Minneapolis (or any city that has significant snow cover part of the year) can never be as 'walkable' as a neighborhood in Charleston, Atlanta, Austin, even DC. There's a latitude restriction where walkable only applies about 8 months or less out of the year, and with kids it gets even harder.

walking 10 minutes to the metro, an absolute nightmare. walking 20 minutes to whereverthefuck you found a parking spot, an absolute delight. also why is she doing groceries every day when some years back she insisted she's not a foodie. i have questions.

Tbf, the other day I read a (concerned-about-emissions) American talk about leaving the thermostat at 18°c like it was some hellish cold.

Man I live in DC and everyone here would murder someone for a ten minute walk to the metro

New Yorker. I walk; you kind of have to. Subways are not super accessible. (I feel bad about this. In other countries I've lived in, the accessibility gave me weight gain. Catch 22?)

Cities with older subways have shit accessibility: see paris.

I've been in different Paris eras. Some were better than others. When I was first there at age 19, we had an extremely difficult time attempting to avoid dog poop. Montreuil was AWFUL. Had to jet my shoes!! About 10 years later there was still poop but not nearly as much!

good thing nobody ever entrusts this asshole to walk their dog

We chose our home for proximity to transit (3 routes 1/2 block away & 2 more 5 mins away). Ten mins is still not much. Also not sure why she shops every day. We use a folding shopping cart 1X/wk for stores a 1/2 & 1 mile away and use our corner store for small trips. Delivery's also a thing now.

did she want to drive half a mile? that seems crazy!

Also DC especially is a great walkable city & so nice, would that others be so lucky.

It is SO pedestrian friendly!

Are we talking about walking the entire time it takes for 10 minutes to happen?

The right wing “walkable city panic” must have been a big part of last year’s progressive conspiracy theory, because my aunt mentioned it last Christmas. Not needing a car and having things closer is freeing not confining as some seem to believe.

The weirdest thing about this conspiracy theory is that they insist the concept of walkable neighborhoods means you can't ever leave it or use a car. No one ever said this & I can't figure out where this originated, except an inability/lack of experience to imagine a different way of urban design

The first time I visited a city with a robust subway system (Madrid, Spain) and realized that *despite not speaking the language* it was literally impossible for me to get lost in this city as long as I could find the nearest metro station was a real eye-opener. And made me want to explore!

Before I get groceries, I look outside to see if it’s raining and/or I don’t grocery shop on the 4 days a year it snows in DC.

and all the bread and toilet paper vanishes on those 4 days

So she'd prefer a 10 minute drive? Or does she want to turn that 10 minute walk into a....well, probably 10 minute drive due to traffic and stop lights and such

Well walking 1/2 mile to do chores is not the same as taking a nice hike

I would hope your hike is more than half a mile. I walk a mile+ each way from the train to my office everyday.

Cool- what’s your point

That walking 1/2 mile to do a chore once a week ain't that big a deal

The lady with a luxury car collection is against walkable cities? I can’t believe it

We need also to find out what Jay Leno thinks

His view might've changed since falling like 60 feet down some pedestrian-unfriendly embankment between a hotel and a restaurant. Or at least one might hope the irony has set in.

tbf it's a nice collection

wouldn't mind taking a 911 to the track

“Luxury” she’s a Porsche fan girl with honestly bad car takes

If you’re grocery shopping *daily*, seems like it would be a very manageable amount of groceries to be carrying on a short walk.

Happy to hear that miserable person no longer lives here

I live in one of the few walk-able neighborhoods of LA. And when we go out with friends they are surprised that we "have to" walk the 3 or 4 blocks to the bar or restaurant. As someone who walks to the grocery store, there is this AMAZING invention: a backpack.

And if I get a case a beer or something, I get a rolly-cart. I don't have to deal with the stress of dealing with parking, traffic, or other problems associated with that rolling hate-box called a car.

My first post-college apt, NYC in an ancient walk-up* that didn't have laundry facilities So, I bought a trolley and a storage bin to drag everything to the closest, at least 10 min walk-away, laundromat I could've taken a taxi but why? It's only 10 min! (*Regularly broken tiniest of elevators)

We live on the 7th floor. Not going to lie as much as I am making fun of people not wanting to walk 10-15 minutes I think I would die if I had to carry laundry up the stairs. That said, I started taking the stairs more and more, so maybe I can do it in a year.

I don't blame you! I had a strict "nothing higher than the 3rd flr" rule when apt hunting I had friends who lived in 5th+ flr walk-ups with amazing views or roof access I got the appeal but mostly thought they were nuts My advice/promise about the stairs is, keep it going, it gets easier! HNY

Yeah. We have a few health nut friends who take the stairs when they visit us. They don't pant. They could just wait. But they are the type thay love going to Yosemite for the hiking.

there’s even carts you can get if you want to walk with heavier stuff! wild!!

In fairness, I actually didn't know about them until I spent time in Germany and saw everyone shop with them. At first I was like, "Wow you can haul a lot Aufschnitt with that." But then I saw teenagers haul cases of their cheaper than water beer and I was like, "Oh....."

haha! in chicago it was mostly old ladies i feel like but i got very inspired .. i don’t use mine as often as i should but man its handy nonetheless

Well I mean this was Germany so 16 year olds can have beer but probably don't have cars, so it makes sense. But yeah in my neighborhood, it usually old ladies too.

yeah haha that makes perfect sense it’s just funny to think of the disparity …

Well if you have good public transport and walkable cities EVERYONE benefits - including kids. I am super jelly of the kids because they get to be free and wonder and be little adults.

I've always thought it was absolutely bizarre how no one in the US thinks to use a cart

It's like walking a block or two. That's for poor people who can't afford cars.

had a coworker once. car broke down. i let her know, hey, there’s a bus that literally stops in front of your house and two blocks from work! same route! runs every fifteen minutes! she was incensed i’d ever suggest such a thing lmao

We had a something similar with the Hollywood Bowl. The subway stops by our place and stops a few blocks from the Bowl. When we recommend to a friend to come to our place and take the train together, they didn't want to be with "the poors." She later complained it took her 2-hours to leave.

I gave away a mattress topper in the middle of Edinburgh via a local group, and the woman messaged me to explain that my flat was in the Low Emission Zone and her car is too old and not allowed in it. I was so stunned it took me a while to suggest catching a bus, which was a very novel idea to her.

i was about to say moving a mattress by bus would be super ambitious, then realized i missed a word ….. a mattress *topper* … man.

