I have this belief that everyone has a regular life "super power" - mine is that I can poop, whenever I want (or not poop when I don't want, I can hold it for just about forever). I developed this power back in high school, pooping immediately after school and before cross-country practice started. It was absolutely crucial during the two years I was a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic.

My wife has never selected an avocado from the grocery store that wasn't absolutely perfect. That's her super power, and it has spoiled me and crippled my avocado-selecting confidence.

> It’s not that we don’t believe you it’s that there’s always 50 more of you screaming your fackin’ heads off “BAN ALL CARS” and “FUCK CARS” and “cars aren’t necessary for modern life” and it just makes y’all look like a bunch of nurjibs incapable of compromise

You're taking a systemic criticism personally, as if you're a car. You're not a car, you're a driver, and nobody would ever consider banning drivers from places. We just advocate for limiting your stupid fucking car. :D

The bikers and the walkers and the bus-riders and the metro-riders have been asked to "find another way" and make compromises within their own lives to accommodate the shit-for-brains car-driver who drives into the city every day. I cram onto a bus to work everyday that's held up because 300,000 people insist on driving themselves to work every day in their own car. I stop at intersections, wait for the crosswalk to turn, and then wait some more to ensure that those impatient car-driving assholes who aren't looking for me, who need to make that right-turn-on-red or left-on-green-before-the-other-lane-gets-into-the-intersection don't run me over. Or I cross the street to avoid the dangerous part of the crosswalk that allows people to cross while cars are also allowed to enter the street. I walk 20 minutes to my nearest metro stop if I take the metro in the morning. I slam on my brakes at every intersection as I ride my bike up and down 15th NW because cars decide to pull out in front of me. I stop and wait at a green light on NJ and Q St NW so that cars waiting to turn right won't run me over in the bike lane they can't see. I live in the city so that I won't have to commute, and if I lived outside the city I'd live near a metro or bus stop. When I lived in Leesburg, I rode the commuter bus for an hour each way, but it felt like that bus was commuting through a sea of angry drivers, something I can't imagine doing every day. I live in a time where cemeteries are filled with people who have been killed by cars - how many cars and car-drivers have been killed by a walker or bike rider or bus-sitter colliding with the car in traffic?

I've changed my whole fucking life to accommodate cars and people driving cars.

The sad thing is that you've probably gotten 5 downvotes and 5 or fewer people responding to you about cars and it's so enraged you that you can, in your mind, exaggerate it to 50 responses from 50 people, and it "feels" right because your personality and lifestyle is so wrapped up in being able to drive a car. Nobody has ever done anything to you that would require you to change your lifestyle - at most you've lost a few extra minutes in commuting that you weren't entitled to anyways. The modern lifestyle has been totally warped by the unnatural and destructive privilege of being able to travel as fast as you want in your own personal vehicle, unconstrained by the costs of biological energy or muscle or distance or time. I think most people who advocate against cars today would agree that you, the car driver, have been ceded too much ground in this world.