Seleni comments on Father Throws Chair at judge after Driver who Killed his Family got 120 Hours of Community Service

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (7 children)

farmers, miners, loggers, and other people doing important jobs that can't be done in the city

Still need cars to get to and from work, and in the case of farmers, their rural homes, dipshit.

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[–] DudleyMason@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I can't tell if you're so illiterate and incurious that you genuinely don't know that for most of human history those jobs have been done by people living where the work is,not if you're just a disingenuous fuckhead who was hoping I didn't know that. Either way I'm pretty sure that any further conversation had with you would be boring and pointless.

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[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (5 children)

And I don’t know if you’re just a moron who thinks they’re being funny, or if you really are that horrendously uneducated. Even farmers need to go to town from time to time for supplies, and perhaps to sell their produce. And towns generally aren’t where farms are, since farms, require, y’know, acreage.

As for loggers, they generally worked where they lived because of company towns, which if you’re ignorant of that charming part of human history, were very, very bad.

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[–] DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (4 children)

And thanks for proving there's no point in even discussing what's possible with you since you can't imagine anything different from what is.

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[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

‘Different from what is’? I thought we were talking about

People who use cars for personal transportation are sick, and need to be institutionalized for everyone's safety.

If that’s the difference you want, to lock up farmers, loggers, rural mail carriers, and the like, then I’d rather not imagine that, thanks.

Curious on your take on what to do with commercial truck drivers. Or do you think things like cut trees and the bulk of most farmers’ produce just magically teleports itself to where it needs to go?

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[–] DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

Since you can't understand the difference between "using a vehicle for work" and "personal transportation" there's really not much hope of this conversation being remotely interesting or enlightening.

A farmer driving produce to market in a truck is in no way ethically or functionally equivalent to a wannabe hermit driving 100 miles round trip for their kids pop warner practice in the next county over where they actually have enough people to build a football field.

For the similarly illiterate and unimaginative:

Delivery vehicles - good

Work vehicles - good

Emergency vehicles - good

Licensed, insured taxis - good

Buses and other mass transit - good

Personal vehicles - bad

Communities built to be unlivable without everyone having a personal vehicle - bad

People who defend using cars for personal transportation - bad

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[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 child)

I know that. But your original statement had no carve-outs, no caveats. You just wanted to lock up every single person with a car. It was only after you got pushback that you ‘permitted’ some people to have vehicles.

Kindly go soak your head.

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[–] DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 weeks ago*

Your inability to understand that "personal transportation" isn't inclusive of ambulances and work trucks doesn't mean I didn't say it exactly that way the first time. I didn't break out the crayons to draw you a picture until you made it clear you're illiterate.

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