• dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
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    7 months ago

    When I see this comment it makes me wonder, how do you feel when you see someone driving a car?

    Should I feel guilty for owning a car. I’m 41 and I got my first car when I was 40, because I changed careers and it was 50 miles away.

    I rarely used it outside of work and it was a means to get me there. I now work remote 3 days so only drive 2.

    I don’t have social media or shop with companies like Amazon. I have just been to my first pro-Palestine protest.

    Am I to be judged for using a car?

    • machinin@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Probably not you personally, but the system, oil companies, and people like Musk and his followers that want to prioritize private driving over public transportation.

      I say fuck cars, and I have one too. I try to avoid using it, but it’s easy to be lazy. I’m also fortunate to live someplace with great public transportation.

      Don’t take it personally, just realize life can be better if we could learn to live without these huge power-hungry cargo containers taking us everywhere.

    • hydration9806@lemmy.ml
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      7 months ago

      I believe what they mean is “fuck car centric societal design”. No reasonable person should be mad that someone is using the current system to live their life (i.e. driving to work). What the real goal is spreading awareness that a car centric society is inherently isolating and stressful, and that one more lane does absolutely nothing to lessen traffic (except for like a month ish)