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> For biking, there's a danger that's noticed, and we quickly pass a law that straight up bans that type of bike for those riders. From my perspective it's the
by matheusmoreira 4mo ago
> For biking, there's a danger that's noticed, and we quickly pass a law that straight up bans that type of bike for those riders.
From my perspective it's the other way around. Bikers don't pay taxes, don't follow traffic laws, they generally do whatever they want with total impunity while the law actively protects them. Meanwhile drivers pay taxes, get ticketed for violations and have to bend over backwards in order to avoid killing the bikers.
- platinumrad 4mo agoPretty much none of your entire comment is true.
- mips_avatar 4mo agoEveryone I know who bike commutes also owns a car and pays taxes on it.
- matheusmoreira 4mo agoAnd I know plenty who don't own any actual vehicles, don't pay any taxes and yet they get to be a nuisance on the road with total impunity just because they are "smaller" than cars. Pedestrian enough to use pedestrian crossings without even getting off the bike, weave through people on sidewalks and generally be immune to traffic laws, yet vehicular enough to use the road and slow everybody else down, but not enough to get taxed, require traffic law education, licenses. Everything about bikes is a contradiction.
- platinumrad 4mo agoYou seem upset.
- mips_avatar 4mo agoAs someone who bike commutes my highest risk of dying this year is from biking. I've been hit twice biking in Seattle.
- matheusmoreira 4mo agoYeah, because it's an inherently unsafe vehicle which will drop you to the ground and cause major trauma at the slightest provocation. Just like motorcycles.
- mips_avatar 4mo agoIt wasn't a slight provocation that injured me, it was a car hitting me
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- isthatafact 4mo ago> "Bikers don't pay taxes" That is obviously false -- just ask any biker who is not a little kid or a billionaire.