>>1972215I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that, at least in english, the overwhelming majority of people with opinions on this topic don't experience public transport, or only experience it via their obligatory upper middle class spring break in europe, so other than their own emotions, their only real "knowledge" of the topic comes from a social media bubble amplified by rage fuel. And that very same social media bubble ONLY amplifies the rage fuel (such as that IDF guy whose opinions basically amount to "kill old people and hand over everything to developers" who somehow managed to get americans to consider him some sort of transit expert)
I take public transit every day and I don't own a car (though I know and am friend with many people who do). I live in an apartment and I talk to my neighbors every day. You'd think I'd be the one getting dogpiled for being a commie who hates freedom, but on /n/ I'm constantly getting dogpiled for being a shill for the oil industry or a "cagetroll".
The other thing is, kind of like how the southern strategy created an incomplete reversal in the polarity of the US political system (a fact which is sometimes disingenuously ignored by certain individuals when shitposting about how the dems want to bring back slavery), something similar has happened in the US with white flight followed by reverse white flight. So you get a lot of extremely inane trolling garbage about how elderly black people in 2024 who don't want to be thrown out of their homes to make way for a luxury development are the same thing as white people who didn't want blacks moving in to their gated suburban communities in 1966 and it's impossible to have a reasonable conversation because you're arguing with a brainwashed zoomzoom who doesn't know who barry goldwater is
>>1972223Case in point. "Everything I don't like is from the oil industry"
