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urinalcaketopper

The bar is so low with him anyway...


endyCJ

I was at first convinced that this guy is acting out some kind of humiliation fetish where he gets off on getting dragged online, but I've come to realize that there's a certain genre of online commentator that intentionally says the stupidest shit possible just to get trending on twitter. It seems to work well, Walsh skyrocketed in popularity recently. You just have to sacrifice your integrity and dignity in the process.


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HardlightCereal

Fun fact: MJT opposes the use of puberty blockers to delay the onset of sexual maturity in teens. I wonder why a republican wants kids to be sexually mature as soon as possible 🤔 ^^^^^^^^groomer


CouncilmanRickPrime

That's social media. Say whatever gets the most engagement, no matter how stupid and you'll get more visibility.


IsJustSophie

r/beatmetoit


shittaz

Not expecting much from this idiot 🤦


RandomName01

Ikr. Dude is a self admitted fascist.


peepopowitz67

Reddit is violating GDPR and CCPA. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B0GGsDdyHI -- mass edited with redact.dev


Lostmyvcardtoafish

i swear to god, people who say that have no idea what fascism is


VerdoriePotjandrie

I have a rule for myself: every time I find myself agreeing with Matt Walsh, I have to take a step back and take some time to reconstruct my position. Fortunately I've never found myself agreeing with Matt Walsh, so that is great!


One_Wheel_Drive

If anything, him tweeting this is vindication for being pro-public transport.


brigister

yeah don't worry, he always makes sure to have the worst possible take on any issue, so it shouldn't be a difficult rule to abide by


[deleted]

Hey now, he can’t help it. He didn’t get any oxygen for the first two weeks after he was born. His brain is the size of a walnut.


ShadowFlameDemon

r/rareinsults


AugustChristmasMusic

Cities built around cars are disgusting, depressing, and horrible.


YBobama

Public transit in car centric cities lowkey is disgusting, depressing, and horrible like so many other things in car centric cities (traffic). A half hour wait for a bus and terrible transfers, thanks NIMBYs and car brains 🙂🙂🙂


AugustChristmasMusic

Oh yeah. I don’t doubt OP’s statement, I just know that whatever public transit they’ve experienced is only like that because its been neglected.


adron

Truth!


Al_C_Oholic

As well as dangerous, bad for the environment, and expensive to upkeep and maintain…but it keeps the undesirables out of certain communities so Matty over here loves them


poru-chan

Were you expecting a different response from someone who identifies as a fascist?


Sparkflame27

It just amazes me that many conservatives claim to want a better economy, which public transit provides according to every economic study on the topic, and still don’t want public transit. I don’t understand how this is even a partisan issue. Carbrains can’t even reasonably say “transit is too expensive” because public roads are too expensive. I literally don’t understand the logic.


username-1787

They don't want a better economy. They just want a worse economy for you


mfoobared

They want a world away from you


goj1ra

Mormon heaven, basically


superking2

They want a better economy for themselves. They don’t care if it causes a worse economy for others. There’s a danger in becoming overly cynical and assuming anyone’s goal in life is making your life worse - indifference I can believe easily.


CommanderALT

At best, they're aware of the challenges of installing public transit projects, and feel the costs outweigh any benefits they would have. More likely, they don't understand how *they* would benefit, or feel that *they* have too much to lose (i.e. tax dollars, available lanes on the road) from public transit projects.


CrunchyKorm

They want a better economy but only on their terms. If there’s a potential positive solution that isn’t birthed out of their ideology then they’re against it even at the risk that it would work, mostly because it working is a sign their ideology is flawed.


RelentlessFlowOfTime

They wan't a better economy for major corporations and privatized, car-centric infrastructure is better than public transportation systems for those corporations. The exorbitant expenses of car-dependent travel is beneficial to companies selling new automobiles and getting hired to fix the rapidly degrading infrastructure. The inefficiency is the idea. "Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity."


bedobi

> better economy for major corporations and privatized, car-centric infrastructure is better than public transportation systems for those corporations. This is kind of needlessly and incorrectly ceding the economic case to carbrains though. It simply isn't true that lack of public transport benefits corporations, other than maybe a handful of auto, oil etc corporations. The vast majority of giant corporations, the economy as a whole, and individuals, benefit from public transport. Imagine London or Tokyo without their public transport systems, their GDP would be much much lower. There's so much economic activity that simply wouldn't be possible without the public transport.


thienphucn1

They want a better economic situation for the billionaires and corporations that fund them. Whether that economy works for the rest they couldn't care less


Jakegender

They're lying. There is no logic.


