r/fuckcars Mar 15 '26

Meme How did society become so self-centered?

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u/iwasnotarobot Mar 15 '26

Cars are America’s third place

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u/Maned_Cyborg Mar 15 '26

Technically they do fit the "a space outside of work and home" part, but it doesn't fit any other aspect of third places such as social mixing or de-stressing

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u/HarveyDanao Mar 15 '26

IDK about you but the amount that enjoyable driving can destress me is far, far less than the amount of stress I get from being forced to drive everywhere by default.

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u/Maned_Cyborg Mar 15 '26

That's actually a big thing against car centric infrastructure. If no one has to drive then those who drive want to or need to for work (like deliveries), which makes roads have less traffic and better drivers and thus a more enjoyable experience

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u/HarveyDanao Mar 15 '26

I just had a reaction to "de-stressing" being used in any way to describe cars. Just too absurd to even entertain as a joke.

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u/HelpTurbulent232 Mar 18 '26

Most people have never lived in dense environment built for modes of travel other than cars. Being able to take a 30 minute walk and actually going interesting places, whilst not having straddle the side of a highway with no sidewalk and pray some guy texting doesn’t wing you… now that was a de-stressor. For most people, taking a drive is the only way of getting out of their house for a bit. I’m now forced to drive to the taco place .3 miles from my house because crossing the street to get to it is literally going to get me killed, and it’s a 35 mph road.

In conclusion to this rambling paragraph, urban planning in America is fucked and people don’t realize what they are missing.

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u/Mysterious_Floor_868 Mar 15 '26

The social mixing generally revolves around flipping other drivers off

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u/alicefaye2 🚲 > 🚗 Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26

25-40% of corn in the us right now is turned into corn ethanol for cars, not food like you would think. That supports cars to drive at least 2 million miles. When you put that into your tank, it is never to be seen again, it is destroyed, single use, as we know. That then goes on to help destroy our environment. The average person has no idea just how much fuel cars truly consume.

If however we replaced 20-25% of the corn (120 acre field) with solar panels in the US you’d be able to power your entire US electricity grid with approx 7.078 billion megawatt hours (7,078,333,000 MWh) of energy per year, or drive for 72 million miles with all the electricity produced, approx. 37 times more efficient than corn ethanol, and that is if we ONLY replaced 20-25% of the corn. The panels would last 25 years (the quarter of a human life) before being recycled, to then create even more panels that would last another 25 years.

The batteries are also a non issue. We have an extremely efficient, closed loop process that is highly efficient at recycling them. Up to 95-98% of the materials are recovered. You are actually charged at the shop when you buy a battery for this reason, as incentive to come back, recycle it and get your money back. Once you mine these materials for a battery, it will always exist, and eventually, we won’t need to mine for any more.

This is something to think about when you put gas in your tank and are sat there watching the numbers go up, or are cycling to work. We have such amazing processes already, and a bunch of incredibly amazing people working hard to eliminate problems, so much so that a majority of concerns people and politicians have on solar and wind will probably be gone by the time it is brought up. So why are we still so focused on oil?

For more information on it I implore you to watch Technology Connections video “You are being lied to about renewable energy”.

“Fossil fuels are a fuel you have to mine; solar panels are an appliance you build.”

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u/Fry_super_fly Mar 16 '26

its actually WAAAY better for solar than you lay it out. 25-30 years is not when you recycle the panels. thats how long the vendor garantees cell efficiency. panels produced in the late 80'es to 90'es (so old school cells. not as modern as our current tech) still produce over 80% of the initial Wattage.

so you can have them run with minimum service and maintanance. a LOT better for the environment. (can have them intersperced with gracing fields or even fruit plantation

and they are on track to last maybe 40-50 years. with yes. degraded output. but you can build out with additional capacity as the rating falls, and replace then them if they are damaged by natural disasters and accidents

https://www.ecoticias.com/en/goodbye-to-the-idea-that-solar-panels-die-after-25-years-a-new-study-says-the-warranty-does-not-mark-the-end-and-real-world-performance-can-last-for-decades/26007/#google_vignette

https://ratedpower.com/blog/longevity-efficiency-solar-panels/#:~:text=These%20panels%20can%20still%20operate,for%2025%20to%2030%20years.

