🤔 Do bicycles create empathy? Or do people that care about other people, tend to care about bikes?
Why is there such a big overlap between "bike infrastructure radicalized people," and "people that care about people that are different than themselves?"
Why is there such a low overlap between "people with trash hateful takes" and "people that want more bike infrastructure?"
As commonly promoted as this conspiracy theory is, Occam's Razor would at least have us consider that maybe, just maybe, the fundamental advantages of cars over public transit has something to do with cars being popular compared to public transit.
I mean they have pretty big differences in the problems they solve well, but that gets overlooked by people who are more interested in pointing fingers at boogymen and making implicit attacks on groups you have singled out here.
It doesn't stand up as a convincing argument to anybody who's not already buying it.
