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Edward Linley Sambourne (1844-1910), 'The Race of Death', ''Punch'', June 3, 1903
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I'm very much in the "anti-car culture" camp and find cars to be one of the worst aspects of living in any city (especially in Philly in the summer). It seems early cartoonists often depicted cars as machines of death around their general introduction into our shared public spaces. (I've amassed a rather large collection of these anti-car cartoons, this one from Punch being just one example.) Here's some car facts from a recent study from the Journal of Transport Geography: 1) 1 in 34 deaths are caused by cars and automobility with 1,670,000 deaths per year 2) Cars and automobility have killed 60â80 million people since their invention
#Edward Linley Sambourne#english artists#cartoonists#punch#punch magazine#vintage illustration#vintage art#fuck car culture#anti-car culture#I don't like cars#Give us robust public transportation
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I still remember the time up in Pennsylvania that I specifically had to stand in the pouring rain for ten fucking minutes because parents who'd just dropped their kids off at school would not stop for the two seconds it would have taken me to cross the street in the alley. Like. Specifically. Literally. Parents who'd just dropped their kids off at the elementary school. Who you'd expect would at least pretend to give a shit. And they all chose to force me to stand there in the pouring fucking rain for ten solid minutes rather than stop for two seconds to let me cross.
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Because auto manufacturers and fuel companies can get richer by selling cars and would lose money if trains were as/more convenient as driving.
please god above can someone explain to me why we're still working on self driving cars when trains exist
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imagine: you get your memories back after years of amnesia to find out your whole species is dead and earth doesnât exist anymore. that the only thing left of your culture is your weird ex and his busted honda civic that barely even works that he stole from the government when he was 13. And heâs been taking members of an alien species for trips in his honda civic and theyâre all like âwoah itâs so coolâ and you get upset because itâs NOT COOL itâs a honda civic, the turn signals donât even work âwow it can go up hillsâ yeah OF COURSE IT CAN GO UP HILLS EVERY CAR COULD DO THAT. but theyâve never seen a car before so everything it does is the coolest thing ever. And your exâs only tool is a fucking screwdriver which is somehow also cool to this dumbass alien species even though itâs a fucking screwdriver so you just look like an idiot screaming about how none of this is even cool itâs actually really shitty but your whole planet is gone so you canât even prove it but also youâve had a constant drumming sounding in your head since you were 10 slowly driving you insane. I would become evil too.
#This metaphor might have gotten away from me#Whatever#the master#thoschei#doctor who#tardis#the doctor#Companion: wow it can actually fully reverse and go backwards!#The master: *seething bc EVERY CAR CAN DO THAT*#I would be so mad if the only thing left of my culture was my ex and his terrible car#That he doesnât even have a license to drive#Tensimm#J watches drwho#I really wanna draw this but I donât have any artistic ability due to there being no apples in my brain#Plus your ex kinda wants to fuck the car#P-14a#10k#15k
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Every time a pet dies on the side of the road, car culture becomes more and more evil.
#no jokes here besties#the anxiety I feel when I drive and I see these beautiful dogs and cats on the road covered in blood is insurmountable#I was on my way to my favorite coffee place and this darling puppy was sniffing along the main road#when I tell you I screamed âpuppy!!â in terror...#kiya's pissed#<- new tag#fuck car culture
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On Saturday, in New York, a group of friends pulled into a strangers driveway to turn their car around. The homeowner came outside, shot at them, and killed one of the 20 year old women in the car.
Last Thursday, in Kansas City, a 16 year old boy ended up at the wrong address by mistake trying to pick up his younger siblings. He rang the doorbell. The homeowner shot him in the head. He is, miraculously, alive and recovering.
Yesterday, in Texas, a group of high school cheerleaders stopped at a grocery store on their way home. One of them opened the door to the wrong car by mistake, realized her mistake, and quickly retreated and found her friends car nearby. The man in the car followed her and shot at the group. 2 were shot. One remains hospitalized.
In less than a week- 3 people, doing normal, nonmalicious, nonthreatening, everyday things. Turning around in a driveway, ringing the wrong doorbell, going up to the wrong car by mistake. And with no escalation, no warning, it turns to gun fire.
It's a terrible intersection of easy access to firearms and an entitlement to use violence against others. All 3 of these recent incidents were so unprovoked and unjustifiable, and the core thread remains the same.
A man who felt entitled to use violence and had the means to do so with a firearm.
I don't even know what to say.
#gun control obviously#but even that feels like too little#we need gun control#but we also need I dunno some...something more#because what kind of society creates this#what kind of culture allows it#the entitlement to leap straight to deadly force before you even speak to a person#to shoot at a stranger through your front door or car window without warning#just what in fucking hell
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Don't know what to even say
#Don't know what to even say#employment#employees#employers#fuck managers#managers#manager#car accident#work culture#workplace#class war#extortion#exploitative#exploitation#ausgov#politas#auspol#tasgov#taspol#australia#fuck neoliberals#neoliberal capitalism#anthony albanese#albanese government
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Even if you're a believer or not, there is such a thing as "Christian mythology", there is a body of narratives, themes, legends, folklore, beings, traditions and more that are really interesting and compelling to learn about, again, even if you're a believer on them or not.
