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Can you explain how this post is punching down? I honestly don't see it.
When it comes from the fuck cars community, with the fuck cars hashtag, it's siting on a high horse to point and laugh with schadenfreude at the victims of this flood.
It implies that people owning cars is to blame for the disaster they fell victim to, when cars are just one of many many symptoms of the actual problem, and the people who own them are generally just trying to survive under the system that is destroying the planet for profit (as well as victims of trillion dollar industries like the auto and oil, but also advertising and branding and sales), not the culprits of climate change. They don't deserve the "I told you so", they deserve solidarity and unity against those who are actually responsible, and are not only not losing a thing, but making millions by the minute for it.
It's "fuck cars" not "fuck people who drive cars"
Obviously the average driver is not responsible for the societal reliance on cars.
Then maybe don't use their suffering to make a smug point when there are plenty of other, better, ways to get your message across.
Well I didn't make this post so I can't really speak to the intent behind it.
But I don't think that's what this post is doing at all.