I lost many a “friend” when I stopped drinking alcohol.

Thanks, got that mixed up. Fixed.

Important detail before everyone gets railed up about the rage bate headline:

The five biggest Dutch cities are urging the government to let them ban fatbikes, e-scooters and other motor-powered vehicles from cycle lanes to prevent “total chaos,” the Telegraaf reported on Wednesday.

I have no clue about dutch regulations of light electric vehicles like e-scooters, but the (overall not quite detailed) article talks about demands for a speed limit (30km/h), I assume there is not much regulation (yet). In that case, this seems to be a reasonable demand.
For comparison, german regulation says e-bikes (spedelecs) and scooters with a max speed of up to 25 km/h belong on bike paths, everything with a higher max speed needs a license, insurance and plates and is prohibited from using bike paths.
25 km/h (or 30) can seem quite fast but is not too hard to achieve so these speeds are not unusual for bike paths.

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Go Moldova! Other europen countries need to take some notes here!

You are so fucking narrow-minded it’s crazy.

How do you think calls for protests and rallies are spread nowadays? How meetings are organized, information is distributed generally, how people get educated?

I am active in a queer rights group, do you know how most people find us and our meetings and rallies? I give you a hint, it’s not through the fucking public phone books.

Lol sure, go denigrade others for their engagement.

How do.you think you can reach new people/normies today, you think people gonna see newspaper ads?

It is a very cishet perspective.

So we do agree that getting off of social media isn’t a solution?

Weird US focus, but ok.

I would agree with the comment you replied to that a good first step to making proactive change in our communities with an eye to resolving these larger global issues could start with getting off social media, even for literally seven minutes.

That’s not what the comment I replied to said. There’s nothing to find about engaging with your community or about reducing your time on social media and use it on something else.

Also, what about engaging your community via social media? What about propagating anti-fascist messaging or spreading awareness about other issues via social media?

That’s easily being said if you’re privileged enough to not need to care.

Also, I might not be able to change stuff, but we can. I suggest you pull your head out of your ass and get active instead of enabling fascism by inactivity.

Btw, where do you get what you think my age is?

All shops I ever had something to return to with refunding instead of replacements. I always had the full price refunded without hassle including shipping costs. But iirc in those cases I returned the purchase completely.

Actually, in Germany shops have to also refund shipping cost. There may be exceptions for large or heavy goods that require delivery by freight forwarding companies, but general parcel delivery via DHL or similar services definetly have to be refunded.

I tried to swipe to the next panel so now you got a downvote out of that.

Why did you resurrect a nine month old post?

Bruh, what?

Pointless rule. Everything is politics.