3mo ago

Sydney's car-brained candidate for Mayor

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Isn't it supposed to be "fewer" anyway?
- He likes cars, not grammar.
  
  well, he hasn't met mine yet. she's in fine fettle for her age.
  
  Cars and, based on the looks of it, insects. I didn't realize how much like a lizard he looks.
- It is
  
  Tsk
- Les Lane sounds like Superman’s brother in law.
  
  lmao
- They probably mean that those convenient areas adjacent to the lanes on a road should be seen as “less bike lanes, but more car park”.
  
  Ahhhhh... This actually does make sense. I love you.
  
  That is exactly how they're seen in Philadelphia.
- No, less is perfectly acceptable. GoT is very annoying for turning people into grammar pedants for a 18th century style suggestion.
  
  wtf is GoT? I don't use linux

We had some winners in my city a few years ago.
Here's my favorite quote from that article:
“The money is in the car,” Comrie insists. “Who’s the spender? Does a bicyclist go and buy sporting goods, or furniture, or clothing? Or are they just out for a ride?”
Does this guy think cyclists are sitting naked in empty apartments wishing they had clothes and furniture? Luckily he did not win the election.
- I have a lot more money to buy shit ever since i rid myself of that money pit we call a car....
  
  OTOH it's absolutely insane what new bicycles are costing these days - bikes can be money pits too. I bought my road bike 12 years ago for about $1800 and was kicking myself for years for spending that much. A modern road bike (with disc brakes, wi-fi controlled electronic shifters etc.) would be in the neighborhood of ten grand, more than my car cost. Meanwhile my favorite bike is the 25yo hybrid that I bought on Craigslist for $100.
  
  He did say the money was in the car, he just didn't mean to imply that a car is a hole in the road that you throw money into.
- The carbrained can’t see cycling as a form of transport, only as a type of exercise. In their minds people only cycle to cycle, not to fulfil other tasks. Only cars are for going places, like shopping.
- Why, the cyclist needs no clothes or food, for the cyclist is sub-human and is therefore an animal (what these car-brained people probably think)
  
  Not "probably," "certainly!" It's proven by research: https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/more-than-half-of-motorists-view-cyclists-as-subhuman-cockroaches
- Is that guy a blatantly lying piece of shit, or just a moron?
  In factual reality, cyclists buy more stuff than motorists, not less!
  See also:
  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-08/for-store-owners-bike-lanes-boost-the-bottom-line
  https://cyclingindustry.news/why-cycling-is-good-for-everything-from-retail-sales-to-property-prices/
- Yeah, "serious" cycling --- a sport where a $1k bike barely qualifies as a bike, $5k gets you something rideable, and $10k gets you a pretty decent bike --- is so anti-consumer!
  (I love cycling, and I'll defend spending more on my power meter pedels than I would spend on a decent used bike. More bike lanes everywhere please!)
- US here with bonus points for a conservative city in the bible belt. I see people literally just driving in circles around the block or up and down the street endlessly almost every day. Multiple times a week at least. Don't fucking tell me drivers only do so with purpose. eyeroll.gif
  
  No you don't.
- Yeah because someone who never exercises, you know the type of person who only moves around the city in a car, buys sporting goods frequently. Yep.
- I really hate that that’s treated as a legitimate argument as opposed to a criticism of capitalism
- They only think of cycling for sport and not cycling to a destination. That's where the confusion lies.

This is your brain on cars.
- Hey now, they specifically added a ton of people to distract from his appearance, which was a kindness

- THANK YOU.
  (Obviously this doesn’t matter. Language evolves. And no one cared about this rule until the last 200 years or so. But my parents drilled this particular correction so firmly into my brain that it bothers me when others get it wrong. “Fewer in number, less in amount.” Similarly, “farther in distance, further in degree.” And you stand on a PODIUM, you speak from behind a LECTERN.)
  (I might have some lexicographical trauma. 😅)

Bike lanes might have lead to cheaper parking due to fewer cars.
- Car-brains don't do standard logic, only car-logic...

Less bike lanes
100% he's going to make that happen
and cheaper parking
0% he's going to make that happen
Free market, removed! Prices. Only. Go. Up!
- wait why would less bike lanes make anything cheaper?? it's just sectioning off a portion of the road?
  
  You turn the bike lane into street parking. No idea how this makes things cheaper, but I guess the argument is two extra parking spots per block is going to make all the difference.
- In free markets prices generally go down
  
  Wait, you're serious?

