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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There aren't that many small cars being made (in the US at least). Ford stopped making anything smaller than an SUV, and Chevy just discontinued the Bolt (again! Which was a crossover this time anyway).
Then maybe throw in some fearmongering about "safety" (just escalation of who has the largest vehicle) and "I need an SUV for my children" (how much shit do your kids need to haul around on a daily basis?) or "I need to haul stuff for my house so I need a truck" (my hatchback fits A LOT of stuff. Sure it cannot fit a 4x8 sheet but neither can a modern truck with a short bed)
I had to buy a new TV a few years back and I remember I took it out to the car with the sales guy and he said "Oh I don't think it'll fit". Told him to hold on, folded the seats down and that baby fit perfectly in there. Idk if it was the size of a sheet of plywood, but it was big, the box and all. Guy was legitimately impressed. Meanwhile yep agree, people get these super duper manly family trucks and can't fit a few suitcases in there anymore. People mortified of admitting they need a van and have to feel good by driving a truck.