Driving is not a right. WAY too many people are allowed to drive. What’s worse is that WAY too many people have no option BUT to drive
Everyone has the right to drive, provided they can show the required level of skill and competence to do so.
Unfortunately, unskilled and incompetent describes far too many drivers.
Nobody should have a right to drive on public roads, they should have a right to prove that they deserve the privilege, and the privilege should be revoked a lot more than it is today.
In addition to what a lot of others have said already, in a more egalitarian society most people wouldn’t have to drive
And yeah, equal rights doesn’t mean anyone can just do anything
Well yeah in a truly just society I would have one of limousine chairs that gets carried everywhere by a bunch of dancing whatchamacallits. You know, grad students.
In the immortal words of George Carlin: “Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”
Driving is a privilege, not a right. Easy fix.
Driving is a privilege, not a right. Or so im told.
Freedom is a right, but you can still get put in jail.
Equal rights means you are given equal access to the tools that will allow you to learn to drive. If you’re too stupid to drive that’s an entirely different matter.
Meanwhile, “Here, have a gun!”
Equal Rights == None of us fucks are allowed to drive.
Honestly as a bicyclist I feel cars are way to powerful for regular people. Ebikes are great, fast and small
Trains and trams and busses.
God I wish… It costs me $250 a month for my car and I own the fucking thing (if you include maintenance costs) so I drive to work twice a day, five times a week, and try to get errands done during my return commute. I might drive once or twice on the weekend, and there are about 4.4 weeks per month on average. That means I spend $5.28 every time I drive. That is WAY MORE THAN TRANSIT COSTS!! Especially if we spent the money we spend on roads and cars, instead on trams or busses
For reference I also pay for car centric stuff through my utility bills. 10-30% of my utilities might be effectively me paying for the externality of ripping up roads to replace buried infrastructure, that then needs to be paid for AGAIN using my taxes when potholes form over prior ground disturbance, and paid for AGAIN when the road fails early and needs to be ripped up to fix the subgrade.
Trains and trams and busses.
But who will drive them? 🤔
everyone should have the right to fail a driving test…
I don’t want to drive, give me walkable cities and public transportation
Same I am forced to drive, please teleport me. At least biking is fun but you can’t do 400km in 4h.
A high speed train would manage 400 km in way under 4 hours
Yeah but still would have to do 100km by car because no train station close to to destination I speak of. Or I would have to take RER and add 2 hours of travel time.
Well, you can always give this a shot.
Shouldn’t be forced to drive, the US is deliberately designed to be hostile towards pedestrians in ways that the vast majority of people are unable to do anything about. A good percentage of those people also know damn well they’re bad drivers and would choose anything else if they could
Right ≠ permission
Yes, and it’s especially obvious with the example of driving. Driving is a licensed activity where you have to pass a competency test before you’re allowed to drive without supervision.
I’ve had the thought that a lot more things should be licensed with a competency test. Like, for example, I don’t know… This is just off the wall and completely random, but maybe a person who runs for President of the United States should have to pass the same exam that people take as part of the process of becoming citizens. Probably the presidential candidates should take a much harder test, but that would require a lot of oversight to make sure the test isn’t made to eliminate specific candidates.
But Trump took a cognitive test, he is good to be president. /s
Assuming he’d open the door himself and not have others do it for him. Also, missing a McDonalds bag in one of his tiny hands.
My mother has Alzheimer’s and I am always with her when she takes that test, so I end up mentally taking the test alongside her. They actually have two different tests, depending on which doctor she sees, a shorter one and a longer one, and my mother mostly gets the shorter one. There’s one part where they list four (five? let’s go with four) words and have you repeat them back to them. Then, they ask you some other questions, and then they ask you to recall those four words again.
Other than misremembering the exact date, which I’m guessing everybody occasionally has the wrong date in their head, that question remembering the four words after being distracted by a different question is the only part where I could ever have lost points, since I have occasionally forgotten one of the words. It’s the only question that I feel a normal person has a chance of missing. It truly is a test specifically for dementia.
