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Amsterdam prepares to ‘ban the fatbikes’ amid rise in serious accidents [The Netherlands]
(www.theguardian.com)
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im not writing another wall of text just to have a mod who doesnt like my opinion remove it.
just imagine being scared of a bicycle because an article told you to be....smh
good luck nerfing the world yall, you can regulate my phat dick'n'bawlz......cope and seethe :D
Maybe you should nave not tried to spin a decision about enforcing traffic rules as something about people's race.
The problem, and it seems you still do not understand it, is that these kind of ebike are more powerfull than vehicles for which you need a driver's license.
The simple question is: why I should need a driver's license for a moped that (legally) cannot be faster than 45 Km/h and not for a fatbike that is faster (and often less secure) ?
what a fragile white guy thing to latch onto, out of all the things i said.....how telling.
no i understand it completely, ive just read more than just this article on subjects surrounding this issue and similar ones than you have, and i have first hand experience in the subject. evidently. you keep pointing to one article like its the bible and ignore all the other related data. you also keep latching on to my comments on one racial aspect of laws like this, which historically have also had racial diacrimination attached as a partial motive in the past, instead of going after the ones i made about monopolies, corporate interest. etc. because you are likely a fragile as fuck white person and likely harbour resentment for being called out on your shit. or, if not then you are woefully ignorant or maybe just naive when it comes to the struggles and current discrimination against immigrants of all backgrounds in europe, and across the world.
evidently, you were triggered by that, which us why you wont let it go.
in one of comments that was removed by the SUPER FAIR AND DILIGENT MOD TEAM i had made a statement about how its a pointless law becuase people modify their bikes, ebikes, and other heavy ebikes to circumvent every law they pass, surrounding them. and how this is mainly just another money grab that slowly pinches down harder on average people just trying to use a safer, and cheaper mode of travel than a petrol vehicle. they know this, prior to making the law. a great example would be how in germany this past year, a radical who hated immigrants took a vehicle and drove over people at the german christmas market.
it would be a lot harder to get that same level of carnage on a bike, or ebike.
i connect a lot of dots for you, and you refuse to connect them yourself, you get hung up on one racial aspect of my theory on why laws like this come to pass and what benefits they have for the police state, which would be enforcing these laws, who base their entire criminal science on a certain level of racial discrimination. and call it profiling.
we will have to agree to disagree. because this is something that you are either willfully remaining ignorant of, or simply dont see it as a negative. im not sure which is worse.
as an ebike user, who obeys the laws of my land, and drives on the street, banning one make or model of an ebike will not stop the issue. they know this. and its being done as a stepping stone for more regulation and more laws, that have more than "safety" as the main motivator. it always starts small.
regulation always leads to increased powers of the government over the people. some of it for good reasons, some of it for bad reasons. but it always cost tax payers more money as a result. and fear is always the motivator.
there, you got a little wall of text out of me. if you want you can DM me if you actually care about discourse, or if you prefer a stage where differing opinions than yours are removed, then you can reply to me here.
they permanently banned a guy named "fatbikelover" for his replies that agreed with my statements, and then removed more of my detailed comments describing exactly how the whole extraction of wealth and discrimination actually works.
however, arguing is pointless with me, i only change my mind with verifiable evidence and data. if you cant prove that there is no racial descrimination or innate racism amongst the police force that would be enforcing these laws, then i simply cant agree with your statement. but considering how that is quite literally part of police training, and general media programming, regardless of any country we speak of, its gonna be a hard sell.
monopolies, corporate interests, thats a little harder to prove without a paper trail. so if you want to disagree with me, start there. but i can imagine that some local ebike shops are likely to benefit off the absence of a cheap foreign alternative. who knows.
grab a shovel and dig up some dirt. and try not to use ChatGPT this time. its more fun that way.
Then there are only 2 solutions: you either change the traffic regulations or you enforce them. Amsterdam choose to enforce them.
Everything else is just noise.