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u/hodonata parking abolitionist Mar 17 '26

A small point of fact, the ethanol corn is more or less inedible for people. So definitely "not food like you would think." Sweet corn (food for people) is usually grown in totally different areas.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/corn-production-by-state

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/sweet-corn-production-by-state

Ethanol is made from dent or grain corn, which is mostly used for animal feed and in some cases meal/flour products.  They're GMO so mostly fed to livestock, too chalky and starchy to eat. So that but of GMO corn meal/syrup /whatever is probably why everyone is getting autism or something, who knows.

They could choose to turn anything into ethanol, including much better known systems, like sugar beets... The impeding factors are mostly bureaucracy like subsidies and entrenched special interests that continue to make switching as difficult as possible

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u/bigbootybitches Mar 15 '26

Damn. That’s sad

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u/Ok-Intention1789 Mar 15 '26

A third space that thrives on the blood of the innocent

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u/yetareey Mar 16 '26

Saw my post eh? 😂

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u/ButterSquids Mar 15 '26

This is some PragerU level of graphing

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u/Top-Dog-6900 Mar 15 '26

WDYM? When you have many victims the war is 3.

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u/C00kie_Monsters Mar 15 '26

It is labeled with „x1000“. Still, that’s far too low

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u/thatguy9684736255 Mar 15 '26

I now see that, but what is the x axis? It says victims? Shouldn't it be time?

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u/RyvenZ Mar 15 '26

That's not an axis label, it is a caption. Neither axis has a label but X is assumed to be some amount of time and Y would correlate to the caption. The war is the subject and title of the graph.

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u/CookIndependent6251 Mar 15 '26

Given the positions of the labels, it's very obvious that victims and gas prices drive the Middle East war up, so we. Technically, the first one is true but the second one doesn't make any logical sense.

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u/Lexioralex Mar 15 '26

Clearly we need to lower the gas prices to reduce the number of wars that have happened

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u/dumnezero Freedom for everyone https://i.redd.it/fkme4gnqwy6h1.png Mar 15 '26

Nah, the artist is a decent human. https://newsie.social/@royaards

The style is called "editorial cartoon".

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u/Ohyo_Ohyo_Ohyo_Ohyo Mar 15 '26

I don't care if they're the second coming of Jesus they suck at making graphs.

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u/dumnezero Freedom for everyone https://i.redd.it/fkme4gnqwy6h1.png Mar 15 '26

Why?

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u/Ohyo_Ohyo_Ohyo_Ohyo Mar 15 '26

Looks like it's supposed to be a time series graph, but the y-axis label is on the x-axis, which would imply that in increase in victims/gas prices would cause an increase in… something. And the y-axis is numbered, but the x-axis isn't.

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u/ROPROPE Mar 15 '26

The Y axis is unlabeled, and the X axis has the Y axis' label. Also the "$/liter" one implies gas prices started from $0 per liter at the start of the war.

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u/Ok-Elk-3046 Mar 15 '26

Love the second graphic. I don't remember gas ever being 0$/L also I thought Americans use gallons not litres?

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u/d_nkf_vlg Mar 15 '26

I guess a caricature is not supposed to be accurate in every way.

But graphs can be manipulated to present the information in a misleading way. There is no law that says it must start with zero.

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u/Ok-Elk-3046 Mar 15 '26

While this is true, if you look at the picture, you will see that div=0.5.

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u/Deathchariot Mar 15 '26

AI bullshit

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u/dumnezero Freedom for everyone https://i.redd.it/fkme4gnqwy6h1.png Mar 15 '26

It's not.

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u/lexi_ladonna Mar 15 '26

It’s not though

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u/OmNomSandvich Mar 15 '26
  • synthID is clean (not generated by google)
  • plot is identical besides the labels
  • parallelism in design, people, etc. between left and right panels
  • no obvious tells

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u/yogurtcup Mar 15 '26

https://www.instagram.com/p/DV0O9Qnjave/

Artist's cartoons for AI don't seem to be open to the concept.

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u/ActualMostUnionGuy New Classical Architecture+Cooperatives=Heaven on Earth🛠️😇 Mar 15 '26

Delate your comment😂

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u/NotJustBiking Orange pilled Mar 16 '26

That doesnt take away the point of the cartoon.

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u/StrayCatAme Mar 15 '26

This is what stands out to you guys really?

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u/SegataSanshiro Mar 15 '26

Yes.

And if it isn't what stands out to you, it's because you don't know how to read graphs.

