pinkdrunkenelephants

Lol nah, if you get caught you were making it look too obvious. There's a fine and subtle art to stealing from Walmart.

Dear Bungie,

Go fuck yourselves.

Signed,

Everyone with a modicum of common sense

That didn't stop you from making cartoons, did it?

My other account actually was shadowbanned, here on Lemmy, on one of the biggest Lemmy servers. I just checked. No new comments or posts I've made in the past few days are visible.

This has been happening ever since a rando from lemmy.ml got so angry with me in a post of my own creation he used an alt account to try to gang up on me.

Where he was talking to himself.

And when I posted proof he was using alts, poof, I was shadowbanned. No new posts or comments I made in that instance have been visible anywhere else since.

If that is not proof that this is just a symptom of the human condition and not isolated to any one website, I don't know what is.

We both know banning is ceremonial at best -- this right here is an extra account I had but forgot about, and it came in damn handy -- but the fact that other people would even try or work together collectively to get rid of someone they don't like bothers me. That bothers me. Since they apparently will ban people just for pissing them off, that means no server is really safe unless you own it. Even then, it can just get defederated for stupid reasons.

That's to say nothing of when a lemmy.world mod banned my old account for three days because I pointed out a bug that was still present on the site. I'll dig through the modlogs and screenshot the timestamps if you're interested. 🤦

And I am assuming that because they are the norm you're complaining about in the first place.

If they're not, then go move to one.

It's as simple as that. But you don't get to demand other people lose their cars just because you don't like them, especially disabled people that will always need them as no walkable city will replace the individual autonomy, carrying capacity and convenience a car provides.

That's not what's happening but thanks for showing the class you haven't been paying attention at all.

You know, if all you invested a fifth of a third of a quarter of the energy you're investing trying to get something over on me onto building these walkable cities you supposedly care about, we'd all be on Saturn by now.

No, they do, you just didn't read the article and you don't care to because the only one getting emotional about this -- and trying once again to derail the conversation because you think this about winning -- is you.

You are never going to solve sexism and you certainly can't do it overnight, and if I can't convince you to put your feelings to the side and stick only to facts in a simple forum conversation, how the hell do you think people are going to undo millennia of toxic sexist ideas in time to implement car bans and avoid needlessly jeopardizing other people?

That's right, you won't, because ultimately, you don't care about the safety or well-being of others. You just want to get rid of eyesores.

By having specially designed cars that enable them to drive.

Even the ones who by the nature of their disability can't do anything mentally or visually taxing, like drive, don't disprove or negate the need for cars because everyone else with disabilities need them to get around. Public transport simply isn't suitable enough for them.

Even old blind people who can't pass driving tests use Uber or Lyft, because public transport simply isn't safe or suitable enough for them, especially during grocery runs.

And that just shows a lack of empathy or life experience.

You can't always get help so you need to be able to get where you want to go on your own, and that means disabled people need cars.

It's not that way in most other cities on the planet and you and I both know this.

And it doesn't address one of the many serious problems with car bans -- denying the disabled the right to travel on their own terms and not the bus services.

What happens when they cut routes or service?

Or refuse service for political reasons like during the lockdowns?

Or otherwise dictate when and where you get rides, or who can go with you, or how you travel, or how much stuff you can bring with you?

Or if the service becomes overwhelmed and they simply can't provide rides to everybody?

It's terrible and fucked up to expect the disabled to put up with it just so the c/FuckCars chucklefucks can get rid of what they deem as eyesores.

And here's stupid motherfucker number 1 coming down the hall and up to the stage to prove my point.

This isn't a conversation about your feelings or mine, this is a discussion about the viability of walkable cities for the disabled. And they're not viable for people like that and never truly can be, not without cars. So unless you assume every resident is riding around in a wheelchair and plan accordingly, which you can't do because most major cities were built way before the ADA and similar laws in other countries were passed -- even before the wheelchair and walkers were invented.

What you want requires trillions of dollars in investment you are never going to get. Not unless you do what I told you to. I gave you stupid assholes a solution, but you're still not listening. Why?

Because for you, this is all about your feelings and not about building a better world at all.

You're up in here writing walls of text to personally attack me, like you always do, because all you care about are your stupid fucking emotions. And I emphasize your emotions.

You clearly don't give a fuck about the old people who will be trapped in their houses, isolated and alone, because they can't make use of anything other than a car.

You don't care about the motherfuckers in wheelchairs who you will be effectively imprisoning either.

You sure as fuck don't care about me other than "How can we exploit this asshole's anger to make them look bad and win the argument?" because all this is about for you is winning an epic battle against me that is only happening in your own head, because I hurt your feelings by telling you facts you didn't want to hear, and now you're getting revenge.

I called you stupid assholes and you, personally, a stupid motherfucker and you will not display one bit of temerity or maturity at all by ignoring it; in fact, that's all you're going to talk about because all you care about is how you feel. Not the actual topic of debate.

And that's why I don't like you, and I will continue to be an asshole to you until you change, and not before. Like I said, you need me a whole hell of a lot more than I need shallow, stupid, petty, selfish, emotional and violent scumbags like you.

So in other words, disabled people still need cars -- they can't ride bikes or e-bikes and scooters are too small for them -- and you didn't think about what you're saying.