your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Apr 1

RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116325598364670792

am sorry, but $4/gallon in 2026 is a fucking joke. back in the 1990s, gas was $7/g̶a̶l̶l̶o̶n̶ litre in many european countries.

petrol should be $20 a gallon if not more because USians should have changed the way they develop suburbs.

USA DOESN’T NEED CARS, it needs walkable towns with stores, hospitals, schools, post offices, grocery stores.

i hate USA suburbs because they are literally food, health care and education deserts.

KILL THE USA SUBURB,
SAVE THE WORLD.

#USpol #cars #NoBloodForOil

Show threadcmars 🅅
@blogdiva It's a zoning problem as well. You can't build or open a corner bodega or cafe in most neighborhoods in the US. That's what makes them deserts.
Apr 1 at 4:55amWeb
Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Apr 1
@cmars yup
Show threadJo - pièce de résistanceApr 1

@cmars @blogdiva

It’s terrible for community too. No places to gather & get to know each other. This is a way to control & enforce a nuclear patriarchal family, & stop having community. It’s hostile to walking in your own neighborhood as many were built without sidewalk, especially in wealthier areas. Women weren’t supposed to go for walks or talk to each other…they might get ideas.
White people suck at making community as a result, it’s designed to isolate women to not escape the home.

Show threadJo - pièce de résistanceApr 1

@cmars @blogdiva
And it made it easier to limit who moved into the neighborhood. It allowed for racism and monoculture neighborhoods within multicultural cities. It destroys our ability to see each other as the same, and respect each other.

The loss of local tabacs/cafes/pub in rural France led to more far right ideas, along with loss of community and more isolation.

https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260207-france-how-bar-tabac-closures-are-fuelling-le-pen-far-right-pubs

The demise of the French ‘tabac’: How bar closures are fuelling Le Pen’s far right

France’s iconic bars-tabacs are closing in droves, stripping communities of a key social lifeline and influencing their politics, according to a study that links the decline of neighbourhood bars with the rise in support for the far-right National Rally.

FRANCE 24
Show threadCorvid CroneApr 1

@JoBlakely @cmars @blogdiva

A little over a decade ago, I visited Berlin for college and got to speak to Berlin's equivalent of a zoning office. As part of the reunification of East and West, the office was focused on making sure that any new building is multipurpose. The guy's goal was to make sure that everyone in Berlin could walk from their apartment to a grocery store, school, work, and shopping.

The Soviets resigned their half of Berlin to have living zones, working zones, and shopping zones. I find it fascinating that American zoning laws are more in line with Soviet zoning goals than "Western" zoning laws.