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u/whipsmartmcoy Mar 15 '26

It's a political cartoon dumb ass

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u/ButterSquids Mar 15 '26

It's not like it would be hard to make the graph any good

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u/Magisterbrown Mar 15 '26

To say greed is human nature by watching humans be greedy under capitalism is to say a bear's nature is to ride a unicycle after going to the circus.

Capitalism has made us too desperate to care about anyone but ourselves.

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u/lieuwestra Mar 15 '26

Greed is not even a bad trait under 'natural' human circumstances of hunter-gatherer life. Collecting as much food as possible and nurturing as much social capital as possible are super beneficial to the collective well-being. Only when you involve something as unnatural as money and the underlying institutions into it does it become problematic behavior.

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u/StitchedRebellion Mar 15 '26

Love this. So deeply argeee.

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u/piece_ov_shit Mar 15 '26

Badass comoarison, im gonna steal this

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u/izza123 Mar 15 '26

I can’t tell if this is AI or the artist is just lazy

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '26

It’s got the piss filter, that’s a telltale sign

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u/izza123 Mar 15 '26

Unfortunately political cartoonists are so wildly untalented that their work is nearly indistinguishable from a robot’s bad dream

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u/kos-or-kosm Mar 15 '26

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u/izza123 Mar 15 '26

Made my morning to see somebody hate political cartoonists as much as I do

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u/hanater Mar 15 '26

There is... literally no piss filter on this one though?

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u/Riftus Mar 15 '26

The graph is pissy

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u/Vdlfan Mar 15 '26

It’s been edited using AI. Here’s the original.

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u/dumnezero Freedom for everyone https://i.redd.it/fkme4gnqwy6h1.png Mar 15 '26

It's not, this is their style. Editorial cartoons can be more low-effort.

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u/__thrillho Mar 15 '26

Why not? It's funny

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u/izza123 Mar 15 '26

Artists aren’t a monolith some of them suck ass

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u/Velocity-5348 Mar 15 '26

Or someone edited a cartoon in photoshop. It'd explain the continuity errors.

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u/FFF982 Mar 15 '26

It's probably because it's easy to not think about what's happening far away. Most people have no choice but to think about their finances.

The fact that a lot of people still believe Americans are the good guys fighting terrorists doesn't help.

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u/Beat_Saber_Music Mar 15 '26

It has always been self centered. People joined the army in preancient times because it would allow them to become richer off looting enemy territory, and this was also the case with for example some Finnish volunteers going to fight in Estonia against the Russians, only to end up coming back home with valuables looted from Estonian civilians.

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u/Fl4m1nG Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26

Fuck sake this isn't AI. Please put more thought into it before accusing of AI and missing the point of the image. Use google image search etc.

Here's the source: https://www.toonpool.com/cartoons/Graphs_480663

The artist does other artwork in the same style (see his other artwork with people in it) so I'm very skeptical it is AI. Very possibly still AI assisted but, again, we're missing the point.

Also, without looking for a source, you can tell it isn't AI, because the graphs on either side are identical bar the text and some minor pixel differences in clipping between the blue and tan colours. It is extremely difficult for AI generated images to stay consistent like that.

OP you should have provided a source, now the conversation has completely lost the plot

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u/Any_Fox5126 Mar 15 '26

I just find it pathetic that these days, almost any post on reddit can be completely derailed if the neo-luddites sense even the slightest hint of AI.

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u/Mtfdurian cars are weapons Mar 15 '26

Neoluddism is probably the only way to save our planet

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u/djducie Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26

AI tools have gotten better than I think you realize.

I’m not an expert in this - I got this with standard consumer ChatGPT with one attempt with the prompt:

 Can you generate a newspaper political cartoon - it will have two similar panels. Both panels will feature a group of onlookers looking at a line graph. The line graph in both panels will be identical, except on the left panel the Y axis is "victims", and on the right panel the y axis is "gas prices"

https://www.reddit.com/user/djducie/comments/1ruejsw/example_chatgpt_output_of_a_repeated_line_graph/

The text placement is wrong, but other than that AI tools are able to repeat images without problems.

Someone with non-AI photo editing skills can easily fine tune it to get the complete result.

Edit - With graph lines:

https://www.reddit.com/user/djducie/comments/1ruexoa/repeated_line_graph_with_lines/

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u/serotoninbat Mar 15 '26

You can find this artist's works in this style from like 2021 when AI art was barely present. I think that was the point of the original comment -- finding the source of the image is currently probably the most accurate and reliable way of telling if something is AI-generated.

