• Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works
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    12 hours ago

    Meanwhile, right wing parties in Quebec are fighting against a tramway project in Quebec city, that the entire country agreed to pay for, for which we have already invested half a billion, build stations, etc. They call it “War on cars”.

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      14 hours ago

      Honest fuck this.

      So you love driving and more people on the road will get off the road and take the train. It means you can drive even more! Why wouldn’t you want that.

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        10 hours ago

        Because the joy of driving isnt getting there fast or the union of man and machine or anything like that.

        It’s fucking up other people’s shit.

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        Because they don’t give a shit about driving? They care a lot more about their family members that own car dealerships, or are involved with the petrochemical industry.

        Or they saw that American rightwing grifters talk like this so they are cargo culting the fuck out?

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      14 hours ago

      The US has been fighting for years to put a high speed rail in between DC and New York. Every right-wing neighborhood in between is throwing signs out stop the maglev.