Loukas (They/Them) 🏳️⚧️The fact that 'fifteen-minute cities' is now a dirty word really puts into perspective all the time people spent agonising over whether 'defund the police' and similar slogans were too radical.
You can call your proposal 'free cake for everyone' but if it threatens powerful groups you'll get painted as a sinister plot anyway.
PJ "Vote Green" CoffeyGot to confess when I heard 15 minute cities I thought they were cities where you could get to wherever you wanted in 15 minutes. I didn't think walking.
The people who were convinced that they'd be trapped in a 15 minute block? They're having to really contort their minds on this.
ZenithAstralis@Loukas reading up on this was an emotional rollercoaster of feeling good that this sort of thing is being worked on, then depressed that people would.. protest against it!? Have another crude oil slushie while they're at it, why don't they...
Nathalie Van Raemdonck@Loukas free cake? what is this, a sinister plot to fatten up the population? and 'everyone'? sounds like commie propaganda! /s
@eilah_tan it's the road to serfdom
Ehproque has moved@eilah_tan @Loukas what is some people who don't deserve cake get to eat cake? I won't stand for this! Plus there's no such thing as free cake!
This is so unfair to my grandpa who had to pay for cake all until he died in 1980!
This is so unfair to my grandpa who had to pay for cake all until he died in 1980!
Virginia Holloway@eilah_tan @Loukas exactly. If people don’t have to earn their cake they will become lazy. And if everyone has cake how will we know who the good people are. Now we know it’s the people with the most cake, but if everyone had cake how would you know who to look down on?
Nina Kalinina@Loukas Wouldn't free cakes threaten the whole cake making industry profits? 🍰
undead enby of the apocalypse@Loukas @nina_kali_nina you say that like it’s a bad thing
@enby_of_the_apocalypse @Loukas that's what I tried to do, yes. But I bet the cake industry is going to make it sound even worser.
eyajpng@Loukas the cake is a lie
cohomology is FUN!@Loukas how about “Free lunch for all school kids”? That sounds like an obviously good idea to me, but it’s controversial in the US.
Douglas McMillan@Loukas The same idiots trying to villianize "15 minute cities" are almost certainly the same people that rave about "small towns"
Valheru Rides@Loukas OMFG WEF! CDC! ULEZ!!! I think that's all the nutter tags.