https://www.carscoops.com/2023/07/man-damages-2500-year-old-tree-by-driving-nissan-armada-through-it/amp/
The old adage of leaving the wilderness as you found it evidently doesn't apply to this tourist
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In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, let’s try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags:
There’s a reasonable point in here somewhere, but you’ve ruined it somewhat by being unable to engage in reasonable discourse. Dial back the adolescent insults and you might find people give a little more respect to your opinion, and maybe we’ll all learn something.
Exactly my point for downvoting them. Make an argument, but better take your anger out of it and try to avoid making assumptions - you don't know if OP-commenter really thinks that this is a reasonable take or an exaggeration to make a point about car-brains getting away with stuff.
The comment I replied to wasn't "engaging in reasonable discourse" either. You're right that it was inappropriate to call the commenter a piss baby, but I didn't have any expectation of a conversation either.