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America is fucked (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 1 week ago by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world

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[–] albert180@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

Nothing to do with America.

I've seen the same asocial behaviour in Paris, when I was sitting on a bench near Notre dame.
There you can see a bridge over the Seine, and on the other side there is a hospital (I don't know if it still operates, they've planned on closing it back then).

There was also an ambulance driving there, and it took it also over 10 Minutes to cross that bridge.
It was really mindboggling to me.

In my small town in Germany it works well though. Might be just a problem with bigger cities in general.

[–] Burbour@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Of course the ambulance have a reinforced bumper. I think the cars would move out of the way if it means that your gets damaged of you don't

[–] tipicaldik@lemmy.world -5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This guy is smug as fuck... is he really equating heavy traffic in NYC to all of America?

[–] Habahnow@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

yes. kind refreshing to see that it isn't just american influencers that make emotionally charged and shitty content.

[–] albert180@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

There was plenty of space to give way. But his "ja" at the end of every sentence makes my blood boil too

[+] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz -6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

New York City already decided it is ok for let people get murdered in plain daylight for no reason, there is an immense, mountain moving amount of wealth in NYC and yet there is destitute homeless everywhere on the streets struggling to survive.

The fact that wealthy people who live in NYC aren't ashamed that they live in one of the most powerful cities on earth and yet it still fails to take care of its poorest citizens in an even remotely humane way tells you everything you need to know about who has control of NYC.

This is just an another expression of it.

[–] sittinonatoilet@sopuli.xyz -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is a bunch of BS. Have you ever even been to the city?

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

yes, ok, I edited my post, I am not saying everyone living in NYC is trash, I am not trying to dunk on the people, ughh I did this recently with LA lol, I am talking about the city, not the people living in the city, the city and its politics and the limitations imposed by the rich on what can and can't happen and how much useless delaying action the rich can deploy to forestall what the majority of a clearly pretty vibrant place desires.

All this being said, to a degree yes I am insulting NYC for becoming more conservative in a lot of ways over the last couple of years (I will absolutely shit on NYC for all of the neoliberal fearmongering around the subway being full of crime and pouring funding into policing people for not paying $0.73 fares, yes, it is embarrassing and NYC should be embarassed), of course you can't make any great generalizations about 10 million people, but it is a trend in east coast/northeast culture I have observed and yes I do think NYC typifies it while still wanting to pretend it is the liberal center of the free world.

shrugs

I have been to NYC many times, I know a decent amount of people that live there and will always consider it home. There is a reason I don't visit more lol, besides the fact that I always go broke (even though the food is awesome no doubt).

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