Post critical of the United States ✅
OP’s post history is generally anti-USA ✅
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Boy I sure wonder why you post on Lemmy… /s
Nah dude the world has just grown tired of American Exceptualism.
Damn, right in the american exceptionalism! Butthurt much that the flaws of the US are being exposed?
You say all of those things as if it were specific to anti-USA posting. Lemmy is ripe and full of anti-China and anti-Russia AstroTurf-seeming accounts:
A post a week ago made a brief list of some accounts (not complete by any means)
anti-China and anti-Russia
Uh huh. Yeah okay.
We’ve had enough projection for a lifetime this decade.
Is it not humanly possible to portray anti-China or anti-Russian bias? Or is it that you don’t care about astroturfing when it’s done for such purpose?
Lmao they deleted the entire account when called out. Sketchy af.
huh!
Should people… Not be critical? There’s always been so much glazing of the US throughout history
Critical of bots? Yes. Among other things.
It’s not that they’re being critical, it’s that someone is being shady with some sort of motive. I don’t want the fediverse to get ruined with narrative attack bs, I want to talk to real humans who aren’t trying to manipulate me. If I was cool with that I’d just go back to Reddit.
That’s cute but Lemmy has the same agenda pushing bots that Reddit has.
I agree with you, but this is a link to a New York Times article, not some shady blog just made to push an agenda.
If people didn’t find this article interesting, they could just not upvote it.
NYT isn’t exactly much better than a shady blog. Like most media now.
Okay but it’s still regarded as a serious publication, even if every publication has some kind of agenda
It’s the astroturfing that’s objectionable.
The posters account is about a day old. For more context. (Voyager shows you an icon and age when accounts are new. Just like Apollo did)
And their account is now deleted. Definitely abnormal behavior.
Edit: it’s possible the voyager account age thing is confused by the deleted account.
Boost does as well, little chick popping out of an egg
Nice. I think it should be a standard feature. And the need is ever increasing, it seems.
Throughout history? Whose?
The USA’s international opinion has been on the downtrend for like 20 years, with its precipitous drop like 10 years ago.
It’s not the '90s anymore; the only people pushing American exceptionalism are ignoramuses and jingoists who will do that regardless of any facts, not normal citizens.
A lot of people in my country used to believe until very recently (and a lot others still believe) that the USA is the best country in the world (or second best because of nationalism) and that everyone wishes they could go there
I’ve always found the other half of American exceptiolism to be equally stupid;the opinion that America is the worst country ever, ir, exceptionally evil or bad among history.
Yeah, every country that is a world power now is looking down from a mountain of ravaged bodies.
America is only the latest, and doing so in an era where the victims can livestream back the atrocities committed in the name of the country’s “empire”.
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You shouldn’t be downvoted, this is yet another account that posts likely for sentiment shaping and immediately deletes their account. This sub is awash with it. I get that there’s a lot to dump on in regards to the US now more than ever but I’d really prefer it be organic posts from people who actually want to engage in the fediverse in good faith rather than whatever the fuck this manipulative bullshit is
Good! These post are a good reminder that this isn’t reddit.
Don’t like it? You can go back to US propaganda sites.
Don’t like it? You can go back to US propaganda sites.
I don’t see the benefit of replacing US propaganda with anti-US propaganda.
Is the argument presented the propaganda or the fact that it was negative?
It’s NYTimes propaganda, not exactly Russian or Chinese.
And… deleted.
This might be true in Canada too? I thought the death rate was related to the size of the vehicles preferred by the drivers in the measured region. And nobody likes ‘em bigger than Americans. And may Canadians, from what I’ve seen.
How are other countries on drivers not being on their cell phones or watching their phones\browsing? The US is terrible about it. It’s not legal most places, but it’s also not very enforced. I figured that was a bigger cause than the rise in vehicle size.
In Norway, even though we have a lot of larger SUV’s driving around, being caught on mobile is very pricy and police controls are very regular.
I’ve seen a few other factors that might contribute to increased pedestrian/cyclist deaths on our roads:
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e-Bikes. e-Bikes are mostly a goddamn mistake. The ones that don’t make the bike go any faster than you yourself can pedal it, just make pushing the pedals easier? Those are fine. Anything else should be classified as a moped, and I don’t know why they aren’t. People are riding them at 20+ miles per hour on sidewalks and getting backed into out of blind driveways that weren’t designed with traffic that speed on the sidewalk. Plus you’ve just got more people on 2-wheelers mixing with car traffic, which is a game they lost at the character select screen.
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Half-assed attempts by DMVs to add bike lanes and walking paths. All the squawking about walkable cities this and fuck cars that you bots have been bitching about has been heard. In my area, where new housing developments or shopping centers are going in, the DOT now requires bike lanes and sidewalks in such places. They connect to nowhere because the main roads aren’t all being modified to add such features, not until they need major modifications themselves. So you’ll see bikes and pedestrians on highways they didn’t used to appear on.
Another problem I’ve seen is the mixing of bike lanes and turn lanes. Our roads have long been built such that any lane that is allowed to turn right does not have lanes that can go straight to their right. So if you have the right of way to turn right, by green circle or green right arrow signal, it is logically safe for the driver to proceed. Until they added bike lanes to the extreme outside next to the curb. We didn’t add signals for these bike lanes, they’re supposed to follow the same signals as cars. So. You’re sitting at a red light with your right turn signal on. It turns solid green. You go. The cyclist overtaking you in the bike lane also saw the light turn green, he tries to go straight, he is crushed to death under your right rear tire. This didn’t used to be a problem, it is now.
