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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 160 points 3 days ago (5 children)

This feels like the scared, naive, suburbanite's take on cities and public transit. Like, do you really think a system with 3 million daily riders has constant brawls?

[–] pc486@sh.itjust.works 74 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It's a comic from WokelyCorrect. I'd be surprised if they even know how to ride transit.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 86 points 3 days ago

Oof I didn't even notice the author

I like making people laugh & I dislike Woke politics. So I made these comics for us to laugh at Woke politics together and push back against its stupidities. I will stop mocking when it leaves us alone.

Author seems to be an absolute idiot.

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

I legit thought the name was satire, like The SoyPill on YouTube.

Wow, it turns out he's actually serious. Jeez.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 42 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But the TV said it does! I better go get in my big emotional support truck and sit in traffic instead!

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Gender affirming vehicle. Asphalt princess. Anyone got any more synonyms? I'm collecting them.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

I prefer to call them Pavement Princess.

[–] TheMinister@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 days ago

Yeah, I ride it every day and I’ve never actually seen a fight in my car.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I gather that the 80s was a whole different scene in the NYC subway. Plenty of pics out there!

Only time I was there was in '92 and it was nice enough.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm not old enough to have experienced the city in the 70s and 80s. I've heard stories but it's hard to say how credible some of them are, but I believe the city is a lot nicer than it was back then.

Like, Bryant Park is a nice patch of green in Manhattan. They do yoga classes there. There's a holiday market. People used to call it needle park because it had some a drug user problem.

Places change.

[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

yeah, I'm also not quite old enough for that, but the modern conservative narrative would have you believe that most cities are actual warzones right now that are worse than the 80s. i imagine it was similar then. it's hard to trust what people try to tell you about it anymore.

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago

Helsinki subway is much, much smaller and this joke would work for it. Sometimes you see wild stuff in there