The "War on Cars" feat. PragerU
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*"There is a war on cars!"*
[walks outside, cars everywhere]
My god, they've already won!
Jesus, they're ruthless
Genius, no wonder you're a Nobel prize winner! I guess the war on drugs didn't exist because.... drugs still exist? L
@@thomasdick6797 ur mad
my mom always complain that as I got older, didn't go outside anymore. But the reason for that is the amount of cars parking in my street. Nowadaysy there's a lot of days that is only parked cars at both sides.
indeed, they won :(
-sorry for bad english-
@@thomasdick6797 no silly cars won the war on cars, just as drugs won the war on drugs before them. god bless america.
"The free market is the answer"
"The government should provide free parking"
Pick one, PragerU.
They should just say, "the government should be under our complete control and do things only when it's convenient for us and no one else."
@@MiketheNerdRanger government is only good when it supports their businesses.
@@theasianboy315 Cool story bro
@@theasianboy315 Americans need to learn that both their parties are right of centre.
@@theasianboy315 there is no left wing or right wing only good policy or not.
Nothing screams freedom like needing to pay thousands of dollars to buy a car, pay thousands of dollars for insurance, pay thousands of dollars on gas, pay hundreds for useless road infrastructure taxes, just so you can be stuck in traffic for 2 hours every day and potentially die in a crash.
couldn't have said it better myself
+1
Don't forget that in the U.S police can strip you of any and all freedom if you happen to be driving a car significantly more than other situations.
My favorite freedom, the freedom to suddenly die at a young age
Where is your freedom when transit workers go on strike? Dependence on mass transit means you depend on someone else to get to work, and sometime they aren't so dependable. Cars take you from point A to point B, with mass transit you need to find some way to go from point A to point B so that mass transit can take you from point B to point C, then you must find some way to go from point C to point D.
@@bobthebox2993 such as in a terrorist attack on a subway station.
"Let's make walking impossible to force people to buy a car to be free again. "
Sounds like a 80s movie villain's plan.
Eddie Valiant: "Nobody's gonna drive this lousy freeway when they can take the Red Car for a nickel!"
Judge Doom: "Oh, they'll drive. They'll have to. You see, I bought the Red Car so I could dismantle it."
@@Zalis116 I KNEW IT
The movie "Robots."
"Upgrades, people! Upgrades!"
i think it actually is a villain’s plan in a movie
Also paying to the government for owning a car even if you barely use it. Car insurance is literally forced. And what does the tax money go to ? A absurdly weaponized military and bombing Syria (Biden still doing this)
"Freedom is choosing between Coke and Pepsi" -PragerU, probably...
And yet, they get real mad when I pick a local variant.
Nah "black Cola" is still better
"Freedom is when you can drive your SUV from your McMansion in your segregated private suburb to your job at a fracking site"
-PragerU
between diabetes and hypertension
i choose Bepis
“ A car crash is a tragedy, but a pileup is a statistic.”
- Carseph Stalin
based
He be Stalin because he's still stuck in traffic.
@@jaydencoleman9068 i trust you but i'd like to check.
Cringen't
Stalin believed in induced demand but for food
“A rich country is not a place where poor people drive cars, it is a place where rich people take public transportation.”
Developed country*
That place is called Singapore
@@JH-jm8ib singapore is just one of the examples. Other examples are the UK, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, Hong Kong among many others
@@namanverma1282 Exactly.
I live in Japan, where the vast majority of people, at any level in the company, take the train to work. There's a huge middle class, and very few people on the extremes of the wealth gap. One of my clients lived in Thailand for six years, and just today, he was telling me about how in Bangkok, the people saw the train as transport for the poor, and the rich would sit in their cars and take three times as long to get to work because of the traffic.
@@namanverma1282 In more than half of Europe (especially the larger cities and in-between cities it is like that). Sweden, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, France, etc...
You can see them switching between "the enemy is weak" and "the enemy is strong" in a single breath.
that's a standard fascist rhetoric: The enemy controls everything but is also inferior at the same time.
@@lol-ih1tl All powerful snowflakes xd
keep calling out this tactic, as it goes unnoticed all too often! 👍
@@lol-ih1tl Not just right-wing -- it's standard fascist rhetoric. In fact, my comment was riffing on part of Umberto Eco's definition of Ur-Fascism.
I'm pretty sure most dictators do that. It makes sense in a way. If the enemy is weak, why haven't you beaten them yet? You're a loser, I won't stand on your side. If the enemy is strong, why are you trying to fight them? You're a loser, I won't stand on your side. Worst of both worlds.
"Some cars are more equal than others"
-Gorgeous Orwell, Car Farm
The part where the cars began driving on two wheels (mirroring the old abusers that were the bicycle) made my skin scrawl.
Lmao!
the classic George Orlando’s 1864
Henerage Fordwell
no, its:
Gorgeous Gaswell.
Freedom means driving 5 miles to buy groceries instead of walking 600 feet because your grocery store needed a giant parking lot.
And then you have to walk 600 feet to get through the parking lot.
when i heard adam say "15 minutes by car to the groceries"
i was stunned... i thought he meant "15 minutes on foot to the groceries"
and i thought sydney was bad... god bless america
@@yukko_parra it’s a 25 minute walk to my closest grocery store. About 20 minutes to the convenience store, which is the closest business to my house. And I live in a suburb mind you, not a rural area.
And that’s all next to major roads where people will go upwards of 60 mph if they’re feeling naughty.
i go to the grocery store every other day because i have 3 in ste span of 800m. Depending what direction i'm coming from i can choose one. Coming rom a place where you had to use the car because well, in a small mountain town is how you get around, i can't think why anyone would live in a city AND have to do 15 minutes of car to buy things
And then the grocery store is the size of a football field and takes an hour to get literally everything because it's so spaced out, rather that being a small European grocery store that's a quarter of the size, yet still has everything one would need, and oftentimes at a better quality and cheaper price then their American counterpart
@@davidmhh9977 i mean, we have big shopping malls here in Europe with big ass grocery stores but you go there once in a while and do a big shopping (I don't know if this is proper English) that will last some time. But for everyday things we have normal sized stores that are enough.
I love how prageru animated a parking space being replaced by a nice park, as if they thought "Yeah if we show everyone how our nice gray asphalt parking spaces will be replaced by horrible green parks, they'll be on our side!"
“Cars bring people closer together.”
The families of the 30,000 people killed by cars every year in America would disagree with you.
Nothing like a funeral to induce a family reunion.
I mean, technically, being hit by a car does bring you closer to the driver of the car...
"Families of 30k people killed by cards would disagree"
Prager U: Cars bring people closer to God.
"Americans are explorers"? Half of Americans don't even have a passport.
Even if that wasn't the case, wtf do they mean by exploring in a car. Cars limit you to roads. Even "off-road" vehicle are still extremely limited by terrain, trees, structures, etc.
Out of all the adventuring I've done, so little of it has been in a car. It's been on bikes, hikes, kayaks, ATVs, zip-lines, and snowboards. The only thing the car does is get me to the start of the adventure, and that's only because it's often the only option.
Also, biking or any of those things is always awesome in a new place, but driving in an unfamiliar place is stressful and sucks. And I've never had to worry about another kayaker drinking and paddling, bumping into my kayak, and killing me and my entire family.
And many don't even leave their own towns!
@@TheAwesomes2104 The most fun I have exploring a city is on foot. Walking into a sideroad and see whats behind the next corner. To look into the nooks and crannies of the place. In a car you can't leave the road and are to busy with not ramming others to see what's around you.
