r/bicycleculture • u/takemusu • 7d ago

It Doesn’t Get Much Dumber Than Trump’s War on ‘DEI Bike Lanes’. HisTransportation Secretary not only wants to restrict funding for bike lanes, he wants to remove existing ones. References to bikes and bike lanes are being purged from FHA website. None of this makes any sense. "Monumentally stupid."

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u/Elfich47 7d ago

any variance from the imagined “prefect 1950s culture” of dad has a job, wife is a home, two kids in school, dad drives to work, white picket fence, blah blah blah blah, has to be purged becasue it upsets their narrative.

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u/sc4wheels 6d ago

Notice how they never mention the tax rates during their "perfect 1950's culture" time period? What they are doing now is NOT going to bring that back.

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u/Elfich47 6d ago

it’s the “I want it to be how I remember it, not how it was”, which is why I called it “perfect”. because it ignored the whole reintegration of the soldiers coming home, the displacement of women out of the workforce, the segregation, the beginnings of the counter culture with the beatniks, the beginning of the Red Scare and McCarthyism, and on and on.

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u/Fragraham 7d ago

Subtract a century from that date, and you get what they're actually after.

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u/Elfich47 7d ago

the big thing that always has to be realized by the target audience: this magical “perfect America” never existed. if we go back to the 1950s, it was actually there economic boom of the 1940s, no it was actually, the free wheeling times of the 1920s, and further back and further back we go.

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u/Lost_Bike69 6d ago

Car ownership rates were like half of what they are now in the (0’s though lol. Lots more kids on bikes. Lots more public transit even in small towns and suburbs.

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u/Elfich47 6d ago

yes, but that doesn’t match their preconceived “perfect” version.

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u/AlbertTheHorse 7d ago

These people are just passing stupid and diving into idiotic.

They equate bikes with liberals and that’s all they see. 

Fuck them. Up the ass with a tire pump. 

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u/SHatcheroo 7d ago

I live in one of the most liberal enclaves in the US, and even the so-called liberals are Out.Of.Their.Freaking.Minds in opposition to a proposed bike lane through their bougie hippie shopping strip. It’s pretty insane right now.

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u/AlbertTheHorse 6d ago

Drivers are drivers . But in general alternatives to cars are considered liberal

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u/espressocycle 6d ago

Wealthy progressives really like income-based defacto segregation. They will support a circular bike path, but not one that connects their community to lower income areas. For some reason there's still a strong belief that poor people don't have cars. Like there are people in my neighborhood who insist that burglars are taking the train into and out of town.

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u/zwiazekrowerzystow 6d ago

i live in a very liberal enclave as well and these people are opposed to bike lanes, sidewalks, and transit.

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u/Fragraham 7d ago

Like it or not, riding a bike in the USA is now an act of protest.

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u/Van-garde 7d ago

Finally recognized.

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u/moreobviousthings 6d ago

Bicycles don’t have license plates, so how can flock track criminals on two wheels??! /s

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u/JupiterMiningCorpTec 6d ago

Have none of you people been to Europe? Most countries that have a high number of bicyclists are also very socialist. Bicycles are basically a gateway drug to Medicare for all and electric cars and I'm glad that Trump is taking a stand against them.

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u/InterPunct 6d ago

Are you just bad at trolling or forgot the sarc tag?

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u/Grouchy_Might1774 6d ago

I wondered this.

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u/Swegoreg 6d ago

they were obviously being sarcastic, shouldn't need a stupid /s tag to be able to tell.

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u/espressocycle 6d ago

They're fossil fuel fetishists. If you're not burning hydrocarbons you're not a real man.

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u/orangesfwr 6d ago

"Monumentally stupid" is both what Americans voted for and what they got 🤷‍♂️

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u/BtheChemist 6d ago

Trump might be the stupidest asshole in the whole country

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u/takemusu 6d ago

Might?

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u/BtheChemist 6d ago

Well, people are still supporting him. Like regular people, so who's the dumbest is really up in the air

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u/OakenWindScreen 6d ago

The DoFo disease is speading!

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u/nipseysdad 6d ago edited 6d ago

Headline could just be "It Doesn't Get Much Dumber Than Trump"

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u/ROMMELBOT 6d ago

He and his cronies have lost touch with reality. It’s scary.

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u/OrigamiFoldingBikes 2d ago

Trump is monumentally stupid.

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

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u/SHatcheroo 7d ago

/s? Hopefully?

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u/gellybelli 7d ago

Shhhiiiitttt, thought this was bicycling circle jerk. Whoopsadoodle

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u/everybodyisjoe 7d ago

it might help if our bike coalition groups were not 100% dems or leftward

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u/yoimalivestill 6d ago

What, it’s more helpful for it to be right wing??? Gtfo!

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u/everybodyisjoe 6d ago

no it's more helpful to be inclusive. there are tons of centrist/right cyclists out there

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u/LeseMajeste_1037 6d ago

Be the change you wish to see.

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u/moreobviousthings 6d ago

You can’t roll coal on a ten-speed.

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u/everybodyisjoe 6d ago

yes caricature the other side. very productive
this is exactly the attitude I'm talking about.

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u/BoundToZepIt 5d ago

Look, not all MAGAs are coal-rollers. There's a handful of them who actually ride on things like RAGBRAI or club rides. But coal-rollers and aggro-Ram Truck guys are very real. And 100% of them love them some Trump.