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Doomerism, NotJustBikes, and Urban Planning (hexbear.net)
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NotJustBikes is getting dragged on Twitter for this post.

What do you think? Is he right? Wrong? Not wrong, but an asshole?

When I see how hard advocates and sympathetic planners have to work in 2023 to get a halfassed facility that would never make it off the drawing board in the Netherlands, it's hard for me to say he's wrong.

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[-] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago

Well, as a person who lives in North America I'm definitely low on hope for the US at least. There is a sort of "just leave" vibe to his particular phrasing though that's kind of off-putting in an out-of-touch way. Like, if I could just fucking leave I probably would have at this point, my guy.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago

Same energy as "Cut off Florida and push it in to the Caribbean".

[-] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

geordi-no : the bugs bunny solution to florida (unrealistic, goofy, requires comically large saw the size of which does not currently exist)

geordi-yes : The Escape from New York solution to florida (realistic, cool, tough, sexy, hot, smart, cool)

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