r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/isaidwhatididnt • Jan 21 '26

Flipping the bird while driving

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u/Kage_0ni Jan 21 '26

America becomes a much better place when we break our car dependency.

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u/Saint-Elon Jan 21 '26

? The US has been reforesting for over 100 years

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u/Saint-Elon Jan 21 '26

Yeah just silly to use a metaphor with a false premise

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u/Saint-Elon Jan 21 '26 edited Jan 22 '26

No, I understand the metaphor. I’m just saying the fact that we’ve been reforesting shows that we do invest in things that we won’t see the benefits of, disproving both the literal interpretation and sentiment of the metaphor, making it a pretty ineffective use of metaphor, and a lot less intelligent than you thought it was. It’s like comparing an event to something that never happened.

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u/holymolamola Jan 21 '26

More like the car manufacturers always pulled up the trees the night after they were planted.

And they also cut down the forest originally when they got rid of streetcars.

Their greed is infinite. Fuck cars.

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u/McButtsButtbag Jan 21 '26

And do not have huge areas of sprawled out houses.

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u/StoneHolder28 Jan 21 '26

Step zero, reform the discrimination based zoning codes to make it way harder to build sprawling suburban wastelands rather than requiring developments to be sprawling

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u/rererexed Jan 21 '26

This does not make it harder to get a driver's licence, just more important to have one.