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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Tuesday that his department would redirect $1.73 billion in Biden-era grants away from establishing “DEI bike lanes” to build roads and bridges instead.
So, what exactly is a “DEI bike lane?”
The Daily Wire pointed to former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s claim that a series of 2021 grants funding bike lanes would serve to “improve infrastructure, strengthen supply chains, make us safer, advance equity, and combat climate change.”
Upon hearing “equity,” President Donald Trump’s goons can’t help but get triggered into attacking any federal spending that won’t benefit them directly. In reality, those Biden-era grants directed funds to build a new transit center in North Carolina, replace bridges in New Mexico, extend streets in New Hampshire, install traffic lights and crosswalks in Missouri, and install bike lanes in Seattle, among other projects. Now the financial status of these projects is unclear.
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Had to make sure his hands are realistically sized.Added a rat paws version
Photoshopping in hamster paws would be closer to reality.
Conservatives hate freedom. In this case they hate the idea that you’d have freedoms to travel without paying for the privilege.
Want to leave your home? Buy your car from the billionaires. Pay for gas to billionaires. Have your insurance from billionaires. What? You’d like to bike and no pay to a billionaire?!? Can’t have that freedom. Get back to work, serf.
And they don’t want the poors to be able to escape from their slums.
I often think of the movie bugs life where the grasshopper says that the ants outnumber them 6 to 1, and if they ever figure that out, our way of life is over.
No particular reason, but there are more of us than them, by a lot.
I think even more so, they think riding a bike somewhere is a “gay soyboy” activity and that people biking are “in their way”. Of course, bike lanes would get bikers out of their way, but they are too stupid to understand anything.
Reminds me of Conservapedia. They don’t believe in Theory of Relativity. Because Andrew Schlafly thought “relativity” sounds too much like moral relativism, and big Biblical Literalists like him think that is a Satanic ploy.
Truly intellectual giants
I mean, duh. Inclusion for those that don’t or can’t drive. Diversity for… the same reason. Equity by providing a safe place for those without a car to be able to travel just the same. Turns out bike lanes ARE DEI and that isn’t a bad thing in the slightest.
This seems consistent with their worldview…
WTF is a “DEI bike lane?” Does your bike need to be fabulous to use it?
Yes. My bike is super gay. It’s so gay it did three seasons of Broadway and did great at Cannes
Yes that’s the entire reason I no longer cycle. My bike has let itself get rundown, has not paid attention to its physical self, and looks like something that just hangs out in the garage all the time. I think it just gave up that it’s middleaged self can’t compete with newer flashier models
It’s just a Nazi dog whistle to get their base riled up as the midterms approach.
They have to make the DEI bike lanes more important than affordability or their leader’s rape and felonies. Just like they made Haitians eating non-existent pets more important than literally anything else heading into the last election.
They saw bi in the name and decided it must be banned.
I think it’s pretty obvious that only gay dudes ride bikes
Of course it is. Everything I don’t like is woke.
To be fair, everything that is good about the United States of America is DEI. There are even expressions of it in the Declaration of Independence.
Granted, the DoI was written by slaveowners, but Jefferson was borrowing from enlightenment philosophy which really was about everyone having equal rights, equal relationship to law, equal liberties, etc. When Lincoln and the Republican postbellum Congress took power, they understood the enlightenment principles that guided the framers and extended them to all men (but not yet women).
France did more to balance the playing field with the Napoleonic code, though that was because Napoleon wanted to be emperor and understood the whole social contract thing. France would still have to wait until the 20th century before providing full freedom of religion. And now France is frightened of Islam.
Is DEI in the room with us right now?
Can you show me on the Epstein Files where the DEI touched you?
the fact you can make a comment on an internet site is DEI.
you were DEI all along.
Fuck that.
I love my bike lane, as a recent e-scooter convert. And you know what sucks? Even my protected bike is not respected.
Just in a month of being a scooter traveler, I’ve had food trucks park in the bike lane (Ignoring that there’s ample parking space beyond the boundary), homeless people just laying down and sleeping in the bike lane, multiple people not paying attention on their phones just walking into it, people pulling out of a McDonald’s and more interested in their burger or soda than checking if a bike or scooter is coming, etc. etc. etc.
Bike lanes are great, but if you’re on two wheels, understand that no one is looking out for you and it’s on you to ensure your own safe passage. (Not that it should be, mind you. That’s just how it is.)
We need all terrain bikes and we just run them over anything in the bike lane. Gimme the Hummer of bicycles and let’s make those bike lanes as dangerous as the main road. See how many people hang out in them then
Its a fun thought, but I genuinely pity people sleeping on the street.
So is DEI the new “woke”?
They’re kind of interchangeable. They only know that it’s about stuff involving minorities that they don’t like.
Not really, DEI has a certain “Black folks getting uppity” to it, whereas woke is more along the lines of “non-binary ‘Custer was a war criminal’-shouting person with purple hair”
It’s coded language that helps racists feel better about themselves
Imagine being a conservative (moron) and being programmed to hate anything with the letters “DEI” inserted before or after it, regardless of whether it makes any sense or not.
Gargle my hairy balls, Pat.
Feels like the new rule is: 'IF oil companies don’t like it THEN its DEI"
This is the answer. Follow the money, not the emotion. If this diverts profits in any way from the fossil fuel industry, they must disable it. Short term gains for the leaders and dying non-renewables industry.
There’s a reason a bunch of the republican party and the joint party donors shat their pants when people started trying to follow the money on epstein
Meanwhile painting a skinny line on the road and calling it a bike line is so sketchy that not having them at all is safer