And the other half with passports don't even travel besides going to their local McDonalds.
there are americans that don't believe new mexico is a state. *new mexico.* a *part of the continental us.*
PragerU is like if the "ignorant American" stereotype became fully sentient and started a YT channel.
Some people are walking stereotypes, so I think that's exactly what happened.
@@user-nk5es9iy8i bruh same
@@user-nk5es9iy8i yes I was agreeing with you but yes I agree
@@Oberon4278 Driving Stereotype since Walking is too comunist
"sentient" feels like more credit than PragerU is due.
2:25 I'm an descendant of the Aztecs and I want to sacrifice PragerU to the gods because it is part of my culture
Hey, it's been three months. How's the sacrifice coming along? I'd offer to help, but I don't want to interfere with your culture, but I'd gladly buy a front row seat if you're selling tickets.
What right do we have to restrict his freedom?
@@user-dr1wd9cc1d What?
@@juliansmith4295 it's joke.
@@blakksheep736 Okie dokie. Um...ha ha.
I love how “cars bring people together”, yet are literally your own little metal box.
And sometimes the other people in their own boxes piss you off.
The PragerU video feels like something out of a fake show in the Simpsons
yo
Hi, I'm Troy Mcclure. You might remember me from such PragerU videos as: "The War on Guns" and "Why the left hates babies"
Greetings exalted ones
@@LNKSonCZcams .
It really is so horrifically distorted. I swear the animation style just keeps getting creepier.
PragerU: Communism is when no car, capitalism is when car.
Laughs in Lada
Well Chinese people can't just go buy a car...
Laughs in Trabant
@@Half_Finis you think China is communist? You probably believe North Korea is democratic lol
@@ajarofmayonnaise3250 yeah China hasn't been communist since the good old days of chairman mao
I love how they replaced a parking lot with a green space sounding like “oh look how horrible this is”
All those damn trees taking up space for my personal 2ton machine of glass an steel 😡
Lol yeah
I hate better air quality and the natural color of green that human eyes like
@@mattemathias3242 lol
"Cars give you freedom from the government's oppression!"
"Hm, well, guess you have a point. For example I could drive to another state to get an abortion."
"No not like that."
"Yeah, guns mean that I'm a free citizen. What's that? Abortion? Get that commie propaganda out of here"
American brainwashing 101
😂
These are the oppression methods government can use against cars:
• Traffic stop
• Roadblocks
• Fuel rationing
• Power cuts
That would violate the unborn's freedom to live
@@antimatter31 Saying a 6 week fetus has the right to live is like saying your appendix has a right to live. Shall we ban appendectomies too?
America's car culture brings people together... jammed in traffic, fighting over spaces, exchanging insurance details...
...stuck in metal boxes and they cant talk to each other
And modifying them too.
Road Rage the glue of a nation!
....Creates unnecessary hostility towards pedestrians and bikers....
But Fast and Furious!
"Cars bring people together"
Meanwhile, LA's freeways literally divide the neighborhoods of the city.
More like bringing people together in a traffic jam
But they can come back together ON the freeway, IN their cars.........stuck in a traffic jam together ❤️❤️❤️
(I'm joking)
Just remind PragerU how much LA uses cars, and PragerU would instantly delete this video
@@mrunseen3797 The joke is that it is funny because it is true, eh?
@@asantaraliner XD Fuck yeah!
Conservatives: "The free market should do the deciding."
Free market: Makes fuel in the US slightly less dirt-cheap.
Conservatives: *Start printing stickers how biden is to blame*
They act like making parks is evil. They are like cartoon villains who want to cut down a forest for a mansion or something
Then they whine about people not going outside and sedentary.
literally the lorax
I love the idea that adding bike lanes is restricting people's freedom.
"Our freedom is being restricted more and more!!" "How?" "Umm... uhh- bike lanes! BIKE LANES!! Those goddamned bike lanes!!"
Literally communism
In Europe we build bike lanes to move bike trafic from the road to it's own designated lane. That means:
1) bikes come before bike lanes in many places.
2) bike lanes provide more space for car drivers on the road, because the bikes are out of the way.
They realy have to do some weird brain gymnastics to think bike lanes restrict people's freedom.
Cant drive on a 8 lane road through the middle of a village with a population of 100 because the bikelane narrowed the road by one lane? Literally 1984
at the same time people on bikes are people out of a car as in, potentially more parking spaces
"Americans are explorers"
Jamie, pull up that video "asking americans simple geography questions".
Every trip is an adventure into the unknown
@@odomobo Anyone becomes an explorer when they lack basic jeografi.
@@odomobo yeah, I just thought the contrast between those 2 things was funny.
@@odomobo I agree hehe. The problem comes when someone can't pinpoint any country besides their own. And sometimes even less. Everything becomes the unknown at that point lol
""Americans are explorers"
Only if they can get monoclonal antibodies with their ivermectin...
Ah yes, being stuck in traffic is freedom.
City slicker argument
@@sweetnerevar7030 I live 30-45 minutes outside of a city and the traffic gets bad where I live.
When I hear the words "Cost companies millions" I literally just roll my eyes
I dont care they make it back in a day
It's such a terrible way to argue.
But won't somebody think of the billionaires?!
Not cool man. Show some empathy to the CEOs. Put yourself in their shoes.
Yes, because all companies are owned by billionaires and never normal people
Not the poor artisan oil company ceos
The reasoning is simple. PragerU is funded by oil millionaires.
I hate the complaint, “but public transportation sucks in America.” Gee, I wonder how that could happen?
its largely because the city layout is not designed for public transit so it hardly works in most places
@@Tobi_Jones
No thanks to lobbyists
@@Tobi_Jones Literally every American city was designed for public transportation before WW2. Every single one! Los Angeles had the largest and most extensive streetcar system in the world prior to them demolishing it all. American cities were bulldozed and destroyed for cars, and that damage could be reversed with the political will.
Because city planners suck Koch all day long.
I'm sure a conspiracy amongst GM, Firestone, standard oil, Mack trucks, Phillips oil and others to buy up city tram lines and systematically destroy them had nothing to do with it.
If there's a war on cars in America, then the cars are definitely winning.
This was a great video. With respect to the freedom part, one of the things I've often said is that living in the Netherlands gives us "the freedom to not to have to drive."
I love it. And our kids love it even more, because it means they get their independence.
Exspacially you arn´t forced to buy a car and pump even more money into it for fuel and repairs. And if you can´t afford it you´re screwed... yeah freedom of choice with only on choice! ;)
It’s ironic because the same conservatives who bash this generation for being weak and “snowflakes” are the same that support polices that perpetuate homebody lifestyles for anyone under 16.
@@sahajdhungana1140 and americans are explorers, but they don´t can even grow up like one...
@@henrik5488 They can explore the endless suburbia around them to play the beloved game of "spot the difference between all the samey houses" :b
Amogus
"low gas prices encourage people to drive more, and buy bigger vehicles, and this is a good thing." - aged like fine wine.
What are you talking about? This concept started in the fifties and it is EVIL
*"and buy bigger vehicles"*
Tell me you're being funded by car companies without telling me.
“Brings people together”
Road rage:”I’m not real I’m just a fathom of your imagination”.
oh yes, cars totally bring people together. By putting them in tiny little boxes with wheels that have a tendency to get surrounded by 1 million other tiny little boxes with wheels. yeah, they really foster a sense of community and not a deep hatred for everyone else driving on the road
"figment of your imagination" is the usual way of saying that. Fathom is a unit of distance actually.