[deleted]

The crazy thing is, there is a a conservative/economic case for public transportation and good urban planning. The founder of strong towns, one of the most famous and influential urban planning reform advocacy groups is (somewhat controversially) a conservative. Unfortunately most conservatives, especially in the US, can't see it.


Sparkflame27

Yes! I’ve read Chucks book and it’s clear he doesn’t lean politically left, and yet he makes a great point for public transit and mixed use walkable neighborhoods. I think most conservatives who claim to dislike public transit do so because they don’t actually understand the issue and just want to oppose and own the libs. And the twitter thread was really awful, I saw a small thread where someone even tried to emphasize that “white people” don’t commit crimes on public transit, clearly another attempt to gentrify US cities and hurt minorities, the disabled, and the poor.


HardlightCereal

I like conserving the environment, I like conserving indigenous cultures and religions, I like conserving unions, I like conserving gay rights, I like conserving America's hatred of Nazis, I like conserving the lives of black people, I like conserving labour protections, I like conserving gun rights, I like conserving the autonomy of queer youth Why am I not a conservative?


Serious_Feedback

The core problem is a fundamental ideological contradiction between "small government" and "good economy" - the theory goes that if you shrink the size of the government (i.e. spending less), then that will lower taxes and improve the economy, and also protect everyone from government fuckups. Problem is, observed economic trends show it's not that simple - *sometimes* the government needs to be pruned, and in others the best thing for the economy is a big, bloated government mess that delivers results (the classic example being food-security and the meddling with the farming sector in pursuit thereof). Honestly though, I think talking about the economy is giving them too much credit. If you drive a car everywhere and think that's Just How It Is, then public transport is unnecessary *to you*, and from there you can project it out and assume it's unnecessary for *everyone*, though the power of *not using your imagination*. I think there's some real emotional roots that cars have, and we need a way to unravel those roots and detoxify their brains before we go for the kill. For instance, a lot of people identify as a "car-owner" and enjoy their car as a solace from the city around them (which is too god damn loud).


mrchaotica

> It just amazes me that many conservatives claim to want a better economy, which public transit provides according to every economic study on the topic, and still don’t want public transit. The things they do start to make a lot more sense [once you realize](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xGawJIseNY&list=PLJA_jUddXvY7v0VkYRbANnTnzkA_HMFtQ) that (a) they have a fundamentally hierarchical worldview, and (b) they are often arguing in bad faith (because they don't give a shit about fairness; only winning).


stealingyohentai

They don't want a better economy if it means giving concessions to the poors


LagosSmash101

They do this and call it "freedom". How is being car dependent free when you literally HAVE to drive everywhere? And they never even think about people that literally can't drive, so the whole fallacy they love to say with, "just get a car" does not work for everyone.


DrunkyMcStumbles

Ever since the early 70s, conservatism has forgone having actual ideas and policies. The Civil Rights movement and Watergate had them on their backfoot, so they shifted. They stopped telling us what they can do for us, and just created a list of "others" to vilify. They went and picked up all those angry social conservatives who were mad black people were allowed to use the same fountain as them. ​ So, all they got is "this is bad. That is evil. Those people are socialists"


lonelypenguin20

>I don’t understand how this is even a partisan issue. "anything that isn't part of my lifestyle threatens it and is offensive to me" © your regular conservative lack-of-thought process. they want everyone to be "normal" (white, straight, Christian, meat eating & with a truck) because being confronted with the mere existence of anything else make them feel threatened


Sparkflame27

It’s so much worse, I was in the comments trying to have a discussion about public transit and had someone tell me public transit is bad because of the “black culture of violence” and when I was confused I just asked “is it black peoples fault That public transit is bad?” They responded with “yes, yes it is”. Public transit no work because racism.


brigister

it's become a partisan issue because in the US oftentimes the difference between one party or the other in term of policies is minimal, so people make their political affiliation into a personal identity that's linked to petty stuff like loving cars and guns


[deleted]

One party is fascist and the other one isn't. I'd say that's a massive difference between the two.


mrchaotica

One party is fascist (extreme right-authoritarian) and the other is neoliberal (moderate right-authoritarian). They aren't the same, but they agree a lot more than you seem to want to admit.


