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Me: we should replace the car with a bike as it doesn’t depend on eternally burning a dwindling fuel supply and it improves your mental and physical wellbeing.
Bikes are not feasible where I live. Temperatures don’t go below 40°C until after 10pm for 7 months out of the year. Just going into town for groceries is a 20 minute drive through mountainous terrain, too difficult to pedal through in the scorching heat if you’re not an athlete. Not even an eBike can go further than approx 10 miles in this environment. Heat and all the elevation changes drain the battery rapidly. Bike lanes and public transportation don’t exist here.
So Lemmy can hate on me and my car all you want, but I have no choice but to own one. It’s not right. It needs to change. All in saying is don’t hate people like me because I have no other form of transportation. Hate on the corporations that pollute way more in two seconds than my little Nissan Z ever will in its entire lifespan.
Considering the “left” in America, is just right-wing light, here it’s more like.
“Left”: let’s hold the breaks down so we don’t slip further back
“Centrist”: let’s let go of the breaks so we can stop when we get back to the right amount of racism
Right: let’s cut the fucking break lines and just kill everyone.
Following this metaphor, I see it as: US Left: car’s in neutral on a steep incline, foot is off the brake and they aren’t sure if they’re moving backwards or everyone outside is moving forward. Regardless they think they’re doing a great job.
Center: same as above but they’re complaining that everyone outside is going too fast that they may have even gone past their destination.
Right: same car, same place, but the car’s in reverse and the foot is on full throttle. The center is still complaining about the speed but they’re enjoying the view. The US Left is now fully aware of the backwards movement but it doesn’t want to take the seatbelt off for the sake of self preservation at the cost of everyone else outside. The rest of the world is either steering clear or has been reversed in to like in one of rear-end insurance scams.
Driver changes every 4 years.
If by US left you mean the DNC, it seems more like they have their feet on both the brake and the accelerator, and they don’t know which gear they are in [they are in reverse]. They are trying to figure out which pedal to lift first.
This one seems to be the most apt, since none of them are moving forward.
Right these days is basically “Let’s back over those children over there and set the car on fire while we’re inside.”
God if that doesn’t sum it up nothing does
Personally I prefer “OK let’s have half a genocide”
Or “day 1 has a genocide either way; but we can elect someone who’ll listen to us and quit, and maybe also help us in so many other ways, or we can just elect the cast of Mad Max.”
can’t save everyone, might as well kill everyone
shoots the 3 occupants
hey look a free car
We should blow up the car - the rest of the world
Add to it, from my understanding of the general use of the labels. Liberals - we should go forward, but let up on the clutch only a little. We might roll back some, but we’re trying. Leftists - rev the engine when you let the clutch out, let’s go!
I feel like the car should be facing left
Edit: apparently some people feel strongly that I am incorrect. Fuck me I guess
This site is delusional when it comes to leftists and how (in)effective they are.
There would be five leftists fighting about which forward gear they should be in while one lets the air out of the tires to help combat genocide.
https://piefed.social/c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world/p/2467991/spooky-scary-skeletons
Centrism is always the most favorable position, even if one side stands on truth while the opposition is solely on emotional attachment to some old tradition, all the while centrist inaction ends up favoring the latter.
edit: folks, it’s sarcasm!