They bring people toghether by making everyone hate eachother, thus they are all toghether
on 9/11 we had an example of Air rage when two passenger jets were crashed into the twin towers and one was crashed into the Pentagon, those were air rage incidents also know as terrorism!
Road rage exist not mattering the vehicle, you never have seen road rage with cyclist or skateboarders, where do you live???
politics aside, "terminally American" is a hilarious phrase
This is a beautifully worded phrase indeed
@@pixelpancakes489 and an accurate statement to describe the worst republicans
Terminally American is phrase is when you do something stupid but said it expressing your freedom and if you disagree you are authoritarian or getting too into firing guns.
@@pixelpancakes489 this made me laugh out loud
nah, i agree with the message of the video but the high horse europeanism puts me off. someone tell this guy that if it were not for the americans caring about what happens in the backwater that is europe, then he would have been labouring in a german or russian camp by now. im not american btw
Why as a car enthusiast I strongly support investing in public transit:
It'll make driving more of an adventure because it's not something one would be forced to do
Reducing the running & insurance costs due to keeping the miles down
Having a nicer car for a longer time
Less carbon emissions
Less shitty drivers on the road
Less cars being bought that become neglected
Most importantly, more room for me to enjoy the drive.
I think this is the reasonable conclusion of any car enthusiast with a brain. The people who yell “war on cars” are the same contrarians always trying to “own the libs”.
Totally agree with you as a petro head myself
As a fellow petrol-head, I am 100% with you
Yes, I agree as a fellow motorhead
money spent on repairing big interstates and shitty city roads now could be diverted to repairing countryside roads, too, where it is a) near impossible to build good public transport by nature of the terrain b) it is VERY fun to drive fast cars.
"When you get behind the wheel, You are in control, You are free"
Yeah, Unless if you :
*Are drunk
*Are Under the required driving age
*Are Under the influence of drugs
*don't have money for gas
*Don't have money for maintenance
*Are in probation
*Have a D.U.I
*Don't have a driver's license
*Follow speed limits
*Don't have money for a car
*Have the patience to wait in a traffic jam
*Don't value your time spent stuck in a traffic jam
I have a upright comfort bike and it's the best investment of my life. If you're in a bike, You can, Get this; DRIVE ON OPPOSITE WAYS THE CARS DRIVE ON! AND DISOBEY LITERAL TRAFFIC LIGHTS!(As long as you're in the street side) It saved me more money than I can imagine! Get a bike, It gud 10/10
U are also allowed to walk on pedestrian lanes with your bike while smilling smugly at those beta cucks that have to drive 5km more to the nearest U-turn
As a dutch person, I follow this US car drama for comedical reasons
Also it's literally impossible zo get in traffic with bikes. Never happened to me anyway
Prohibition never truly ended. This country's Orwellian laws against drunk drivers can be compared to the 13th amendment's exception for inmate labor.
You don't choose to be a drunk driver. Drunk driving chooses YOU. It's silly to discriminate against drunk drivers.
@@bugseater1literally 1984
more accurately
*Are drunk
*Are Under the required driving age
*Are Under the influence of drugs
*don't have money for gas
*Don't have money for maintenance
*Are in probation
*Have a D.U.I
*Don't have a driver's license
*Follow speed limits
*Don't have money for a car
*Have the patience to wait in a traffic jam
*Don't value your time spent stuck in a traffic jam
*have poor vision
*are in any condition where movement is severely limited
*are paralyzed
*don't have limbs (or any 2 of them)
*are banned from driving
*are incapable of obtaining a car or the money required to get one
*have 3 braincells
*are highly prone to seizures
*are hyperfixated on spoke blur
*are of age yet (informally) restricted from obtaining or driving a car
"it forced automakers to increase fuel efficiency" , "it has cost consumers billions of dollars". I don't think they understand what efficiency mean
As a school bus driver, I like the idea of bike lanes. It means I can safely pass a biker without having to drive on the left side of the road. I don't see why people hate them so much.
The reason irrationable people hate bike lanes:
1. There are typically empty sidewalks outside of downtowns, *Why share the road where a cyclist could be ran over or hurt by oversized vehicles?*
Then imagine being a biker on a road, that shit is scary
@@MainMite06 I dont know how the laws are in America, but in germany we arent even allowed to drive our Bikes on the sidewalk (except for Kids). We have to either use the Road, or the designated Biking lane.
As a biker, i like the idea of bike lanes because it means i don't have to worry about getting hit by a school bus
@@resinks2269 As it should be.
"We want oil to be FREE from government influence"
"Ok, I am taking away your subsidies then"
"HOLD ON MARXIST"
I love it xD
I'd be for taking away the subsidies tho...
Subsidize these nuts!
@@antonikudlicki1100 Are they actually subsidicing or just not taxin gasoline/diesel? Here in Germany leftist call "not having to pay taxes on something" subsidy. So people are subsidiecied because we only pay 50% taxes, lol
@@keviathan5260 Nope, America spends around 20 Billion dollars subsidizing oil companies, through many modes such a tax breaks and grants.
And that's not to mention the amount of government spending on subsidizing road and highway infrastructure, which is huge.
Even for PragerU, trying to paint fuel efficiency standards as a bad thing is just laughably stupid. "How dare the government make cars better, the outrage! I want a car that gets 2 miles per gallon like god intended!"
As an American who can't drive due to epilepsy, I find the shift towards better public transportation to be awesome..
Freeways are literally the model used by philosophers and critical theorists to demonstrate how one can appear totally free to move, yet remain totally under control.
True freedom is not being on the road it is being on foot, where u can go everywhere.
And the typical American suburban road / stroad network is literally designed to dump everyone onto the freeway
@@oligultonn I can attest this.
Spent 5-9 years without a car.
5yrs as an adult with a job that's 10-15miles away.
Took a skateboard and the bus the whole time.
Sometimes a bicycle.
Cars are nice and I recently got one just haven't started driving yet. I'm too used to walking around xD
@@dandywaysofliving I suffer from the same problem. I live in Reykjavík, Iceland. Pretty much all the city is within 30 min of walking from my home. Even during winter, it is not hard to walk everywhere because everything is within short reach. Although I do have a car and I use it daily, I prefer to walk and there are walking paths everywhere.
If a place isn't connected to a freeway then it simply doesn't exist.
"Cars permit freedom"
5 minutes later:
"How DARE urban planners give people the freedom not to use cars!"
It's always the same with the alt-right : they don't want freedom at large, they want the specific freedoms to do what they, individually, want to do. Anyone else's freedom doesn't matter.
@Admiral Kipper They are obviously a far right organisation by any sane standards. By American standards maybe they're just considered 'conservative'.
@Admiral Kipper Of course they are : they are so far right they're almost off the map, and the only facts they care about are "alternative facts". And I can say much more absurd things, for example : "president trump".
I mean it's like they don't realize that urban planning is an active choice. In the absence of the post war urban planners who demolished everything, what do they think would have happened? It's not that urban planning is bad, it's that they dislike modern urban planning because it's government meddling making what they dislike, instead of government meddling making what they like...disgusting suburbia
Instead of forcing us to be car dependent, these new urban planners are demanding we should be free to choose! Fuckin commies lolol
If being dependent on a car to get anywhere fun is freedom, then DON'T sign me up
@Admiral Kipper I guess they are alt-right economists with pretty far right social views about immigrants, minorities, black people, prison, social justice, borders, human rights, dignity, etc. They even have a video about how slavery was fine, I think. So yeah, far right, not alt right.
