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Re: US DOT deleting bike lane references

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The world desperately needs less "Murica". It needs the U.S. to be weaker, poorer, less powerful and less influential. And both Trump and Xi-Jiping are delivering just that, thanks God.

The model seems to be Russia, which does not bode well for anyone.

Re: US DOT deleting bike lane references

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"Since nearly 80% of the population uses cars to get to work and their important medical appointments, we are taking a closer look at federal guidance to ensure American families have the infrastructure they need," the spokesperson said. "This is a common sense approach despite the Left's belief that everyone should ride a bike to their shoebox-sized apartment to eat crickets to achieve a phony climate agenda." Jumpi…

I don't get it. Aren't most bike lanes on the far right?

Re: US DOT deleting bike lane references

#23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Making things better is Progressive, and Progressive is woke, and woke is DEI. So to fight back against DEI find the things that make peoples’ lives better (like bike lanes) and destroy them. Just tear them up, and you’ve won the culture war and saved America. This is the official GOP policy, the best of what the GOP has to offer. Fight friends, betray allies, threaten your neighbors, drop bombs, smash bike lanes.

Don't forget the children, more milk and less vaccines.

raw milk, unpasteurized, right?

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What's a "DEI bike lane"? Like woke, DEI has lost all meaning at the political level of discourse. It's just whatever the current regime dislikes.

In a nearby suburban town, the GOP Chair forced a referendum on a road project. New York has a complete streets program where bike lanes and pedestrian friendly crossings are included in most projects. Iirc 4-5 people have died crossing this road. The call to action was that “those people” would use the bike lanes to leave the city, connect to the Democrat bike trail and rape, murder and rob the townsfolk. Old fearfu…

So much racism.

Re: US DOT deleting bike lane references

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What's a "DEI bike lane"? Like woke, DEI has lost all meaning at the political level of discourse. It's just whatever the current regime dislikes.

It's just a way to keep the culture war hot. They need people on Reddit mad, the media questioning what a DEI Bike Lane is and ridiculing, etc. The actual policy they've implemented, excluding the border, has so far been an abject disaster and even their own base is unhappy. "DEI Bike Lanes" is a way to throw their voters some red meat while stirring the pot.

Re: US DOT deleting bike lane references

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What's a "DEI bike lane"? Like woke, DEI has lost all meaning at the political level of discourse. It's just whatever the current regime dislikes.

In a nearby suburban town, the GOP Chair forced a referendum on a road project. New York has a complete streets program where bike lanes and pedestrian friendly crossings are included in most projects. Iirc 4-5 people have died crossing this road. The call to action was that “those people” would use the bike lanes to leave the city, connect to the Democrat bike trail and rape, murder and rob the townsfolk. Old fearfu…

Yep. Beverly Hills and Bel Air used the same argument to rally against new subway development near UCLA.

Re: US DOT deleting bike lane references

#29

"This is a common sense approach despite the Left's belief that everyone should ride a bike to their shoebox-sized apartment to eat crickets to achieve a phony climate agenda." The government we deserve. Nobody bother thinking coherent thoughts, insults and spurious non sequiturs are policy now.

That's one of the many problems I have with the current regime: they can't say anything without framing it as an opposition to some exaggerated bogeyman. I get it, politics is about messaging. But can't these fools, for once, rise above it and just do something without taking a jab?

Re: US DOT deleting bike lane references

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m getting somewhat sick of Christian Nationalist trolls running the US government.

Nothing can be done about it, so (shrug) praise the Lord and pass the Shell 93 octane, I guess. Can't fight a hundred-million strong cult.

There are many more non-cult people in the US, but they don't vote enough.

As long as the government is captured by Capital, however, it's hard to make the case for them to "vote harder".

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