ProfDrDr

Yes, thousands of years is a big overexaggeration. But I don’t understand why you would say, that you don’t see leftists come up with ideas to fight liberalism. People who call themselves left and people who call themselves liberal have been fighting long before the fascist party was founded.

Lot’s of reasons, the list is quite long, you don’t really have to read that all x) :

*- cars maintenance is annoying

*- parking is annoying

*- on street parking and big parking lots are ugly and make places worse to live in

*-cars are extremely dangerous

*-cars are too loud

*-cars are bad for the environment

*-cars are an inefficient way to get around in most cases

*-there is too much car infrastructure

*-car infrastructure is really expensive, a lot of that tax money would be of better use elsewhere

*-I’d rather support public transport and the implementation of good bicycle and walking infrastructure

*-walking and riding a bike is healthy and can be really pleasant

*-I can read stuff while using public transport (like lemmy posts)

*-driving a car in big cities is scary and stressful

*-trains are cool

*-screw the car industry and their lobbying

*- in the few cases I do want to use a car, I can easily rent one

These are just the reasons from the top of my head, there are probably more.

I’m not sure if you are, directly criticizing me, or if that comment is more generally about the experiences you had. I have never even visited the US.

I’m sorry that you have to face all that racism.

Great point. They definitely should take responsibility. I just want to keep the history of imperialism in mind. I don’t want to excuse the US at all.

Dude, liberals are people who support and idealise capitalism. They are right wing. It’s like that around the world. It’s not “talking like Americans”. On the contrary, people from the US confuse what’s left and what’s liberal a lot. That’s a nuance to be aware of.

Leftists come up with bright ideas to fight capitalist liberals since thousands of years.

Yes! These people don’t have strong enough opinions to change things, therefore they support the Status quo, which is conservative.

What comes to my mind is, that it’s great when people who work hard get rewarded, but that should only be an extra, not a necessity for a good life. And working too hard shouldn’t be glorified, there need to be limits.

People who call themselves centrist, are uneducated in regards to political terms. They don’t know what they are talking about, but assume they do and they never go out of their way to educate themselves on these matters.

Yeah sure, but the labour always earns way more money then the employees actually get. I think that part is quite simple. It’s just abstract to people, because forcing workers to sell their time and health is so normalised.