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Re:Once seniors are too old to drive, our transportation sys... by majewsky on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @03:25AM (#16211909)
People are downvoting because you're missing the point. The unsafety of the situation is not because of the mode of transport, but because of America's failure to deal with crime.

Here in Germany, crime rates have been declining pretty consistently [1], with homicides and robberies down from "low" to "very low". The thought of getting mugged on the street or on public transit is just absurd to me. I don't know anyone whom it happened to. It's something that happens on CSI, not in real life.

[1] Except for internet-related fraud and Crystal Method abuse (since these are still pretty new), and stuff like unlawful border crossing (because of the refugee situation).

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Re:Once seniors are too old to drive, our transportation sys... by sctb on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @11:00AM (#16214547)
Please don't break the guidelines by posting like this again.

> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Once seniors are too old to drive, our transportation sys... by ionised on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @05:46AM (#16212485)
Well done.

You've just engaged in an ideological rant about muslim rapists in a thread about people being too old to drive.

You linked to the Gatestone institute, twice. Started by a known anti-muslim zionist and the reporting has been repeatedly accused of deliberate inaccuracies.

You also linked to WND twice. A publication known for perpetuating shaky conspiracy theories and white supremacism.

You chose two extremely right-wing (and unreliable) sources twice each. Not one countering article did you submit as a comparison.

We can all see exactly where you stand here.

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Re:Once seniors are too old to drive, our transportation sys... by burfog on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @06:18AM (#16212656)
You're reading a lot more into that than I intended. He brought up crime in Germany. The links do discuss muslim rapists, but I'm not ranting about it. The point is that his assertion of low crime is unreliable in an environment where information is suppressed.
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