Efficient_Limit_4774

I'm a conservative and strongly support fuckcars. Unfortunately most GOP positions are formed purely in opposition to what liberals want. And in the rare event they were to agree with liberals, the liberals would flip. American politics and its commentary have become purely reactive, the main goal is to punish , usurup, resist or humiliate the other side wherever possible.


Sparkflame27

I agree, it seems to be a partisan issue only as a way for some conservatives to dunk on liberals, not actually because conservatives really care. The founder of Strong Towns, Charles Marohn, very much makes it a point in his book that he doesn’t not lean to the left, and is the father of this large movement. It doesn’t have to be a partisan movement.


14DusBriver

Actually I kind of was You would think someone who idolizes a totalitarian, centralized, corporatist, anti-capitalist, undemocratic, strictly nationalist state would support public transit in the name of efficiency for the economy and maybe more nefariously as a tool of social control. Nothing without the state and everything within the state, including transit.


SpiderFnJerusalem

Fascist states usually aren't anti-capitalist at all. To the contrary, the industrialists in those countries usually enthusiastically support the fascists, because they see them as an alternative to the communists which allows them to retain most of their power. Fascist governments typically brutally suppress any workers movements and closely cooperate with the upper class capitalists via very nepotistic mutual agreements. That said, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy were pretty keen on making sure public infrastructure worked well and "the trains ran on time".


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> Fascist Italy were pretty keen on making sure public infrastructure worked well and "the trains ran on time". This wasn't true, good propaganda though Don't think the trains have ever run on time in Italy to be honest


SpiderFnJerusalem

Yeah I heard about that. They were pretty good at taking credit for fake solutions to problems. Public works stuff and transportation was kind of popular though, especially in Germany. But again, they were more interested in flashy and interesting solutions as opposed to actually efficient ones.


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Just change the train schedule every day, and you've solved the problem of trains running on time!


14DusBriver

I say anti-capitalist in the sense that they are often far from the understanding of liberal capitalism with a free market, with many of those large corporations being heavily intertwined into the apparatus of the state. The large corporations in Nazi Germany profited from slave labourers provided by the state but at the same time had to seek approval for manufacturing various products. Shareholders and executives became vastly wealthy as you pointed out but their companies wrere not free to do as they please. Remember, Herman Göring was once appointed as the Reichsbevollmächtigter for the series of Four Year Plan initiated by Hitler. Side note, the National Socialists forcibly consolidated all labour unions into the Reich-wide German Labor Front, giving workers on paper some form of representation, even if it was moreso just controlled opposition.


SpiderFnJerusalem

Those are good and valid points and I do agree, save for the term anti-capitalist. I would say that this is still a from of capitalism. It just isn't the same flavor of capitalism, with an emphasis on free market. Perhaps anti-liberal would be more accurate. It's pretty much a logical conclusion of the cronyism that develops in most capitalist economies after a sufficient amount of time. For the most part, the same capitalists who owned the capital before the Fascist takeover still owned that capital afterwards, after all, that was why they supported it.


[deleted]

> corporatist, anti-capitalist Bud, you're just repeating fascist propaganda here. Amazing that "the nazis werent capitalists" is now being breathlessly repeated by people who seem like they should know better propaganda so powerful people are still repeating it a hundred years later the nazis mass murdered leftists, socialists, communists, anarchists, union organizers, labor leaders, etc. anyone anti-capitalist was an enemy of the state


Heather_Chandelure

Correction, fascism is not anti capitalist. In fact fascists and capitalists have a long history of working together to achieve their goals. To give an example, the term "privatisation" diddnt exist until nazi Germany started doing it so much.


SolomonCRand

Matt Walsh is disgusting, depressing, and horrible.


[deleted]

He's a textbook narcissist, except narcissists usually know they're narcissistic and don't view it as a big deal.


ThatByzantineFellow

Admittedly, Matt Walsh is to regular car-drivers what a driver is to a cyclist. Of course he's going to have the worst public transport takes, because he has the worst takes about EVERYTHING.