Yeah, we're talking IKEA bag sort of job. She brought a wheeled suitcase and it fit in nicely. I live in an incredibly good area for buses, it was dropping her off a three minute walk away at most.

I told this story in another thread recently but one time I was in LA and I walked from Sunset to Melrose and my hosts were FLABBERGASTED.

Did they then try to explain Uber to you? :D The idea of walking!? There is that Steve Martin movie, LA Story, where he takes the car to go across the street. That's not too exaggerated.

Oh this was in 2000. No Uber yet. Funnily enough where I lived at the time was no less car centric. It just seemed like the easiest thing to walk because it was California in December (glorious).

Exactly. I REALLY wish LA had dedicated bike lanes. We have such wonderful weather and most of LA is flat.

What neighborhood is that?

The first thing I’m trying to get done most mornings is at least an hour walk. Wish I could do more.

Brianna Wu’s dream commute?

That’s a lot of groceries!

this country is such a damn joke

a half mile is too much to ask of the superior american physical specimen

Sigma mindset is being carried everywhere in a litter

Brianna Wu being too stupid to buy a grocery cart tracks tbh

A litter is unintentionally appropriate since Brianna is trash

We all know what it did to the poor feet of Erick Erickson

they walk farther to and from their car in the walmart parking lot. preposterous creatures

These are people who think they're going to survive in a bunker during societal collapse but will collapse from exhaustion trying to carry potable water to the dog who's too dumb to leave

Same bunker preppers during COVID: “Open the Applebees, my freedoms are being infringed”

The coldest month on average in DC is January, during which the high averages 40F, is she sure she lived there if she was walking thru daily snowstorms? Seems like a misunderstanding

It's not she lived in Marquette, MI where the average temperature year-round is 38F and snow falls from October to May.

Brianna is a fucking crank and should get blocked along with the other trolls of the Internet age.

She's missing a lot of life. Walking is one of my favorite things in life. Like reading, it opens up new worlds and perspectives and takes you outside your own little world. I walk, therefore I am.

I had been laboring under the misapprehension that Brianna was just a lazy grifter with reactionary takes because that's standard operating procedure for her kind. But no, she is actually an honest-to-goodness moron.

Carrying groceries daily through rain and snow? Was she in a Groundhog Day scenario?

That kind of shopping takes dedication and meteorological planning.

Americans, who live outside of extreme weather zones, are soft. And as an ex-NYCer, c'mon man! 10 min to a subway is nothing. I bet you could do it in 5 if you hurried your ass up. Pro tip: put your "nice" shoes in your bag and wear sneakers for the walk. Save your shoes, feet, time and bitchin.

10 minute walk or 2+ hour daily commute in standstill traffic? Who's to say which is worse...

It is my god given right to sit in my ram 3500 idling my Cummins more than I’m moving while I wait for the interstate traffic to move out of the way for me because I’m IN TRAFFIC and certainly not PART OF TRAFFIC /s

It's elite pilled too, where empirical realities of climate extinction matter less than projecting an image of affluence and disdain of menial tasks.

I wonder if she considered buying enough groceries for, like, two days. Maybe three!

If that’s representative of mainstream Democratic thinking in US, they (and we) are in bigger trouble than anticipated.

Never go full petard.

Is she aware she can purchase a cart.

I can't understand how this might be a problem for her unless she's trying to chew gum at the same time. In most countries, living in a city means you have good transportation and walking is perfectly normal. She seems to be lazy and a bit thick.

I started sending my kid for some groceries (admittedly a 5 minutes walk, not 10) when she was seven. That's the real lazy person benefit of walkable cities. I didn't have to go out AT ALL because my kid has freedom in my walkable neighborhood.

ive lived in a walkable city for 20 years with no car. i moved to providence and wanted to kms in 3 months. cursed place

You only get to complain about 10 minute walks if you're lazy or disabled and it's me I'm both but I don't tweet about it because I know walkable cities are still good for like a million obvious reasons

there's snow on the ground in DC like 4 days a year

does she know about umbrellas, i wonder

I thoroughly enjoyed taking out one of the mediocre city bikes and just riding along next to the endless rows of traffic caused by shitty drivers terrified by less than one inch of powder.

And those were the days I’d AVOID driving because no one can handle the snow down there

But does it rain the other 361?

4 days a year - in a particularly snowy year!

And everything shuts down when it happens!

I've been in DC when there's half an inch of snow, and it's enough to totally cripple the city's roads because nobody there knows how to drive in it. I would rather walk on those days than drive, even though I'm perfectly comfortable driving in snow. It does rain, though.

4 very traumatising days

She couldn't ride the ninth motorcycle her parents bought for her because the road was too slippery, have some empathy

All of which she had to get groceries, don't forget.

Some people wilt under the strain it takes to carry a package of spinach, an onion, a can of beans, and a box of pasta.

the PTSD from those walks was so bad it made her forget to mention who she was a DC intern for(Trent Lott)

*flashback* to sipping a Trent Lott-e at Dupont Circle Books cafe. (the steamed milk was served in a separate glass from the espresso)

she was also an intern not a staffer

she lived in the stationery cupboard for 3 months before they discovered her

i think we got like a half-day at most this year

You can just tell she's from Mississippi by how much she hates snow.

I thought she was a fellow Californian because I hate snow to this degree. But I stock up on groceries before the horrible (not really) Seattle snowstorms and just ride them out

She's much worse, she worked for Republican Senator Trent Lott during the 2000s.

nobody's worse than californians; this dishonor will not stand, i will need to Become Worse (joke)

Longest streak of days with 0.01" of rain or more in DC? Also 0.1" because less than that is hardly a nuisance.

some people should have been bullied more

Maybe buy two days worth of groceries

What an odd duck. And it seems I have her blocked on that other site.. 🤔

I guess this kind of makes sense if you’re more rich than anyone should be and like driving your expensive cars but go off queen

May I introduce the concept of the Shopping Trolly: www.galeria.de/kueche-und-h... It's a rolling bag for carrying groceries home a few blocks. Also, let's introduce the idea that you only buy what you need for a day or two at a time, rather than huge loads of stuff to store. Just-in-time-shopping!

A lot of "anti-urbanists" (is that what we call them?) act like the necessity of larger grocery hauls in they're typically exurban communities is a virtue because the decadent city dwellers are less prepared for when the SHTF because they have a week less of food in their dwelling

Shouldn't the purpose of a society be that we don't have to prepare for the shit hitting the fan? I feel like, if that is a reasonable fear, we have failed as a society. COVID did happen, yes. Somehow, people in cities in Germany didn't die as fast as folks in red states in the US, IIRC. Hmmm...

