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  • 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Brie 🌞🚴📦✨cargot_robbie@urbanists.social
    Jun 12, 2026, 3:50 PM

    I'm gonna start posting on #NonLifeThreateningInjury about how bad it can be when people /survive/ traffic violence.

    I'd rather not CW this post, so please excuse the vagary. We do to the victims of traffic violence the same things we do to victims of other violence of marginalization. Acknowledging their suffering would require acknowledging the harms of the system, and the beneficiaries of the system will not risk demands to change the system that might come from that.

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  • 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Brie 🌞🚴📦✨cargot_robbie@urbanists.social
    Jun 12, 2026, 4:04 PM

    Not intending to compare the size or impact of the harms, I think there are parallels between the systemic relationship between traffic violence and collision injuries and rape culture to survivors of sexual assault, and to survivors of police violence.

    Victims of the system are acknowledged in statistics, and anyone will say how terrible the violence is, in abstract. The personal stories are quickly swept out of public discourse, restrained to smaller communities

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  • 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Brie 🌞🚴📦✨cargot_robbie@urbanists.social
    Jun 12, 2026, 4:08 PM

    Victims are offered the bare minimum level of support to keep them out of sight, told to be grateful to receive anything. Often this is offered by those impacted directly or indirectly by such violence themselves, by organizations that are chronically underfunded.

    You can get a payout for damage in civil suits, rarely what's actually needed for recovery, but enacting meaningful consequences is nearly impossible. Victims are discouraged from even trying

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  • 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Brie 🌞🚴📦✨cargot_robbie@urbanists.social
    Jun 12, 2026, 4:14 PM

    We memorialize the dead, indulge the grieving community as long as the victim is guaranteed to be silent. If they survive, though? The community is left to carry them, and they're pushed to the margins. It's disgusting. It's repeated up and down society.

    All of these systems are voluntary, collectively. It's because of the acquiescence that victims won't be listened to, because then we have to do the work of withdrawing our consent

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  • bloomtime!thesquirrelfish@sfba.social
    Jun 12, 2026, 4:09 PM

    @cargot_robbie and they're also pretty tightly intertwined issues - getting a ride home from a man is one of the more dangerous situations a person can end up in. And car dependency can make people extra vulnerable to domestic violence.

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  • 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Brie 🌞🚴📦✨cargot_robbie@urbanists.social
    Jun 12, 2026, 4:26 PM

    @thesquirrelfish Totally, yes. One of the scarier sides of the "trad wife" phenomenon is husbands physically isolating their wives from potential support networks, in the pursuit of "simplicity." She needs a car to get out, her support needs a car to get in. Structurally, neither is likely to have that available.

    For police violence as well. How much is done in the name of how "unsafe" police feel when their victim is in a car and they aren't.

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