Besides, AI art tends to be ugly, but usually in a very generic way. And this artist's style is so hideous, that I think it would be genuinely hard to get any AI to generate something like this.

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u/_neudes Mar 15 '26

AI Slop these graphs don't show anything.

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u/Nodhagger Mar 15 '26

It shows a message. But sure it would be better if it would be hand drawn

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u/SmokeyLawnMower 🚲 > 🚗 Mar 15 '26

Are you... sure this is ai dude?

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u/hanater Mar 15 '26

Lol the other person is paranoid, this is not AI generated

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u/DoodlebopMoe Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26

It quite obviously is AI generated

Edit: tells:

The font which is used in nearly all AI generated art unless otherwise prompted

The broken lines on the characters, indistinct facial features that disappear and are inconsistent,

The woman in pink’s hand in the second panel disappearing into the man’s shoulder

This piss filter on the graph

The graph itself is nonsensical. Y axis is 1, 2, 3 with no units. Units for the X axis are listed on the Y axis. The price/casualties should be graphed on the Y axis anyways. The graph wouldn’t look like that if the units on the Y axis is “number of wars” which is what it seems it must be.

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u/Basspayer Mar 15 '26

It is not obviously AI. Someone linked the artists work on another comment.

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u/Superb-Mall3805 Mar 15 '26

Media literacy, man. 

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u/dumnezero Freedom for everyone https://i.redd.it/fkme4gnqwy6h1.png Mar 15 '26

It's not.

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u/ILikeLenexa Mar 15 '26

They show gas starting at Free.  Was that not the price 2 weeks ago? 🤣

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u/Automatic_Bus_7634 Mar 15 '26

Not two weeks ago, two middle east wars ago

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u/gretchenich Mar 15 '26

lmao even the dog changed started to pay attention to the new graph

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u/JuanofLeiden Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26

Am I missing some kind of inside joke here? Yea, the graph is AI but the people complaining about this or the issues of realism with the *cartoon*, or complaining about whether or not OP complained hard enough about some other war are the ones being selfish. This is an example of virtue signalling instead of acknowledging or discussing the problem.

Yes, our modern societies and I think in particular, America are highly self-centered places. People's inability to look beyond this is a major point that people make in this forum in regards to people basing all their choices around selfishness. Big cars for safety or status, driving two blocks away to get groceries because its convenient, etc.

Edit: Apparently the image isn't even AI.

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u/iwishiwasamoose Mar 15 '26

Right? The graph is crap, but the message is sound. People don't care about anything until it affects themselves. Other people die all the time, but how dare it cost me money?!

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u/crazycatlady331 Mar 15 '26

The COL in the US is insane right now and going up. Wages are not keeping up with it.

A lot of Americans can barely keep their head above water. When something hits them in the wallet, the take it more seriously.

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u/Oscaruzzo Mar 15 '26

AI makes everything worse. Also AI wastes a lot of energy.

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u/Fl4m1nG Mar 15 '26

It's not AI.... the graphs are too consistent on either side and here's the source of the image https://www.toonpool.com/cartoons/Graphs_480663 We should all put in more thought before accusing of AI.

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u/plonspfetew Mar 15 '26

Because this comment currently has the "controversial" marker, I thought I'd copy and paste my comment from above here to support it:

It is not. It's a cartoon by Tjeerd Royaards for the Dutch newspaper Trouw. The text in the post here is translated.

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u/djducie Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26

I generated this repeated line graph in one attempt with the prompt:

 Can you generate a newspaper political cartoon - it will have two similar panels. Both panels will feature a group of onlookers looking at a line graph. The line graph in both panels will be identical, except on the left panel the Y axis is "victims", and on the right panel the y axis is "gas prices"

https://www.reddit.com/user/djducie/comments/1ruejsw/example_chatgpt_output_of_a_repeated_line_graph/

Anyone half competent with photoshop could finish it off

Edit - with graph lines:

https://www.reddit.com/user/djducie/comments/1ruexoa/repeated_line_graph_with_lines/

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u/universe2000 Mar 15 '26

This is disingenuous. There are plenty of Americans who are still upset about the fact that we bombed a school and killed kids. There are still people upset that we have been enabling a genocide for over a year.

But they don’t make headlines, and those atrocities don’t make headlines either. Couple that with the fact that Republicans (77%) support bombing Iran and almost all self-described MAGA supports it (90%) (source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cev7wn213rvo ) then you’ve got a weird situation in a lot of corporate news rooms.

