voting, and I also don't really try to defend why I don't vote. I have my reasons, but rarely do people care, generally saying something about how people died for my right to vote, how it helps the country, etc. And I could contest those things, but ultimately I'll be criticized for being a terrible citizen and not caring about the well being of my homeland, which is...

Well, it comes with the territory, I guess.


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