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  • WoahWoah@lemmy.worldtoFuck Cars@lemmy.world[meme] THE CHIMERA
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    4 hours ago

    Sorry for triggering you, bro. But the cartoonist is trans, lives in New York, the comics where she is depicted are regularly set in NYC, the comic specifically references “in the last two years,” she regularly makes comics about Trump, I specified in the United States, bicycle deaths from cars rapidly increased in the US starting in 2016 and reached their highest ever in 2022 (the last year with comprehensive data), and pedestrian deaths from cars increased 83% since 2009 with a larger increase occurring in the second half in the 2010s.

    The comic isn’t directly about the fact that people in cars behave poorly around bikes and pedestrians in the last four decades. It clearly addresses the recent spike in aggressive behavior from motorists, especially towards pedestrians and, by extension, cyclists.





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    8 hours ago

    Why are you beside them at an intersection? That’s pretty dangerous. You should either be directly in front of them or directly behind them. No one cares about where you “can be” as a cyclist when you’re pinned under the wheel of a car bleeding out.

    From one cyclist to another, don’t pull up beside a car at an intersection. If it’s a stop sign, take the lane and get directly behind the vehicle and act like a car. If it’s a light and you have time, pull directly in front of the lead car. Your acceleration off a green light will far surpass a car.



  • WoahWoah@lemmy.worldtoFuck Cars@lemmy.world[meme] THE CHIMERA
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    8 hours ago

    In the US at least, Trump has validated half the country to express naked contempt for anyone they deem “other.” This includes: any person of color, any woman, anyone younger than them, anyone that “looks” educated, anyone walking, anyone on a bicycle, and anyone in an electric car, among others.





  • No one would want that job. People usually do it out out a simple sense of civic duty. Not to get screamed at and threatened at the behest of a presidential candidate. Georgia is going to be an absolute shit show, and democrats have done absolutely nothing about it, and, functionally, it is now far too late.

    They are going to fail to certify when results look suspicious, aka, the person they want to win didn’t get more votes. And then courts will try to legally compel them, and that could take a long time… and it’s even possible it fails. Good thing Georgia isn’t an important state in this election.