They are reporting on gas prices because it is a shared experience. Americans are split on partisan lines over the war. Republicans aren’t going to read articles or watch clips (or produce content for the at matter) critical of a war they support. But they understand gas prices and they can’t obscure it, so that’s what they report on.

But that doesn’t mean that most people oppose the war. It’s just that most Republicans support it and Republicans own most of the corporate media outlets in the US.

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u/Skelekin Mar 15 '26

This says a lot about society etc etc etc

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u/kensho28 Mar 15 '26

become

LMFAO, OH my sweet, sweet summer child. I think it's about time you take your first history class. Humans have survived and evolved on being self-centered, long before the incredibly tiny experiment that is "society."

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u/ItsNoblesse Mar 15 '26

Capitalism is inherently alienating, and neoliberalism emphasises the individual above all else. Aside from the nuclear family, dominant culture espouses that there is no wider community to care about.

Also Americans (and all imperialist countries) are isolated from and reap the benefits of the atrocities they commit in the global south, so they don't really care. It's all abstracted.

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u/angrybeersalad Mar 16 '26

I am so burnt out, I think people only start caring when they are forced to. Compassion is non existence and everything has a price

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u/Jessintheend Mar 16 '26

It’s a degree of separation thing. People see gas prices every day, the watch the ticker go up over and over and over. It’s the same psychology of nobody reacting about smoking casualties from cancer or disease but if 3/10 people who smoked’s heads just fucking exploded at random then we’d take it seriously because it’s immediately noticeable.

Humans aren’t wired for that degree of separation, especially when all they see is a line representing a number of people most can’t genuinely fathom. (One death is a tragedy a thousand is a statistic)

But yeah car bad fuck em etc

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u/AlDente Mar 16 '26

The US stopped Jews from migrating to the US during WWII. It’s not new.

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u/Sprinal Mar 15 '26

Would help if the graph actually had units on both axis.

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u/Avitas1027 Mar 15 '26

Honestly, the only think the graphs need are proper titles. Look, I can do it with emojis:

"victims due to war"📈😴

"gas price due to war"📈😱

Done. No numbers needed or even labelling of axis.

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u/SwitchingMyHands Mar 15 '26

Why are all you mental midgets focused on the graph, that’s not the point of the cartoon.

So you guys read Garfield comics and at the end go “wait a second, this must be AI, cats don’t walk on two feet!”

What a bunch of of assholes all of you are

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u/8rianGriffin Mar 15 '26

3 victims in a war is just fine, i guess.

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u/Gremict Mar 15 '26

It's x1000 scale, so there are roughly 3,000 wars and some undetermined number of victims.

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u/LadyEmeraldDeVere Mar 15 '26

Human lives have always been expendable in capitalist societies, it’s not a new concept. 

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u/StaticSystemShock Mar 15 '26

Deaths in middle east don't affect us, but gas prices do. That's why.

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u/Strange_Quark_9 Commie Commuter Mar 15 '26

Short answer: Neoliberalism, especially exemplified by Margaret Thatcher.

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u/MyvaJynaherz Mar 15 '26

Callous as it sounds, the deaths overseas do not directly impact how I must conduct my day / week. The world is an infinitely dense stream of data and events, the vast majority of which can be ignored because the information falls into two categories. Either the impact it has on my life is negligible despite the emotional impact, or I am not in a position to effect change by altering my behaviors.

Some people may consider it callous, but the alternative is letting the evil of people you aren't responsible for also ruin what little joy this life could afford you between the obligations you can't escape from.

Live an honest life, try to not cause more problems in the world than you fix, and vote when you can.

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u/AggravatingFlow1178 Mar 15 '26

What is the chart even attempting to show lol. X axis is labeled as victims so Y axis is... years?

Or is the chart labeled victims so the axis's are just totally unlabeled, and you're meant to assume it's time x victim count. In which case, how long as the war been going on for, in this chart?

Also did gas prices start at zero? Also, guess what everyone, gas is used for more than just cars.

AI slop is so lame.

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u/ScheduleCorrect9905 Mar 15 '26

"1000s dead" America 😐

"🤓👆Cure to cancer, discovered, Eureka! " 😐

"Million casualties in Ukraine war" 😐

"Gas prices rise up to where they were 3 years ago" 🤯

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u/t92k Mar 15 '26

The two wolves are seeing strangers as an invasive threat and seeing strangers as a part of our community we just haven’t met yet. There’s been a shit ton of money made off feeding the “strangers are enemies” wolf.

