No, but there are confused Westerners who only understand “Liberal” to mean “the more progressive half of my country’s Liberal parties”.

Translation: I still can’t rebut anything you actually said, but I hate how it made me feel, so I’m going to dismiss it and stick my head back in the sand now.

If by “them” you mean ecocidal narcissists in their stupid pollution powered people killing machines I agree wholeheartedly.

Translation: it really hurts my feelings when you point out all the factual reasons relying on a pollution powered people crusher for my personal transportation is bad for society and the environment, please stop!!

Edit: no empathy for ecocidal narcissists. Learn some basic human decency before you go asking for empathy from others.

I hope you see how this attitude is just as dumbed as someone who thinks cars are the only solution.

Nope. Bcs at worst I’m annoying some people who’ve embraced ecocidal narcissism. Carbraims are people who are embracing ecocidal narcissism. If you don’t see the difference there, I don’t think there’s much hope for you.

There is also basically no public transit in my state, city or not.

And yet you still choose to live there. That’s the problem.

Hard to believe if all you’ve known is big city privilege,

And as hard as it is to believe with terminal carbrain, I grew up in the suburbs and lived for a while in rural Appalachia before moving to “the big city”. And it was a sacrifice to move here, it sucked for a few years. But now I don’t have to destroy the environment to get to and from work. You should try it. When nobody is willing to stay and pay taxes in car dependent shit holes, the assholes who run them will start “footing the bill” for decent transit infrastructure. Til then, staying just means you value your convenience over a habitable planet just like every other carhole on Earth.

Get a bus pass

this is such a fucking privileged take that it hurts.

From where I’m sitting the privilege belongs to the people making zero changes to their daily lives in response to climate change. Why the fuck do think it’s ok to live 25 miles from work? Why not move? Bcs it would be inconvenient, got it.

People should not live in places where a car is required. Unless they are doing jobs that have to be done outside of the city. You wanna live like a modern hermit? Ok, but you need to get a job working on a farm, in a mine, or at a logging camp.

Otherwise, move your ass to a denser area with good transit or stop pretending that anything but selfishness and a desire to avoid inconvenience motivated you to stay in suburbia.

Anyone driving a car has already made the decision that their minor convenience is worth the possible death of someone they don’t know and also worth the definite degradation of the shared environment everyone needs to live.

Expecting such a person to give any more of a fuck about the people around them than is necessary to avoid the “hassle” of hitting a pedestrian or cyclistsl is a laughable concept.

Good people don’t drive cars as personal transportation.

But Xi hasn’t pushed the magic “Communism” button to skip all the intermediate steps and create a moneyless, classless society, so obviously this means he’s just evil Redfash. Checkmate, Tankie!

/S (I wish that went without saying, but here we are)

I believe there are a few things you simply shouldn’t joke about

And I believe that belief makes you a dangerous idiot who’ll happily support Fascism.

Both of these statements are correct. And if you blame the locked cases on shoplifting rather than blaming the shoplifting on the fact that greedy, soulless merchants will jack up their prices in response to sunrises, sunsets, or passing fancies, then fuck you along with capitalism.

Using Britannica 's definition of Fascism is like using the Klan’s definition of racism.

Here’s the actual definition, which doesn’t fit modern Russia at all, but does fit neatly onto the US and most of the EU.

Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capital is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ch07.htm

Bonus excerpt of Lenin calling out Kautsky for doing exactly what you’re doing with the definition:

This definition is of no use at all because it one-sidedly, i.e., arbitrarily, singles out only the national question (although the latter is extremely important in itself as well as in its relation to imperialism), it arbitrarily and inaccurately connects this question only with industrial capital in the countries which annex other nations, and in an equally arbitrary and inaccurate manner pushes into the forefront the annexation of agrarian regions.