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The Paris Auto Show is full of interesting cars Americans can’t have (arstechnica.com)
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Small EVs and efficient people carriers update familiar names for the modern age.

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[–] 4 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

And it is a sign that fuel is still too cheap in the US, even today, also, that people don't care about others, not even about the safety and life of others.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    The US is a big place with many responsible, caring people in it, so it can’t be characterized all in one stroke. But when this goes wrong, it goes really wrong.

    Many are actually allergic to the idea that they are even supposed to care about others. “I’m not my brother’s keeper” is a prominent attitude here.

    They see this as an impingement upon their freedom. Like having a deadbeat relative you’re stuck taking care of for the rest of your life. That kind of burden.

    They have some notion of family and community but it’s very local, and I mean just the people in their lives. Anything beyond that turns into 1984 for them. Not agreeing with them, mind you, just describing.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago

    I mean egoism of that kind is not limited to the US and to some extend also part if human nature but it is shocking indeed when not needlessly endangering the very life of others, ifte neighbours or schoolgirls and boys in the owwn neighbourhood us considered 1984 style oppression or infringement on freedom. As if if there was a freedom to harm others.

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