Many people raised in Christian-influenced societies don't know about this because 1) they think of Christianity as the "default", so they don't realize it has its own unique traditions like any other religion and 2) lately, the most popular branch of Christianity is prosperity gospel self-help GOD WANTS YOU TO HAVE A NEW CAR type of stuff which has the depth of an infomercial.
#IT'S ALWAYS FUCKING CARS#cosas mias#this post is ONLY about the aesthetic and cultural aspects let's say#because there are lots of critics I have to that prosperity gospel thing from the ideological to the spiritual
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Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me ;)
#listen.#I know.#I know very well that I cannot draw a background.#đ#please�� have mercy or2#in my cowboy pinup era#gave him one HANGER of a packer#can yâall tell this is a derivative of kenâs outfit#cowboy Gil call that a cultural exchange#The exchange is that he makes Al eat the car crash raw meat porcupine thing#that thing makes me feel unwell#gave him a third fucking leg#tell you what tho Iâll never draw him using it đ#hetalia fanart#hetalia#hws prussia#aph prussia#gilbert beilschmidt#you canât see the second background but itâs a cow skull with twisty horns :(#fuck it just take this Iâm gonna fuck it up if I work on it anymore o(-(#digital art#my art#commissions open#artists on tumblr#procreate#digital illustration#fanart#digital painting#cowboy#illustration
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Americaâs collective decision in the 20th century to make cars and the roads serving them the bedrock of all urban and regional planning will go down in history as just another of our nationâs awful, ruinous ideas that we nevertheless clung to for generations, like slavery or lead paint.
Cars Have Fucked Up This Country Bad
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All speed limits need to be lowered and people need to be trained not to be in a fucking rush all the time. You fuckers are in a car. I promise you wherever you're going you're going to get there faster than I will on foot. You get to sit in air conditioning and heating. You are not getting rained or snowed on. You can sit for thirty fucking seconds to let me cross the street without trying to run me over.
These fuckers could wait a whole five minutes to let people use crosswalks and they'd still get wherever they're going faster, in more comfort, in more safety, than pedestrians. But if you ask them to wait literally just fifteen fucking seconds to let people cross the street, and they'll flip out like it's the end of the world.
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the exhausting slog of listening to anecdotal horror stories where rednecks are continually villified even if they dont do anything. "he was just so creepy... one of those fat mullet redneck types" ok and? ok and? and? ok? and the premise of the story is he smiled at you in passing? ok? and? there was one by someone who lived in the same kind of area i grew up but they were very proud to say they were middle class so you can imagine how many digs they took at the broke people around them that are systemically left to rot by the government. wow he only had two teeth? and theyre brown? are you going to step down out of your gold plated horse drawn carriage to pay for this man to go to a dentist? bc he sure as fuck couldnt afford to even if he wanted to. oh that guys fat? hes fat AND he has a mullet? doesnt he know only skinny middle class gen z kids are allowed to have those? what a disgusting perv. dont even get me started on old men who, oh god. wear flannel and have a truck. jesus fucking christ put them down already
#shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up#so called leftists when someone is poor and rural: oh god but what if hes got COOTIES? kill it kill it now before it looks at me ew ew ew#its like the hills have eyes out here its like deliverance all of these scary mean inbred hillbillies with no teeth and old cars ew ew eww#GENUINELY do me a favor and KYS#universal basic income and human rights for everyone except those uneducated racist smelly perverts who live in the mtns#except the mountains kind of go off and i like their stories and ''cryptids'' very marketable very demure very queercoded very removed#from all cultural context#oh you like appalachia? you like ''cryptids''? can you name a single community that the oral histories and stories came down from?#no and i know you wont because individually you would be terrified of any of those people if you saw them walking down the street#jesus fuck dude im so heated over this right now sorry
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"Maybe we should make people drive carefully so their giant metal death machines don't pose a danger"
"Nah, just put the responsibility on pedestrians"
This is so insanely funny the timing is literally perfect. quebec is insane for doing this
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Kentucky, 1949
#some things never change#all those broke down cars#people laugh at us for the stereotype of totaled cars in front yards but#when you're poor as fuck you hold onto everything til it absolutely falls apart#yes even broken shit#maybe we think we can one day make it work again cause we can't afford replacements#maybe its just habit#but everything counts#especially âuselessâ scraps#kentucky#appalachia#appalachian culture#appalachian gothic#americana#american gothic#rural america#small town america#appalachian
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Hello please please please
Never drive drunk high or under great emotional distress it is not worth it
Pull over catch your breath call your buddy
Anything
Please be safe out there
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my friend said i could borrow her escooter like okay sweet đ girl tell me why theres not a SINGLE place to cross the street to get to our fucking school along the whole TWO MILES from our apartment
#even if i wanted to take the shuttle i still think id have to cross the fucking streetâŚâŚ girl i fucking hate car culture can we just raze#it all to the ground and start over. im killing myself
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