Splattering lives is okay,but shattering such windows is the promotion of violence? Honestly? 🔨
In capitalist US, property is more valuable than human life.
Remember: You can take lives to protect property, you cannot damage property to protect lives.
Property is more valuable than human life everywhere in the world. For example, two million children die from hunger each year. 7$ will protect a child from malaria for a season. I could save so many lives by selling everything I own and donating it to charity, and yet I don't. And neither do you, or most of the rest of the world.
Life has value. Each of us estimates our own life to be invaluable, but the life of those farther and farther away has less and less value for us. Not because it's not actually worth less, but because we're tribal beings. We care about ourselves first, then our tribe, then if we have any extra resources we might care about other tribes too.
But yeah, what I'm saying is I'd let the entirety of lemmy die for a crisp 1$ note and I'd lose no sleep about it, y'all were born in the wrong tribe.
The mod might be referring to the sticker itself. "Don't post bumper stickers that promote violence."
Then the mod should have posted the comment as it's own comment and pinned it to the top.
Another reason to stay out of the usa. Not just anecdotal, we're talking about a country where walking on a public street can be illegal, and people who do are sometimes called a slur.
Because cities aren't for people to live in, they're for cars to drive trough
In general, the US seems to be weirdly pro-violence.
Being beaten up is portrayed as perfectly normal in media and advocating for violence (like here) seems to be totally okay for many.
That's fucked up.
It's strange because we also have an extreme culture of litigation, and so much as an unwelcome or aggressive touch (without injury) could technically support a civil lawsuit or criminal charges for assault/battery.
The difference is that we apply justice differently depending on your political belief, so the acceptable violence is usually one-directional. Any violence by left protestors will be treated akin to terrorism. If you're a right wing crazy harassing people protesting for a left cause, police will look the other way and you may not even be convicted for murder (e.g., Rittenhouse). Worse, the police are usually the ones being irrationally violent - like the George Floyd protests in which nonviolent civil protest was suppressed with military-level equipment, tactics and violence.
It’s because we have a lot of repressed rage because we know deep down we really are one of the shittiest countries, despite what all the cousin-humping country singers keep caterwauling about.
Cognitive dissonance is a hell of a drug.
Walking on a street can be illegal? How? Can you expand a bit on that, please?
"Jay" is an old English slur. "Jaywalking" refers to walking on a public street illegally. For highways, it makes sense that you're not supposed to walk there. But in America this "jaywalking" can even apply to city streets.
If you're not in America, then it might just sound ridiculous. That's because it is
There are jaywalking laws where you can be stopped for crossing against the light, against the right of way in general, etc. Not sure what the slur is. I think Jay used to be a mild insult?
I saw a cartoon on here once with an out-of-towner complaining about all the horse-carriages in this "Jay town" but I can't find it.
How can anyone be so lacking in self awareness?
It gets easier to understand once you accept that some people just operate on bad faith.
It’s a requirement for maga.
Compartmentalization.
There should be a community of "just reddit things" like this
There is a reddit community, usually used in that way.
there is but I have it blocked.
Keep your murder-machine out of my city. Please.
If I saw this, I would shatter it.. in Minecraft only, of course.
Ah yes, the ol Minecraft defense. We almost had you.
God, I feel the same. Then I started to wonder if I could find some of mark rober's fart liquid and find some way to put it in a dissolvable capsule that I could place at the gap between the hood and the windshield.
what kind of degenerate sub is that lol
The Reddit kind
You did it, you fit the entire US vibe into one picture!
Anyone manage to find the actual comment link?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bumperstickers/comments/1hnl472/comment/m42lf0u/
Going back to this wretched place gave me PTSD...
Oof, I scrolled for a good 10 minutes. I couldn't find the comment, probably deleted.
A crazy mix of "politics" in there. The sheer amount of people who have no problem telling the world they have no problem running over people simply because they don't want to slow down in the street is concerning.
I don't mean to be pessimistic, but "Nobody cares about your protest" seems true. Fuck cars BTW
Double standards
me when my unpaid full time job is to virtue signal on a bumper sticker sub reddit
Fuckcars was a reasonable community in the beginning but once karma farming started it went 0 tolerance quick. It's like some militant vegan energy vampire mod saw the potential and took it. Now it's some matrix situation where they feed off a constant flow of rage.
Reddit and mostly all "social" media only care about engagement. Psychologists have found out that negative information has a significantly higher chance of user engagement to respond (comment, share) than positive information
It's why ragebait is so effective and why it's everywhere (even Lemmy and BlueSky,)
Yeah, you seem totally different
Tyres get flatter‽
*in Minecraft
Trucks and SUVs are being weaponized today in the same way airliners were weaponized in 2001.
What ?
Driving trucks through crowds is the new 9/11. That's what they're saying.
Hijacking an airplane is a lot harder now, but any jackass with a credit card can rent a yank-tank and drive it into a pedestrian rich environment. That's a much larger attack surface, and we can't reasonably defend from it without oppressive surveillance and other personal freedom restrictions.
