myrmepropagandistJul 20, 2023

~one billion
~1,000,000,000

That's how many parking spaces there are in the USA. For every car? About 4 empty spaces... just sitting there, not absorbing the rain, making flooding worse, making cities hotter as they bake in the summer sun.

Our built environment and laws bend over backwards to make driving the only viable transportation option in nearly every imaginable context.

You need to pay for healthcare, but almost never parking.

(Pointing this out makes libertarian heads explode.)

Show threadaidan_
@futurebird you know this is government mandated right? Libertarians would oppose this
Jul 20, 2023 at 7:19pmWeb
Show threadmyrmepropagandistJul 20, 2023
@aidan_ I’ve never seen them bring it up. Nor have they ever helped when we’ve worked to get such rules removed. You see I *thought* it’d be a good coalition issue— we even isolated it from other initiatives— the only libertarians who deigned to respond were hopping mad and opposed.
Show threadapophisJul 20, 2023
@futurebird @aidan_ i've found the only kind of person who self-identifies as a "libertarian" or similar only cares about their own freedom to be obnoxious
Show threadDan LykeJul 20, 2023

@futurebird 100% this. A good portion of what drove me from "Libertarian" back when I swung that way was most of 'em just weren't smart enough to see that what they really wanted was a continuation of the subsidies that was creating the world they lived in.

@aidan_

Show threadaidan_Jul 20, 2023
@futurebird okay. I consider myself fairly libertarian and I brought it up
Show threadAlistair YoungJul 21, 2023

@futurebird @aidan_

You apparently don't know the right libertarians. Or maybe you only know *right* libertarians, if you know what I mean.

(I, for one, oppose it. Pretty sure it's come up more than a few times in my circles where we sit around and bitch about bloody stupid top-down attempts to hammer square solutions onto round problems, too.)