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r/frickcars is shaping up to be the next r/antiwork

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/04/reddit-place-internet-communities

The premise of /r/frickcars is that dependency on car use is damaging to nature & society and we should be moving away from that; it's a slightly edgy position but most people will be able to agree with it to some degree. Recently, it has had a massive jump in activity and started to pull in more normies as it hits /r/all much like /r/antiwork did. This has, of course, generated a lot of arguments as the invading suburban boomers don't want to give up their lawn and extremists in the sub want everyone to live in pods and eat bugs from the communal trough.

recent /r/all thread

I dont want to live in an apartment

You're either selfish or don't see the wider picture.

Apparently all the problems this poster has with high density living can be solved by construction companies not cutting corners ( :marseylaugh: ) and having communal everything. Grow plants? Communal garden. Cook meat? Go to a restaurant. Want a house party? Just have an expensive communal party at the bar. :marseypuke:


At this point in /r/antiwork's life, the /r/all invaders won the consensus and the majority of activity on antiwork skewed away from literally just not working (as the sub founders intended) and more towards worker rights and shitty fake text message posts. After the normification, it was picked up by the media which eventually culminated in our favorite greasy dog-walker's interview.

r/frickcars is prime for the same thing to happen if the normies manage to soften the extremist positions in the sub's message as they did with antiwork. It hits a lot of mainstream progressive talking points (environmentalism, social problems, etc) and it will generate a lot of clicks but is not too controversial so is perfect for the mainstream media to latch on to. Although having 'frick' in the name might be a barrier to going mainstream.
/r/frickcars has a more reasonable position than 'nobody should need to work' and the member interviewed in the linked article managed to not sperg out, but they do look like a prime candidate for dog walking so we may yet have another Doreen situation.

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Now watch this drive.

I'd rather not

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Looking good, hon!

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I just realised that your signature is referencing Dubya Bush.

Man, that takes me back.

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new top gear looks great


Follower of Christ :marseyandjesus: Tech lover, IT Admin, heckin pupper lover and occasionally troll. I hold back feelings or opinions, right or wrong because I dislike conflict.

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Who was taking that picture?

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Probably a Series III or a Discovery so they can make fun of the fancy Range Rover later for taking it up the pipe.

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Least homoerotic British car enthusiast

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sexy

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The tailpipe is not a bussy my guy, you don't want to do that

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Pretty sure that is a Dane.

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Yeah I've been subbed to /r/frickcars for a while, the memes are good

But just like /r/antiwork it's spoiled by leftoids who can't do anything sensibly and instead have to smugpost about everything and demand the most extreme solution to everything

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Man i just want some decent bike lanes. Why do leftoids have to frick up any support for halfway decent public policy

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It is pretty weird browsing through posts and finding some blaming the right for the car problem. Like i legit tought it was a parody sub at first because of this. Wtf does "right" have anything to do in this? Is it actually more likely for douche pickup drivers to be rightoids? Why do they b-word about elon musk instead of the government who still builds and maintains all these roads?

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Especially when urban planning is very much a local issue. Something tells me the GOP isnt the mastermind behind the shit show of traffic in LA

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I think by "left" they mean how euro millenials imagine themselves to be and by "right" they mean how euro millenials imagine America, where all the major cities are full of traffic jams of nazis in F-350s.

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https://old.reddit.com/r/frickcars/comments/tptnqi/comment/i2doojj/?context=3

This exchange was awesome, some poor schmuck takes the time to kindly explain why top-down centralized urban planning tends to result in bad city design, and the response is

"Thank you for the book suggestion but I'm way too far left for that man πŸ˜…. My books are "How nonviolence Protects the State" and "How to blowup a pipeline". Cities existed long before markets did."

It's rare you see someone outright state that they're refusing to learn they simply disagree with the idea politically. Normally they say it's racist or something and that's why they wont learn

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also the idea that "cities existed long before markets did" is still kinda blowing my mind. Cities exist largely BECAUSE of markets. Trading was much easier when everyone was in closer proxemity

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Cities literally can't exist without trade. Without trade they couldn't feed themselves simply because of population density. 1 acre of land only feeds so many people no matter how much hussle and bussle you have

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In the Mayan empire cities existed for the sole purpose of trade. Everyone would go home to their rural abodes in the evening

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Because city planning won't actually change things. Our city council decided to get rid of half the lanes, put bike lanes everywhere, and intentionally clog traffic at much as possible. Still no one bikes because of snow, cold, rain, and the distance between everything. You still need a car for the half of the year that there's over a foot of snow on the ground.

What we ended up with was a traffic problem in a low population city with great freeway infrastructure and literally no one biking.

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Oh good, it's an absolute fricking r-slur. Just what this site needs.

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redditors without jobs seething about not having a car.

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If you don't own a car you are not an adult.

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smh brainwashed ruralcel.

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Brainwashed by what? Freedom of movement? An objectively superior lifestyle? Get back in your pod bugman

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Brainwashed into thinking the ability to buy Funkos the next town over makes you an adult. Get back in your pod, sweet pea.

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:#marseynoyou:

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The pot of gold in the next town over isn't some toy, it's another man's wife

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Heroin addiction and asocial behavior isn’t exotic enough to attract other men’s wives

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Can't even make it to the property line without a car.

unsubscribed

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If you are a moid and cant appreciate cars, keep yourself extrmemely safe immediately

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I appreciate driving. Simping over cars themselves outside of a passive "woah nice" is for cuckolds with no discernable personality.

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Low T take, if you have either autism or testosterone you should appreciate cars aesthetically

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aesthetically

No you should be appreciating them mechanically and from a performance and power perspective

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Youre all wrong, you appreciate them for the sensation they provide when driven.

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:marsoyhype:

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Are u in the miata Mondays club?! :marseysteer:

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This is a foid take. "I love driving around in my cute little MG and being a lady about town. I don't know or care how it works, because if it breaks down I can ask some boy to fix it for me!"

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For once you are extremely correct

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A car takes me from here to there. Aside from that, tf else is there to appreciate?

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If you werent a poor driving beige toyotas you would understand concepts like aesthetics, driving feel, mechanical sympathy, and the sound of a real nonshitbox engine

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"My car shinier, pointier, and make better noise. This very important!"

:#platycaveman:

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Yes, and I would have had a cooler bow in 20000BC too

hurr durr bow hunt deer why care???

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Spoken while deerless, naturally

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The experience of mocking death and the physical limitations of the human form. Are you guys paying attention when your foot is on the gas?

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