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[–]jet199 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (7 children)

There's this 15 minute city thing where everything you need is within a 15 minute walk to stop you driving.

Sounds nice but it's really about creating battery farmed workers with no communities.

[–]Newzok 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Yeah it sounds good but then you kinda realise.

That is, will it be enforced or just practical? This shit is turning me into a Marxist quick. What are we, fucking rats in a maze to these people? Abolish the capitalist elite and let us earn our money for ourselves rather than some oligarch who slurps up the proceeds. Same goes for war. It's never not about capital interest.

[–]jet199 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

It's going to be enforced in new builds in a lot of countries. You know, progressive places which care about the environment like Saudi Arabia.

[–]Newzok 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Loool. I guess the Line kind of fits the bill

[–]Zapped 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In the U.S., they are already waiving parking space requirements for developers in many cases. They are starting to build apartments with no parking available.

[–]Musky 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

There's this 15 minute city thing where everything you need is within a 15 minute walk to stop you driving.

Doesn't work, see Houston. There's 5 versions of everything in a 15 minute walk, including asian massage parlors, everyone still drives everywhere.

[–]jet199 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Most places aren't as car reliant as American though.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yep, it has more to do with poor urban planning than distance. Cities are designed around cars.

[–]send_nasty_stuff 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

There are LOTS of reasons. One is that rural people are more independent from the system than city people. The more reliant you are on infrastructure the more willing you are to vote with the government and their cultural controllers.

[–]Zapped 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You understand. When someone chooses to live in a large city, they are already agreeable to give up a certain amount of "freedom" in the name of convenience. A lot of those people don't understand that that kind of system doesn't work for most of the country, in the same way that most people in rural areas don't understand that people in these large cities are ok with that.

[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Democrats are ugly miserable people. They are not like you and I. They are Faggotry out of last resort, they can’t have normal relationships. Etc.

They want you to be as miserable as them.

[–]ShekelPa 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

To rob us of any leverage. All about control.

[–]proc0 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Inner city people are basically like cattles in terms of how they completely depend on the government. Government's goal is to make everyone into cattle they can farm.

[–]cottoneyejoe 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The elite cocksuckers want the land for their own use.

[–]SeethingPeasant 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Because people in the city are easy to control and manipulate, and program especially. You can have facial recognition everywhere, everyone can be tracked and traced 24/7, and you can be bombarded 24/7 with propaganda.

[–]m68k 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The elitist (as I call them) want us peasants out of the way, so they can have their beaches and resorts to themselves.

[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Because they are out of touch rich city people and think that is what everyone wants.

It's an ideology that stretches back to the Roman times; To fear the forest. They feared outside they city bounds, where the unknown was. It was mostly forests and rural landscapes; ie "trackless forest and swamps". While it is common to fear the unknown, especially if people leave for there and never come back, it was always important to attract people to a city and encourage them not to leave, even by use of fear tactics. A dwindling city had dwindling tax revenue and dwindling conscripts for their armies.