• ToeNailClippings@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Cyclists have been telling the media and the public this for 50 years (we used to have electric milkfloats here in the UK in the 1960s to 1990s). And they were demonised and gaslit for it.

    • Ann Archy@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Proponents have been fought tooth and nail since electric vehicles were invented, and it was the public who was gaslighted- not they. Why try to change the minds of those who know they are right, when you can just change the minds of people not to listen to them…

      “You can fool some people all of the time, and all people some of the time, but you can not fool all people all of the time.”

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      8 months ago

      No matter how you feel about them, when your mate shows you his new electric car you still greet him with a request for a pint of semi skimmed.