Also, when restaurants are affordable as groceries, and on your way home, you are more likely to eat at them. Lower rents enable all sorts of nice stores and services at street level. Different types of public transit server different needs. Use appropriate public transit for best results in cities.

one of my first purchases when I moved into my new house! mine can fit two shopping bags full of groceries in it which actually lasts me about a week, even a little more. I do often get delivery though because people in the shops have germs.

I feel like constant micro exposure to the germs of the world better prepares our bodies to fight larger attacks than isolation. Obviously, there are greater risks with larger, more virulent diseases, or closer exposure. But I think it's healthier, long term, to get out regularly. Not a doctor, tho.

I just wait until the rain stops??

I've also heard some people employ a device designed to cast a small shadow (or "umbra") in order to keep the rain from falling on them, EVEN AS THEY WALK AROUND

incredible. technology is advancing every day

They even make special cloaks you can buy that are not only waterproof but can keep you warm if it is cold. Some even have hoods if you down own a hat. They even come in all sorts of styles too!

Very fancy, but all these things sound like progressive ideas that nobody really wants.

Fake news, surely???

Ah, but like she says in DC the rain only stops when it’s snowing! The last time there wasn’t some form of precipitation was a 20-minute period in June of 1997.

Yeah, I really wish I could help save the planet for my kids and grandkids, but it is so inconvenient! So, can we please rip out the bike lanes so I have a place to park?!

You from Toronto and friends with Fat Fxck Ford? He’s doing exactly this despite even car fans objecting 🤬

Also, businesses are objecting. The conventional response is for businesses to claim they kill business. But, this is not the case in Toronto.

Agreed

Yeah. Ford is an idiot. That family has had it in for anything but cars since crack bro mayor.

Yup. They’re criminals from way back. Still astounds me that anyone would vote for any of them. 🤬

I do daily shops and I'm not hauling giant bags, just like bread and stuff for whatever I'm cooking for dinner so it's no issue and bags aren't heavy. S k I l l. I s s u e.

What the f**k is she on about? How many metric tonnes of groceries did her stupid ass carry around, anyway? And I spent a year doing an internship in DC - what the f**k “snow” is she even talking about? That cold rain that shuts down the whole city?

seriously why are we still paying attention to her? what is the reason for making sure annoying people like her stay famous?

it snows and rains 365 days a year in DC

I live a block away from a grocery store and dentist, four blocks from work and my cat’s vet, bus stops all over, and I’m living the dream. Haven’t driven in almost a decade. Saves me so much money to not need a car.

Four blocks to the library and the drugstore, one mile to a grocery store and dentist, many restaurants within a mile. One mile to bus stop to downtown. The only thing we have to drive to is post office. We chose this neighborhood on purpose.

Get a bag on wheels

Granny carts: not just for grannies

Or a rucksack.

Or a bike and a basket.

I can walk ten minutes carrying groceries in the rain, and I have a bad back and use a cane. What's her problem?

She's American 3

So'm I

I went for years in my 20s without a car and walked everywhere the including 20 minutes to my job. Never missed a car.

All the time I grew up, near Boston, I never owned a car because the T (i.e. subway) and buses brought me almost everywhere I needed to go. Didn’t buy a car till after I moved away at 26. I soooo miss good public transit! Would kill for a 10 minute walk to a train!

I live in London, UK, and the public transit is why I've never learned to drive. Plus they just added a cycle path separated from the road just outside my house.

Driving in London is so much more expensive and stressful than public transport!

I visited London last year and the Tube was like a home away from home.

My challenge with more walking is that it’s hot and humid AF where I live a good half the time.

A walkable city is quite a small-C conservative thing! We used to build these types of neighborhoods all the time, then just stopped because…reasons. jwp.news/15-minute-ci...

I love “walking” cities and have lived in quite a few. Took me an unhappy year to adjust to car culture in my current home.

Why was she carrying groceries daily instead of once a week? I get that you can walk there in 10 minutes so might as well just buy when you need instead of once a week but the way she's saying it makes it seem like she was buying a lot of items

And if she is getting like a small amount of items daily then why is she talking about it like that? This post is so confusing to me

Wow I forgot about her from the MA House race she lost years ago. She seemed a bit confused back then, appears she hasn’t really changed. I hope 2025 is her year

My takeaway: there's no pleasing some people. They're mad that we pasteurize their milk They're mad that vaccines are a thing They're mad that environmental regulations exist mad that public transit involves making tradeoffs LOL let them be mad

As long as them being mad doesn't affect those public health measures

A 10 minute walk is literally Nazi Germany *gets in the car to drive for an hour to the gym to get her steps in*

Wow! This is a terrible take - Brianna doesn't have anything against Nazis

Maybe it's just me but I want to take my car to the store, buy whatever, drive home and park in my garage and go into the house without ever having to go outside in the elements. Walking, been there done that, IMHO its overrated.

Ten. ENTIRE. minutes, people

I much prefer being stuck in traffic for random amounts of time, then having to scour the neighborhood for parking, parking away from where I actually need to be and often encountering threat of violence in the form of road rage from other drivers equally frustrated by the whole experience.

I long for the day when I don't somehow still end up with goddamn Brianna Wu megamind takes on my Bsky feed.

curse her and curse you forever for bringing this evil content out from the hellhole it was never supposed to have left. I hope happiness always finds a way to get away from your grasp as long as you continue to scavenge for turd-covered excrement such as this in that soiled website. Happy new year

Collapsing dramatically when faced with the prospect of a 10 min walk is the American way.

1. gas leak brained obviously 2. not her hottest take, not even close

It's true tho. I walked a bit over a mile mile/30 minutes to the office for months, and people were shocked and amazed that I would do that. It was expected that I would drive that distance. (There was also a bus route that took me directly there as well)

As a younger family we would walk, like 15 minutes, to school events and parties in our eminently walkable Toronto neighbourhood and became known as the people who walked.

Seriously like one eight of the daily recommended walking steps.

Getting a blister from that tells me he doesn't walk enough and needs to walk more.

Is this actually real?

Oh yes.

Can I assume he fancies himself an Aloha male, too? I’m leaving the typo

In all fairness, when reactionaries make arguments like this, I'm inclined to believe that evolution is a lie. Blister after less than a mile of walking is a sign that you should have been eaten by a predator by now.

