r/fuckcars / Not Just Bikes / Urbanists / New Urbanism / Car-Free / Anti-Car - People and grifters who hate personal transport, freedom, cars, roads, suburbs, and are obsessed with city planning and urban design

[Xarpho's Return]

Looking at the cards on their site, it's like the World Economic Forum made a board game. There are cards about accepting lower living standards, globalism, women's empowerment, open borders, universal healthcare, democracy, wealth redistribution, and switching to plant-based diets.

Sounds fun. Can't wait for the expansion pack where you can fix elections, groom vulnerable kids into become mass shooters, and use the state to destroy nuclear families.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

Sounds fun. Can't wait for the expansion pack where you can fix elections, groom vulnerable kids into become mass shooters, and use the state to destroy nuclear families.

Do you think the "cut of Eastern European forests" is an environment card or save the nature card?

Hoping for the"destabilize eastern Europe to keep wages low" card with a gold trim.

 

[JJLiautaud]

The auto lobbyist are at it again

I love how this doesn't even acknowledge the fact that fossil fuels are among the densest sources of energy known to man, and how that might be a contributing factor to their popularity for transport:


I mean once you understand this chart there's a reason why gasoline and diesel are the undisputed kings of powering personal transport vehicles for 100+ years running.
Nothing to these people have technical limitations are the products of engineering tradeoffs its all propaganda by whatever disfavored industry causing people to act this way.

 

[DavidS877]

Internal Combustion Engines Phaseout Link / Archive

I would be very surprised if the total lifetime environmental cost of my electric pickup isn't far more than a nice efficient gas powered econobox.

 

[Yamamura]

There is also a board game about "climate change". It includes some r/fuckcars tropes as playing cards.

Gross they even have the disgusting globalhomo art.

It would be hilarious if there was an alternate team the other players could play as "big oil".

 

[TowinKarz]

There’s one other limit which is you can’t go supersonic.

Also, before you reach supersonic, you get into the "transonic" flight regime where things get markedly WORSE from a performance/fuel consumption standpoint because the compression of the air as you near the sound barrier becomes just one big source of turbulence around the entire aircraft, not only sapping efficiency but making it dangerous to fly as it can mess with your flight controls.

This persists until you punch through that wall and go full supersonic.

So if you can't go supersonic? Don't even bother going much faster than "normal" for a jet.

Convair tried it in the 60's when they rolled out their model 880 and 990 jets that were faster than a 707 or DC-8, and specifically built for that transonic part of the graph, but , turned out that beating your competitors to the gate by 30 minutes wasn't worth the fuel bills (and higher ticket prices) of flying in that "almost supersonic" envelope. They were not good selling aircraft and were quickly discontinued.

According to the Cyclofags, all of these will be significantly reduced by banning cars and embracing cycling and public transport everywhere.

And, I suppose once you get to be 80 and have worn-out knees, and a bad heart, and no stamina anymore, and can't really ride a bike, through no fault of your own, THEN what?

Just die right?

Those who can't bike won't eat, right?

I mean, when these pro-bike people get to be 60, 70 , 80, they'll SURELY line up for MAID with a smile, right? What's good for the oldsters today is good for them in 50 years, right? RIGHT?!

It would be hilarious if there was an alternate team the other players could play as "big oil".

I'm thinking we'd have to create a Magic: The Gathering style game for them, where black mana and "evil" spells are the domain of those with oil wells for land, creatures like "Monster F-350" 4/6 with trample, all kids on the board get -1/-3 and instants/interrupts like "drive over protestors" "murder inventor of reliable fusion power"

 

[Lemon-Lime Turpentine]

Sounds fun. Can't wait for the expansion pack where you can fix elections, groom vulnerable kids into become mass shooters, and use the state to destroy nuclear families.

Basically. I am surprised there did not seem to be a card about eating bugs or one about abolishing private ownership and making everything subscription and rental based.

fix elections

There is a card that calls for making sure every migrant gets permanent residency and ID cards. I suppose if you count mass altering the demographics of the electorate as a "fix".

Inclusive Immigration Link / Archive

(two other open borders cards: Climate Immigration Link / Archive, Migrants' Rights Agreement Link / Archive)

groom vulnerable kids into become mass shooters

There's a card for encouraging kids to be activists / protestors.

Youth Climate Movement Link / Archive

use the state to destroy nuclear families.

Well, the Women's Empowerment one made me laugh, because the very first sentence makes sure you include trans and nonbinary folx:

Women's Empowerment Link / Archive



I don't want to just keep posting every card in the game. But one more:

Clean Cookstoves Link / Archive - I assumed this one would be about getting rid of gas stoves, but it's actually about sending solar powered stoves to Africa and India so people stop burning cow poop for cooking fuel.



I spoke too soon. Getting rid of your gas oven is in there too:

 

[Bonesjones]

Saw this earlier, I'm sure you can guess every comment was overly supportive of bikes being "policed".

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Youth Climate Movement Link / Archive

For people that see "Nazism" everywhere I'm sure that somehow THIS gets overlooked when comparing it to a certain "youth movement" meant to breed footsoldiers for the new regime.

 

[Lady Bizness]

There is a card that calls for making sure every migrant gets permanent residency and ID cards. I suppose if you count mass altering the demographics of the electorate as a "fix".

