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We had some winners in my city a few years ago.
Here’s my favorite quote from that article:
“The money is in the car,” Comrie insists. “Who’s the spender? Does a bicyclist go and buy sporting goods, or furniture, or clothing? Or are they just out for a ride?”
Does this guy think cyclists are sitting naked in empty apartments wishing they had clothes and furniture? Luckily he did not win the election.
I have a lot more money to buy shit ever since i rid myself of that money pit we call a car…
He did say the money was in the car, he just didn’t mean to imply that a car is a hole in the road that you throw money into.
Is that guy a blatantly lying piece of shit, or just a moron?
In factual reality, cyclists buy more stuff than motorists, not less!
See also:
Why, the cyclist needs no clothes or food, for the cyclist is sub-human and is therefore an animal (what these car-brained people probably think)
Not “probably,” “certainly!” It’s proven by research: https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/more-than-half-of-motorists-view-cyclists-as-subhuman-cockroaches
Yeah, “serious” cycling — a sport where a $1k bike barely qualifies as a bike, $5k gets you something rideable, and $10k gets you a pretty decent bike — is so anti-consumer!
(I love cycling, and I’ll defend spending more on my power meter pedels than I would spend on a decent used bike. More bike lanes everywhere please!)
US here with bonus points for a conservative city in the bible belt. I see people literally just driving in circles around the block or up and down the street endlessly almost every day. Multiple times a week at least. Don’t fucking tell me drivers only do so with purpose. eyeroll.gif
No you don’t.
It is exactly what some people I know do. If there’s a lot of car enthusiasts or bored teens old enough to drive in that area I can believe seeing that kind of thing. Although I do think it’s an exaggeration.
Although I do think its an exaggeration
“Almost every day?” Maybe, depending, but not always. Which is why I fell back on multiple times a week which is depressingly not an exaggeration.
Almost every day? Bullshit. Those people are driving somewhere for some purpose, this dude is just too stupid and hateful to realize it.
It’s not even limited to the US. In Finland it’s called “pilluralli”, “pussy-rally”, and the general associations are of 18-19-year-olds of lower socioeconomical class.
You’re awfully angry over a passing internet comment and are trying to argue an absolute because of it. Perhaps you’re the stupid and hateful one here?
They only think of cycling for sport and not cycling to a destination. That’s where the confusion lies.
I really hate that that’s treated as a legitimate argument as opposed to a criticism of capitalism
Less bike lanes
100% he’s going to make that happen
and cheaper parking
0% he’s going to make that happen
Free market, bitches! Prices. Only. Go. Up!
wait why would less bike lanes make anything cheaper?? it’s just sectioning off a portion of the road?
You turn the bike lane into street parking. No idea how this makes things cheaper, but I guess the argument is two extra parking spots per block is going to make all the difference.
yeah some dude paying 7 bucks an hour while he picks up taco bell (idk the hourly rate for parking im not american) is gonna break profit records
This politician isn’t American either, this is in Sydney
Bike lanes might have lead to cheaper parking due to fewer cars.
Car-brains don’t do standard logic, only car-logic…
Oh look, another old white man with stupid ideas
Is that a Tram in the background ?
Hahahahah ironic
But he’s posing in front of a tram? Make it make sense!
It won’t make sense if there is no need to
Fewer*
I guess regardless of country, people pushing shit like this can’t seem to make a natural looking facial expression. Its like they try to replicate what happy people look like to them in order to get the response they see others receive but the best they can do is the trail leading into the uncanny valley
The candidate for rich people who resent poor people.
always has been
Probably owns a few parking lots.
That just means more cyclists on the roads.
That will just make people like him angrier. Good
You need to carry a marker and draw devils horns whenever you see his poster. Colouring in the QR code to make it not work is a bonus too.
I should just carry a bunch of QR stickers of various sizes that link to shock sites.
I think devil horns would actually make him look less evil. It would distract from the deep void that hid behind his sunken black eyes and reptile smooth head, the void where his humanity and compassion for the safety of others had once been many decades ago.
exactly, draw penises and a mustache on him instead
Then edit the
less*fewer as well
Unsurprisingly, a former candidate for the Liberal (conservative) party: https://web.archive.org/web/20220518064350/https://cityofsydneyliberals.webflow.io/candidate/sam-danieli
Perhaps he was too crazy even for them.
He’s still a party member, it’s listed in his candidate information sheet. Badly Scanned PDF
Meanwhile, if successful, they’d probably complain about traffic and blame it on cyclists being slow in the car lanes
I pledge to do absolutely nothing about parking prices, but will try to slow down the cycle lane projects
