If possible take the trains, if there are no trains take the bus, if there are no busses bike, if no bike than walk, if you cannot walk because the infrastructure is that hostile move to somewhere with trains (like NY or Chicago but ideally NY)
Seriously though, the amount of money I saved by not owning a car gets me a pretty nice place in a city with transit, it’s not great transit but I can’t afford a larger city like Vancouver. Unfortunately where I live is also notoriously hostile towards pedestrians and cyclists.
I live in NYC completely car free, I take the subway everywhere and I just can’t imagine my life without a good transportation system. I would genuinely recommend anyone who lives in a hostile area with no transit move.
my friend got sucker punched on the bus by a homeless person he was minding his own business the way nerds do and POW so ya ill take my capitalism 20 year old ford ranger thanks very much
The person probably wouldn’t have been homeless if not for capitalism. I also make a habit of not believing third hand stories off the internet.
Maybe disenfranchised people who are forced to live in the street have something to be angry about in a system that trains the wage slaves to dehumanize the people who don’t fit in the same box so that we have something to fear if we stop contributing to the machine.
“Don’t be like him, Little Timmy. You need to go to school and be a good little cog in the machine until you get ill or make a mistake and then it will abandon you and villify you for not being a perfect cog for the billionaires to use up like an infinite resource.”
You’re operating under the assumption that every homeless person is homeless because they are down on their luck and can’t afford housing.
That is not the entire homeless population, and probably not the population that assaults random people on the bus.
Not to say that those people deserve to be homeless, but you can’t make the assumption that capitalism is the reason they’re homeless. There are absolutely homeless people who choose to not take their meds and/or stop doing drugs and refuse housing and assistance offered to them.
Clearly you do not understand: 1) how addictions work, 2) how mental illnesses that aren’t addiction work, or 3) that almost no one chooses to be homeless but people do fuck up.
There is no excuse to dehumanize anyone and if you’ve got yourself convinced that these people somehow got themselves where they are then you’ve fallen for the capitalist propaganda cause guess what? People who are happy, stable, and well provided for do not generally start doing drugs and people with good mental health support do not typically just stop taking their meds, but people who are comfortable with the status quo will make any excuse to make sure they get to keep what they have while ignoring that everyone has a right to that same comfort but some people need extra help getting there.
My peers are dying due to this mindset.
Just because a measure is effective does not mean it isn’t nessecary.
Don’t need seat belts, people are rarely dying…
I’m not sure I get it because red light cameras do work.
They’re designed to take pictures of the license plates of vehicles which illegally run a red light so that a traffic ticket can be issued to the driver. This ensures that the driver will have the infraction on the record and that the jurisdiction makes some (mostly) passive income.
If red light cameras worked we wouldn’t need them.
Traffic and car-centrism exist because of capitalism. Fuck the man, take the bus.
If possible take the trains, if there are no trains take the bus, if there are no busses bike, if no bike than walk, if you cannot walk because the infrastructure is that hostile move to somewhere with trains (like NY or Chicago but ideally NY)
Seriously though, the amount of money I saved by not owning a car gets me a pretty nice place in a city with transit, it’s not great transit but I can’t afford a larger city like Vancouver. Unfortunately where I live is also notoriously hostile towards pedestrians and cyclists.
I live in NYC completely car free, I take the subway everywhere and I just can’t imagine my life without a good transportation system. I would genuinely recommend anyone who lives in a hostile area with no transit move.
my friend got sucker punched on the bus by a homeless person he was minding his own business the way nerds do and POW so ya ill take my capitalism 20 year old ford ranger thanks very much
Homeless people also exist because of capitalism
Not true at all, homeless people exist whether capitalism does or not, everywhere, all the time.
Change your position to align with reality as we know it, please and thank you
Must be an interesting reality you live in. You must have another reality to compare that doesn’t have capitalism?
The person probably wouldn’t have been homeless if not for capitalism. I also make a habit of not believing third hand stories off the internet.
Maybe disenfranchised people who are forced to live in the street have something to be angry about in a system that trains the wage slaves to dehumanize the people who don’t fit in the same box so that we have something to fear if we stop contributing to the machine.
“Don’t be like him, Little Timmy. You need to go to school and be a good little cog in the machine until you get ill or make a mistake and then it will abandon you and villify you for not being a perfect cog for the billionaires to use up like an infinite resource.”
You’re operating under the assumption that every homeless person is homeless because they are down on their luck and can’t afford housing.
That is not the entire homeless population, and probably not the population that assaults random people on the bus.
Not to say that those people deserve to be homeless, but you can’t make the assumption that capitalism is the reason they’re homeless. There are absolutely homeless people who choose to not take their meds and/or stop doing drugs and refuse housing and assistance offered to them.
Clearly you do not understand: 1) how addictions work, 2) how mental illnesses that aren’t addiction work, or 3) that almost no one chooses to be homeless but people do fuck up.
There is no excuse to dehumanize anyone and if you’ve got yourself convinced that these people somehow got themselves where they are then you’ve fallen for the capitalist propaganda cause guess what? People who are happy, stable, and well provided for do not generally start doing drugs and people with good mental health support do not typically just stop taking their meds, but people who are comfortable with the status quo will make any excuse to make sure they get to keep what they have while ignoring that everyone has a right to that same comfort but some people need extra help getting there.
This perfectly encapsulates my comment, thank you.
My peers are dying due to this mindset. Just because a measure is effective does not mean it isn’t nessecary. Don’t need seat belts, people are rarely dying…
I’m not sure I get it because red light cameras do work.
They’re designed to take pictures of the license plates of vehicles which illegally run a red light so that a traffic ticket can be issued to the driver. This ensures that the driver will have the infraction on the record and that the jurisdiction makes some (mostly) passive income.
Which part is not working?
The act of having them to enforce fines is designed to stop people illegally passing, not to find raise. However, people still illegal go through.