Inclusive Immigration Link / Archive

(two other open borders cards: Climate Immigration Link / Archive, Migrants' Rights Agreement Link / Archive)

So that everyone can live where they want? How are we going to fit 8b+ people at the beach? Jesus these people are stupid.

 

[Meriasek]

And, I suppose once you get to be 80 and have worn-out knees, and a bad heart, and no stamina anymore, and can't really ride a bike, through no fault of your own, THEN what?

Just die right?

Those who can't bike won't eat, right?

I mean, when these pro-bike people get to be 60, 70 , 80, they'll SURELY line up for MAID with a smile, right? What's good for the oldsters today is good for them in 50 years, right? RIGHT?!

Obviously, if you cycle you will live in perfect fitness up to a much higher age. Look at the Netherlands (tm) where all the old people cycle, which is good because they're fit and healthy and we'll ignore how Jason explains the Netherland accident statistics with that.
Also, E-bikes exist, carbrain. If they lack stamina like a typical r/fuckcar user today, they can just use E-bikes. And when they're too old they'll have their families immigrant helpers within 15 minutes to help them.
Everything is improved by embracing the bicycle. And everything not improved was not worth it anyway.

 

[An Sionnach Seang]

I mean, when these pro-bike people get to be 60, 70 , 80, they'll SURELY line up for MAID with a smile, right? What's good for the oldsters today is good for them in 50 years, right? RIGHT?!

not to mention those that get an injury at 35 (or a congential condition) that cripples them for life
"if you can't handle living in the Superior Future, maybe you shouldn't be living at all"

So that everyone can live where they want? How are we going to fit 8b+ people at the beach? Jesus these people are stupid.

oh no, not everyone - just a politically favoured elite
can't have those racist, sexist, (...) [X]ist plebs leaving their boxes, can we now!

 

[Yamamura]

I mean, when these pro-bike people get to be 60, 70 , 80, they'll SURELY line up for MAID with a smile, right? What's good for the oldsters today is good for them in 50 years, right? RIGHT?!

I've seen in my town what public transit is like for disabled/elderly people. You have to book an appointment in advance to be picked up by a mobility van that transports you to the nearest subway station. On the subway itself you just have to hope the other passengers comply with allocating you space in the designated wheelchair space. Truly I don't envy the disabled who are forced to take it.

Or as fuckcars would tell them, "suck it up, you're just a quitter" and come up with some asinine cope of how they can actually ride a "bike" despite not having legs or something.


In a way just like the gun, the car is sort of the great equalizer. It allows certain people who might be vulnerable feel like they can get around safely from place to place being protected by a metal cage they can lock themselves into. Of course fuckcars hates this as they think the occupant SHOULD be vulnerable to the mobs outside to drag them out and beat them.

 

[TowinKarz]

In a way just like the gun, the car is sort of the great equalizer. It allows certain people who might be vulnerable feel like they can get around safely from place to place being protected by a metal cage they can lock themselves into. Of course fuckcars hates this as they think the occupant SHOULD be vulnerable to the mobs outside to drag them out and beat them.

You do have to wonder about what motivates a person who gets angry at the very notion of autonomy......

 

[Sexy Peach Emoji]

High Speed Rail Link / Archive

The laptop caste chauvinism is showing again! Not everyone has a job that allows them to work remotely. In fact, I would wager the majority doesn't.

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

The laptop caste chauvinism is showing again! Not everyone has a job that allows them to work remotely. In fact, I would wager the majority doesn't.

If you have a job that can be done fully remote, than you have a job that Vwill be Outsourced to India.

 

[ComStar]

I'm thinking we'd have to create a Magic: The Gathering style game for them, where black mana and "evil" spells are the domain of those with oil wells for land, creatures like "Monster F-350" 4/6 with trample, all kids on the board get -1/-3 and instants/interrupts like "drive over protestors" "murder inventor of reliable fusion power"

Black is Big Oil and fossil fuels, Red is internal combustion and nuclear power.

Blue is hydropower and fuckhuge offshore wind farms, White is solar and insufferable moral high grounds. Green is folded into these two since it's all eco-communism in the end

It would be a miserable game to design, balance and most of all play.

*EDIT* Jesus i just though some more about it. Turns split into seasons, mandatory mana upkeep fluctuating with demand and a special Intermittent rule for Wind.

the more i think about it, the worse it fucking gets. Maybe i'll stick to the Democracy series...

 

[TowinKarz]

The laptop caste chauvinism is showing again! Not everyone has a job that allows them to work remotely. In fact, I would wager the majority doesn't.

I remember during COVID the number of clueless Karens upset that so many were ignoring the "essential workers only" mandate, and the "work from home" edict and still going to their jobs at shops and factories and warehouses........ not only do they not know how the sausage is made, they aren't even aware it doesn't just "pop" into existence without some kind of work away from a computer.

If you have a job that can be done fully remote, than you have a job that Vwill be Outsourced to India.

Or a computer program written in India....

 

[Free the Pedos]

There is also a board game about "climate change". It includes some r/fuckcars tropes as playing cards

This is exactly the kind of thing fundie Christians do, with equally cringe results.

 

[Tootsie Bear]

Well, the Women's Empowerment one made me laugh, because the very first sentence makes sure you include trans and nonbinary folx:

Women's Empowerment Link / Archive

This is some of the funniest shit I have seen in a long time. Imagine these guys at a women's support group. Before anyone has a chance to speak, they'll stand up and make it all about trans and nonbinary, and anyone who dares question is a TERF.