I'm really tired of people acting like car dependency happened organically when even a cursory look at history will make it clear that automakers pushed infrastructure and even zoning to juice car sales.

See also: “Americans prefer large trucks and SUVs.”

The overwhelming evidence of the past 100 years also includes redlining, white flight, government subsidies that enabled the growth of the suburbs, the construction of the interstate highways system… that most people now live in suburbs is not a factor of preference alone.

Imagine a town with only burger joints and one or two salad places 20 miles away. It would be hard to say the evidence is overwhelming that the majority of the town’s residents prefer burgers to salads. To me, that’s the suburban/urban housing preference debated distilled to its essence.

Me strategically only having 49 mutuals so I can continue on my descent into madness unabated.

These people are pro-genocide. Let’s just say it.