• Juniper (she/her) 🫐
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    227 days ago

    I want to offer that cars have always involved government corruption. The invention of jaywalking, the corrupt development of the highways for “national security” while simultaneously hampering development of real public transit, the wars started for fuel, the extrajudicial killings of people threatening the fossil fuel industry with electric cars (historically), political corruption is the life blood of cars.

    • @Fedizen
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      26 days ago

      Its deeper than that, too. The nazis tried to ban bicycles in the netherlands going as far as confiscating them to melt them down.