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I love cyclists. Always let them go first.
I just hate the bike racing people who think public traffic is their personal sporting grounds. Meaning they don't have to follow the rules of the road because it might mean they don't get to break their speed record that day. Or that close down entire roads just so they can race one another.
They should find a hobby that isn't in public traffic. Imagine if tennis closed down train tracks just so they can use the train tracks to put up their net.
How many roadies do you encounter that they slow you down for more than a minute a day really? Way to channel your hate i guess, i know how irrationally angry it can make you to sit in a car.
I assume this is unpopular but I've decided not to get annoyed if I see people breaking the rules of the road. Sometimes I think "what a prick" or "he's going to kill himself doing that" but it's not worth anything more.
Or that close down entire roads just so they can race one another
How often do you actually get caught behind a crit race? Maybe twice a year tops in some cities? Where I live marathoners fuck up traffic far worse and more often but somehow they don't arouse the same vitriol.
Cyclists have every right to be on the road. We pay the same taxes, but this attitude is why I get menace passed and have coal rolled on me every couple of weeks. Show a video of acyclist following the law but getting hit on a bike and the comments section is people saying they deserved it. If I ride my mountain bike on trails away from cars the horse people and hikers get up in arms. I guess I should just fuck myself, eh?
Because if they're riding bikes they might not be buying $70k cars. How are the poor car companies going to afford to survive now? Someone think of the shareholders.
Oil industry profits and exceptionalism.
Fearing change.
conservatives don't get mad at anything they don't personally do or don't make things up about other people to get mad at challenges (impossible)
because they're antisocial, hetero normative, fascist wannabe, assholes that despise wholesome solutions to the world's problems. there's only one way to deal with these sociopaths.
The same reason they fight against vegetarians, the same reason they fight against gay men, the same reason they fight against renewable energy, all of it is toxic masculinity. The standardized male eats steaks, drives a loud truck, works at the coal plant, complains about his wife, enjoys smoking and drinking and watching sports. If you deviate from this whatsoever, conservatives are against you.
Because the right are a bunch of fucking screaming babies that need their goddamn asses beaten to a fucking pulp.
LIBERALS: STOP BEING NICE TO THESE FUCKING SHITS. NO, THEY DO NOT HAVE MORE RIGHTS THAN YOU.
Because oil companies and their useful idiots have propagandised them into believing that every cyclist that inconveniences their morning commute and causes them to lose 20 seconds of their drive deserves to die.