• Yukiko [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 month ago

    I only do this whenever someone is driving hyper aggressively behind me. Only because I feel like I’m reducing their risk of killing someone on the road. It’s hilarious to see them rage from my rearview mirror.

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      1 month ago

      I do something similar on my bike. If I see that there’s not enough clearance on the other lane, and that the car behind me might want to squeeze past me 10cm away from me, I will boldly occupy more space to precent them from passing at without running over me.

      • Pili [any, any]@hexbear.net
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        1 month ago

        A cyclist just got killed this week by one of those aggressive drivers in my country. It wasn’t an accident, they ran over him on purpose. Stay safe on the road, there are actually insane people out there.

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        1 month ago

        It’s called taking the lane and it’s a perfectly valid way to stay safe when having to share the road with cars.

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          1 month ago

          You can choose to drive a different speed than the person next to you. Even if that means going slower.

          Instead now there’s an army of cars building up behind you, none of them with an appropriate following distance. As soon as anything interrupts the flow of traffic now there’s 20+ people running the risk of getting into an accident. Or even worse causing waves of braking an accelerating which leads to traffic jams.

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            1 month ago

            It’s the responsibility of the following car to maintain the appropriate distance, not the one in front.

            Nice of you to highlight that you think traffic jams are worse than accidents as well.

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        1 month ago

        How do you figure? I do the same shit and take no responsibility for the stupid way the people around me will react.

        I don’t force them to illegally pass me in the shoulder… I don’t slam the gas pedal on their car and jerk their wheel into oncoming traffic in a fit of rage… They do that stuff in reaction to my very benign driving. The need for other people to drive like shitheads is not my fault.

        • Saeculum [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          1 month ago

          Sure, but you still contribute to the creation of the dangerous situation. When you bait someone you know has a short tempter into lashing out, it is ultimately their action and their responsibility, but it’s still not a good thing to do.

        • “I didn’t do anything wrong when standing in between a bear and her cubs. It is her fault and her fault alone that I got mauled.”

          Seriously, nobody cares if dead people are in the right because that won’t bring you back.

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          1 month ago

          Such a clever reply someone had already done it. The edit is totally not the same thing 👍 (edit: they ninja edited out a meme image that was basically the same as the original attempt which was a copy of another poster)