• grue@lemmy.worldM
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    2 days ago

    I’m certainly not denying that actual car terrorism is a thing now, in the 2020s. But that’s very different than claiming it was being described in a comic from almost a hundred years ago, or claiming that the single-direction barricade depicted was intended to be a countermeasure for it (let alone an effective one).

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      I don’t think that that was the claim. We have car terrorism now, and since the 1980’s according to the Wikipedia list of incidents, and bollards can help protect potential victims. It’s not a new technology, they knew about them in 1931, so what’s our excuse for not installing them?