When I was 5 years old, my parents got a car, because they found out, that it was cheaper to drive the 200 kilometres to my grandmother than taking the train. Yes, it took 30 minutes more, but we could save a lot of money when having 4 in the car. Therefore, we stopped taking the train or bus when going outside our city in favour of the car.
However, very quickly another problem came. My mother was the only one, who had a drivers license, so we depended on her, when going anywhere with the car. Unfortunately, she got severe back pain when driving long distances, so we always stopped using the car in several months after driving around in it on a holiday or on a visit to my grandmother.
About two years ago, she was diagnosed with stress and we finally decided to move from our large city of 250.000 people to my grandmother's town of 2800. Here, she quickly recovered and could start working again. Everything here was just a 2 km bike ride away, and when we went to work and school we would all take a ferry to a larger city of 75.000 people.
We started using our car to go on holidays again, and stopped taking public transit completely.
Recently, when having some extra time on my hands, I decided to take the train down to a historic town about half an hour in both car and train, and I realised just how much more relaxing it is to take the train. And how much faster it feels. Normally, when we would drive to the town, it would be half an hour of looking at the fields, but with the train, I got to see the other small communities and people living their life, going home from work, hanging out with other people on the train. I really enjoyed it, just as I enjoyed my ferry trip.
Cars does not make a country seem smaller. You just wait for the trip to end, but with trains, buses and ferries, you enjoy the trip, relax and the time fly by.
The lone fact that you do not need to be sitting in a confined space with one of the occupants constantly attentive when on public transit automatically makes them vastly superior to cars; and there are plenty of other good reasons if you're not convinced.
I live in New York City. Public transportation here is the worst option.
You forgot to mention airplanes, that is also a form of mass transit, unlike trains and city buses, most airplanes are operated by private companies for profit. The personal family airplane or flying car is not a thing yet, so we are still forced to use mass transit for all our air travel, the cost is per passenger however, as is all mass transit, so if you have a family of four, that is four tickets for the train and plane, but for the car, you just have to load them in and start driving.
@@thomaskalbfus2005 I didn't really think of planes while writing, since its such a hassle to use, unlike other forms of public and private transport options. As for the price I mentioned in my comment that the car was cheaper if it carries 4-5 people. If only 1 person is in the car, which is the case the majority of the time. I do believe that we really should invest in getting the families onboard with public transit anyway, just as mass transit planes is the absolute best option for travelling by air.
What I found funny was that on car culture's grave, the woman was shedding tears but the man wasn't. Presumably because men don't cry. 😂
Lol, I didn't even notice that!
“Communism is when the government builds bike lanes and trains”
- Carl Mark
"Cars give freedom, so I make no car in communism"
- Vladimi Leni
Marl Cark
"car bad" -Josep stali
Based! Sign me up, Carl!
"Carl" a subtle but excelent pun (Should be Carl Marx tho)
I love how their argument is "cars allow us to go wherever we want", without realizing that , if you have a car, you can only go where the government decided there should be a road.
Remind me of a quote that sound like this.
"You are free to follow any road you want but remember, the big road are already planned out for you."
I wonder how many places are reachable by car vs how many are by subway or train... fucking terrible argument that you clearly didn't think through. Go ahead and ride that train to the beach ⛱
@@thomasdick6797 In places that have half-decent public transport networks getting to somewher e like the beach isn't a problem, is it now? Take Japan, or Singapore, or Hong Kong for example. Heck even in the UK where I live, and that is known for having trains where "30 minutes within time specified" = on time getting to the nearest beach or most places that are kind of out of the way is not that big of a problem at all. Then after that if I have to walk for a few minutes to my final destination or take a bus then so be it.
Also you didn't seem to consider that, disregarding the other problems with the current state of car usage, in a country that has been lobbied so hard by car manufacturers / fossil fuel companies (seriously did you even watch the video???), the solution to an insufficient public transport network is to invest more resources into improving it? You're 100% correct that in a country with a terrible transport network, right now the situation is that far more places are accessible by car, but that's not the inherent fault of a public transport network is it?. Look at Europe. Look at places in East Asia. Fuck it, look at China.
It's rare that I want to engage someone on CZcams but damn you seem to be getting a lot of mileage out of that discount-store brain of yours lmao. I hope you have a good day and can take a moment to calm yourself the fuck down. I took your bait, but I'm out. Peace.
@@Saltmaster_shio pseudo intellectual that's just regurgitating the talking points of the video👏 and I have the discount store brain. The irony. If you genuinely believe the government will properly manage public transit just look at current government funded programs. Every country you mentioned is the size of one state. I guess the idea of scalability never crossed your mind. Or the fact that Europe is quite homogenous. Cope harder next time because that book you wrote most definitely sounded better in your head.
@@Saltmaster_shio also, the salt master is quite salty 👌 fat L
As a car enthusiast, the idea that we should be selling more vehicles, particularly trucks and SUVs, is terrifying. Cars should be works of art meant to be enjoyed on weekend trips or evening drives. Even car enthusiasts hate commuter cars, hate traffic, and hate the average driver.
Imagine Lewis and Clark 'exploring' modern day suburbia and getting arrested for jaywalking.
In the USA. They can use any crime or minor misdemeanor against your immigration case. They can even use JAYWALKING against you in an immigration case!!!!
"a developed country is not where poor people have cars, but rich people take transit" - some person in CZcams comments
no rich people wont travel in public transport
@@cyclix5314 not in the USA
@@cyclix5314 if public transport was efficient yes they would. Rich people love to save money...
When it comes to trains and planes, at least, poor people can't really even use them, too expensive. If I want to take an amtrak like 50-100 miles it's like 100 bucks. I can drive my car 50-100 miles for 10-20 bucks.
@@cyclix5314 yes they do. Even in places like the UK you can find wealthy people, government ministers etc on public transport
The war on Boys is real btw. I've fought like 15 boys. I'm no longer allowed at the middle school but I fought bravely for my country
I think there are unseen issues that boys tend to have to deal with more so than girls but calling it a war is so asinine
Thank you for your service
Thank you for your service
Thanks, I hate boys. You know how many boys there are? At least 10,000! That’s crazy!
Thank you for your service o7
“Where do you hang out? Where do you go?” As an American that hit more hard than you can imagine. Growing up your parents always tell you go outside and you’re just like go where? There’s no where to go? I feel this even now harder as an adult where I have a car and could go anywhere but there’s no actual places to just meet new people and hang out any large social event is preplanned by people already in a group who may not want any outsiders
You can always drive to a bar, watch some sports on TV, get smashed, and drive home drunk.
If you choose to hang out "somewhere" youll get cited for loitering. Which anyone from outside the US will never understand.
There are no third places in suburban areas
Just drive for fun.
@@FlatEarthKiller yeah but when driving is necessary it ceases to be fun
@@Lumberjack_king yup. When i said for fun, i meant like enjoy scenery or just go anywhere you want, in pushto we call it chakar
As a car enthusiast who loves working on cars and enjoys driving manual transmission, I agree that US cities have the worst planning in the world. Without mass transit, you have to drive everywhere, and everything is so far apart. Actually, it kills the fun of driving a manual when you have no choice but to drive every time. Driving a car should be a treat, an adventure, and something you want to do.
