For my own sanity — and as the unofficial moderator of The War on Cars account — I'm actively muting anyone who thinks "Not everyone can bike everywhere, you know" is a cogent argument against reducing car dependency.
I've taken the attitude of @notjustbikes to heart and simply don't have patience for it anymore.
Please mute me
for several years, the way bike stans have expressed themselves has indeed seemed arrogant and out of touch, in that bike stans seem to imply that anyone SHOULD be riding in rain/snow
so yes, mute me cause you all are harming bicyling
@Hello57 @BrooklynSpoke @notjustbikes - Operative words there are "seemed" and "seems," which I would suggest is a subjective apprehension based on a foreground/background illusion.
Said background being that motoring has everything handed to it on a silver platter without asking, despite being at great expense and doing great damage, so that anyone asking for a crumb of that is arrogant! out of touch! and must be othered.
@jym @BrooklynSpoke @notjustbikes
well, as they say in MiB III, we can agree to disagree, but I really think the tone of a lot of bike stan social media is arrogant
now it is true that after being pooped on for 50 years, you might be annoyed; I'll certainly grant you that
Doug Gordon
Hello57vis
Jym Dyer 🚲🌎