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[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 62 points 2 years ago (1 children)

bloomer it would be nice if i could walk places actually

frothingfash THAT'S FASCISM!!1!

[–] VernetheJules@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

No walk, only drive only-throw

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 55 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Those with no chip must use right lane

This is literally just a toll road and we've had them in Texas for decades.

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago

The future hellscape dystopia of EZ Pass

[–] Jenniferr@hexbear.net 54 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The anti 15 minute city thing is really so incredibly stupid. Anyone who's ever lived in a walkable city knows that it is vastly superior to anything based around cars.

[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago

15-minute city, 30-minute city, 57¼-minute city....

These are average commute times. Why do you oppose short average commute times?


That's what I'd say to these people if I ever encountered them. I'm not about to head over to their websites to talk to them.

[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The people who say this stuff don't know anything about it. They live in a world of "scary things" that Fox news tells them about. They learn nothing about 15 minute cities, only that they are "bad" and will "destroy America" so they hate them.

Which is why you get stuff like the picture above, where it shows the exact opposite of a 15 minute city and just says that's what it is.

[–] Jenniferr@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah I think they think you're not allowed to leave a 15 minute radius from your home or something wild like that. What the hell

[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's hard to tell what they actually think on it, because it always changes. If they had a concrete position, that could be combated and they could be reached and educated. If their position changes constantly, they can be kept in a perpetual state of fearful, hateful ignorance.

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[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 52 points 2 years ago

I have no idea why I assumed their propaganda-version of the 15 minute city still included the "walkable" part. This is even dumber and funnier.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 50 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lol. That's just America with different aesthetics.

[–] mathemachristian@lemm.ee 19 points 2 years ago
[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The most unrealistic part of this is that most people are driving reasonably-sized vehicles

[–] nightshade@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago

Maybe that's the real dystopia they were trying to show: a world where you can't drive Ford F-150s

[–] cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It’s kind of funny that actual US border crossing have way more cameras.

[–] JuneFall@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

CW

It is even a bit more perfidious than that, the gate chosen is that of Auschwitz, it is actually holocaust denial and or negation of the Nazi crimes to overstretch political points. The 15 minute city is not aimed at eliminating Jews, LGBTQ*, Neurodivergent, Socialists, Roma and Sinti etc.

This conspiracy theory picture does combine elements of car brain sentiment with anti change and anti minority and classist elements to redraw lines of who are victims and what the problems are. It is evil, which connects with the "all seeing eye" to former antisemite theories, too, as well as NWO conspiracies.

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

The artist of the original picture is David Dees, an antisemitic conspiracy theorist who believes

CWKarl Marx created communism as part of a Jewish plot to depopulate the earth of white people.

Any holocaust denial is by design.

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[–] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Those turbocrank dystopia artworks always look cool as hell ngl

[–] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why would 15 minute cities have everyone on 100 mile stretches of highway in the middle of nowhere?

Where is the city? Are these people driving at 400 miles an hour to get there in 15 minutes?

[–] star_wraith@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago

It wouldn't surprise me if conservatives think "15 minute city" means places you can drive to in 15 minutes.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

You're really underestimating carbrains hold on the USians imaginations

[–] rubpoll@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Man, you can get American conservatives to be terrified of anything.

[–] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

"Hey conservatives, I'm going to walk to the grocery store and walk to my job"

Conservatives:

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Everything except climate change

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[–] CaptainAlchemy@lemmy.one 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So toll lanes, cameras, cell towers, and cars with licence plates (that can be looked up in a public database for personal data) are what 15 minute cities are? No you ignorant fucks, that's what we have now! And yet you'll call it freedom... More like kiss my ass and keep dreaming bucko, your reality of cities with tracking and surveillance already exist and you have the AUDACITY to call it freedom. Fuck off mate.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago

"Ask a capitalist why they hate socialism and they'll describe capitalism"

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago

That looks just like the UK with less roundabouts, tho?

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

ngl it would be cool to have that pyramid eye on the front of my place. lookin' out at passersby all dispassionate and shit. the razorwire, 5G tower and surveillance camera panopticon would just be bonus.

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Usually you don't have walking access to a freeway anyway so the razorwire seems like a hat on a hat

[–] GreenTeaRedFlag@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

holy shit! two hats1

[–] princeofsin@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do these people still believe in the illuminati controlling the world or is that not a thing anymore?

[–] Spike@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

The mobile phone tower is hilarious. Oh no my phone has reception!!

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

The presence of cars implies the capacity to go to places of consumption at your leisure and discretion despite being surveilled. Like they're still getting treats made for them by a lower class person.

[–] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

looks like a sick drug trip tbh

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[–] ComRed2@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

Ironic seeing as they WANT a wall to be built around their country.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

I like to imagine these people’s vision of pod homes is a McPodMansion

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

Do most of the people whining about 15 minute cities even live in a city or a suburb of a city?

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The X? Is Elon now an adrenochrome illuminati zombie or whatever in the Qanon lore?

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[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ah David Dees you did the best art. FEMA Walmart forever!

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This is a bit right?

[–] M68040@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

They never had the MSG burgers and aspertame cola Dees promised me

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

As if the US government would ever pay for architecture as interesting as circuit-print

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