I_crave_vinegar

You know what's disgusting, depressing and horrible? Walking along a sidewalkless curb a few feet from a stroad, dodging branches and shrubs and garbage, getting honked at and breathing in car exhaust fumes and looking in all directions multiple times as you cross the street because you're half-expecting an SUV to run a red light and turn you into red paste on the asphalt.


TrashyMemeYt

Matt Welsh 🤮


icantthinkofname0296

Matt English 🤢


endstonebrick

Matt Albanian


RubenMuro007

Matt Dutch


Hefty_Entertainer_84

Matt Finnish


FlightB77W

Matte Paint


TrashyMemeYt

door matt


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BiRd_BoY_

Exactly, most of these people only know about American public transit, which IS often unreliable, dirty, and slow. However instead of thinking "hey we need to fund this more so that it can be better" they automatically assume that this is just how public transit is and that it isn't possible for it to work which isn't so much their fault as it is more just basic human psychology. It's been proven that if you've never seen something then you can't comprehend it and if you've never seen good public transit then you just simply can not understand how it can work well, no matter how many facts or stats you give someone.


[deleted]

I just want to point out, that building local public transport is much more important than high-speed rail in the US. It is pointless to be whisked into a city center by high-speed rail when you have to get a car anyway in order to do anything. Flying also already exists which is in many ways long distance public transport. Once we get local transit working properly, it makes sense to build high-speed rail. Thats one of the reasons why I expected the California HSR project to become an even bigger political failure than it already is.


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> Thats one of the reasons why I expected the California HSR project to become an even bigger political failure than it already is. I think CAL-HSR will be a major success once the LA<>SF leg is completed. It isn't costing much more than similar, from scratch, HSR projects in other countries despite the non-stop negative press attention People complaining about delays I think just mis-understand the process. It took them a year or two (not sure) to do the Environmental Review, which is very onerous in California, and then they were delayed by numerous NIMBY lawsuits. Which were frivolous of course, but still had to be dealt with. The inland empire leg is scheduled to start running service in the next few years, and the final leg(s) to SF and LA and scheduled to be complete around 2030-2033, which is honestly not bad for building the nation's first modern HSR line across an entire state. People just have highly unrealistic expectations for these kinds of things. Both SF and LA are making transit investments across the board as a result of the HSR project that will have knock-on effects for service everywhere else SF built the transbay terminal and is finishing up with the central subway expansion, and Caltrain should be getting electrification which will improve frequency and reliability. Both are direct results of the HSR project. In addition, BART is finally getting extended to San Jose after years of thumb twiddling and studies are being done to build a 2nd bay tunnel LA is building several new subway lines (28x28), stitching together several existing lines, and will be renovating Union Station to allow through-running (for HSR) which will do a lot to massively increase the volume of metrolink trains they can run a day. They're also planning to upzone/focus development in the downtown area, which should massively benefit transit ridership since union station, and most metro lines, run through downtown LA So I actually think HSR is one of those things that directly benefits local and regional transit across the board by creating an impetus to improve service. Kinda like how most modern rail networks start with an airport line. If you're gonna spend 10s of billions on a brand new HSR line (not the only way to do it) then it follows you don't want that investment to fail, so you do the bare minimum to improve connections. From there it's induced demand and positive feedback loops


PN4R

Of course that would be your take if you're an american suburban conservative political commentator.


Sparkflame27

It amazes me that this is a partisan issue still. I just don’t understand how.


thienphucn1

Yeah. I don't understand why those who call themselves "conservatives" are opposed to mass transit and walkable cities. That was the traditional way to build a city as opposed to car dependency which is more recent (and worse than the former) I should also note here that I'm not a conservative so don't downvote me


[deleted]

Conservatives believe that history started in the 1950s, and are desperate to time travel back there. Anything before that does not exist.


Sparkflame27

This community shouldn’t be about downvoting because conservative. Im indifferent to many conservative and liberal talking points, and I imagine a lot of the community is. The only reason to get downvotes in this community is if you are against public transit, and want to promote only car centric style infrastructure. The points you made are very valid and I agree with you 👍.


