“Rights” only make sense within an individualistic context. Rights can be asserted with violence alone, it is thus that only those with the capacity to express violence, or who can convince others to express violence on their behalf, have “rights.” We should, then, abandon the concept of “rights” entirely. We have, instead, obligations. We are obliged to defend the freedom of others that they may defend ours. We are obliged to support the community that has grown us. Our obligations build over time, and we fulfill them to the degree to which we have the ability to do so. We have obligations to our ancestors, and to those who come after us. Then we can’t simply walk away from others who are suffering and say, “I have my rights, and you have to fight for yours.”

This is simply more true to our reality than the concept of “rights” which itself comes from Roman laws about how men may control the slaves and women they “own.”

I’m sure Simone Weil said it better, but I only have a passing knowledge of her framework.

Cars are inherently reactionary.

Hey, what a cool way to find out about a really interesting community and term of which I hadn’t been aware. Cool stuff, subscribed!

I didn’t even realize she was still making content after whatever horrible take she had like 5 or 6 years ago or something. She did some great work early on, but unfortunately she kept going.

Call me when they go full on 1970’s urban guerilla and start kidnapping and executing oil execs, blowing up pipelines, and robbing banks that fund the industry. I honestly would be amazed if anything less worked.

Absolutely not.

This is Sports as a Weapon and InRangeTV. This is exactly what Tactical Girlfriend does. Anarchists and those who are close have been doing this FOR YEARS. Just stop ignoring us and listen to us.

Edit: I’m so sick of liberals erasing all of our work and then “coming up with a great strategy” that’s exactly the one we’ve been trying to get them to follow for almost a decade.

Edit: also, this is almost entirely the wrong take. Fash dump insane amounts of money in to brainwashing and the burning of the 3rd precinct was more popular than either political party. One fucking Luigi and their whole machine exploded in their face. The take away is that they are really fragile and really bad at this shit. We should celebrate and keep pushing.

You know what would help a lot? If liberals stopped fucking over leftists all the time. Just listen to anarchists instead of erasing us!

Edit: ffs.

Pretty sure the future isn’t every person carrying around multiple tons of steel with them every time they need some milk. The push isn’t to full sized electric cars, it’s to electric bikes and micro cars. But yes, China is doing both and the US auto Industry will collapse because it doesn’t care that people don’t want to drive something bigger than a tank.

It will not, but it will destroy everything it built and make capitalism impossible.

Then yeah, also congrats on not being American.

Oh, do you happen to have a military? That’s actually a big chunk of the reason Americans have such a high carbon footprint… That and an entire society built around making it almost impossible to live without a car.

Oh, you should stop by Amsterdam.

This is all that ever needs to be said any time anyone mentions the idea of a flying car.

https://youtu.be/6fcWOivJ6bs

No, I left because I had the opportunity to get out while there was still a chance. I grew up in the US, and I couldn’t do that to my children knowing I could get out.

https://youtu.be/oHlpmxLTxpw

But if you’re not able to leave the US, you can still make it better.

https://www.strongtowns.org/

The simple fact is that you have to live in a world without cars, or where cars are much more rare, because it simply isn’t possible to build a sustainable society around them. This isn’t even a climate thing, it’s simply geometry. Cars take up space. In order to make space for cars, density has to go down. High population places with low density can’t afford infrastructure because there isn’t a concentrated enough tax base. Basically, most US cities are insolvent and are ticking time bombs that will collapse, like Flint and Detroit in time. As Trump increases economic pressures, American cities will become bankrupt faster.

American infrastructure is crumbling all over the place, because no one can afford to fix it. That’s a car problem. Car infrastructure costs too much to maintain. That’s not even taking into account climate change. The US has never built back from several of the climate disasters that have destroyed critical infrastructure, and these will continue to accelerate.

The US was built around trains, horses, streetcars, and bikes. It’s only within the last 100 years that it’s been completely redesigned around cars. That experiment has been a complete failure, and it was only possible to try because of cheap fossil fuels. That’s gone… and I’m only talking about one of the many headwinds.

So you do have to live without cars. That’s not actually a question. The question is if you will do that on your terms or by the force of complete economic collapse.

I left behind all my friends, a high paying job, a big house with a garden we’d been working on for years, and everything else I lost and sold, to get out because I don’t believe people like you will be able to accept these facts. Oh, and before you say something about me never living outside of a city, I spent the majority of my first 20 years living in places like Gates, OR and Cobb, CA. You can google those if you care to.

It’s not ICE or EV, it’s cars or not cars. Cars are not sustainable.

Ok, what do cars travel on? What lithium do you use to make all the batteries? How do you make the all the steel you need for those wind farms and the power lines you need to get the energy from the farms? How do you store it?

I’m not going to go in to all the problems, but I don’t think you’ve every questioned this story.

0. Stop building everything around cars so people can choose not to buy a car.

Not wanting something to be true doesn’t make it false. Oh where have I heard people reject inconvenient truth before?

EVs were always a way to save the auto Industry, not a way to solve the climate crisis. Add them to the list of greenwashing grifts (carbon footprint, plastic recycling, hydrogen fuel cell cars, etc) and move on to the real solution: bike infrastructure and mass transit, with cars as an absolute last resort until they can be eliminated.

EVs solve one of the numerous problems with cars, and make some of the others much worse. People should have seen EVs as a grift the whole time, it just took the biggest grifter to blow his cover to start making it obvious.

It made a slight recovery, but it’s significantly lower than it was a year ago. It’s gone significantly down since the Tesla protests started. It’s not a real company, so at some point it’s going to crash anyway.