Definitely proof of the fact that evolution is not necessarily progressive.

That has to be satire. Right?

.75 miles lmfao couldn't even round up

That's only a 10-15 min. walk. 😆

A blister in a 10 minutes walk? Unless he was wearing new heels…he is a soft baby

Right? The plot twist is he was wearing high heels. 😂

Jellies

either that or skating shoes I had vans I could never break in, they gave me a huge blister any time I tried to wear them *anywhere* 😭 those aren't walking shoes though, which is important what normal person doesn't wear walking shoes in their day-to-day?

People pay huge premiums (its own issue) to be in cities with features "nobody wants" which is very odd

the dc metro stations *could* stand to be a bit denser i have to say

She's such a baby

what happened to Brianna Wu? seems to be a bit off these last few years

Did she make a conscious decision to be wrong about everything?

I don’t know where in the world you have to daily carry your groceries in the rain and snow but it sound like post nuclear catastrophy Siberia.

It’s called Chicago from October-April

I mean... what? Have you lived in a country north of the equator? Because that's what you do if there's bad weather.

"daily"

"Daily" as in "Having to do this no matter the weather". I am not a native English speaker and I got what she meant.

Well, I live in Quebec, so that’s what I do. But she seems to say that she’d had to do it every day (and it doesn’t rain or snow every day in DC).

If you get your groceries once ever week or two weeks, you can just plan around inclement weather. If you get them daily, you aren't buying enough in one trip to be encumbered during that walk.

I guess she doesn't own a refrigerator? Because daily trips make no sense otherwise.

Since a lot of grocery stores sell prepackaged meals at lower prices than fast food, there's a use case now for going to the grocery store for a quick and easy lunch or dinner. I could see justified a daily trip depending on circumstances.

She also doesn't strike me as the week-shopper type, planning 7 meals plus 2 backups in case something happens. Not meant as an insult even, just an observation.

When I read her talking about it like she's ACTUALLY carrying the bags around instead of using a shopping trolley:

Her "hottest take" is some weak objection to walking anywhere, while the real hot take is that 10 minute cities are a means to lock people in where they live. She needs to up her game.

A hot take for conspiracy theorists.

with an option on "BuT mUh tRuCK!"

Legit everyone likes being able to walk somewhere instead of drive. There’s no amount of pseudo-intellectual mumbo jumbo that would make someone not prefer convenience.

Please use alt text

Yeah, Brianna

When I lived a couple of blocks from the supermarket, walking there every day was one of my favorite things. It didn't snow and rain every day, but this wasn't in DC, idk what happens there

I will say carrying 30 pounds of groceries a mile home and the soggy paper bag starts to break in the Seattle rain isn't one of my top experiences but I have a car now so the haters can hate while I put that mess in my trunk. But I also live in a crappy neighborhood with no supermarket anymore

This is why I walk to my local market with some sturdy canvas tote bags

Yeah i love a good canvas bag, like the square bottom kind, sometimes you realize you gotta make a run while you're doing something else though and you can't have the canvas bags on you all the time so stuff happens

Not snow and rain every day

living a block from my grocery store is amazing. so satisfying to pop out and just get what i need as needed

It sounds like the most convenient thing imaginable, but get this, what if it's raining??

Get an umbrella and a roller cart.

Yea good point

Some day humanity may invent umbrellas or raincoats

Oh, that's when it gets interesting. You not only have the podcast going at a very low volume but the pitter-patter of raindrops on your coat is so satisfying! But they wouldn't know what satisfying is if it bit them in the ass (them being Brianna)

Considering she'd rather drive for an hour than walk for 10 minutes

I cut out a lot of eff bombs in that last skeet.

This is so aggravating. I love driving. I hate commuting. I love working from home. I love taking the bus (a stop that is a 10 minute walk from my front door) to work when I do go in. It isn't progressives that like walkable cities. It's everyone that isn't a raging idiot that likes nice things.

I miss being able to walk everywhere in Boston, I named the dog after it...

Boston used to be walkable. Is it not anymore? Or do you not live there anymore and dream of it's accessibility?

I lived there from 1993-1995 It's supposed to be even more walkable than it was back then. I used to tell my visitors to park in the Pru garage and I'd go meet them because I didn't know which ways the one way streets go.

Imagine complaining about having to carry things a shorter distance from the store to home than your car is parked from your home, or the store to the car in the parking lot, or...

shelters and umbrellas? i live in singapore and while i'm not sure if it's considered a walkable city, it does rain a lot and shelters are a godsend. i have a completely sheltered path to the train station!

Both hands full! CHECKMATE!

Rain is actually quite debilitating for someone like me who's made entirely out of sugar.

I’m in a very walkable location but I am lazy & it is also easy to drive. So when I need to make myself walk to the supermarket when it’s raining I put my nice raincoat on, take my brolly & repeat ‘you are not made of sugar!’ all the way. I love being able to walk to cafes, supermarket, church etc!

Often, in walkable areas it is not easy to drive. Or to park. When I lived in Osaka, none of my four nearest supermarkets had car parking.

This was my favorite thing about Nagoya, as well. Well that and my miso tonkatsu, the 味噌とんかつバーガー at コメダ ahhh memories~ I mean there was actually a lot of parking bc Nagoya is known as a car city, but it was still VERY walkable with lots of other transportation options. I went on a tangent, huh?

Japanese car city probably more walkable than most US/Canada "transit cities".

Note: I viewed this as a good thing. I was just surprised by "very walkable" and "easy to drive" above.

Canberra. It’s not a big city and I live smack in the middle of it. Also traditionally car dependent. So, yes both walkable and easy to drive.

When I used to look at the supermarket out the window, it made me tired. I thought, what kind of communist would want someone to walk through a supermarket?? "Probably those same pinkos that created IKEA," I replied to myself smugly. I use DoorDash now for my organic veggies. And thick curtains.

Wait, what if it's raining and you have to walk from your car, across the carpark to the supermarket? The horror.

life is endless suffering for the sugar-made

My local market about a block away had a hard time selling when the owners wanted to retire. Only about 4 parking spots out front and they're a tight fit. Hard to get the $ / hr you'd need to keep the lights on much less pay staff. They started selling beer & wine, too, which makes up the difference

Weird. Even in the US, lots of urban markets survive without having any parking.

if they have population density (urban areas). I live in a town of about 2500 people, only about 10% of which live within walking distance of the market, not accounting for steep hills and broken sidewalks which get very icy in the winter. So, I'd say the customer base is around 100.