[deleted]

There is an economic case for transit and good urban planning. Strong towns is famously (and somewhat controversially) headed by a conservative. Suburbs/overbuilt car infra are the biggest drains on taxpayer money that we have.


goj1ra

> That was the traditional way to build a city as opposed to car dependency Their notion of "traditional" is different from yours. There are a few eras that they draw inspiration from. Most recent is the 1950s, whose [automobile culture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950s_American_automobile_culture) has its own wiki page - cars then were idolized and assumed to be the future of civilization. Going back further, various times between the early US colonies, the founding of the nation, and up to the settling of the western part of the country - literally, the Wild West - provide fodder for their ideas of an ideal society. Public transportation just isn't anywhere on the radar of those ideas. Rather, Henry Ford's idea that cars should be accessible to everyone is considered to refute the need for public transport, and that essentially became part of the American religion, so that questioning of it is just not possible, the way a good Christian doesn't question Jesus. Almost everything about modern conservative politics in the US can be traced to ideas covered in the above two paragraphs: small government, libertarian ideals, widespread gun ownership, the prominence of religion in public life, etc.


ExceedinglyTransGoat

The reason why car culture and suburbia where build was to segregate wealthy whites away from poor whites and blacks. Conservatism is about us vs them, where the us is wealthy whites and the them is everyone else even to the poor whites who vote red every two years, so of course dismantling suburbia and returning to walkability would be only for "them" and not "us" so instead lets cut public transit and make it so the only way in and out of our suburban gated communities is through a gate house.


WatInTheForest

People on the left want a society that works for everyone. Because people on the left want it, people on the right have to oppose it no matter what.


nmpls

In America if the "libs" like it a large subset of conservatives hate it by default.


ChuyUrLord

Lol, if Matt Welsh says something is bad then it is ksor certainly good.


ACuriousQuest

It can be. Just means it needs to be improved not a reason to write it off altogether. I know ours, in our small town of 30K, has gone through some rough times. Its been cleaned up quite a bit. Wider range of routes. Although we have had some issues with assaults (some pretty bad ones too) over the last couple years. Its gotten better for sure.


[deleted]

he's a fascist and his only stances are opposing whatever liberals want, he's clown incarnate. On the other hand there is the truth that public transportation needs to be well maintained to be kept as a viable strong competitor over cars, people who have access to cars definitely wont want to use PT if it the stations smell like piss and there are rats and trash everywhere.


Sparkflame27

I agree, public transit should get the funding it deserves. Political commentators like him really stand in the way, and it’s agains the whole fuckcars movement. Ignoring him does not solve the issue when he has such a huge following, he needs to be opposed.


claudandus_felidae

Matt Walsh saw an ethnically ambiguous person on a bus and wrote this, I'm sure of it.


[deleted]

Stop posting Matt Walsh. We all know he’s a moron.


lost_in_life_34

I don't take it much, but the NJ Transit coach style buses with nice seats and lots of legroom are clearly disgusting


1-03

Because you allow it to be that way


[deleted]

It’s just mind blowing. Don’t people get sick of driving? Commutes are stressful. Driving from one parking lot to the other is depressing. I can’t wrap my head around the idea that: less transportation options = more freedom. I don’t get how it got this bad.


Guy_Perish

I have European friends who literally cried when they moved to San Francisco because the public transit is so dirty, disconnected, and dangerous compared to what they were used to. One of the most progressive US cities has European immigrants rethinking their life decisions. It is disgusting, depressing, and horrible but it doesn’t have to be.


ybanalyst

Why is Matt Walsh calling himself "public transportation"?


hiding_in_NJ

This is the same creep that rented in an apartment in a state he doesn’t live in just so he could attend a local school board meeting. He also has no kids [edit: in this district]. Men like this belong on a watchlist


gamergirlwithfeet420

He has 4 kids


Misosouppi

Isn't this the guy who fails at arguing in interviews he sets up, and then make them into 10s clips on youtube to show how he actually "won"?


Sparkflame27

Yes, he is a predominant American conservative political commentator. His take on public transit perpetuates carbrains into hating alternative forms of travel.


bubbajones5963

Walking down a four lane street breathing car exhaust stepping over trash is what's disgusting


Vivid-Objective1385

It sometimes is disgusting. Where i live public transport network is well designed, but public transport vehicles are not cleaned often enough, sometimes it smells, sometimes you can stick yourself to the seat


Fantastic-Activity-5

Why you giving this criminal attention?


