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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Yes, some parts of the world are alienating human beings :( I think I've read about bike friendly areas in the USA. Here in Europe I guess the car culture is different, though I saw newspaper articles that this year the sales of new cars include more than 50 percent SUVs :( Public transport or bike or walking is what I use and I am happy about the trains but sometimes they're so full of people that it is no fun and a bit of suffering. But ... car free areas and bike lanes FTW!
Oooo that's an exciting phrase :D
So I've kinda been liking buses. Well, "like" is maybe a strong word but they get the job done? My one experience on light rail wasn't great. Flew in during the evening, got led around a little bit, sat on a train full of smoke ๐ Maybe I'll have a different experience if I have a chance to try again. Buses during the day, though, pretty comfy. ... If I ever get a "life" going maybe my tune will change from some kinda rush-hour bus pain ๐
Worse than driving, though? Hmmmm. At least the bus fights should be more interesting than re-reading bumper stickers for the forty-seven millionth time.
Thanks for sharing. Here in Europe Flixbus can be a quite nice bus travel experience. They have WiFi on board.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedestrian_zone Here's some car free cities mentioned : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carfree_city