AcidSmiley [she/her]

Not denying that, but even if you correct for that, the number of traffic deaths is still way off for the USA. There is probably something about how, what, where or when Amerikans drive that factors heavily into the number of traffic deaths. And it’s not just how pervasive car brain makes automobile usage, in the original graph you’ll see that an absurdly carbrained country like Germany has even lower numbers than Canada for annual deaths.

In the case of Germany, i can say that this hasn’t always been the case and that traffic planning plays at least some part in that. City planners here actually take a look at places where accidents happen a lot and try to find out what’s going on there and how to fix it. That can mean a change in confusing or lacking road signage, removing obstacles that block sight of intersections, repairing dangerous road conditions, installing roundabouts or traffic lights or enforcing speed limits with fixed radar traps.

Another major factor could be how safety precautions are treated. It’s an incredibly Amerikan thing to use these things that bypass seatbelt warners. Seatbelts have massively reduced the number of traffic deaths when they became mandatory.

Then there’s the issue of Amerikans driving “cars” that have worse pedestrian visibility than a literal tank, crush everything they touch into a fine red mist, and are also prone to flip over when they swerve off the road.

Also, Amerikan infrastructure makes accidents between cars and cyclists or pedestrians incredibly likely.

If you ever come to Germany, you should visit the Landschaftspark Nord in Duisburg. It’s an old steel mill that has in part been left to rewilding, and getting overgrown with vegetation, and there’s parts of the plant you can visit freely, including a giant blast furnace that’s more than 60 meters high. You can walk the staircases all the way to the top, and going up there even on a warm summer day, i couldn’t help but think of the workers making that climb across the steep, exposed metal staircases on the outside of the furnace in wind and rain, being pelted by the elements while sweating to enrich the steel barons of the Ruhr area. That is, when i didn’t take a look at the site as a whole and was completely blown away by the combination of industrial architecture and thriving vegetation. It’s an absolutely fascinating, otherworldly beautiful place.

It’s funny that somebody who has made his account on here entirely to spread anti-communist propaganda calls other people a fascist. You’re equating the people who built Auschwitz with those who liberated it, you’re effectively a holocaust denier and a nazi. Eat shit and die, you fascist pig with your transparent wrecking attempts.

Have you any pictures of Azov with swastika, black sun, or such since 2014?

The Black Sun and Wolfsangel have been right on their fucking shit rag of a flag until last year, you fascist turd.

JFC the entire first page of your comments is nothing but nazi apologia, fick dich du kranke Faschosau.

Likewise, i’m feeling kinda icky because my previous opinion towards the term kind of brushed over the trauma queer elders had to endure. Because it originally wasn’t the international term it is now, it was something that gay people abroad probably knew about, but definitely not something your average bigot in a rural central-European village yelled at you when he thought your pants where too fancy to make him feel secure in his fragile masculinity. So i was under the impression that people still alive today just had no direct, hurtful experience with it like with other slurs.

It’s nice that you link to the site that puts out the trans murder monitoring. You should probably look up how the USA usually scores in that before you embarass yourself further.

I get that for older gay people in English-speaking countries and i appreciate that you shared this. My perspective on this is rather different, as i’m from Germany and completely out-of-date English slurs are obviously not something people here normally have a personal trauma from. On this side of the North Sea, the people who take objection to the term queer are mainly assimilationists who don’t want to be lumped in with anybody who is too flamboyant, loud and gender-nonconforming for their straight friends and business partners, or they’re outright terfs who love to make up stuff about how lesbianism is erased by the queer agenda (ofc most of the time these aren’t even lesbians, and if you see them at a counterprotest to a Dyke* March, odds are they are paid to be there by one of the European fronts for the Heritage Foundation). So i’m not used to needing to pay attention to who i piss off with the term, because my experience is that it reliably pisses off people i want to piss off.

Cishets try to understand queer identities and queer solidarity challenge, difficulty: impossible

I’m not saying that other parts of the world are all safe, i’m saying that it’s entirely proportional to issue a travel warning for the US, and that you’re deliberately downplaying the rise of institutional and societal transphobia in Amerika.

Why are you so adamant in downplaying the crimes of a nation that has passed almost 500 anti trans laws this year alone?

The Canadian government, famous for doing anti-US propaganda.

Yea

queer is not all encompassing

It’s literally a catchall term for anybody who’s not het, cis, allo or endo.

pushing bisexuals down the list in favor of pansexuals

As a bisexual trans woman exclusively dating t4t, let’s NOT start the “bi is actually transphobic, you should call yourself pan” nonsense debate. It always leads to awful bad faith discussions, pushes bi erasure and completely ignores any and all actually transphobic dating behavior, of which there is plenty, none of which is connected to calling yourself bisexual.

worth mentioning scumfuck up there only added that bit after getting criticized for their bigotry. homophobes are all magically harvey milk’s favorite nephew the instant someone calls them out.

Yeah that’s common, i see that a lot both online and irl and they always mean somebody like that one gay dude in their QAnon chat group who dates muslim men exclusively while also wanting to genocide them.

I think this is what happens when you just keep asking plastic surgeons if they can remove your entire belly fat without doing anything else to your body until you find a doctor who doesn’t tell you that the result will look like shit.

yeah this, youtube inb particular is entirely unusable without an adblocker

That said, i don’t mind when ohter people go with the acronyms, and it often tells you a lot about the background of the person using it. Like, i see that it starts with 2S, i immediately know they’re Canadian because that’s the only place in the world doing that. Or when somebody still says GLBT like they did before AIDS, i know i’m reading a post from a cis gay boomer. And when i see something including LGBTT, i know they’re a transmedicalist and possibly from Southwest Germany and think you’re not valid if you don’t get bottom surgery.

This is an official government warning confirmed by the Deputy Prime Minister. From the source:

Asked why the guidance had been updated, Canadian Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland told reporters in Atlantic Canada that the government employed experts “to look carefully around the world and to monitor whether there are particular dangers to particular groups of Canadians”.

She declined to comment when asked whether there had been discussions with the US government before making the change.

The derailing started as soon as you entered the thread, you bellend.

Amerika is at the point where people in California get shot for flying a rainbow flag.