Since we're in the semi-rural US, almost everyone also has a car, so the market is for emergencies / splurgy days when you don't want to drive to large grocery store (they're often nearly 2x the price of even "nice" grocery stores, bc they don't get the bulk wholesale discounts big places get)

On the one hand, alcohol's an addictive poison which has debilitated too many to count. On the other hand, the high price point and markup keep so many cherished businesses afloat and subsidize the price of bread and milk.

Snowmen also struggle. Hot Frosty, bringing the big lessons.

Brianna probably started screaming "What a world, what a world..."

Has anyone considered the possibility that she'll melt in the rain like the wicked witch of the west?

you jest but consider Brianna's perspective as the Wicked Witch of the West

I’ve lived in a walkable neighborhood for a few years and it’s the best. I love my little errands. Going to the library and a bakery is a fun little treat!

It’s a lovely place and people are friendly

i lived a 20 min walk from a grocery store. the walk was ok def the limit of how far i wanted to go with groceries in AZ, but the bigger problem was the big AF stroad that was just before it. two 6 lane roads meeting at an intersection with 40 mph speed limits. i did not like crossing it at all.

Having lived in Brooklyn, which snows considerably more than DC, walking anywhere for anything was tremendous.

The fact that you said "every day" made me think of how car-brain affects how we shop. Since you can fit more in a trunk than in your arms, driving to the store leads to larger, less frequent trips.

It snows like once a year in DC

Average snowfall is about one foot *per year* in DC

I'm living in a good old polish big block, that still remembers communism. Nearest Lidl is 300 meters from the entrance of it. The nearest bus stop is 100m away, and it will drive me to the city center in 10 minutes. And any grocery store in that city is 15 minutes away at any time.

Lived in commie block until recently. Moved. Now I have to walk 5 minutes to the shop (any of the 3 nearest) and it feels so far :D

I drive the 10 minutes to the subway and I love it! I then drive down the stairs to the trains and drive on the tracks to my destination. Works every time! Go USA!

ah, a fellow enthusiast of Midtown Madness 3

Doesn't she also collect Ferraris? Of course she hates walking.

US company bought a NZ company in the 90s. Occasionally we were called to visit the mothership. The hotel was across an arterial road from the co. My techie flock hopped the median barrier to avoid 10m round trip to the lights I didn't- I'm short + sane- but it's a defining culture clash 😁

porsches, that she then brags about to display her wealth while pretending to be even tangentially on the left.

Frankly astounded she has any audience at all.

nobody should, she's a nepo baby whose parents bought her a game dev studio and she was shit at that (her game is one of the ugliest fucking things i've ever seen) and she's a failed politician. Exactly what are her merits?

Guarantee everyone who talks this way spends over an hour at least twice a year walking around a mall, amusement park, or museum/zoo. Wild shit.

Sigh

If you are buying groceries daily, how hard can it be to carry them?

Me walking to go get groceries in a walkable city:

It's important to stretch.

Every knee deserves a kiss.

I like a granny cart for groceries, just sayin.

"Progressive ideas". We had this in Europe for centuries

I have lived in walkable places and car dependent places and walkable places are unquestionably better for quality of life. There is nothing worse than having to get in a car to do anything.

Good points here. After all the one thing everyone famously loves... fighting traffic.

TBF, her hottest take is actually that she’s an enthusiast defender of a genocide.

Of course scorching hot take from Briana wu, god I love this hot take …

She left out the real reason why most americans who don't want walkable cities actually don't want them: racism, and classism. Walkable cities imply public space is well cultivated and available to all members of the public. Including people of color and poor people.

European walkable cities have large public squares. They are purposely inviting, with shaded benches, fountains, and native plants. The US policies of wealth inequality and intentional homelessness are at odds with this form of city planning.

If we want walkable cities, we have to address wealth inequality and housing insecurity and embrace the idea that it's good, actually, to have public spaces that are free to *all* members of the public.

I have lived in so-called "walkable" cities in the US and they have tons of coffee shops and boutiques and markets, but no after school centers, and no doctor offices other than an urgent care, and also all included anti-homeless architecture.

In our Philly neighborhood, we're fortunate to have cafes, boutiques, markets, and after school programs and doctor's offices, plus a lot of playgrounds for kids. We have to go farther afield for movie theaters, but there are just fewer of those than there used to be, and we had no summer day camps.

That's great! We had to leave our last walkable neighborhood after the landlord indicated he was planning to raise the rent significantly. Our neighborhood had no fewer than two dozen coffee shops that I could walk to, as well as six bars and a half dozen brunch venues.

What it did not have, however, was jobs that paid enough for ppl living in the neighborhood to be able to pay ever increasing rents. Also, only an urgent care and no GP. No day care. No walkable schools.

That sucks. After fourth grade our kids had to leave the neighborhood for middle school. One was only going a mile away, but the other had to take the bus downtown. Rents have definitely gone way up since we bought, and our property tax is now higher than our rent the last time we paid that.

My second #hottake with walkable neighborhoods other than minimizing wealth inequality and creating inviting public spaces is that you need more than just coffee shops and bodegas to make it walkable. I'm glad to hear such a neighborhood exists somewhere in the US :)

That’s not a walkable city. That’s a walkable neighborhood or lifestyle center in a car-centric city.

My main #hottake on walkable cities is that we can have truly walkable cities OR we can turn housing into instruments for generating and storing capital. That liberals are determined to have both at once is the primary tension preventing the emergences of more walkable cities in blue states.

That would be wrong. London immediately disproves that. Very walkable, housing market exactly as you describe.

They severely limit housing supply, there's no by-right construction in Britain, it actually supports this thesis because their housing crisis is bad for the same reason America's housing crisis is bad. Even in places like NYC or SF where walkability is better, building/upzoning is impossible.

The statement is that it's walkable cities *or* a brutal housing market (to paraphrase). London has both. The UK's planning system isn't relevant - part of the why, sure, but the why doesn't matter to disprove the statement.

Not quite. The statement(s) are: the Americans that oppose walkable cities often do so because of racism and classism. This mix of racism and classism precludes the design of walkable city centers that include inviting, public spaces open to everyone, black or white, rich or poor.