When I lived in South Korea, I loved being able to walk 2 minutes down the street from my apartment to buy what I needed, taking the express bus to Seoul, and I loved taking trains! In Korea, the mass transit is amazing, but more and more people are buying cars. It's not killing car culture. People like to have choices.
When I went to Seoul I usually took a bus, because I didn't want to worry about parking and drive for 3 hours. When I wanted to drive stick shift in the mountains, then I took my old, slow 97 Kia Sephia. It was fun! Driving to work or the grocery store is not the type of driving I want to do every single day! I want to drive on a scenic route, drive spirited on a curvy road, or go somewhere cool.
Cars will always have their place. So, will trains. Now, electric cars, I hate them. They have no stick shift, so they just take the fun out of driving. I just can't drive an automatic or cvt car, sorry! Also, trains are just cooler than Teslas. I appreciate both trains and fun cars.
With that said, cars are fun to learn about, work on, and driving should be something special. Taking a train cross country should also be something special and I prefer it over planes. Walking, taking subway/transit, and bus should be the norm every day when going to work.
America really needs to get back into mass transit, trains, and redevelop the suburbian spraw. I admit it's nice to live in a quiet suburb, but having a local store nearby would be awesome!
Thanks for all the great videos!
She's actually making the same argument Adam is, that people are FORCED to rely on their cars. She's just not aware of it
@A Fels a n t i c a r d o g m a
Ahhh the right wing hypocrisy.
@A Fels
WTF is your first sentence even supposed to mean? How does the housing market figure into any of this? And how do I have a choice wether or not I want "to live in a working housing market"? The housing market exists independently of me living in a suburb or someplace else.
Also the second paragraph. Dear god.
Have you maybe considered that developing public transport in the suburbs might be a possibility as well? The fact that suburbs don't need to be car dependent never crossed your mind?
@@generalaccount6531 The funny thing about "wanting everyone to follow a single lifestyle" is that it is an old American thing. The plot of Upton Sinclair's Main Street revolves around that conformity. I remember that old joke that the West has its own "Cultural Revolution" and it's called "Trends"...
@A Fels Quality of life is objectively higher in mixed use neighborhoods. I have six different supermarkets within a ten minute walking distance of where I live and I rarely need to use the car for anything except to go camping or something.
"Car culture is dying because of government"
*Looks at ever widening interstates, systematic defunding of railroads, and the General Motors streetcar conspiracy*
You’ll take this 40-lane arterial road separating your child from their elementary school and like it, damn commienist
Note: the streetcar thing probably wasn't a simple conspiracy, just the "free" unregulated market destroying the cities
czcams.com/video/fVJeO4sGbGQ/video.html some leftie small channel recently made a video on this
When my city installed a lightrail line everyone made a huge deal over it like it was some futuristic thing.
Look at photographs from 100 years ago and the central area was all streetcars. Every block of the main city was serviced by a streetcar line.
Car culture is dying cause most good cars are way too expensive, and people need to save that money to somehow find a way to buy a house. Like seriously, unless car is a requirement for someone I don't think any of my friends have even considered it. But we do have a relatively better public transport system in my country.
See, but if the gunberment isn't run by marxist-anarchist-communist-satanists then conservatives would have to admit that they are "losing the culture war" when they have all the advantages. If that's true, they're not the superior underdog, but the stagnant corpse of the old hierarchy.
"cars allow us to go wherever we want"
I'm swiss and I can go wherever I want whenever I want because our train network is amazing, and I can even watch TV, sleep, eat, or do anything else while getting there.
And you can go out and get drunk.
@@leonpaelinck I spent Christmas in St. John’s, Canada a few years ago. Being able to hop on a bus pop in a couple cola’s worth of change and go anywhere in the metro area was convenient as hell, and if you wanna go somewhere quickly, cabs are everywhere and the phone number for them was too.
How big is switzerland compared to the US again?
@@tyrian_baal size isn't the issue - look at the highway network in the US! Had they put all that money and effort into building out a proper rail network, the US might be leading the pack. Instead, they tore down lots of the existing rail network in favor of cars.
@@tyrian_baal we're talking about cities mostly, why does the size of the country matter here?
As someone who served this country for a decade, it makes me physically ill the way that woman abuses the word "freedom". My car got destroyed in a storm and for a month while waiting for my insurance to take care of it (peak covid) I was stuck in a town with nothing but a gas station. How is that freedom?
Well in germany if there is a storm public transport is FUBAR often times, but this is rare. What really sucks is that trains and rails use way more caretaking than roads and suddenly you have a 30min train ride for uni turn into a 60min bus ride, 10 min inbetween time and another 15min train ride.
“What a historic event this is! Conservatives want to invest in something that’s black”
That killed me omg
This needs to be pinned!
Oh, and leftists are the real snowflakes, remember
--- Adam Something 2021
that was savage
As a black conservative, I'd find your type humourous, if it wasn't so sad how racist you are while using cognitive dissonance to convince yourself that you aren't.
Oh right I forgot, according to your side, I ain't black.
(Technically I'm more of a libertarian but you get my point)
@@datachu Keep simping for conservatives.....they will still hate your guts, and other flat out with you dead or deported. That IS conservatism, in group/out group.
PragerU: "Cars make you free!"
Cars: *Stuck in miles long traffic jam for hours.
At least you didn't have to be subjected to a fixed route and schedule to get somewhere on time.
Until you don’t ;)
@@IK-cf6vn Yeah, you have the freedom to get nowhere in time because you're stuck in a fucking traffic jam.
@@IK-cf6vn yeah you have all the freedom to get fired from work because the traffic gridlock on the freeway made you late for work. *Again!*
Wait, that's the communist Spanish republican flag!
My biggest argument for bicycles over cars is that you can't take a car to a skatepark and do sick jumps.
Why do people seem to think more investment in public transportation will also cause all roads to vanish and all cars to be banned?
just make gas prices so high and make suburbs disappear
"But why don't you build a train?"
"THERE IS LITERALLY A WAR ON CARS"
same as it always was. wishing people a happy some-other-winter-holiday is a "war on christmas" too.
Imagine if we all own a personal train...
I liked riding BART to and from work.
He stole this 'build a train' stuff from an American you know. From the Americans that saved the Euro assholes from the Nazis.
Lol reminds me of musk's car pods
"Cars mean freedom."
"What about the poor people that can't afford a car?"
"What is this "poor" you speak of?"
Every conservative knows that poor people aren't supposed to be free. Freedom is something you need to earn by having enough money.
@@Robbedem Well, yes? Money is a reciept on labour. If you work more and contribute to the economy, you get more freedom.
@Абдульзефир If you get paid less than your market worth, you should change jobs. Getting paid less than market is no one elses fault but your own.
Slavery is irrelevant. We are discussing poverty.
@Абдульзефир??? What part of my comment does that sentence respond to? Username checks out i guess.
@Союз Советских Социалистических Республик Who cares about what some deluded russian dude has to say though? Especially when what he says is demonstrably false?
I'm a Brit and our car culture is nowhere near as bad as Americans, but it's still mind-blowing spending time in another European nation and experiencing the freedom on not having to drive for the first time
Commuting to work in a train, 100MPH, sipping coffee and taking 1 hour training course both ways, pretty sweet.
"Americans hate being told what to do, where to go, and when to be there" but also "Theres a war on work". Gotcha.
When they say "freedom", that means freedom for the rich, not the poor. That's why they support cars, because rich people can afford them, and poor people can't.