- Walkers and bikers be out here going full retard. My neighborhood is a grid system full of stop signs. There are two North-South streets a couple blocks apart where all the stop signs are crossing, so these are main thoroughfares through town. Cars go the posted speed limit of 35 along there. Between these two streets is another that has stop signs on most blocks. Cars don’t tend to travel down that road because they constantly have to stop. Guess where everyone decides to walk and bike? EVERYWHERE EXCEPT THE ROAD WITH NO CAR TRAFFIC. People go out of their way to play in traffic. I guess you can’t earn a living by getting a job anymore, so you’ve got to get your pelvis crushed to have your day in court.
There’s plenty of examples where car and bike can coexist. Look at Denmark or the Netherlands.
The United States isn’t Denmark or the Netherlands; we have been building bike unfriendly roads for a century, and it’s not going to be trivially undone by painting a white line on the side.
They didn’t come out of nowhere in those countries. They were once as car centric as everywhere else.
‘if you build it, it will come’
Terminal car brain
Yeah go die in traffic with all the other zealots.
Having a quasi-religious hatred of automobiles only causes people to demand things like bike lanes right the fuck now, paint the lines on the asphalt, NOW. They don’t put in traffic lights with dedicated bike lane lights that would stop car traffic to let bike lane traffic safely cross, they don’t close some roads to automobile traffic, they paint the lines on the road. And then cyclists think that white line on the pavement somehow keeps them safe when they cross paths with a sedan, when the presence of those lines fundamentally breaks the safety algorithm the roads are built on in the first place.
e-bikes should be outright illegal. We should be imprisoning containership crews for landing with them on board.
So is the problem that there’s too much support for non-car infrastructure, or that there’s so little they get away with half-assing it, and not slowing the cars down enough that the road is safe?
As far as mopeds in traffic, the problem is obviously the cars running them over, wtf?
It is my assertion that bike lanes, as implemented, are a rock chewing stupid idea.
For about a century now, we’ve had two kinds of travel lane: Sidewalks, and traffic lanes. Sidewalks are for WALKING, traffic lanes are for all vehicles of every description. Every vehicle is supposed to behave the same way following the same rules, regardless of performance. A bicycle, moped, motorcycle, car, truck, all of them are supposed to follow the same rules.
When there are traffic lanes only, no sidewalks, we have rules for how traffic flows. For example, right-turn only lanes at an intersection are right-most, followed by turn-or-straight lanes, then straight only lanes, then straight or left lanes, then left only lanes. Having a lane that goes straight to the right of a right-turning lane is a recipe for collisions.
We do that all the time with sidewalks. Pedestrians are expected to exercise a lot of caution when entering crosswalks to avoid conflict with vehicle traffic. Pedestrians are expected to treat EVERY intersection as if it has a stop sign for them, or they are expected to obey crosswalks with signal devices that are interlocked with traffic lights.
Bike lanes as I have seen them implemented are a lot like sidewalks; slower traffic is placed to the right of traffic lanes…except they do not expect to treat every intersection as a stop sign, and they interpret green lights for straight through as for them, even in conflict with right turning traffic.
So we have a travel lane positioned similarly to how sidewalks are positioned relative to roads, but without the rules that make sidewalks safe. It doesn’t help that, where they do implement lights or whatnot, they increasingly do so in non-standard ways that generations of drivers have not been trained on. There are new kinds of lights at crosswalks, new and weird nomenclature at intersections rather than "No Right On Red 🔴 " signs that have been around for years. It’s not implemented well, and it’s getting people killed.
As for e-bikes: They’re basically not regulated, there’s supposedly a classification system for them, which people ignore. There’s no enforcement, and they do whatever the hell they want, including riding at travel lane speeds on sidewalks, which causes collisions because no other traffic, vehicle or pedestrian, is expecting 20+mph traffic on the sidewalk. They either need to be regulated like mopeds, or they need to go away. “But the motor is electric not gas” fucks with people’s brains. Somehow people aren’t riding Honda Metropolitans or Yamaha Zumas on the sidewalks at 20 or 30mph but that’s happening with e-bikes.
The issues you are identifying aren’t the fault of attempting to add non-car modes of transit, those people are just the victims. The issue is that they add them while fearing slowing down drivers or taking away parking or driver RoW. If drivers are swerving into unprotected bike lanes, you don’t go “guess bike lanes can’t work”, you protect the bike lane. If drivers are hitting bicyclists when there’s no bike lanes, build more bike lanes and slow the traffic down. Ride a bike in HCMC or Hanoi some time. There’s literally thousands of bikes on the road, swarming cars, trucks, buses, and pedestrians. Serious accidents are very rare in the city, and typically involve texting or drinking. If drivers in your area drive too dangerously for mixed traffic, the problem is the drivers driving dangerously, not their victims.
It’s not implemented well, and it’s getting people killed.
So implement them better, either ban right on reds or start ticketing drivers who don’t come to a complete stop.
As for e-bikes: They’re basically not regulated, there’s supposedly a classification system for them, which people ignore. There’s no enforcement, and they do whatever the hell they want, including riding at travel lane speeds on sidewalks, which causes collisions because no other traffic, vehicle or pedestrian, is expecting 20+mph traffic on the sidewalk
Design sidewalks better. Couriers use bikes on sidewalks across east asia, except Japan, nobody cares. You can slow heavy ebikes via pavers, or block them entirely by requiring they be lifted a certain height to pass a barrier.
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Yeah but I get to go 90-100 MPH between metro areas in my SUV now that the speed limit is 80-85 max. I fully accept that death might be involved.
I’m sure the people you risk killing find your acceptance very noble.
Pathetic compared to a 150+ MPH train. You don’t even fucking realize how much of a backwards, loser country we’re in.
I’m going to guess that those highways between metro areas, especially where speeds like that are even feasible (highest speed limit in the US is 85) are so remote and sparsely traveled that that’s not where the deaths are happening.
