You all are bonkers about cyclists
I'm bored, time to bleed some karma.
The people of this sub love to hate on cyclists and it's such a ridiculous, fake position. I have my armchair psychological theories about why you're like this, but that's not really the point. I just read another post by one biker, asking other bikers their opinions on giving pedestrians the right of way — which btw OP always does. Some incredibly reasonable discussion ensued about law vs. culture vs. convenience. Every cyclists who responded said that pedestrians need to be protected. AND YET the only comment getting upvoted was one saying cyclists also kill pedestrians — which, fine, as a reasonable person who considers actual factual evidence I will admit has happened in the history of the world but is so rare as to be basically insignificant.
Worse than the fallacious rumor (? collective delusion? Like I said, I have armchair theories but I fundamentally do not get what is going in y'all's brains) that bikers are super duper dangerous to pedestrians is the apparently common conviction that cyclists are somehow dangerous to cars. What are you people thinking with this claim? I never see anyone complain about how drivers kill each other and pedestrians (and cyclists, but who cares, we deserve it) with some regularity. I don't get it.
Anyway yes, I know no one agrees with me and no, I don't know why I'm like this. Maybe it's the bike. But whatever. I'm ready for the hate about how we're all reckless assholes, idgaf lay it on me. If anything it'll strengthen my willpower and my legpower to BLOW THROUGH STOPLIGHTS and THROUGH YOUR CARS with the INSANE FORCE OF MY PHYSICS-DEFYING BICYCLE.