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

[–] DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 weeks ago* (6 children)

Your inability to imagine anything different from the status quo doesn't mean it would starve people.

I can't tell if you're just too thick to understand a fairly simple concept, or if you're being disingenuous. Don't really care, either.

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[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Right now, if we got rid of all cars, people would be stranded in anything outside of major cities, and even in most cities there's food deserts. Oh and don't forget all the homeless people who live in their cars, there goes their shelter.

I mean, we can play make believe with a hypothetical world where cars don't exist and there's magical transport that works for individuals as well as groups that is harmless and makes no pollution if you don't like the "status quo" thinking of things like "real world consequences" and "basic empathy" and "understanding other people's living situations", but if you did that you wouldn't want to institutionalize people just for owning a car to survive.

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[–] DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

just for owning a car to survive.

No one needs a car to survive. A car is a convenience. Humans existed without them for millennia and if they all disappeared tomorrow we'd be just fine after a short period of chaos where we paid the price for a hundred years of batshit stupid infrastructure development.

But a bunch of whiny, fat ass, lazy assholes would suddenly have to learn that those funny things in the end of their legs are for more than selling pics of online, and a lot of people would suddenly find that they can't demand all the conveniences of modernity while trying to live like a hermit. And I know that for a lot of you that sounds so horrible you'd rather believe that you'd die, but you wouldn't.

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[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Good to know you hate the homeless

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[–] DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Good to know you're satisfied with the homeless living in cars. I find that this argument generally correlates with people who think cops should sweep homeless encampments when they're in tents and not cars (at least in their neighborhood).

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[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

I'm not fine with it, I've even been homeless before.

With the way things are now, with the system as it is, people need cars to survive. Sometimes for shelter, sometimes for food, and someone's for their job.

You, being a rabid asshole, are mad about this, and think they should be institutionalized, just because they own a car.

The people living in their cars have enough problems without the short-sighted, privileged, judgemental opinions of people like you to tell them they are monsters for trying to stay alive.

You wanna get mad at something? Get mad at the oil industry. Get mad at the auto industry. Get mad at rich assholes or judges who let people get a slap on the wrist for running people over.

But being acting high and mighty over people trying to survive when you don't have to do the same thing makes you a huge prick, and that's something that hurts any good cause you attach yourself to.

So for the sake of the encouragement and people trying to fix the car situation, shut the fuck up, at least till you get therapy.

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[–] DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 weeks ago

Whatever you have to tell yourself.

You wanna get mad at something? Get mad at the oil industry. Get mad at the auto industry. Get mad at rich assholes or judges who let people get a slap on the wrist for running people over.

I am. But I'm also mad at carbrained shitheads like you who refuse to even consider how to get to a world without them in it. You just throw your hands up because PeOpLe NEED tHeIr CaRs!!!!!!11!!!!!uno!!!1!

If you genuinely have nothing to say about it other than "shut up and accept the status quo" then the ultimate result of you existing is exactly the same as the oil executives, auto sales scum, and permissive, carbrained judges.

Fuck cars, and fuck you for driving one. And fuck anybody who thinks that's too extreme. Continuing to allow the planet to be destroyed for the convenience of lazy fat asses is too fucking extreme.

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