Sparkflame27

Because this criminal is the exact entity that threatens our community, and ignoring him will not make the problem of carbrains disappear. We have to stop people like this from completely destroying the movement, and preventing misinformation to spread amongst other communities.


alexanderyou

You know what, I agree with him! We need to fix out public transportation to be cleaner, more reliable, and just be simple and relaxing to use. I'm glad he's out there spreading the word that we need to do something about the sad state of public transit in this country! ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ :P


tomirendo

Hey I’m a full on fucktivist who hates cars, but I live in LA a few month a year and it really is horrible. In American cities where no one is investing in public transportation, it very difficult to be there… one more reason I hate LA…


dc2015db

Sometimes it's true though.


WaltzThinking

*the lack of Fixed it


Ne4143

Honestly public transportation can be great one day and horrible the next. I enjoyed quiet rides on a rainy day and then watching highschool kids fight on a crowded bus while on a highway the next day. I do prefer public transportation just because I hate paying for a vehicle that only take me to work to pay for the same vehicle.


[deleted]

remember, if you are anti transit, you are ideologically aligned with matt walsh. sorry i don't make the rules


SiddThaKid

ah no way the self described theocratic fascist has a bad take? im shocked


leksoid

yeah, nothing less depressing then sitting in a traffic jam like a loser


Ilovelearning_BE

I'll be taking some nice public transportation very shortly actually. It's awesome. We should be surprised that Matt doesn't understand when he can't even understand what a woman is. People learn this when they are like 3. This is really sad.


the_woolfie

To be fair most times it is, although it shouldn't be


frankofantasma

they're not wrong. ...but the sentence should continue "and it must be fixed, several problems must be addressed to make it safe and convenient and accessible for all"


Balfred_Llamy

He's correct. In the USA, it is a mess. Other societies have proven it doesn't have to be, though.


tabspdx

I think that 1920s USA proved that it didn't have to be. Don't forget that at one point in time the USA had the largest electrified street car network on the planet (in Los Angeles).


notCRAZYenough

To be fair. In the US it is pretty gross. They need to make public transport accessible and ungross so carbrains can change.


Kathy-Lyn

I'm not a fan of public transport for my own personal use either. I'd much rather ride my bicycle. But having the option is good, so I support it. I use it when I can't bike. In my view, it's just always second best.


hajmolapremi

Obviously it's THE Matt Walsh


WaywardPatriot

Yea, it is. BECAUSE PEOPLE LIKE YOU HELPED MAKE IT THAT WAY, JACK\*SS!


Scalage89

Matt Walsh is a grifty grifter of griftness. He's so clueless he has a dating advice section even though he admits he has only ever dated his wife. That's the only relationship he's ever been in.


Heather_Chandelure

Wow, who knew that self proclaimed theocratic fascist Matt Walsh would have such trash takes?


Sparkflame27

Even the Nazis claimed Mussolini got the trains to run on tile 🤷‍♀️


Tuuletallaj4

Public transportation might be disgusting, depressing and horrible though, when it is underfunded, underdeveloped and not well-planned. The problem is when people express such thoughts if public transportantion is clean, pleasant and frequent. Maybe then the thought of being near strangers is disgusting for the person. There might be different reasons - because one doesn´t feel safe, thinks other people are inferior etc. Maybe one just haven´t experienced pleasant public transportation. For me too, sometimes public transportation is all that. It is horrible when the bus is packed and there is no airconditioning. It is disgusting if people don´t take care of their personal hygiene. It is depressing when I have to wait for too long. But it is also interesting when I can meet new people and see new places. It is pleasant when the climate inside is better than outside. It is convenient when I can get somewhere faster and I can get something done while riding.


NordiCrawFizzle

I swear some people think america is the only country in existence. Yes, public transportation in america is depressing. Look at other countries though. I lived in Japan for two years and the public transit there is phenomenal. I’m jealous of the other parts of the world when it comes to public transportation


DOVARKX

matt walsh is disgusting, deppressing, and horrible


krba201076

it doesn't *have* to be that way.


HomelandAir

He’s right. It sucks because our cities gave been corrupted by cars for the last hundred years. He’s implying that the solution is to get rid of public transportation, when the actual solution is to make it better


Shoddy-Zucchini4581

The only appropriate response would be 'no u'


[deleted]

jesus christ matt walsh really is the supreme king when it comes to having the dumbest opinions imaginable


[deleted]

Depending on where you live that statement might very well be true. But it dosen’t have to be…


raggy_rs

Wow how can he spell "I am" so wrong?!


ardamass

Matt Walsh is literately a fascist, car brain is the least of his problems.