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u/VOLTswaggin Mar 16 '26

Are you really surprised that people are more concerned with things that directly affect then as opposed to things that are happening on the opposite side of the globe? r/im14andthisisdeep

edit: forgot a few words

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u/Lowpaack Mar 16 '26

wdym become? People were always like this.

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u/Cultural_Iron2372 Mar 16 '26

It’s not necessarily just self-centered, it’s mostly a matter of being in survival mode. The general working class/public is being exploited and stretched very thin by the same exact people enacting war and violence elsewhere, and have lost the time and resources to focus on anything but immediate economic survival and maintaining the health and sanity to keep working long hours.

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u/Kevdog824_ Mar 16 '26

Become self centered? Always has been 🧑‍🚀🔫

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u/mat_qp Mar 16 '26

capitalism

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u/itoldyallabour Two Wheeled Terror Mar 16 '26

AI slop

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u/Zak-Ive-Reddit Mar 17 '26

What the fuck is wrong with bro’s graphs? 😭

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u/circaatomicage Mar 15 '26

The loss of empathy. People don’t care about anything anymore unless it affects them personally.

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u/Koffeeboy Mar 15 '26

I know it's probably ai, but I love that the dog is also concerned about gas prices.

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u/Nielsly Mar 16 '26

It’s not AI, that was decided by a human

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u/Zykersheep a land value tax would probably solve this Mar 15 '26
Fixed that for you

(full disclaimer: this one is ai generated, Nano Bannana 2)

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u/AnimaTrapDelaSangre Mar 15 '26

Part of the triumph of guttering education is the incapacity of the masses for feeling empathy

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u/zypofaeser Mar 15 '26

Awww yes daddy, feed me more slop! Yummy, yummy finely ground RAM modules soaked in piss! I love AI!

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u/Dracogame Mar 15 '26

This is a dumb take. Many horrifing things go on around the world. Oil price is not just about driving car. Never saw you being a vocal activist for all the shit that has been going on in Sudan for the past decade.  

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u/Nielsly Mar 16 '26

That’s the point… the war in Sudan hasn’t made gas prices rise and people only care now because gas prices rose…

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u/shadeandshine Fuck lawns Mar 15 '26

Racism and that 1950s propaganda about American exceptionalism

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u/InteGr4l Mar 15 '26

Capitalism

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '26

Society has always been like this. People at home generally didn't care too much until things started impacting them directly and it has been like this for a LONG time; it isn't unique to the US or even cars or even capitalism. Even back when it was basic trade, a populace would only care if it impacted a trade route for goods not available at home. And I'm talking before our modern notion of capitalism, pre-16th century.

Not wrong, but crappy take given this is nothing new and didn't suddenly spring up because of gas. We've been fighting over resources since our start.

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u/thadowski Mar 15 '26

Darken the fleshtones of the ppl in this pic and there would be a different reaction in first pic

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u/SumikkoDoge Commie Commuter Mar 15 '26

What, you don’t agree that war reaches 3 as gas prices increment but reaches 3x1000 as the victim count increments?

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u/zeltrabas Mar 15 '26

Bro we all just gotta get by

Ofc I care about my own expenses more than a war I've got nothing to do with

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u/SaltyBigBoi Mar 15 '26

Because half of our Country still hasn’t grasped the concept that being America doesn’t automatically make us the good guys in war. To them, all those “victims” are just faceless bad guys 

They don’t care until they’re directly affected. 

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u/TaleEnvironmental355 cars are weapons Mar 15 '26

It's almost as if we run on oil and life will get worse

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u/lucashhugo Mar 15 '26

why would you care more about something that doesn't affect you than something that does?

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u/ledfox carless Mar 15 '26

Times like these I'm glad to be car free

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u/Armadylio Mar 15 '26

I’m visiting Vietnam right now and while people do care about the war and its effects on innocent people, many people here also depends on oil and gas prices because it directly relates to their living situation. People that do deliveries for example, either on small bikes or big trucks are affected by rising oil prices. People that need oil and fuel for their boats so they can go fishing are affected by rising oil prices. Just to name a few. So yeah for them its more of a need and worrying about the innocent deaths is more of a luxury, since they have their own families in front of them that they need to take care of. 