US policies of wealth inequality and intentional homelessness are at odds with a form of city planning that envisions public space and public transport as public goods, rather than paths towards the generation of capital accumulation.

most european cities are both walkable and have social / affordable housing close to the centre, along with high income areas. Cities can be maintained in that state with political will, but i guess its hard to revert a city that has moved to business and high income areas only in the centre

it's only hard because we just...don't feel like doing it. And I can't think of a time i've seen walkable city advocates pushing for public housing alongside their efforts to ban single family zoning etc.

Vienna has none of those things, well not in abundance. What it does have, that makes it very walkable, Is an amazing public transport system which means you can always jump on a tram, bus or subway if you get tired or the weather changes.

I literally just walked 20 minutes to get energy drinks

BRB, popping off to the Whole Foods 2 blocks away after getting sushi from 1 block away.

Wow, she came up with yet another way to be a detestable ignorant asshole. Impressive.

“Walkable cities is when you can *only* walk places”

"hottest take" IN THE SNOW? More like a "melted take" tbh

Luckily for this insane lady she can choose to live in the 99.9% of the American built environment where you cannot accomplish anything other than maybe check your mail without your 5,000 pound metal cocoon

Well she's really gone off the deep end. Yikes!

Hence the obesity rates in the US. It makes me think of the people driving in circles in the gym parking lot waiting for the closest parking space... so they can go inside & walk on the treadmill.

I was once in Cleveland, Ohio and walked for a little under a mile from my hotel to the Science Center, and shocked the person at the front desk when I said this when I didn't need to validate parking. Admittedly it was -12oC (-10oF) outside but it didn't feel right not to walk such a short distance

10°F, not -10. Big difference 😀

Oh, yes 🤣 I'll go back to ignoring Fahrenheit...

I love watching House Hunters International when the realtor in somewhere like Amsterdam tells an American that it's only a 30-minute bike ride to their work.

Yeah, screw that!! I’m ok with the 30-minute walk, but I’m not riding a bike!

Why not? That sounds amazing

True. I used to ride an hour and a half each way on a rail trail to work on a 40+ lb Fuji 10 speed. Beautiful scenery and the best shape of my life. That and a faster bike cut it down to under 60 mins. I'd occasionally cheat and take the bus, but it really was a great time.

Exactly. Back when I was in high school I used to take my bike on a 50+ minute ride each way. I haven't had the opportunity to do long rides since then and I miss it.

Yes, the town I live in now is small enough that I'd have to circle it to ride over an hour. I appreciate the proximity of everything and am able to bike/walk for even more than I did when I lived in a larger area, but there was something amazing about having to get out and exercise in nature daily.

I’m clumsy. I’d be dangerous on a bike.

I think you need to give yourself some more credit. You're probably not as clumsy as you think you are.

Yeah, I really am in this particular case. But I’m also just being a bit silly as well.

They have an entire separate bike system in the Netherlands including what are essentially bike freeways Plus it's dead flat

I am aware of that.

Hopefully you don't drive a car then, either. Even without the stick, driving a car still requires a lot better hand/eye coordination than biking.

It doesn’t require balance. I wouldn’t drive a motorcycle. Hopefully all of your advice isn’t this poor.

Your thighs, your glorious thighs though

It honestly just sounds like you're not very experienced with it, but it's something you can learn and get better at. Also, bikes with a hand brake are a lot safer imo than coaster brakes.

Yeah, I have experience enough to know my limits. I appreciate how encouraging everyone is, though.

If you feel awkward on a bike consider a trike. They can be slow uphill but most are wicked fast downhill and flat. Virtually no risk of falling.

Absolutely no risk of me ever using a trike. I’d sooner risk death on the bike, thank you!

The biking infrastructure is amazing in the Netherlands. If you lived there, I bet it wouldn't even take 6 months before you get your own bike.

Never. I hate biking, and would kill myself or someone else by accident. Happy to walk an hour, but the bike doesn’t work for me. Just too clumsy.

Fair enough! Though i don't think you would kill someone 😂 - Just saying, that the infrastructure makes cycling really safe, convenient and pleasant. But public transport & pedestrian infrastructure is also great for people like you! 😀

It really is. I’ve been to Amsterdam and could walk around for hours, easily.

Next time you make it to the Netherlands, let me know and we get a tandem 😉

Solidarity, and I'm amused at the people who are keen to inform you that you can ride a bike. A public transit oriented city can get by just fine with some of us not being bike riders!

When your new shipment of "things to be contrary about" gets lost in the mail and you have to rummage through the stale ones in your pockets.

It's cute that Wu, one of the most hated people in the country, thinks she has any idea what everyone else really wants.

This is the same kind of person who would make fun of fat people for being overweight and “lazy”.

Gonna be honest I don’t think that’s your hottest take, Brianna.

Gonna put my vote in for walkable cities, thanks.

To join the chorus, I love living within a 10 minute walk of a grocery store, drugstore, restaurants. Even a freakin’ Target. And this is in car-ruled Dallas TX. Weather not always great but it’s maybe 10 minutes.

The sad part is that Brianna Wu is one of those "progressives" no one wants 🥺

Not the main point but the “Subscribe” option is sending me. Like part of me actually would pay money to read wild shit like this.

No one wants it, that's why it's so cheap to live in walkable neighborhoods and so expensive to live where you can only get things by driving for 20 minutes.

20 minutes? Commie. REAL freedom is when the nearest grocery store is 10 miles away!

God yes. If every American took a 10 minute walk everyday the benefits would be incalculable. Truly.

Ten minutes? I used to walk twenty minutes from the farmer's market every Saturday carrying heavy squashes and I didn't think it was *that* grueling

Almost as American: Jowly white guy in a Lexus who nearly mowed us down in a crosswalk in Phila who responded to our "pedestrians have the right of way" with "you fucking idiots -- if I hit you, you get hurt & I don't."

remember when erick erickson walked less than a mile and nearly died of exposure

When I lived in Tokyo, it took me about 20 minutes to walk to work each day. It was the best part of the day by far. The grocery store was 10 minutes away through a beautiful garden.

my route to class one year in university was through a botanical garden. best start to my day ever.

Why do they hate everything I love?

Thing is, it aint the cities. It's the good paying jobs, services, schools, and third spaces. If you can access ALL of those things within a 10 minute walk or a short bus ride, you basically have it made. The problem is, MOST of us can't. We either don't live nearby or there's no bus service there.

This is why I say there's a big difference between wealth and money. Wealth in America is concentrated in a handful of areas and owned by a small number of people. We don't need walkable cities, we need the wealth to be distributed widely enough that everything neighborhood has everything you need.

But "neighborhood has everything you need" IS walkable city.