@@dreye3215 Not only that, but with cities spread to accommodate cars, theyre basically a necessity. Literally removing the "upwards mobility" of poor people. I took a predatory loan (24% interest over like 72 months) because, thats all that I could get as a first time car buyer with little credit, without a car I'd have to get a job at a 7/11. I'm also a white male so I know it can be worse for others, such as straight up being denied; not even allowed the "privilege" of going into debt for a necessity. We're so fucked
But being told what to think is apparently fine.
@Peter Kurten I'm familiar. They are only good points if you agree with him.
@Peter Kurten : _Rowe actually is correct about a war on work in America but it's not about work refusers_
Also @Peter Kurten : _We do have a work refuser class in America and they are the core Democrat voter bloc._
You have contradictory and incoherent points. Trying to differentiate between work refusers and a worker refuser "class" is making a distinction without a difference. It would be like saying that elite rich people are not the problem, but the elite rich people "class" is.
On another note, your use of language suggests that you are a partisan hate viewer. I will wait for a salient point, but, if you had one, you would have already presented it. Feel free to stay mad and scream into the void. Scream for the algorithm gods.
the fact they added bicycles to the list of threats is so funny to me cause cycles (especially e-bikes) are the pinnacle of freedom. you can get to places cars cant even reach and at a moderate speed
Ever tried not living in the center of a giant city...
@@marcusborderlands6177 I get it you like your Ford F-150 but honestly stfu we are not talking about the country side we are talking about the suburbs and city centre. Cars suck at the job they are supposed to complete
@@marcusborderlands6177trains and buses exist. And I literally live across from a farm, but if the roads were safe I would be able to bike into town
@@marcusborderlands6177 you can ride your bike in the suburbs and rural areas it’s actually quite nice . wish we built more infrastructure for rural and suburban people who wanna bike cuz it’s nice exercise and the peace and quiet is nice .
virgin petrol drinker vs chad muscle fuel
Bro even just the first point made that Busses and Trains etc. are set routes and you don't have control on exactly where to go... YOU HAVE LEGS TO WALK WITH AFTER A BUS LIKE WHAT!??
One of my most exciting moments as a child was touring colleges with my brother. I'm from suburbia, so seeing that there were restaurants and shops within walking distance of the dorms was wild. It seemed so cool and made me really want to move out of where I lived at the time.
"Cars allow us to go wherever we want"
This is only true for those who own a car and have a licence and ability to drive it.
It excludes children and most teenagers, it excludes disabled people, it excludes the poor, it excludes a lot of elderly.
Exactly the people who need a public transport option, because a lot of them would not be able to walk or cycle long distance either.
Wow. The issue of cars really showcases the more general problem with the US uh ? Lobbying and industrial profits at the expense of people and even more so the more vulnerable ones…
We also can't go wherever we want, we literally need a road built for us to go there.
Majority of people are NOT QUALIFIED to hold a license.
I'm epileptic and can't get a license. Tell me about it.
My mind went straight to Area 51 for some reason.
Like where is my freedom to see the aliens!?!
You can go wherever you want, whenever you want to in a car!*
*Assuming you have the funds to keep it in good shape
*Assuming you have the funds to fuel it
*Assuming there isn't traffic
*Assuming there is a road going to where you want to go
*Assuming you have somewhere to park it in the meantime
And if you don't, lobby the government to provide infrastructure and tax credits lol
"These are all tax opportunities!" - The government probably.
Can literally do that on foot
And if you don’t have flat tire or the battery died
@@noxiousvox350 if you want to walk 5 hours a day to do anything then sure you can. And make sure you leave an hour before you need to do anything because that's at least how long it will take you to get anywhere.
Hold on a second, around 8:00 did that lady really say that regulating fuel efficiency is a BAD thing? She knows that a better fuel efficiency SAVES money right? God forbid manufacturers make cars that don't need to be filled up every few miles. Seriously so stupid.
I'm a conservative and even I can see the stupidity of car-centric cities.
i agree with you. but man it amazes me how neurotic people have gotten that the idea of calling a car-centric city stupid in several respects would make
you less supportive of conservative values in any way… i totally understand why you phrased your comment like this got no issue with it just it’s so wild how things like city planning opinions and clothing and diet suddenly are treated as representative of our entire political ideology
@@sidoniegabrielle269 I completely agree. There's no reason to associate everything with a political idealogy. And even if you do; blaming the other party will not help fix these kinds of issues.
I don't even see why this kind of stuff is even a right-wing vs left-wing thing. It is objective fact that everyone, no matter what side of political spectrum, will benefit from
@@arcticlaw9198 facts
@@arcticlaw9198 everything is put into a political, us vs. them context because people are incredibly intolerant of different points of view. On both sides. Just look at the other comments under this video, they're all attacking ideology that they don't properly understand, going off of biased opinions.
Who thought a channel almost entirely paid by fracking ghouls would advocate for cars over environmentalism
Must be George Oreo, author of Anime Farm
Even if we ignore environmental aspect, walkable cities are just pleasant. Unless you're a car mechanic, own a gas station or are oil baron, it's just pure ignorance.
Don t have anything to say besides hello fellow DIsco Elysium fan!
@@alansbizzareadventures1827 Yeah, it's /s. Inflection's hard in text.
@@GregVidua Capatalsm baby!!!
As an American, I think it's funny Prager U equates having a car to being just like being explorer. Oh yeah, like I'm going to throw on my raccoon hat and go trekking through the Rocky Mountains like Lewis & Clark! Don't kid yourself, the only place I'm going to explore is the liquor store, but only after I explore my ass to my shitty job at Amazon. You know, that place where I'm told be at a certain time. That thing "Americans have never been good at."
The fuck??
tbh i like americas car culture i am also an motor head but i think cars and public transport can go together
@@adityamakwana612 on that I agree! I've actually built a '70 Chevy Camero SS. I just wish there was a more happy medium for people who either don't/can't/shouldn't drive.
"I live a sad life so this argum÷nt is clearly terrible" I can pull up 100 youtube channels dedicated to driving cars through the woods, on mountains, and over trails. Try again
@@thomasdick6797 Where the heck did you interpret that idea? It's called a joke my dude... I know times are tough, but chill. No, my point is Prager U's argument is terrible because this is exactly how a child perceives reality. Not because "Oh, I have to drive 30 minutes to a job that pays above minimum wage and gives me health benefits during a business-breaking pandemic, woe is me!" That's psychotic!
Also, driving through the woods with a road, trail, or a map doesn't make you Lewis and Clark- More like Clark Griswold at best. L&C were survivalists and snake-eaters, they were the astronauts of their time. They couldn't just hop into a van and hit the road. There was no road, there were no hotels, no Mcdonald's, They had to make their own maps along the way, most of the time they were starving, sick, or injured, their only tour-guides could barely speak English, if at all, and many of the local tribes wanted to kill them!
To say all American's are all "explorers" just like Lewis and Clark just because they bought a car or truck is just stupid and ultimately misleading.
@@Rune3D so when you say explorer it's a joke but when PragerU says explorer you wanna nail them with the definition. The irony. Might as well say "yeah I don't hold myself to any standards 🤷 that would be too hard". The best part is you have some oddly specific requirements to be considered an explorer, last I checked the activity of EXPLORING something makes you an explorer and at no point in Webster do they mention mode of transportation, diet, or where you sleep. Btw you're ignoring the part where I mentioned many of the channels literally just drive through the woods, no roads. Cope again
I moved to the US from the UK recently, and came back to watch this video today because of something that happened last night. I live in a small north-eastern city, in what is, to be fair, actually a reasonably walkable neighbourhood. But a friend from the next town over came to visit and had driven over. We wanted to go get burgers at a place that was downtown and a 20 minute walk away, but the place closed in like an hour. So we ended up driving down. Except we drove down, and then spent 10 minutes looking for a parking spot, and ended up having to park a 5-10 minute walk away anyway! And the whole time I was thinking "wow, if we'd just taken the bus we'd have been there in
You should have already known that you live in a crappy city that has inadequate parking.
