• AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net
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    Motorists don’t get it. They pity, hate, or mock us bicyclists; ignoring that they’re imagining what it’s like for them to commute - an awful, roadrage-inducing experience every day - and projecting that onto us but thinking it’s like that but worse because bike equals less than car, or something.

    But from the perspective of real experience on a bike, doing real commutes, it’s such an upgrade in every meaningful way. Commutes can feel good, everybody. Bikes do that. Except for one thing that makes it often suck: Cars. The common denominator of misery for both motorists and bicyclists is motor vehicles.

    So just cut out the root problem. Fuck cars.

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      Conservatives rarely are controlling appointments to city public planning positions and there are only so many levers they can pull federally to make urban planning worse.

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    one of my favorite times in my working life has been when commuting on bicycle to and from work.

    sounds like poor trump doesn’t even know how to ride a bicycle

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    Sadly, that’s the kind of bullshit that resonates with the average, low-info commuter.

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      It’s a dog whistle, he’s calling him a f*g in dogwhistle. Referencing a comment he made a couple weeks ago where he “carries his husband to work on the back of his bicycle” he’s trying to remind everyone he’s a homo, and it’s effective with his base, yes.

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    Imagine making fun of someone for riding a bike when you’re so fat that bikes would explode if you so much as touch them. Also, I’d be shocked if that cheeto even knew how to ride a bike.

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      Oh, most bicycles are sturdy enough to handle someone of Trump’s physique.

      However, if Trump tried to ride a bike, he’d likely just go real slow, wobble awkwardly a bit, then promptly veer into a ditch. He’s not very good at moving independently. Dude can barely walk up and down a ramp unassisted.

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      Trump believes in the theory that you have a set number of heartbeats ; the faster your heart beats the shorter your lifespan.

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      My grandfather loved going out on his bike when he was told he couldn’t drive any more. It was critical to his quality of life. What’s Trump got: just a once-superpower to grind into oblivion.

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      This would be a hilarious thought to go viral. Like imagine so many people repeating that he doesn’t know how to ride a bike that it would get to the point that he would hold a special media conference just to prove otherwise. But in typical fashion, there would be something really weird about it that would still cast doubt over whether he actually could ride a bike or if it was somehow faked.

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    It’s such a bummer that so many millions of people in this country have this exact attitude (not just toward bikes, but just in general). I get the same cringey feeling as I do when I remember embarrassing shit I did back in middle school when I read this shit.

    Bunch of adults who never really grew up. And now they’re making decisions for everyone.

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    If Trump is against something I do, I take it as a sign I’m doing something right.

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    Can you believe— he’s running the biggest air system in the world, and he takes a bicycle to work.

    Ah, clearly Pete should be taking a helicopter.

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      Well, to a rich bozo like Trump, yes. I honestly have doubts that Trump has ever ridden a bike in his life, and, if so, never because he actually needed to go somewhere.

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        I don’t doubt that for a microsecond. There is zero chance that the man has ever ridden a bike, skated a skate, hopped a scotch, skipped a rope, or frisbeed a frisbee.

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        Why would you ride a bike if you always had car service, with an adult driver you could make fun of?