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Electric cars: The equivalent of switching from binge drinking whiskey to binge drinking wine.
(lemmy.ml)
this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2023
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My favorite part about this sub is how everyone acts like the entire world is able to just stop having a car and be able to carry on normally about their lives as if cars haven't been forced into nearly all infrastructure plans globally since this inception. Like it's every citizens personal choice that nobody built a functioning transit system in the many decades before they were born, or that the place they can afford to live is too far from the place that pays the wages they need to live is too far to bike or bus to.
Like, push for fewer cars and less car centric design, but also stop being a fucking cunty dick about it.
Your comment is completely irrelevant to this post.
Oh I'd love to hear your explanation for why it's irrelevant, and what crucial oversight I've made that you've managed to in your extensive 16 hours on Lemmy.
Ur comment is irrelevant to this post, as this post is merely talking about the inefficiencies of electric cars. It has not even mentioned the humans driving these cars. Had that been the case, your comment would've been relevant.
This post is an attempt to dispel the myth that electric cars are somehow better than ICE cars. Do you see why your comment is dumb?
Your reading comprehension and understanding of English vocabulary is about on par with your lemmy account age.
Til things like "urban sprawl" are inefficiencies inherent to electric cars, and the lengthy list of these inefficiencies are definitely not drawn parallel to ICE in order to suggest that people should instead drive neither as the underlying theme of the post, particularly given the theme of the sub, which I am able to observe because I've been here longer than 16 hours.
Are you really trying to discredit someone else's argument by using their "lemmy age"? Like... are you trying very hard to be this guy?
Now I'll still assume that your argument is in good faith and respond accordingly. So let's recap.
The post listed the inefficiencies of electric cars besides ICE cars. The underlying message was that electric cars only solve a very very small problem that ICE cars have, but still possess most of the issues of ICE cars. Hence, we need a much better alternative (trains, wink wink).
To this, you replied saying that this community unfairly criticized car owners. According to you, the infrastructure is the biggest one to blame rather than car owners. Which I would only partially agree (as most car owners still support car centric infrastructure). Of course, if there's not train in your city, you can't ride one! But you definitely can lobby for one. Your implicit biases against this community due to those one or two crazy posts skewed your perception in weird ways.
This post is most definitely directed at the tech bros (or the Tesla fanboys), according to whom the solution for GHG emissions from the transportation sector is electric cars. I hope that you agree that this is a dumb argument. This post merely makes fun of this argument. This community is not a monolith, you know... It is thus very important to take the context of every post within itself.
You could've argued against/for this idea. Instead, you put up something weird and irrelevant like "this community is dumb for blaming car owners". You might be right, but it just diverts away from the topic of discussion. Why not create your own post explaining your position? It's like going to a post saying "We need to increase the minimum wage" on a lefty community and commenting "but the lefties are commies". This MIGHT be true, but it is not at all relevant to the discussion itself, is it?