this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2024
116 points (90.3% liked)

Fuck Cars

9802 readers
436 users here now

A place to discuss problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all. Let's explore the bad world of Cars!

Rules

1. Be CivilYou may not agree on ideas, but please do not be needlessly rude or insulting to other people in this community.

2. No hate speechDon't discriminate or disparage people on the basis of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, or sexuality.

3. Don't harass peopleDon't follow people you disagree with into multiple threads or into PMs to insult, disparage, or otherwise attack them. And certainly don't doxx any non-public figures.

4. Stay on topicThis community is about cars, their externalities in society, car-dependency, and solutions to these.

5. No repostsDo not repost content that has already been posted in this community.

Moderator discretion will be used to judge reports with regard to the above rules.

Posting Guidelines

In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, let’s try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags:

Recommended communities:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
top 23 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] NarrativeBear 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I love it! Can someone translate the stickers?

I got to say though watching some of these interactions with total strangers makes me tense. Especially when the drivers act all tough behind the wheel. Some basically wanting to end your life so they themselves can gain a few extra seconds in their lives.

[–] grue 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

More info: https://www.boredpanda.com/car-stickers-for-bad-drivers-russia-stopxam-stop-a-douchebag/

And yeah, drivers get really fucking unhinged when you challenge their sense of entitlement. I've been deliberately rammed by drivers more than once while trying to keep them out of a bike lane. (The incidents forced the city to install plastic barriers to keep out the cars, so I won. The lesson is that this sort of direct action is a very effective tactic.)

We've known that driving makes people fucking crazy since at least 1960, BTW:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwPSIb3kt_4

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The incidents forced the city to install plastic barriers to keep out the cars, so I won. The lesson is that this sort of direct action is a very effective tactic

Any press we can read?

[–] grue 3 points 1 month ago

Not that I know of (and if there were, I wouldn't link it because it would doxx me).

[–] HootinNHollerin 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Very satisfying. I put cards on cars parked by douche bags that say ‘The way you pulled in makes me wish your dad pulled out’. Sticker is even better.

This one has a satisfying body slam of douche bag driver after he assaults them https://youtu.be/ibl6SHbq8sY

I watched like 6 videos before a driver pulled a gun. They still didn’t back down and he got ticketed by the police.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I used to watch this back in the day but there were persistent rumours that it was state propaganda of some kind. I don't see how exactly it is meant to work but it's credible that Russia was active on YouTube and social media at the time. Anyone know?

[–] nawa 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The organizer of these raids is Nashi (means something like Our Own Kind in Russian, not in a racist way, but like our own close-minded people) which was basically a youth wing of the United Russia party. They don't do anything without the purpose of state propaganda.

And also, if you watch them all, you can see that in a number of these videos, the activists are definitely pushing too hard and being assholes themselves when the driver was not really even pushing back and could just move their car easily, just to get rage views.

[–] WhatAmLemmy -1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Why would this be state propaganda? How would the Russian plutocracy benefit from this?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

The politics in these videos is very interesting and regional shit I don't really understand comes up a lot. There's a lot of "things are better now, the cops are no longer corrupt", there's a bunch of messaging I can see but not really contextualize.

[–] CyberTailor 1 points 1 month ago

Channelling discontent in some way, with a bit of classic divide & conquer

[–] BigPotato 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Everything that promotes another country is propaganda.

Everything that promotes my country is just the truth.

Everything that makes another country look bad is the truth.

Everything that makes my country look bad is propaganda.

[–] abigscaryhobo 1 points 1 month ago

We are winning the war with Eastasia

We have never been at war with Eastasia

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

legend. You can see their car brain evaporate when they try to remove the sticker, it's like falling from the Olympus back into being a mere mortal pedestrian, haha, fucking KAPEHs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Great work they're doing, although I gotta say this looks like a prime spot for a bollard (even a guerilla one if the government isn't helping) or even just some paint. I think someone could sincerely confuse that for a road.