Comment by lan321
15 hours ago
Mobility is freedom, yes. During communism movement within countries required a written permission slip, movement outside even more so.
The longer it'll take you to leave or organize against your leaders, the less freedom you have. See DPRK for an extreme example.
Guess what? They can block roads and demand papers in your car, too. The car has nothing to do with what you're talking about.
> During communism movement within countries required a written permission slip
And what does driving your car require if not a written permission slip?
The fascists also requested papers please. It's an authoritarian requirements, not a communist or facist one.
Wasn't meant in that way. I just have very detailed examples I can provide with the communist regime due to where I'm from. I can't argue about all authoritarian regimes since someone's bound to come with some exception or example I do not know enough about.
Straw man aside, I find the notion of cars being used as a tool to escape from or even to overthrow an authoritarian regime extremely funny... Even without a big brother: cars are heavily regulated and controlled; current cars are a privacy nightmare; cars are (as yet) mostly dependent on fossil fuels (that you can't produce yourself, and are heavily regulated and taxed).
If anything in an authoritarian regime, cars would be (and were) an instrument of control.
The extra funny part is that all the car-brained ex-communist people that had to be good little comrades during the 20-year waiting list period they had to endure are now big on the 'cars = freedom' mindset... No my guy, if cars were freedom, you can be damn sure only the communist nomenclature would be allowed to have them. Instead you were humiliated with spending half your life on a waiting list, and then the only freedom you got was to continue being a subservient communist subject under the party boot. How else would you afford gasoline after all? Not that that was enough... For context, I live in a former communist country, parents and grandparents waited for 10+ years to be graced with the permission to buy a car. Then proceeded not be able to afford petrol until the early 2000s...
It's truly hilarious to me that people forget cars need roads, roads are owned by governments, and governments can block roads whenever they want.
I bike most places but keep my car for the odd road trip or run to Ikea. But when ICE decides to shut down the interstates and round up all us commies, my car is not going to magically smuggle me 500 miles to Canada, and i can't believe people think it will
Yep - the most inconspicuous way to pass a border is with a car via the public road network, and through a border checkpoint!
I call it 'The Handmaid's Tale' approach!