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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from people I've talked to who do that (and me) it's usually to get away from other people before going inside somewhere. like the husband who chills in his car to avoid the wife, or the son who doesn't wanna go in to deal with the dad yet.
the car is a portable bubble, an escape, your own little contained environment in which you can exercise some form of control. a mini home away from home for some.
If you have to sit in your car for 3 hours to avoid your wife, you need a divorce. ๐คฃ
Same with any other situation, if you have to live in your car you need to change your living situation.
Not many people sit for 3 hours, but many sit for maybe half hour. you're exaggerating stuff.
And no, not many people can "change their living situation" with a snap of their finger either, because they're mostly trapped in that situation unwillingly, whether physically or mentally. That's why they chose escapism in some shape or form, and doomscrolling in their quiet car after a long day is one of em.
Yes, it's unhealthy but laughing at them as if you're superior helps no one and only makes people resent this community more. This community shouldn't be that literal.
I'm going to ignore you now for your bad faith arguments. You don't know my experiences, or the behavior of people in my area.
I think its weird and unhealthy, coping mechanism or not, and I refuse to pretend it isn't to make people comfortable. Check out exercise or therapy.
It's call "disagreement", sis. There's no bad faith in it.
You're the one being bad faith all over this post. But anyways, what I really wanted to comment is that it might be a unhealthy coping mechanism, but oftentimes it is the only one people have. Specially in the context of the US, people can't afford mental health care and a lot of people are overworked to the point they don't have any energy left to exercise. Just let them have their private alone time, you're a weirdo commenting on other's habits while displaying absolutely zero empathy to other's struggles.
I'm commenting on weird car habits in a "fuck cars" community, lines up pretty well if you ask me. Are you sure you're in the right community? I'm sure there's plenty of pro-car communities on Lemmy for you where you can enjoy discussing centering your life around your automobile over your home.
You claim I have zero empathy but you're the one arguing "fuck healthy or productive coping mechanisms living your life in your car is just as good and fuck you for saying that people should seek better options." GTFO with that nonsense.
Nice strawmans. You are really good at constructing them. I'm against cars, but I fight against the culprits, oil and manufacturing companies and corrupt politicians who run car centric policies under billionaires lobbying. I don't attack people who are forced into a lifestyle that leaves them no healthy avenues for mental health or that deprives them of healthier life choices. Yours is the logic that criminalize the homeless for sleeping in their cars in a public parking lot. You get out with your twisted logic. This is not about being cruel to the people forced to depend on cars, it is against the system that forces us all into that unhealthy lifestyle.