Is that a Tram in the background ?
- Hahahahah ironic
- What a joke, considering the message haha. May he lose!

good news. car brained loser is sitting on 3.36%.
well funded campaign (assume oxford st small biz tyrants and paddington geriatrics), posters everywhere.
https://vtr.elections.nsw.gov.au/LG2401/sydney/mayoral
i wish this would be seen as a vindication for active transport... but we all know the anti bike blow hards wont miss a beat.
edit: big fucking lol. dont think they will get a single council seat.
- After reading the title and seeing the black abyss in the eyes of the great-value Voldemort wannabe, I was scared for a moment that someone who was so openly hostile towards the safety of cyclists could win an election. It brings me great relief to know that is not the case.
- well funded campaign (assume oxford st small biz tyrants and paddington geriatrics), posters everywhere.
  love the no bullshit analysis naming the supporters specifically...
  we should make politicians wear their sponsors on their suits like NASCAR drivers so folks know who they are allotting their tax money to lol

Oh look, another old white man with stupid ideas

“Fewer” since they are countable.
ETA this is basic grammar and not something you can just take exception with because you feel like it. The responses I’m receiving are very odd.
- He could just make them shorter.
- If there are two bike lanes merging into one, there are one, two or three bike lanes?
  
  Water isn’t countable but lanes are.
- They are indeed... Where did the whole "if two bike lanes converge" question come from??
  I was going to make the same joke.
  "Fewer. I mean more. More bike lanes."
- Why does it matter?
  
  Why does grammar matter?

But he's posing in front of a tram? Make it make sense!
- It won't make sense if there is no need to

God please no, Sydney actually has viable public transport compared to something like the US.
There's so many cool JDM type stuff there probably because enthusiasts keep cars around the city.
I'd much rather be able to see all the slick WRXs and Evos while walking than having to drive a crapbox into Sydney.

Fewer*

I guess regardless of country, people pushing shit like this can't seem to make a natural looking facial expression. Its like they try to replicate what happy people look like to them in order to get the response they see others receive but the best they can do is the trail leading into the uncanny valley

Dickhead.
- I think he doesn't have one.
  
  a head with functioning braincells or the dick?

The candidate for rich people who resent poor people.
- always has been

You need to carry a marker and draw devils horns whenever you see his poster. Colouring in the QR code to make it not work is a bonus too.
- I should just carry a bunch of QR stickers of various sizes that link to shock sites.
  
  Would be more beneficial to a YT video explaining how more (safe) bike infrastructure leads to less traffic.
- I think devil horns would actually make him look less evil. It would distract from the deep void that hid behind his sunken black eyes and reptile smooth head, the void where his humanity and compassion for the safety of others had once been many decades ago.
  
  exactly, draw penises and a mustache on him instead
- Then edit the ~~less~~ *fewer as well

That just means more cyclists on the roads.
That will just make people like him angrier. Good

Probably owns a few parking lots.

He has fewer brains than his opponent.
- Less brains because brain quantity isn't countable
  
  If you count down from one to none it is
  
  Um... (I'm making fun of his misuse of "less" referencing a countable quantity of lanes. But, thank you for the helpful tip anyway.)

Meanwhile, if successful, they'd probably complain about traffic and blame it on cyclists being slow in the car lanes

Unsurprisingly, a former candidate for the Liberal (conservative) party: https://web.archive.org/web/20220518064350/https://cityofsydneyliberals.webflow.io/candidate/sam-danieli
Perhaps he was too crazy even for them.
- He's still a party member, it's listed in his candidate information sheet. Badly Scanned PDF

The poster BEFORE ripping it off ;)

I pledge to do absolutely nothing about parking prices, but will try to slow down the cycle lane projects

*Fewer

Nosferatu needs to lay off the blood of the innocent for a bit - he's clearly over-indulged.
Being less evil would be nice, but we can only reasonably expect so much.

I wonder if they ever caught the frisbee thrower who whipped that L-brand disc at the lady's head just as the photo was taken.

I have to drive a van every day for work, but even I find this repulsive.

1hr commute both ways to work

Gross.
It's "fewer."

So, what do you do if this guy democratically wins?
- Complain on Lemmy about the people that you’re surrounded by, I guess.
  I think most of us who live in America know the feeling.
- Hope he gets hit by a car.

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