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In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, let’s try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags:
Number of carjackings in DC:
Number of car crashes in DC:
Not wearing a seat belt makes you 30 times more likely to be ejected during a crash:
This man does not understand mathematics!!!!
I appreciate that you tried to steer the discussion to be more about how driving is orders of magnitude more dangerous than the bullshit this politician is fearmongering about, but this is still pretty off-topic. I'm not removing it this time (in part because there was already a significant number of comments by the time I noticed it), but I was pretty on-the-fence about it and similar posts are likely to be removed in the future.
A black guy got his window punched out and was dragged out of his car and beat up by the cops for "not wearing a seatbelt". Anyone who doesn't carry proof of citizenship can be hauled away by ICE on the pretext of "not wearing a searbelt". But sure, tell everyone how your white privilege lets you get away with not wearing one, fuckface.
That's class privilege in my opinion. But I suppose I could consider - why not both?
Would a white guy of the same income level be subject to the same treatment?
No shit it's both, have you never heard of intersectionality before?
Shhh. Just let this one go, man.
To be fair he could think that carjacking means masturbating while driving.
Honestly, that makes more sense than not wearing a seat belt so people won't forcibly take your car. How is that even supposed to help?
It's not so they won't forcibly take your car, it's so you won't get tangled up in the seatbelt when they yank you out. Stupid any way you look at it considering how unlikely one thing is to happen vs the other, but at least there is some logic to it.
Markwayne Mullin? The guy who was with Jan 6 rioters?
You misspelled "insurrectionists"
traitors
coup goons
In this case, nothing of value would be lost if he did a quick eject out the front window.
Wouldn't it be easier to remove you from the car while being car jacked if your seatbelt is off? Should keep it on so any thieves can't just pull you out. 🤷♂️
I assume its code for making it easier to reach over to the glove box, where his gun is.
I actually did this to my friend who refused to wear seat belt who also didnt lock her car. I just ran up while she was on phone and pulled her 100lbs self out. Learned her lesson right there. BTW she had several stalkers so I scared the crap out her but that was the point. If I can do easily its over if someone who wanted to hurt her tried.
Nice try, stalker
If i was a stalker that would have been successful. Which was the point.
How weirdly controlling and abusive of you.
Trying to get your friend to lock doors and wear a seat belt regularly? Particularly when she is also concerned about ppl hurting her?
I guess I should have just said my piece and just let the dice fall wherever.
That first paragraph is you admitting it is about control.
Yes, that's how bodily autonomy works - you say your piece and let people do what they want with their own body. She literally could have had you arrested and charged with assault, maybe battery depending on her injuries. You don't get to grab others with your no no grabby hands. Didn't you learn that in preschool?
Yeah I guess she could have if I was wasn't the person she called to come over when she was scared at night and wasn't her flatmate for a year before this event. At the time she was a sister to me and my SO and watching her not listen to basic safety was frustrating. If she wasn't, I would have sat back and let fate take its course.
I respect your perspective but in this case for me anyway its better to try something than a event happening and regretting I could have tried harder to prevent this and didnt.
Codependency isn't an excuse to assault someone.
I don't hurt my sisters. "Like a sister" - you attacked her.
You just don't want to let go of abusing others.
This man does not understand mathematics!!!!
And let's keep it that way. If he is to learn it must be the hard way. I suggest finding bad drivers to cross paths with him regularly.
Why are we giving this attention. Clearly it’s just a dumb statement meant to get shared around and enforce the myth that DC is run by gangs.
All of these GOP tough guys are such fragile pathetic babies.
Natural selection
Would suck if there was a reason for him to slam on his brakes…. Like Luigi dropping a banana
Sound like this will work itself out.
I mean, you didn't need to say more than "Oklahoma Senator" for me to know that he was an idiot, but the rest confirmed it. If you're so scared, go back to OKC.
File this one under fuck around. We'll refile under find out later.
The best part is how this would absolutely work if I was getting pulled over for not wearing a seatbelt. /s
Let's pretend this man is not a disingenuous moron for a second:
Maybe this is just my country, but cars generally lock from the outside soon after they start accelerating from parked and have done so for at least a decade
How is car jacking even possible given that?
most car doors are easily defeated by a car jacker so long as the car jacker has elbows to use for breaking the window. the reason your doors lock when you start moving has more to do with that statistics show that locked doors are less likely to pop open in a collision, leading to more effective crumple zones. many cars that lock above 10 mph automatically also automatically unlock when stopped. i've always felt the old school solution of "car goes into drive, doors lock" was fine and that all these automatic systems add unnecessary complexity.
Is your window bulletproof?
We don't really have guns, so I've never needed to worry about that
Are you a carjacker?
He's a Republican. For all things, he doesn't understand and/or doesn't care.
Future winner of a Darwin Award.
Scared white people are the worse. Just tell people you’re a baby back bitch already.
my bad maths says thats a 900x increased probability from the average of this guy being splattered against the pavement as compared to the next guy so i got some satisfaction out of that. no, don't correct me. anyway whats the bet he actually drives himself around
I feel awful for first responders who have to witness the aftermath of people deciding not to wear safety gear, especially seatbelts.
Makes sense. More conditioning to take anecdotal evidence over statistical.