@@herrschaftg35 if there was any more space dedicated to parking it would absolutely destroy any vibe downtown has.
@@herrschaftg35 You'd really demolish small businesses or livingspace for parking?
Yeah, this is something I don’t really understand either. I know quite a few people who keep driving to places, because it’s „faster“ and they are always late, because they couldn’t find parking. And when they find out you biked or took the tram it’s like, oh I could never do that, I don’t have that kind of time. Like, they don’t seem to realize the time spent looking and walking from parking is part of their travel time.
sounds like the problem is the city and not the car, also there burger place should have had a drive thru, so you can order at the window so you don't have to get out of your car or find a parking space for it when you leave your car to walk inside to order food!
Time for the government to end gigantic subsidies for the oil and gas industries.
"Everything that i don't like has to do with leftist ideology" - PragerU
How freaking radical right one should be to consider car fuel standards as leftist or communist? These people are insane.
Literally what the most Conservative party leader in Norway is doing during these elections of ours. Everything she opposes is somehow socialism. Literally everyone who wants the government to be changed are socialists. And I'm pretty sure she'd call certain people inside the current right wing government socialists too
@@Permuh it starts with an "f" and rhymes with "ascism" and socialists are its #1 scapegoat
@Herdan Thank you. People often note and complain about someone right wing being "CoMUnIsM" at anything they don't agree with or whatever but then... can't differentiate between ideologies properly themselves so like... bit of a pot calling kettle black situation.
I mean yeah, that is literally all it comes down to. Their entire ideology is just a culture war that turns everything into a big dumb team sport. That's what regressives have always done. They don't even know what they're saying half the time, let alone care. As long as the argument continues and they can draw battle lines to duke it out over something half-true that is ultimately bullshit then they feel successful.
"Where do you hang out? Where do you go?"
As a kid i really felt this. My parents always told me to "go outside" but I never had anywhere to go. They were so worried about me not being able to make friends but I think the suburban hellscape we lived in really contributed to that.
I grew up in a small town and the few areas of suburban-style tract houses there always seemed boring and hostile to me as a kid on a bike.
And it's only made worse by the growing trend of "concerned citizens" calling the police any time they see unsupervised children in public. If you're too young to drive, then you're literally trapped at home.
i used to just hang out in the bush, it was pretty sick tbh
@@bigbrothertw aw lucky, we barely had any interesting bush areas near where I lived
No kidding. I can count on one hand how many other kids lived in my suburb growing up. My parents always tried getting me to go outside, but my brothers and I never did because the only interesting things to do were Legos and Wii Sports.
I recently returned from two weeks in Scotland where I was able to use trains, buses, and a cab to be completely free from having to drive. Now home in Texas, USA my freedom is gone. I have no choice but to drive a car for everything but a short walk to a grocery nearby. Freedom my ass!!!
Where in scotland and more importantly from where- to where? The more you get out of centralized cities the more you have to rely on those shitty plans
@@sweetnerevar7030 weak arguement
@@theirishempire4952 I didnt even give an argument moron, I want the person to clarify so I can make my argument. You know how the world isnt one big centralized city?
@@theirishempire4952 nah as much as i hate to say it its true. Outside of cities and towards anywhere else than cities, you still need cars to get around, which is usually reserved for the lower income classes living outside of the cities rings.
At least thats in france. Its still not perfect
Were you in the Central Belt by any chance? Because that’s where the public transport is usually the best, go further north and the transport is usually somewhere between decent, subpar or dogshit. Also far north is pretty car dependent but the roads are a lot of fun at times
Ah yes, when freedom means having only one option that forces to buy an expensive tool that requires a lot of paperwork and maintenance.
"Cars are unavoidable"
"Nooo you can't build buses! Something something freedom!"
Fascinating.
Fascinating is a good word for PragerU 👍
“Low gas prices mean Americans continue to buy cars”
Well that aged like milk
@Mayo's Mayo trains
@@tacotown4598 trams, subway, bicycles - dozens of options to replace cars
@T7a9 I absolutely agree. I thought it was really funny that they talked about low gas prices with our...current ones
Laughed so hard at the graphic of the parking spaces being replaced by a park, and it somehow being a bad thing
I hope Tiktok-is-Cancer is one day covered by Adam Something.
Because cars are cool
@@vinayakdan3018 I'd love to hear how greenery and communal spaces is somehow worse than ugly, space consuming, parking lots.
insert we bulldozed heaven to build a parking lot reference
the liberals are forcing us to touch grass!
I live in Switzerland and take public transit since I'm 10 years old. Didn't even bother learning how to drive. This is true freedom. :)
"Let the market decide!"
Okay lets do it, we'll need to stop subsidizing roads, oil, and parking. Once gas is $5/gallon, vehicle registration is quadrupled, and parking meters are set up everywhere at rates that actually cover the cost of their maintenance and make up for the lost tax dollars by not developing that land, we'll see how many people want to drive everywhere.
Public transportation is not a profitable business, so if you let the market decide, cars win
@@lunedefroid8817 I interpret the argument to let the market decide to be more along the lines of demand, if enough people demand it (aka vote for it) public transit will be made.
The free market decided that GM, Ford and Chrysler were building crap in the 1970s, so people bought Japanese cars. The American companies would have vanished if the government hadn't stepped in to rescue them.
That is not fair. They were still building crap in the 80s. I loved my Subaru tho.
Also the US "asked" the Japanese companies to have a "voluntary" limit on the amount of cars they sold here, and put a stupid tax on all foreign made trucks so they would never be profitable to sell here, limiting our freedom to choose what we want to buy and having to settle for crap. Not much of a free market.
@@jacehackworth6413 How does one say “The Brat is clearly not a truck” in Japanese? …with a straight face, that is.
You clearly aren't a car enthusiast. The 1970 Dodge Challenger made over 400 horse power.
@@christiantaylor1495 you have the outlook of a 10 year old. There’s more to it than one car making a lot of power. And that didn’t last long anyway. Have you not heard of the oil crisis?
all of prageru arguments sound like satire. it's really depressing that they're not
I know right! It sounds like it was made by someone to take a piss out of Americans. The fact that they’re being serious here really shows that the jokes Europeans have for Americans aren’t even remotely exaggerated.
@@KasabianFan44 They're not, at all exaggerated. Many Americans are honest about it, but most reich-wingers aren't(because it's their states that contain the most uneducated people, by their own design.....).
Prager U is basically a new series of the old British satire "Brass Eye", except real and not satire
They frame anything that benefits society in the most cartoon supervillain way lol just absolutely disgusted by things like "peace" and "cohesive communities" and "plants"
Maybe they are playing the really long game to reveal that they were joking all along... one can hope
I live in the Netherlands and have no car or even a driver's license (although I'd like to have a license). I use my bicycle or public transit for transportation. I go to work by bike, about 20 minutes. Sometimes my bike is broken and I have to walk, about 40 minutes. I'm amazed at how the same route is completely different when I walk instead of ride the bicycle. It feels epic and adventurous, almost like a medieval journey. If even a bike is really fast and makes you distracted, egocentric and apathetic to the world around you, I don't even want to imagine how using a car every day would affect my psychology. I'll never own a car even if I get a driver's license and enough money to afford a car. Staying human is more important to me.
