• Platypus@sh.itjust.works
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      Drivers hate cyclists because they’re in the way because they have no bike lanes because drivers hate cyclists because…

    • JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world
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      In the defence of the powers that be, the bicycle industry hasn’t been lining political pockets for a century like the auto industry has. Cervelo has got to look through the cushions and buy an election or two.

    • JoshsJunkDrawer@lemmy.ml
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      Because oil and car companies have spent decades spending hundreds of millions of dollars lobbying politicians and spreading anti-bike and anti-public transpiration propaganda.

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        Well I for one am against public transpiration. That would throw the precipitation cycle into chaos!

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      I always hesitate to say it because I don’t want to come across as making light of racism and sexism and whatnot, but it feels like a form of bigotry to me.

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          And bicycles are ridden both by poor workers who can’t afford cars and the elite who don’t need to rush about in cars, so it’s a form of transport that all classes can be told to hate! 🙄