thespanishcel
Overlord
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Tbh on soyit (reddit) the general consensus of the left is that cars = bad and that we should ban cars and replace them by bicycles and public transport all the time. Oh yeah that would work brilliantly specially for people who work in industrial areas far from the city with no public transport, nothing like a good 1 hour (or more) cycle to arrive sweaty and disgusting at work kek. Or when buying groceries for your whole family instead of doing one trip by car do several trips by foot or by bike so you lose even more of your valuable free time. Or people in rural areas who maybe get 1 bus each 2 hours to major cities, yeah let's take their cars so they're even more isolated and have to rely on public transport.
I honestly think all those anti-car people are rich hipsters who live in the city centre (in appartments paid by their families) therefore they don't need a car and believe everyone is the same. Or teens who are still in high school, have never worked and don't know how the real world works. Just like when politicians tell us from their ivory towers to stop taking showers or eating meat to save the planet. Perhaps they are filthy commies that hate anything related with freedom so a socialist utopia where you can only go where the government allows with public transport is their wet dream.
When I got a car I realized how much I was missing out: Before, to go to a town 8 kilometres away from my house I had to take a shitty bus that took 45 minutes because it stopped in all the other towns and took detours. With the car, I could be there in 10 minutes or even less depending on the traffic. The only times I can see myself relying only in public transport is in places like Tokyo or Hong Kong which are massified cities and have very efficient public transport systems because Asians are obsessed with productivity and perfectionism. Even in big European cities you can't trust the public transport, it's always delayed, cancelled or on strike. Except the metro which is most of the times very good.
I honestly think all those anti-car people are rich hipsters who live in the city centre (in appartments paid by their families) therefore they don't need a car and believe everyone is the same. Or teens who are still in high school, have never worked and don't know how the real world works. Just like when politicians tell us from their ivory towers to stop taking showers or eating meat to save the planet. Perhaps they are filthy commies that hate anything related with freedom so a socialist utopia where you can only go where the government allows with public transport is their wet dream.
When I got a car I realized how much I was missing out: Before, to go to a town 8 kilometres away from my house I had to take a shitty bus that took 45 minutes because it stopped in all the other towns and took detours. With the car, I could be there in 10 minutes or even less depending on the traffic. The only times I can see myself relying only in public transport is in places like Tokyo or Hong Kong which are massified cities and have very efficient public transport systems because Asians are obsessed with productivity and perfectionism. Even in big European cities you can't trust the public transport, it's always delayed, cancelled or on strike. Except the metro which is most of the times very good.