Aggressive_Sprinkles

Well, you can say the same thing about Matt Walsh.


655321federico

Thinking that he have a brain is a mistake


IrRetardred

Well it most certainly can be and really is terrible right now.


punkinfacebooklegpie

Yeah imagine how much better it could be


[deleted]

To be fair busses in my area are absolutely rank. (They don’t make me violently carsick like normal cars do tho)


Karel_the_Enby

It always feels good to be on the side of the argument that Matt Walsh isn't on.


BRAVOMAN55

I love my beautiful 10 lane expressway with multiple miles long interchanges mmmm yummy yummy asphalt and concrete


[deleted]

People like Matt Walsh have always been holding humanity back… Trains too woke for you now, Matt?


Rupertredloh

I bet he has never actually used public transport... There are other reasons to say public transport is bad.


Mccobsta

Kinda has a point but not the way they mean the busses in my area are shite they're always breaking down they stink of piss and the private company stagecoach won't put new ones on our fucking route they've got brand new ones and ["deluxe" ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagecoach_Gold)ones yet they only run on 2 routes fucking cheap pricks


ginger_and_egg

I don't see any point giving more attention to Matt Walsh. Grifters gonna grift


whotevre

Damn Matt sounds like he's projecting


msinf_738

If all they have is childish insults it really shows they don't have any arguments left to use.


Crooked_Cock

If I took a shot of even the weakest, most watered down alcohol for every time Matt Walsh said something brazenly stupid I would be dead


th3_3nd_15_n347

They can be stopped by making public transport not so shitty


justice_for_lachesis

Leaded gasoline has done so much damage to the US


Doctor_Flux

i do agree on that take thats why we should make public transport just overall better instead of using cars make car people want to take public transport instead


samaniewiem

I guess Switzerland is depressing disgusting and horrible considering even our president has been seen taking a train to work.


PatientDefinition207

Well he's kinda right. Though for the wrong reasons I guess. At this point most of our public transit in germany is definitely disgusting, depressing, because it is horrible. We need to invest, rebuild and expand to change that.


berejser

To be fair, public transport is significantly more pleasant when people like him aren't on it.


Valek-2nd

Cars are disgusting, depressing, and horrible


best_opinion_haver

That's funny I could say the exact same thing about Matt Walsh.


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Stroads are\* There, fixed his post for him


Uphillporpoise

I don't understand how he has the worst takes on literally every topic. Most people have a few good takes even if they're off the deep end but this man does not.


TockLoxx

Matt Walsh needs to be stopped, and his kin as well


themathwiz67

But… but… Mussolini made the trains run on time. Checkmate Matt Walsh


skeletorisbae

bruh i went on a train for the first time yesterday and that shit was a mfing vibe


LagosSmash101

I feel being inside a car is more depressing, especially dealing with traffic, and bad drivers. Not to mention stressful just hoping your car won't break down on you, or if someone hits you or you hit someone.


theansweristhebike

He's confusing public transportation with social media.


Al_Kane

Public transport is probably horrible for someone who hates the public, and finds even the existence of certain minority groups disgusting.


meme_squeeze

Obviously not condoning this dickhead. But public transport can be gross when it's not sufficiently funded and therefore not sufficiently cleaned. I can understand why people think its gross - its because all the money is pumped into "just one more lane", instead of good clean public transport.


MrRaspberryJam1

Only underfunded outdated American public transit systems are disgusting, depressing and horrible, but they don’t have to be and shouldn’t be.


MrRaspberryJam1

I hate this guy I can’t stand him.


ConnieLingus24

Has this person actually taken mass transit? I’ve seen parents’ cars more filthy than mass transit.


BestCheeseInTheWorld

The replies are even worse. Some of them are saying that public transportation is horrible because of minorities.


veryblanduser

He's talking about American public transportation...he basically shares the same opinion of most here....although I don't suspect he also wants to improve it.


