• Blackmist
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    1 year ago

    I’ve seen Facebook nutters screaming about 20mph limits in residential neighbourhoods.

    Apparently this is a Chinese scheme called “20 minute neighbourhoods” to prevent anyone travelling outside their hometown. I’m not entirely sure of the fucking mental gymnastics required for those leaps of logic. I decided not to argue, because nobody wins pigeon chess, and also she was kind of hot.

      • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        And that basically is what we have in the Netherlands and it’s awesome. Literally everyone raves about how nice it is when they see it but they hate evil government 15 minute cities

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        1 year ago

        It’s amazing to me how that happened. It almost feels like it’s part of some one-upmanship campaign for different propagandists.

        One says “Ok, I’m going to take a boring, UN plan about sustainable development called ‘Agenda 21’ and make people think it’s some evil conspiracy, despite the full text being available online.”

        The other says: “Nicely done, but you think that’s good, I can make people hate the concept of pleasant, walkable cities!”

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          Yeah, I don’t think it’s about one upmanship, that would be almost forward thinking.

          I just think it’s the old boring people don’t want to change.

    • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      It’s not like Canada hasn’t had 30 km/h school zone speed limits forever. They’re completely deranged, you did good not arguing.