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@ekuber @jwz https://unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-social-ideology-of-the-motorcar/

This essay crystallized it in my head. People who buy cars believe they are buying the right to go faster than anyone else. When stuck behind in vehicle traffic they don't mind, those people bought the promise too after all, but a cyclist is sabotaging the promise the motorist paid tens of thousands for.

Though they would deny it if asked, all motorists see cyclists merely existing as an act of aggression and act accordingly.

Like 28 June at 22:12 | Wall-to-wall | Open on hachyderm.io

4 comments

David S

@divclassbutton @ekuber @jwz like rice screaming at water for getting through the sieve first

29 June at 8:12 | Open on toot.bike

Marco van Burgsteden

@divclassbutton @ekuber @jwz Basically yes. Although less overt here in the Netherlands.

29 June at 14:57 | Open on urbanists.social

Charlie Stross

@divclassbutton @ekuber @jwz @quixoticgeek Cars are marketed as signifiers of personal freedom. Just turn on the TV and watch the ads, look for car ads that show the drivers commuting to work in heavy traffic … you won't find them, will you. Instead it's all winding roads in beautiful countryside and no other vehicles!

29 June at 15:05 | Open on wandering.shop

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@cstross

more perversely are the ads presented in an urban setting, with few if any pedestrians, cyclists, stop signs or signals, but most especially other ~~cars~~ light trucks, let alone enough to constitute "traffic"

@divclassbutton @ekuber @jwz @quixoticgeek

29 June at 16:08 | Open on mastodon.sdf.org