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> minor inconvenience to deal with sometimes if you're parked on the street in a city, you now need to deal with getting a pump or getting it towed which the l
by volkk 4y ago
> minor inconvenience to deal with sometimes
if you're parked on the street in a city, you now need to deal with getting a pump or getting it towed which the latter is hundreds of dollars. which isn't a minor inconvenience. and on top of that, if you can't move your car you now start getting parking tickets. everything costs time and money, and some people can't afford that. not all of us area SWEs making 300k.
this kind of activism doesn't do anything and is honestly naive and ultimate cringe. talk about the rich getting the poors to basically destroy each other while actively being preyed on. the car industry is so large and has such deep pockets that SUVs are here to stay unless actual lawmakers get together and do something differently. a few flat tires will do nothing more than enrage your fellow people and instead cause them to vote the opposite way only to spite the people that ruined their day/afternoon/weekend. and that's not even mentioning this type of stuff can get you actually killed in the wrong area.
this website feels like a project created by a sheltered, clueless college kid who thinks theyre changing the world
- bluecalm 4y agoI don't know why you accuse me of elitism when SUVs endanger exactly people who aren't rich and can't afford to drive a car let alone an expensive one like a SUV. Cheaper options (walking, cycling, taking public transport and then walking) are more dangerous because of others choosing to drive huge vehicles. I want it to stop. I support form of protest that impose inconvenience to try to stop dangerous behavior that causes thousands of senseless deaths per year.
- volkk 4y agoi accuse you of elitism because you support the tactics which only elitists would be proud of. most normal humans who need to get to work and don't make a lot of money don't think this way. the issue doesn't lay with people who buy SUVs but with prior campaigns that introduced them into the country, the large swaths of money that have created this market and that is continuing growing larger. its become a snowball effect because nowdays, driving a smaller car is actually more dangerous and so people that don't even want an SUV originally (someone like myself) are getting one or want one, because if i ever get into a car accident, i have a higher risk of death. A LOT of people think this way, and so it has nothing to do with the types of people that think like "i want a bigger car to compensate for something or because theyre super cool bro", those people are in the minority. it's that they're safer given the already vast amounts of SUVs out there, especially for people with kids. so the whole premise of flattening tires, or destruction of other people's properties is idiotic at best, and dangerous at worst. you really think someone exhausted with a 3 year old who finds their car's flat tire and that absolutely stupid sticker on their windshield is going to be convinced? you've instead just enlisted an enemy who will actively vote against "ban SUVs." good luck with that campaign.