Fuck Cars
This community exists as a sister community/copycat community to the r/fuckcars subreddit.
This community exists for the following reasons:
- to raise awareness around the dangers, inefficiencies and injustice that can come from car dependence.
- to allow a place to discuss and promote more healthy transport methods and ways of living.
You can find the Matrix chat room for this community here.
Rules
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Be nice to each other. Being aggressive or inflammatory towards other users will get you banned. Name calling or obvious trolling falls under that. Hate cars, hate the system, but not people. While some drivers definitely deserve some hate, most of them didn't choose car-centric life out of free will.
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No bigotry or hate. Racism, transphobia, misogyny, ableism, homophobia, chauvinism, fat-shaming, body-shaming, stigmatization of people experiencing homeless or substance users, etc. are not tolerated. Don't use slurs. You can laugh at someone's fragile masculinity without associating it with their body. The correlation between car-culture and body weight is not an excuse for fat-shaming.
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Stay on-topic. Submissions should be on-topic to the externalities of car culture in urban development and communities globally. Posting about alternatives to cars and car culture is fine. Don't post literal car fucking.
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No traffic violence. Do not post depictions of traffic violence. NSFW or NSFL posts are not allowed. Gawking at crashes is not allowed. Be respectful to people who are a victim of traffic violence or otherwise traumatized by it. News articles about crashes and statistics about traffic violence are allowed. Glorifying traffic violence will get you banned.
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No reposts. Before sharing, check if your post isn't a repost. Reposts that add something new are fine. Reposts that are sharing content from somewhere else are fine too.
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No misinformation. Masks and vaccines save lives during a pandemic, climate change is real and anthropogenic - and denial of these and other established facts will get you banned. False or highly speculative titles will get your post deleted.
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No harassment. Posts that (may) cause harassment, dogpiling or brigading, intentionally or not, will be removed. Please do not post screenshots containing uncensored usernames. Actual harassment, dogpiling or brigading is a bannable offence.
Please report posts and comments that violate our rules.
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Do you actually need a pickup or does it serve as your emotional support vehicle that sometimes moves your recreational equipment around? I’m being dead serious because a fucking Ram almost ended my life last year when that prick struck me off the back of my bicycle, while I was on a bike road and he had the fucking balls to say I tried to cut in front of him.
He hit me at 30mph and shattered my hip, my foot and broke almost all my ribs on my left side. All because he wants to check a text message instead of pay attention. I almost bled out from the internal bleeding. I lost most of the feeling in my left thigh permanently and I can never ride another bicycle again, something I had done passionately since I was a little kid.
My company uses that same exact truck to haul around thousands of pounds of equipment from job site to job site so you better have a damn good reason for owning one that’s on par to commercial level work. Otherwise your just another small pricked asshole with a pickup you don’t actually need and you’re part of the problem.
Jfc…
Did you have something you want to add or was posting a three letter comment all you were capable of conjuring up.
I’m in a shitty fucking mood so I’m game if you are.
Nah I’m good. Haha
Not trying to exchange mood states with you bro.
I’ve calmed down and I over reacted a bit. Sorry. I have personal reason that’s I’m frustrated that isnt related to a 3 letter comment you made.
I’m not trying to use that as an excuse. Rather sorry I was being an ass.
I've got a sailboat, and motorcycles. If I want to move things around I can do it easily. I'm comfortable and have plenty of room as well. Just because you're traumatized doesn't mean I don't have the right to own something I can afford. I drive a tractor trailer around 6 days a week so it's not like a pickup truck is anything more than a large car.
You’re not gonna get much love on this forum for owning a pickup. Glad that you at least put it to use though.
He's a brave man for replying honestly. Lol
My opinion is that you don’t have a right to endanger other people for your own pleasure. It’s not just him. Many, maybe even most non-car users in the US have been hit by or had near misses with these excessively huge vehicles. They are too dangerous to drive in urban areas without a good reason. In my view they should require more rigorous licensing and be taxed heavily unless used for business purposes.
Yeah. So it’s an emotional support vehicle that sometimes moves your toys around.
You have the right to own it as much as I have the right to say you’re part of the fucking problem.
I’m also going to let the trauma thing go since I implied that you had a small dick but this has less to do with that and more so my belief that you need to have a CDL to operate those vehicles. Though I’d say it’s about a 20/80 split for trauma and belief after said trauma.
Well he does have a CDL if it makes you feel better.
Curious, what do you drive/how do you get around?