To be sure, it's a very wealthy and well developed city, which is where everyone wants to live. The thing is, when a lot of progressives talk about walkability, what they're really talking about is road diets, bike shares, and rezoning for multifam condos. Basically "Cabrini Green, but nicer."

You should see what they've been doing to Cabrini-Green lately chicagoyimby.com/2024/08/cha-...

We get these all the time now. 90% of the time it just turns into gentrification with new condos starting at $500k for a 1bdrm. It's like if I asked a bunch of white progressives how to make the South Side walkable and sustainable, the answer is always "Get rid of all the poor people."

So if it's meant to be affordable, then the answer is to let it fall into neglect and disrepair without the funding to maintain it, but if it's meant for other people, then it can only be for the super wealthy. And so the only viable solution is single-family homes. Right?

It doesn't MATTER what you build there, how you plan it, or what you fund, if the wealth created by the people who live there ends up somewhere else. Single family, multifamily, there's no difference. Cabrini Green turned into a ghetto for the same reason Englewood did.

The actual solution is wealth redistribution. That works (and has WORKED) exactly as well in a neighborhood full of singlefam homes as multifams. If the locals own all the businesses and directly provide/benefit from local services, the community can invest in itself. But that doesn't happen now.

Instead, these redevelopment projects inevitably attract investment from huge interstate or international businesses (Walmart et al) who have no incentive to invest in the community and can just as easily pack up and leave if they want to. And eventually, they DO, leaving the locals with nothing.

Stop quoting idiots on Twitter.

This time next year Bree Bree will be full on MAGA pickme.

it's also very easy to prove wrong given that walkability is something that commands a financial premium because it's so desirable

is this when she worked for trent lott, lmao

Walking 10 mins to the car I'm spending $15 a day to park there is so much better...

Please don’t judge us all on the metric of “as dumb as Brianna Wu”

Your average American is pretty close to Brianna Wu when it comes to this.

When I used to take Pilates classes at the Y, I would be constantly bemused by the people going to the Y to exercise who would wait in their cars, or circle the parking lot, for a parking space to open up close to the front door. Wu sounds like one of those people.

Okay I've had to resort to this 3 times in five minutes now:

Wu is the most blocked person on this app - her takes are literally the worst. Super cool to blame Americans bc most of the places they live were specifically made unwalkable.

Hint : Americans supposedly live in a democracy.

Wow. Okay, so most cities in America where people live (large and cities, small town) were built long before the residents were born, so ‘democracy’ has zero to do with it. NYC is an exception, and - shock I know - people walk there.

Most of those cities where built before the cars.

I mean if you just want to vent that some Americans are jerks, or that our democratic republic is imperfect, go for it. But maybe a thread about those topics?

Such as where? Did you know that tire companies ripped out street car lines, to push the use of cars? Any city with a sufficiently dense rate of *residency* AND has food stores nearby has pedestrians.

Go read White Flight by Kevin M Kruse and The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein. It is true that most cities were founded before cars, but that misses how they’ve been redesigned in the last 130 years. My town of 13k used to have a trolley going up and down our main road. It no longer does.

A horrid journalist has displaced her to 2nd, but deservedly so as he's a doxxer and a transphobe. At least Wu doesn't dox people even if she is a self-hating trans woman,

Oh wow, I didn't realize she'd been toppled by JS. Thanks for letting me know.

Brianna Wu collects luxury sports cars so it's not surprising she's car brained. As an American without a car, I'd love cities to be built around pedestrians and bikes.

This is then real explainer

funny thing is, back in the day she used to be all for better urban planning. cuz she claimed to know the best road systems are proper mixed use, pedestrian centric systems. cars are much more enjoyable when not stuck in trafic. this is just another instance proving her "morals" are paper thin

I have a car and like driving and I still enjoy walkable cities.

I take offence to that! I'm a car guy too. But I like in a very connected place with lots of shopping and amenities within walking distance. This is HER. She is a horrible person in every way and a bitch.

God what id give to be able to load my kids in the stroller everywhere instead of the goddamn car seats

hmm its very funny how liberal progressives only support policies and ideas that make the universe conspire against me. hm. funny little coincidence that

As an American living in the UK, I’ve got used to walking but I don’t always like it. Hiking, yes. Walking around smoggy streets. No.

I’ve read this 3 times now & still don’t get it. 20-something year old able bodied people can’t walk for 10 minutes? Car owners never have to be outside in rain or snow? Does anyone in this scenario have any actual problems to worry about in their life??

That is funny. Thanks

no one who has had to drive in d.c. shares this opinion

You can use vehicles to transport groceries and those can be communal automated vehicles. If we're actually going to start planning things.

Lest you wonder why we have an obesity crisis in this country.

Since moving from London to much less walkable rural Suffolk I really miss my 10 min stroll to the tube and the number of incidental steps I used to clock up over the day. I have to make much more of an effort to exercise now rather than being part of my normal day!

Since working from home same. Tube is 10-15 mins from home, so I'd do that without thinking. Have put weight on since :)

Around our case, we've made up for the lack of commute steps by walking to the pub each night.

Smart move.

Nearest pub is also less than 10 minutes' walk. Curse you, walkable city!

Show off

Can this person shut the fuck up damn

I’m pretty convinced that 60% of Americans are scared as hell about walking through any town for 10 minutes. Walking to a store or through any commercial area will just freak them out.

She’s an idiot

She wouldn’t last long in London.

When I lived in DC, I lived a 10 minute walk from the Metro and I freaking loved it. Even the time I had to drag a suitcase through snowdrifts to get to the station to ride the train to the airport. I miss walkable city life.

How often does it even snow in DC?

She is such a loser lol

Brianna Wu… dogshit takes from a dogshit person.

I want more of these!

How pathetic and sad.

The idea of a 10 minute walk for a purpose being so objectionable, is quite something. I walk 80 each day just to clear my head and help physical health

One of the best jobs I ever had was when I finally got to the back office at the bank I worked for. It was twenty minutes away from the house, and as long as it wasn't raining or snowing I walked. With luck, I'll get a transfer at the post office to the city branch and start walking again.

Also- commuter e-bikes

people will moan about walking 10 minutes to the metro and never even notice they're already adding at least twice that to every journey by finding somewhere to park at each end

I don't think it's the time. It's the effort.

This. Effort, and having to go out of the house and be around people.

Same, though

Does walkable city mean cars are banned? I thought it meant build the city so cars aren’t a necessity.

