• Wooki@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      The podcast premise is born in false equivalence of Australian cities to the NY and other utter massive cities. That’s straight out of the gate. I stopped there.

      “Failing to provide a good argument “

      There is NO argument to be had here, but hey I will keep it simple, people die when roads are closed. It is blatantly obvious why it’s bad for Australia and this ideology perpetuates a very dangerous delusion. But hey rule ban dissent away.

      • Zagorath@aussie.zoneOP
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        people die when roads are closed

        lol what a lazy troll. No they don’t. Fewer people die when you take away one of the biggest killers.

        And please don’t come back at me with the obvious troll response here. You and I already both know how much of a blatant straw man it is.

          • Zagorath@aussie.zoneOP
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            1 year ago

            Cars kill hundreds of people every year.

            Pedestrians and cyclists kill zero.

            Pretty simple maths, for anyone who graduated from primary school.

              • Zagorath@aussie.zoneOP
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                1
                arrow-down
                1
                ·
                1 year ago

                If you can’t face facts man, you should probably stop arguing with people who use them. You’re just making yourself look a numpty.

        • Wooki@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          It is, for obvious username colour. You can see where this group devolves this discussion into, outside this thread from “ban cars in cities” to: “ban cars outright”. It perpetuates an ideology born for very high density and very high populations with functional, accessible, affordable, public transport. A fictional triad in Australia & really fictional to cities “in whole”. As a result it spreads the ideology that removing transportation isn’t dangerous which it very much is why city planners have heart attacks closing roads. The net effect of removing “cars”: people die.

            • Wooki@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              1 year ago

              “Are you arguing that you have been unfairly targeted?” No, it was a borderline response. However very intentional as the alternative is proven where any “discussion” degrades to in the other thread with OP as I noted above would happen. OP has no interest having any discussions on the merits of closing one street for a market as does this podcast. It’s disingenuous to achieve one outcome: ban all cars.