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The woke left want to take away your traditional transportation! Trains are our heritage and what made our country so great! Trains burn big beautiful clean coal, some say the cleanest.
Very interesting perspective.
yep. learning their diction and rhetorics works wonders!
Now Let's get these traditional means of transportation going!
Rephrasing ideas to avoid buzzwords will get you far in Yankee discourse.
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Interesting, considering (motorized) public transit is not that old, and bikes are even newer (cca 80 and 20 years prior to the automobile, respectively, depending on location)
I think you missed the part where they are lying to the conservatives to get them on board with things that are actively good for them
I wouldn't call it lying. The traditional means of transportation is walking, people have been doing it for thousands of years.
Unfortunately, conservatives are known to claim that things that have been happening for thousands of years are actually new
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Reframing a topic in verbiage that's amenable to your audience isn't lying, it's just not being a moron who knows how to talk to people.
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interested but skeptical.
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Another major bonus is the fact that it only takes about a weekend of study to learn how to maintain and repair 99% of bike parts. Also, far cheaper parts. And also free bonus exercise.
free bonus exercise
Which allows you to enjoy even more freedom fries!
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Another major bonus is that learning how to bike doesn't bleed the wallet, while my talentless ass trying to learn to drive a car does.
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Broke: biking is unsafe
Woke: biking doesn't require government issued privledge
Bespoke: Biking gives you a fat ass and chiseled calves
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Actually, bikes really are far left and a tool for liberty. They were especially significant in the US movements for feminism and women's suffrage, as bicycles allowed women to scootle around on their own, where before they were restricted by access to horses and male escort. (Yes, I used the verb to scootle.)
Also bicycles encouraged women's fashion to allow for pants, which were utilitarian for bicycling sooner than they were for equestrian riding.
(Bicycles also encouraged the paving of roads before automobiles dominated them.)
Many opponents to women's suffrage (to women's rights and women's autonomy) also opposed bicycles. Including the Roman Catholic Church. The Holy See asserted that bicycles, especially tandem bikes, were an instrument of the devil.
So bikes are Satan-approved!
Some recent useful videos (on YouTube):
Rebecca Watson's take after SoT Sean Duffy decided bike lanes are woke
The Bicycle Episode of Climate Town with help from Not Just Bikes
that is crazy
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Car[...]Requires regular inspection
Not in most areas, unfortunately
Fundamentally not a serious country
For a long time Vermont allowed people living out-of-state to register their vehicles in Vermont and get a VT license plate. They do require inspections but if you were out of state and never actually went to Vermont, the inspection requirement was irrelevant. This was often used by the skoolie (school bus converted to motorhome) community to get a bus registered and legal before it was converted to a motorhome (at which point you can register it normally in most states). And it was used generally by people with shitty old cars that couldn't pass an inspection and didn't have a valid title. However, they closed this loophole three years ago and now you can't newly register an out-of-state vehicle there any more.
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Time to start selling tactical bicycles
You joke but I actually did 3D-print a picatinny rail for my bike handles to install a flashlight lol
Most of the headlights out there kind of suck anyway, I really prefer a decent flashlight.
Good flashlight: 15 bucks
Really good flashlight with a wide beam: 30 bucks
just-barely-acceptable- bike lamp: 40 bucks.
Getting a rail for my bike sounds like an excellent idea!
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Bonus points for including authentic WW1/WW2 images in your promo material. Stealth!
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Okay a funny, where I went to high school, a kid got pulled over for biking too fast. He was going like 20+, had nice road bike and strong legs, in a school zone. He didn't get a ticket but it was funny.
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Most places i feel you can get away with riding drunk. Not swervey drunk, but more intoxicated than you should drive in a car. I don't feel cops really care too much for drunk cyclists.
I mention this, because some people drive drunk in a 2 ton vehicle capable for killing or maiming others. Those same drivers on a bicycle would be better (though there's still a chance for injury and death, more of that risk is to the rider than others)
Be careful, you can accidentally make an error and and end up getting hit and killed, I love cycling but it can be dangerous.
Depending on the state, you can still get a DUI for riding a bike while drunk.
In the Netherlands, it's technically illegal to ride a bike while drunk (or operate any other vehicle). But they pretty much never test or ticket anyone, because if people start getting tickets for cycling drunk, they're just going to drive instead.
I personally know more people who've gotten somewhat badly injured biking drunk (clipless pedals...) than who have hurt themselves or others driving... (1 vs 0)
Actually now that i think about it, the car accident people i know are dead, that's why i didn't remember... (2 fatalities that i can think of, not sure if alcohol was even involved).
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What this will do, is make them want the right to drive unregistered, untested vehicles that run on used frying oil.
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Except you can't kill people nor highlight your need to compensate for something with a bike
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You greatly underestimate the police if you think biking privellages can't be revoked.
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Have been seen seeing a LOT of e-scooter and e-bikes around lately. The e-bikes are classified as power assisted bicycles so no license or insurance is required in most states.
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I support fuckcars and njb in general but they really do be sounding like that
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