Post #3717685

2026-07-09 12:13 UTC

Bike lanes are "DEI". Let that sink in for a moment, folks. If you ride a bicycle, you are one of those deviant people who don't conform to the lifestyle our Fossil overlords demand. You must be infected with that "DEI" stuff, whatever it is, that hated stuff about "equality" or whatever. DEI creeps like you DESERVE to be crushed under a gasoline tanker rushing to nourish our big, Exxon-approved Aggressionmobiles. So sayeth Conformity Secretary Sean Duffy. https://newrepublic.com/post/212853/donald-trump-transportation-secretary-bike-lanes-dei

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@meganL@mas.to 2026-07-09 15:39

That headline makes it seem like a variation of what the callow traitors in DOGE said. They couldn't define what DEI was. They were afraid to say what they were actually acting on - anything that in any way mentioned or funded something studying some marginalized group. They would not outright say that the only group they considered meritorious was abled white men (and in this case, drivers of cars). They warped the meaning Black folks had given "woke" into some rallying cry for fragile white supremacists. They've warped CRT and DEI similarly. #USpol #WhiteSupremacy #Patriarchy #CarCentrism #PetroMasculinity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HN3n485S3E

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@bweller@mstdn.social 2026-07-09 15:25

@oldclumsy_nowmad@mastodon.social ill believe it. the frequency of my interactions with people driving cars down bike paths, cops harassing cyclists, e.g., with a spotlight and interrogations.. it's real out there. it's nearly every other day. and I get ALL of it on bodycam. reminds me, I gotta go upload more footage..

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