I take the train to work. It would take me probably twice as long to drive. I like being able to have a nap, or read, or just relax and watch the view if I want to.
I drive for pleasure, when I want to. I rent a car, and drive out to the countryside about once a month or so.
Bruh you literally live in a country smaller than my home state
@@colinmccormack3790 My goodness. That's absolutely fascinating. I'm going to tell all my friends.
@@colinmccormack3790 My condolences.
Because Netherlands are pleasant to look at. A cozy European country, every kilometer of a walk is worth it. You can see amazing medieval buildings, etc. While USA cities lack of those. All you'll see if you go for a walk instead of a car ride is hundreds of the same cardboard buildings without any historical background whatsoever.
The funny thing about War on Cars is that it does not exist, but what exist is War on Mobility.
The War on Cars debacle is probably orchestrated by the Automobile Industry because of the profit protection, like the Oil Industry.
Thousands of tax payer funded parking spaces - not communism
Thousands of tax payer funded bike spaces - communism
PragerU Probably.
@@CmdrTobs And we all just love to be in a car centric place without any option to change that. Brought to you by the logic: "we started using cars, so we better not stop and try something else that is proven to be better".
Though i agree, some places need taxes foranaging infrastructure but also collecting taxes to do something that is objectively good with the money also isn't bad, oh wait, isn't this the point of taxes?
To hell having social security, its just redistribution fron the working class to the retirees!! Very sound logic right?
Well, here in Germany our biggest fear unlike the US isn't "communism", but we kinda rant about the same things. With the same stupidity, actually.
They get absolutely pissed, when we do anything street related, that doesn't DIRECTLY benefit cars. Like Bicycle Lanes. Or Car Bans in certain streets. Or Speed Limits. Or anything else, really.
The "logic" is, that they pay a lot of tax money (for having a car itself, and fuel tax on top), and assume, bicycles don't pay those costs (which indeed, they don't), therefore the City and anything else shall be car focused, and everyone daring enough to ride a bike shall be executed immedietaly.
They kinda miss an important point tough; Car infrastructure is so incredibly expansive, that the Car Tax Money ain't enough to cover. Getting Rid of Car Space (like parking lanes), Bicycle Infrastructure and so on are so benefitial for Society, that they actually pay for themselves.
"why is prageru anti-small business" hmm why would a foundation funded by large corporations be aggressive towards small businesses
While simultaneously pushing the narrative of "why we need more small businesses to prove the american dream is still real. Please believe us. We really do want there to be economic mobility for people who were born below the elite. We definitely dont want to keep the rich rich and cull the poor."
It was a rhetorical question..
As an engineer I have always had an interest in harnessing technology to improve the human condition. Over dependance on technology however is a form of slavery. Car dependance is a form of slavery which reduces freedom of choice.
I'm really sorry for those engineers who had to do their coporate's bidding for the sake of profit
The worst thing about these PragerU take-down videos is that I actually have to take in small portions of PraguerU content. Everything else, though, is fantastic.
I mean cars are a good representation of America: high stress, inefficient, wasteful and being stuck without anywhere to go
Not really
Don't forget heavy and producing noxious gas.
@@zhangzongchang1057 Giga Virgin
@@zhangzongchang1057 the giga virgin and the public transport enjoyer.
@@flfattire959 😂🤣💀⚰
What I love about PragerU is how unconvincing their so-called arguments are. That diagram of the car lots changing into parks and bike lanes looked /great/, I would love to live in a city with such nice greenery and public transit!
Yeah, all the poor people in the Netherlands, having to sit in an on-street cafe in the quit, nice smelling, green neighborhoods instead of in a fume-smelling car, jammed on route to a boiling field of asphalt. Poor people.
Lol right? Don't threaten me with a good time
this guy took much of prager u's video out of context tho, and he edited a lot of it out as well
How often do you walk or bike to your destination?
(I'm asking for research purposes.)
@@deftknight7418 I dont walk or ride my bike to any major destinations for a few reasons, 1 being that I live far from any major destinations, which is another reason I like cars, and 2 is cars are more time and eneergy effient, for instance, It would take less energy to drive to the store than it would to ride or walk, plus I am in texas, where it is usually hot, so in some cases, especially during the summer, it can be dangerous to ride a bike or walk somewhere due to heat strokes, compared to cars who have air conditioning
PragerU gave me an impression that I am living in a utopia, while the fact is that I am living in a dystopia
“Regulations on fuel efficiency has costed millions to consumers” wait what
Normal people: We should have multiple transportation options.
PragerU: HOW DARE!
having more options takes away from my freedom!
@@arachnophilia427 everyone else has to drive cars too otherwise it's communism
Use whatever mode of transportation you want, just stop making me pay for it
@@shadowfax3505 the only way to transport people en masse is with public infrastructure, and the only way to pay for infrastructure is through taxes. If you don't want to pay for other peoples' transportation, your only real option is tax evasion
@@shadowfax3505 dude we also pay taxes for the roads you fucking drive as well
I remember the war on cars. Lost too many friends to Lamborghinis and Teslas. Was a sad, sad war.
I was on the other side, some of my friends where terribly wounded and lost their families by Scania and atlas. Why should we fight this pointless bloody war ? Why not settle for a truce? And yet the battle rages on, consuming the lives of many great men from both sides.
the ferraris massacred many towns in cold blood
I know this is a joke but sports cars are safer for cyclists and pedestrians cause they weigh less than other cars,have a much smaller impact zone on person if they hit them than a regular car,and you can spot them more easily
@@davidtism9963 a lambo, ferrari, etc is made out of sharp angles and straight lines, just like a sword or an axe. A volvo is roundy and the safest cars to run into.
@@augustusimperator.avi1872 First pls get some eyes Ferraris have very gentle lines that aren't very angular,and the few lines that are angular on a Ferrari are on the sides or the back
Second some sharp angles are a lot less deadly than hundreds of pounds more weight,also since supercars are lower if they hit a pedestrian or cyclist they'll hit somewhere under theirs knees,which while it sounds bad,it is much better than getting in the hips,ribs, pretty much anywhere in the chest
Ironically, I find riding my electric bike to be the most liberating, freedom feeling exercise I have in my life.
Bikes give far more freedom than cars
yesssss! they're so much fun, for real
Hear hear! I built an e-bike last summer and started riding it to work. Flying past the queues of cars was absolutely liberating, finally I was free to not be stuck in traffic. The worse the traffic was, the happier I was when I arrived and my destination, whereas before I would arrive in an absolute rage. I love cars and I love driving, but I eventually came to realise that 99% (or more) of driving is absolutely crap.
@@MrStark-up6fi
Heck yeah! Every time I ride my bike to do errands I find myself thinking, "I'd be so massively overpowered in a zombie apocalypse, y'all just try me" :D
Seriously, though, cars can be nice for certain circumstances, but I hate how much they make me dependent on all sorts of stuff outside my control. It's so much nicer using a vehicle I can maintain on my own, and power without worrying about some international incident suddenly stepping in and draining my savings.
@@eyesofthecervino3366 yep, I agree with you. Car dependency is the worst thing to ever exist and it’s just better to walk, bike, and take public transportation. But then again, a car would be required for getting groceries or something else
They turned a parking spot into a green space as a bad thing 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