The fact that Trump always says the test is difficult and that he got a perfect score on it, given Trump’s history lying about things like winning golf tournaments, I think is absolute proof that he does extremely poorly on the test. He very likely fails it. He brings it up all the time because he’s as bad at lying as he is at everything else. Good liars know not to bring up the lie a lot. Bad liars keep repeating the lie because they’re afraid you might not believe them.
You know he’s lying because his mouth is open.
Equal access also doesn’t mean that abuse and unnecessary risk will be tolerated.
I was at my first gun show with an older friend who knew guns better than I did who I was following around to keep me from making any stupid decisions.
There’s a table with a sign for “Constitutional Carry,” where they don’t think you should need a special license to concealed carry a handgun.
My friend walks up to these two guys at the table, and says “Hey, just so you know, I hope you guys fail.”
The younger of the two kind of bristles, but the older one, a dude with a long white beard, says “Oh, why?”
My friend says “Because I worked in a gun shop for fifteen years, and I helped fill out more concealed carry applications than I can count and…” at this point she gestures around at the huge room behind us, “I wouldn’t trust 95% of the people in this room with any gun at all.”
And the old dude behind the table smiles and nods his head and says “Yeah, that’s a fair point.”
So anyway, that’s the day I bought a Ruger GP-100 in 357 Magnum.
So anyway, that’s the day I bought a Ruger GP-100 in 357 Magnum.
explain joke plz me chronically stupid
“Wonderwall” is a song that’s very easy to learn on guitar so the meme is that bad guitar players will bust out a guitar and subject you to their bad rendition of the song at inappropriate times when nobody asked for a performance.
15 years ago me and a buddy were shooting pool in a local bar, maybe a dozen total people in there. Some I finished taking guitar lessons last month douche was playing acoustic in there and it’s the same list of basic songs you’d expect. Partway through his set he was giving the usual platitudes, suggesting tips and saying we’re a great crowd, then says “So anybody wanna hear Your Body is a Wonderland?”
At the same time we both casually said No.
He was some college age kid in jeans, a white v-neck tshirt and a Glock on his belt…in a bar.
man with gun go “bang bang bang”. man with guitar goes “bang bang bang”. one with gun the other with instrument.
ah so the meme was in american, got it
wow…what an incredible sense of humor…how can you possibly be so funny…
So you’re the one who puts pointless red circles everywhere?!?
Such a heartwarming and inclusive remark
There are no rights in traffic, only obligations.
two wrongs don’t make a right… but three lefts do
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Everyone should have equal rights
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To ride the bus
Boom. Solved.
As a bus driver, hard disagree! There’s people who will wait at a bus stop, wait in line to board the bus, and only then will they spend 5 minutes digging through their pockets or bags for fare.
Or ask where the bus is going, expecting me to tediously list out all the places this bus goes, and when asked the very reasonable question"where are you trying to get to?" Become cagey and refuse to answer. Then ask the same vague and open ended questions.
These people should report to the nearest artillery practice range asap
Never understood why bus stops didn’t have little kiosks to buy a ticket there, like train stations do.
Too expensive. Most bus stations are basically just a sign, sometimes you also get an ad poster and a shelter. Bringing kiosks would imply setting up electricity and internet. When you could instead just make a phone app.
The first part could be fixed by making buses have no fare
Usually when someone asks “where the bus goes?” they mean the last stop of the bus, but maybe it’s just in my place idk
I like the ones we have around here waiting at the bus stops on our main boulevard which is a perfectly straight road you can see up and down for about a mile and a half in either direction, but who will stand out in the travel lanes and craaaane their necks in this ridiculous pose apparently hoping this will allow them to see the bus coming sooner.
Those are solvable problems though, there’s plenty of busses who don’t accept change already. You can add ticket ‘vending machines’ and have better signage for this.
I’ve seen people lose that right. Hell, I almost did.
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