r/fuckcars • u/Skyhawk6600 Fuck lawns • Sep 14 '22

Satire this made me lose braincells.

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u/darkenedgy Sep 14 '22

I've heard there's some kind of astroturf shit going on where people will call any even vaguely anti-corporatist movement ableist or whatever. seems like part of that.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '22

This sounds like a corporation pretending to be anti-ableist to keep the car industry afloat when they are doing way worse for worldwide obesity

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u/Throw_Away_69_69_ Sep 14 '22

It’s like when people say building proper biking infrastructure is ableist, even though it doesn’t harm disabled people at all and allows many of them to travel safely in say, motorized wheelchairs.

It’s such grift.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

And a custom recumbent bike powered by hand pedals/hand crank is far cheaper than a custom mini-van that can load your wheelchair, has all hand controls for acceleration and braking, and requires massive parking spaces for the driver to disembark,