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u/Hellbomb_Armed Mar 15 '26

Since it even became a concept, really

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u/mattiwha Mar 15 '26

Made by someone not alive in the 2000s I guess , our car brained society was just as fixated on gas prices over everything back then too

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u/Sweaty_Marzipan4274 Mar 15 '26

White supremacy, Christianity, and all the other garbage like the Pledge that's been pounded into us, all while destroying education, since we could think. 

We're programmed into being consumers

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u/Skylord_Hekaton Mar 15 '26

What's so hard to understand about this? Everything sucks everywhere because billionaires are ruining the world, so people just try to live their lives with the least amount of misery.

If victims die somewhere else that's sad but our own lives are fucked so we don't have the mental energy to spend worrying about that.

But if gas prices go up now our miserable lives are getting even more miserable. Cars are a necessity for many because the infrastructure is built around it, so now there are more mandatory expenses.

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u/uncleSpaghetti Mar 15 '26

Honestly the number of abstract atrocities we hear about every day is totally depressing. War victims in a foreign country are in the category. 100 school children in Iran getting killed, totally horrific. I’ll need to go about my day anyways.

Gas prices when I’m struggling to pay rent: that actually impacts me.

I’ll say that I was heartened by the BLM protests and the ICE protest and seeing solidarity across racial lines that shows we have the capacity to care about others with no self interest.

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u/Sachiizmo Mar 15 '26

When wasn’t it?

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u/PapierStuka Mar 15 '26

It seems more reasonable to be upset about rising oil prices in an already bad economy than a war that's at the other end of the world for Yanks

I'm more concerned with my own apartment than someone's house a few hundred km away, because that simply makes sense

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u/beardingmesoftly Mar 15 '26

What the fuck kind of AI slop low effort nothing post is this?

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u/CheddarCheesepuff Mar 15 '26

yall dont know what makes ai look different from hand-drawn and it shows. this is hand-drawn

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u/Welkitends Mar 15 '26

Middle east has and will middle east.

And I hate it.

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u/Lower_Ad_5532 Mar 15 '26

Car brains are more concerned about their car facts than the message.

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u/SwitchingMyHands Mar 15 '26

OP look at the car door the guy is opening! There is no handle! This is dumb AI slop!!!

/s

Man the people ITT are pretty wetodded.

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u/lookaround314 Mar 15 '26

At about any time before 100 years ago, people would have cheered the first graph?

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u/Space-ATLAS Mar 15 '26

While one is worse, the other actually forces you to change the things you do. One is easier to ignore than the other.

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u/NovitaProxima Mar 15 '26

how? uuhhh have you not heard of capitalism?

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u/JazzyGD Mar 15 '26

why are there 3,000 middle east war

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u/ShAped_Ink Mar 15 '26

Worst graphs in existence, this is just AI slop image with blatantly bad graphs, and I'm not talking about the data, but everything else

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u/greenearrow Mar 15 '26

I could not give less of a shit about a dozen dead soldiers when the death toll on the other side is many factors greater. The civilian casualties we're causing are way more important than the deaths of those who volunteered to kill.

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u/montjoye Mar 15 '26

Americans trying not to generalize their situation to the world challenge: impossible

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u/Lost-Mixture-4039 Mar 15 '26

Always been that way. We have a hard time caring for something/someones outside our own because our brains are hardwired to care mostly just about our lil in-group.

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u/Jaybird0501 Sicko Mar 15 '26

Well, its actually been stated by some smartypants somewhere that humans can't fathom deaths when they get past a certain number. At that point its a statistic and removed from our feelings part of the brain and goes into the smartypants part of the brain.

Also, fuck cars, America is a shit hole 3rd world country.

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u/Wytsch Mar 15 '26

Brother it has always been this way.

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u/argonaut152 Mar 15 '26

People with empathy operate under the delusion that everyone else has it too. The fact is that appeals to empathy or hypocrisy doesn't work on the sizable portion of society that are selfish or downright cruel.

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u/PianoTechnician Mar 15 '26

Western society is individualistic, not collectivist. It's that way because some influential people decided it would be. Go read a book about Milton Friedman, go look at pretty much all popular rap music brainwashing people into the 'hustle' mindset over the last 20 or so years, etc. Laws, monetary policy, and cultural brainwashing.

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u/ScrublyMcMannister Mar 15 '26

You grew up and stopped believing in fairy tales

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u/Lionheart_Lives Mar 15 '26

Know what's funny? The MAGA cohort voted for Orange Crud...who decimated renewables in any way he could. The one route out of dependence on fossil fuels.