She, just going by her history of profile photos, would’ve rather commuted in snow on a motorcycle than the Metro? What?

Context

Only just now realized that she's not sitting on the bike but posing with it like someone does when they're told they can by its real owner

“Yep”.

A whole 10 minutes? The horror!

Growing up in San Francisco I walked everywhere up and down the hills and took the Muni and Bart. I didn't learn to drive until moving to LA. Walking is great.

Someone tell her the tradwives are big on walking to the local farmer’s market and I’m sure she’ll change her mind.

But if you take her 'logic' to its conclusion - nobody walks, everyone drives. And you will never be able to build your self out of that congestion. Never ever.

stupid fathead.

She is just so unbelievably stupid..

Oh that bitch again. I have her blocked so I don't normally have to see her wanton stupidity. Poor Bri. I had a toddler in Minnesota winters taking public transit & walking to the grocery store, library, etc. I'd take that life again in a heartbeat over shitty car centric Atlanta.

It's amazing show she manages to have an objectively wrong take on everything. We should have scientists ask her about cosmology to narrow down the things we know are wrong

To be fair, living somewhere that, daily, sees both rain and snow and being forced to carry groceries through both, plus having a ten minute walk to the metro must be everyone’s idea of hell. Mustn’t it? Nobody could tolerate that whilst in their 20s.

Utterly useless and unfortunately emblematic of a certain strain of thought in this country, no question.

And the “no one wants” dis is just so clearly “I don’t want,” she might as well be a shop keeper parking in front of her store all day and claiming there’s not enough parking at a community meeting about new bike lanes.

Why is this idiot trustafarian worth listening to in 2025?

While it is incredibly dumb, it’s crazy she thinks *this* is her hottest take

It's because she's conscious about the context of her take being "no one takes the walkable city concept as a threat except deranged reactionaries"

We know who lives in cities. Winks and elbows in racist

Imagine being so weak and pathetic a 10 minute walk is too much for you.

For some people (disabled, elderly, pregnant, ill) it very well may be, particularly in bad weather, but "walkable city" generally does not mean "no other means of travel city."

It's easier for the disabled to move around in walkable cities. Think about it, is it easier for someone in a wheelchair to move around a city infested with cars? Or nice open human oriented streets with no cars? Cars do not make it easier for the disabled to get around (relatively speaking).

this dumb nazi witch has never heard of a bike, umbrella, or train lmao the netherlands does this shit every day all day

So too does the Danish. Both of us much happier people 😊

I was just playing City Guesser on a stream I'm watching and it came to a neighbourhood with NO footpaths/sidewalks and a bunch of Americans were like "no this is normal"

Um, if you got a ten minute city, you wouldn't need that suburban mindset of stocking up every month on groceries and having to haul a chuck wagon.

My current grocery mindset is about half a week. But then I live within 10 minutes of four or five supermarkets in my walkable city.

My wife and I live in downtown Toronto and walk everywhere. Her 18 year old niece, who lives outside of Austin came to visit over the summer. The kid could not walk anywhere, like 5 minutes and she was complaining and suggesting an uber. It's mental.

Yeah Brianna might have a take that sounds crazy to you or me, but it's something a lot of people share. And I don't get it. Older disabled people I get, but a lot of young people get driven to school, then drive to their jobs and forget walking is normal.

Then they probably get a treadmill to walk the 10k steps their smart watch tells them instead of taking a walk outside.

Living in Austin, I get it. Unless you live in an outdoor strip mall (which is an option) basically nothing is walkable. Even if you want to take a pleasure walk there's a good chance you have to drive to get somewhere you can do that. That's the paradigm she understands

oh absolutely. It wasn't the kid's fault, it's a product of her environment. Quite the way of living we've set up for ourselves.

I also think people who don’t walk to get places don’t know *how* to walk. Being mindful, keeping to the right, moving aside if you have to stop, going at a quick clip and dressing appropriately for weather. I avoid walking in tourist spaces mainly because they don’t know how to walk right.

Chaos walkers abound in tourists areas

I grew up rural. They just don't teach these things--I find the concept of "walking wrong" to be completely unintelligible, and yet apparently I do it all the time lol

Not dressing appropriately for the weather and wearing good shoes are my biggest annoyances. If you're going to walk in the rain, get a raincoat ffs. And don't even bring up high heels 🙄

I live across the street from a grocery store. My dentist and pharmacy are across the street. I have a dozen restaurants within a 10 minute walk from home. Multiple bus stops and a train station nearby too. My life fucking sucks. Help.

Get a car you loser, it doesn't matter, that you probably don't have a parking place nearby, because everyone prioritizes people walking places lol, car is FREEDOM

Freedom to pay for insurance, repairs, and gas.

FREEDOM xD Yeah, owning a car is bullshit, especially, when you can get places by buses and trains.

Greetings from Austin, where we are required by law to permanently strap a motor vehicle to our backs like Christ in a Titian painting and pretend to love driving 20 minutes to buy an orange. I’d kill to live in a walkable city.

Unbelievably vivid imagery, 13/10.

I’m an American living in Italy and most cities are walkable. Mine is 15 minutes across at the widest points at a brisk pace. I have 2 grocery stores w/in 3 min, 1 at 8min… doctors, hospitals, restaurants, a train station, buses, everything you could need, uncle hardware, glasses, bike shops, even

a community indoor and outdoor pool. Gyms (3), etc. Most ppl own bikes too, with big baskets so the travel is even shorter & you can carry more. It’s not a big deal and I wish everyone could live this way Americans can’t wrap their heads around it until they’ve lived it. It changes you

*even hardware, not uncle 😂

I can’t wait till her conservative “friends” turn on her and her awful pick me friends in mass

I love my walkable neighborhood

you can tell that nobody in america wants walkable cities simply by noticing how fantastically cheap apartments in manhattan are!

boston, dc, sf, and the rest of NYC too.

Backpacks have been invented since then.

Ice Cold Take: Fuck Brianna Wu

With her hot take on trans folks, I was glad to find that I'd already blocked her on the old site.

So the most consistently mean, divisive and abusive trans woman on social media wants us all to be more polite? Got it.

Of course the dumb bitch doesn't want walkable cities, she has 4 Porches to get around. Brianna is a key example in how class trumps other intersections. She acts like a member of the GOP because she has the money to insulate her from her transness.

She also acts like a member of the GOP because she was a racist Republican into her 20s, became a Democrat because it was more popular and she thought she could run for office, and now opportunism and misanthropy is returning her to the fold.