one of my gen x friends told me "i dont really care about the science of climate change, i dont believe it so its not happening."

....and i just couldnt even.

Gen X here. I think I deeply care for my children, and will probably go to dept to fund my children tertiary education, because I could afford it any other way. And I live in a country where college is free, but still needs money to fund the rest (rent, food etc.) That bagging and tagging shouldn't be a one size fits all

I'm sorry. (from a gX)

I'm not typical. I was one of the nerds even the nerds bullied on, and this was the hey-day of the jocks and nerds paradigm.

When George W. Bush started torturing, I thought that's not the America I was raised to believe in and opened some books (on moral philosophy and history) and started my journey to becoming a raging far-left communist.

By the time we were learning about years-long crunching in video games development, I realized that our capitalists can't even follow their own rules. Id est, the facts were not informing the hypothesis.

Nowadays, I see the species as primitive hominids who bomb other countries and strip away civil rights based on feels and vibes, or in other words, can't follow rational instruction when we have the power to choose to not, and this is likely going to kill us.

Maybe some other animal can evolve complex social relationships and do better, or be less susceptible to selfish interests of a few subverting the community of many.

Yes, I'm bitter.

I’m in the same boat. I’m here because I want to discuss things related to transit, walkability, better quality of life, renewable energy and new technology: there’s so much we can do to improve people’s lives while also being easier on the planet and cost less.

I’m not frustrated by cars, but more that cars are the only goal. From my experiences the best we can hope for in most places is less need of personal cars. It even gives us a continuing goal: however car dependent we are now, how can we be less so?

This tends to come out in discussions, for example, on parking minimums. While I agree we need to waste less real estate on parking, home and park-n-rides are different. The reality is people in the US are not giving up their cars any time soon. Let them keep them at home while giving them better options. Let them drive to transit while we improve the transit network.

A while back I saw a post on Shittit (Reddit) on r/fuckcars supporting "peaceful protestors" burning Tesla cars. Not only the OP but all the comments were supportive of it and encouraged that behaviour. I get the whole hating Musk thing, I hate him too. I started to see his real self when he did the bitcoin pump-and-dump in 2021, I lost a considerable amount of money because of him. Before that event I saw him kind of an revolutionary business man. Since that event I just him as a grifter lookong for new ways to earn more and more money. So anyway back to point, posts like this make the average joe who doesn't know much about fuckcars movement think they are "extremists" advocating for violence against car owners and their vehicles. I hate Musk, but I don't support and advocate for burning of innocent people's hard earned car. Tesla is still considered a "premium car", many people buy it on monthly installments. Imagine buying your dream car on installment and some random wacko set it on fire just because the guy behind the company started supporting the other party. Before the Trump-Musk relationship, Tesla used to be a "liberal" car since it was electric and liberals love EV's. Deciding to turn against the car company you once loved and to the point to setting innocent people's cars on fire is just ridiculous! And also, I saw a lot of "jealousy" and "sourness" towards car owners in r/fuckcars. Things like these made me avoid the whole movement. You are free to post my message on any community or magazine for debate. Just blur out my username completely and don't like my profile.