Fuck Cars
This community exists as a sister community/copycat community to the r/fuckcars subreddit.
This community exists for the following reasons:
- to raise awareness around the dangers, inefficiencies and injustice that can come from car dependence.
- to allow a place to discuss and promote more healthy transport methods and ways of living.
You can find the Matrix chat room for this community here.
Rules
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Be nice to each other. Being aggressive or inflammatory towards other users will get you banned. Name calling or obvious trolling falls under that. Hate cars, hate the system, but not people. While some drivers definitely deserve some hate, most of them didn't choose car-centric life out of free will.
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No bigotry or hate. Racism, transphobia, misogyny, ableism, homophobia, chauvinism, fat-shaming, body-shaming, stigmatization of people experiencing homeless or substance users, etc. are not tolerated. Don't use slurs. You can laugh at someone's fragile masculinity without associating it with their body. The correlation between car-culture and body weight is not an excuse for fat-shaming.
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Stay on-topic. Submissions should be on-topic to the externalities of car culture in urban development and communities globally. Posting about alternatives to cars and car culture is fine. Don't post literal car fucking.
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No traffic violence. Do not post depictions of traffic violence. NSFW or NSFL posts are not allowed. Gawking at crashes is not allowed. Be respectful to people who are a victim of traffic violence or otherwise traumatized by it. News articles about crashes and statistics about traffic violence are allowed. Glorifying traffic violence will get you banned.
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No reposts. Before sharing, check if your post isn't a repost. Reposts that add something new are fine. Reposts that are sharing content from somewhere else are fine too.
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No misinformation. Masks and vaccines save lives during a pandemic, climate change is real and anthropogenic - and denial of these and other established facts will get you banned. False or highly speculative titles will get your post deleted.
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No harassment. Posts that (may) cause harassment, dogpiling or brigading, intentionally or not, will be removed. Please do not post screenshots containing uncensored usernames. Actual harassment, dogpiling or brigading is a bannable offence.
Please report posts and comments that violate our rules.
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For what it's worth I hate the term "social safety net". It implies that government systems are only there to catch you if you fail. In reality government systems are supposed to be systems that work for everyone. Public schools is a system, not a safety net if your parents "fail" and can't send you to private. Universal healthcare is a system that works, you pay in via taxes and you get healthcare. Not if you "fail". This is how it works in civilized countries.
No it doesn't. The term "social safety net" specifically refers to systems that are designed to catch you if you fail. You're right that public education/healthcare/transportation are government systems, and those systems are for everyone, but these are not part of the social safety net, and thus not relevant to what I was talking about.
And most countries have a social safety net, which is designed for people who fall on hard times. If you get addicted to heroin and lose everything, it should be incumbent on the government to help you get back to a decent standard of living, that's what the social safety net is for. It's literally a safety net for society.
You lumped in things that aren't part of the social safety net, and then got upset about the term because of things you lumped in. Instead, there are two concepts: government programs for everyone, and government programs for specific people.