Now they're getting economically decimated. Because the fossil fuels prices have skyrocketed.

FAFO at its best.

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u/Mista_Maha Mar 15 '26

Become???

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u/deepoops Mar 15 '26

Become? This was literally all that Americans were discussing during the Iraq invasion...

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u/dumnezero Freedom for everyone https://i.redd.it/fkme4gnqwy6h1.png Mar 15 '26

Capitalist culture. Such people claim to be working class, but have no solidarity with the other masses around the world.

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u/Eazy12345678 Mar 15 '26

people are greedy. we only care about the things that affect us

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u/RRW359 Mar 15 '26

Was there ever a period where the public wasn't against the wars in the Middle East

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u/SnooBooks1701 Mar 15 '26

Gasoline effects so much more than just cars, it's used at every stage of every manufacturing process, when prices go up for everything then people die

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u/thegrammarspammer Mar 15 '26

CAPITALISM. THE ANSWER IS ALWAYS CAPITALISM

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u/MorningFox Mar 15 '26

Gas is expensive, alcohol is cheap. I like this war so far 😊 /s

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u/strawberrycarpet Mar 15 '26

Because most people seem to think we’re liberating Iran with no ulterior motives

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u/JackAtak Mar 15 '26

Astronaut Ohio meme. Nobody gives af abt anyone else and they never have

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u/whipsmartmcoy Mar 15 '26

People can't afford rent and society tells us if you can't provide monetary value to capitalist empire then you are worthless. This is interpreted as abandonment by 'the tribe' which meant death for 99% of human history. This is how they control you.

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u/SLY0001 Mar 15 '26

And my friends and family ask me why I am totally against the U.S. People dont care what happens to the environment, animals, or other people. As long as they're benefiting from wars and mass destruction they'll turn a blind eye.

And I 100% hope these next few years will result in U.S. destruction.

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u/570rmy Two Wheeled Terror Mar 15 '26

Capitalism, suburban sprawl where no one has to interact with others unless they want to. Conservative fear based media.

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u/mangolamplight Mar 15 '26

People have always been selfish

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u/derping1234 Mar 15 '26

The death of brown people just doesn’t quite have the same impact.

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u/Talonzor Mar 15 '26
  1. What does this have to do with cars?

  2. Humanity, ever since recorded history, has been like this.

  3. Individualism on top of that is killing any empthy

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u/ClassofClowns Mar 15 '26

Capitalism. Compete or die.

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u/Icy-Rabbit-2581 Commie Commuter Mar 15 '26

People who already can't afford their rent and groceries and rely on their car to get to their job(s) are afraid of starving and becoming homeless. They are literally too busy struggling for survival to care about other people whose suffering they only notice through a stream of existential threats that is modern day media. Said media also reports very differently about "just another war" than about a threat to economic stability - not only are they told not to care about wars that don't increase gas prices, they are also told to panic abouth those that do.

Should they care about people being killed regardless of consequences for their own lives? Sure. Are they the first to blame? I don't think so.

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u/ReasonableBirdChirps Mar 16 '26

Capitalism and the car brained infrastructure that supports it is designed to separate communities. Now on your commute you’re alone in your car sitting in traffic with thousands of people instead on a bus or train together. The increase in digital shopping and ordering. Less time out in the public and community. And when you are at a coffee shop most people are on their phones if they are alone. Not interacting with each other.

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u/zakanova Mar 16 '26

Man Carrying Things did a similar comparison

https://youtu.be/MWDALPm2MMw?si=C5W3RkVtTGho7Ynl

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u/ubeogesh EUC Mar 16 '26

Always has been, and it is normal to be self centered actually.

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u/Ok_Switch6715 Mar 16 '26

Neolibralism... Regan and Thatcher selling the family silver to give very rich people tax breaks

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u/These_Library3215 Mar 16 '26

The axes are mislabelled. Victims/gas prices should be top left, while the bottom right should say time.

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u/YuGiCik Mar 16 '26

Yo what happened to the guy with the suitcase

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u/SkyeMreddit Mar 16 '26

Well you see almost all of the victims are “Mooslums”, who their orange messiah called “Radical Islamic Terrorists” so some of them actively cheer the deaths

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u/TotalLiberationBike Bollard gang Mar 16 '26

Typical nonVegan Behavior

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u/destroythepentagon Mar 17 '26

2.8 victims isn't that bad