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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. |
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Is the average burgerclap really that brainwashed that he believes that a well run public transport network is counter productive to muh freedoms? :DDDDD |
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. |
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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. |
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.
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I am totally lost right now... |
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. |
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Well, I'm glad I don't live there so I don't have to interrupt my everyday life to cry all the time. |
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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. |
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.
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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. Spoiler:
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I don't vote, that way I can say "I had nothing to do with this" when the country goes to heck |
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.
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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:
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Too much politics in here |
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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:
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Leave me out of your self-destructive suicidal tendencies |
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"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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