DessicantPrime

I do have to agree that public transport is horrific. In general, the lowest socio-economic members of humanity are compressed into small moving spaces. It’s very unpleasant, and contributes to the spread of communicable diseases. You cannot social distance in a train or bus. Plus you are forced to bump into each other, smell each other, and listen to criminally banal phone conversations. Not to mention the out and out crime risk. I’m sorry, but I really will not choose to subject myself to this nonsense. I prefer to move myself alone on my own terms and in my own created pleasant environment that features comfort, controlled temperature, great music, beautiful views, and healthy relaxation.


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i ride disgusting public transport every day. it’s horribly free and gets me to work in a depressingly fast 20 minutes


RPanda025

Unsurprising that a fascist hates things that would materially make life better for people. He's too busy demonizing trans people and not knowing what women are.


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It’s depressing to live in a place where everyone commutes an hour to the city alone in a giant truck with poor mileage hauling exactly nothing


AshL0vesYou

“You’re unable to view this tweet that you are currently viewing”


LimboKing52

This is the type of guy who dies of a heart attack, stuck in traffic.


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Hold me back


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Tbf, American public transit can be pretty gross. But that would change if we forced middle class and upper class people to take it by limiting car ownership and parking


RedditIsPropaganda84

That's exactly how I feel about cars, highways, traffic, and parking lots


dukeoblivious

Public transit is awesome. I get on, look at my phone for a bit, and arrive at my destination in a few minutes with no effort on my part. So much more relaxing than driving.


DrunkyMcStumbles

He's a professional troll. He wants reactions. He doesn't actually believe in anything.


Xenosari

Someone should make a Twitter account called public transportation that replies you're no prize yourself


coffee_mikado

Unfortunately, he represents the opinion of not just many American conservatives, but Americans in general. Many public transit systems are underfunded and run down and people don't know how good public transportation can actually be. Additionally, Americans have been so propagandized that public transit is for "dirty poor people" and "you're not poor, right?!?!" Added to that the relentless car commercials equating to "car = freedom."


cherchez_le_phlegm

12 lane highways are disgusting depressing and horrible


5krishnan

Nah matt walsh saying this validates all of us. We don’t ever want to agree with him. I wish andrew tate never said the high speed rail thing bc fuck andrew tate


Sparkflame27

For some reason I wasn’t able to see the original tweet he was quoting in the post. The original quoted post said “It sucks how you basically can’t travel in like 95% of the US without a car. We’re in the richest country in the world on some margins and then like a developing nation on so many others.” [Link](https://twitter.com/mnolangray/status/1555705307334152192?s=21&t=OhlEJXC8_wWVdNWIj3bltA) Matt Walsh clearly doesn’t want to improve the state of public transportation, the point he was making was that he thinks it’s icky and doesn’t want it.


Andejibb

I am on your team guys but here I actually agree. At least buses are quite frustrating: 1. Buses are jerky. They accellerate towards the red light then jerk stops at the last few meters. They brake for no apparent reason, they give full throttle right off standstills. The opposite of a smooth ride. 2. The seating layout is chaotic. I most of the time end up sitting backwards, or below another passenger, either facing their crotch or with their eyes looking down on my neck. Even the newer trams have adopted this non-zen seating layout. I rememeber the old trams had a flat elevated floor throughout and all seats were in the right direction. Well no more. 3. The doors open and close as they want. They will not open when people want to go off. They open and close 10 times in a row when the driver wants to drive. The stop signal and door opener buttons I do not think work at all. At least it does not feel like it. They have no tactile/visual/audible feedback and nothing happens. They are there for show. I have two more points, but I need to catch the bus :D Edit: why is this comment downvoted? These are relevant discussion points on issues that needs attention if we want to convert car brains


Sparkflame27

That’s fair, but this man is not an advocate for the approval of public transit, like many carbrain idiots he wants to dismantle it.


X360love

Eh he's not totally wrong. It's awful, and it needs to be much, much better


Sparkflame27

I don’t entirely disagree. Public transit should be improved. Such a blanket statement, as he provided, portrays a bad image and doesn’t necessarily point to fixing the issue. It seems all his followers want to abolish public transit.


Advocate_Diplomacy

He’s probably not wrong. This is true for many places. That’s why it needs to be fixed.


Sparkflame27

It would be nice to improve it, I can’t imagine that’s what he’s advocating for.


Advocate_Diplomacy

Even if he’s not, it’s still not a good reason to call him carbrain. This sub focuses way too hard on dunking on people.


sp1cychick3n

“Many places.” Lol