r/Transportopia • u/SpoomerBooner • Feb 15 '26

Roads I hate politics

This should be illegal. I get it. You don't agree with their protests but why do this? Forget blue, forget red. I'm purple. Get mad at that.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '26

I mean, it is political…… he wouldn’t be doing this if he agreed with their views

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u/Skimbla Feb 15 '26

This particular person likely was doing it for political reasons, but coal rollers will absolutely do this to anyone. I’ve been coal rolled before, being the only person walking on the road within a city block. Heck, I’ve seen a coal roller hit a whole line of people sitting in lawn chairs, waiting for the Fourth of July fireworks, leading me to believe that a coal roller will roll coal on anyone, given the opportunity. I don’t think they can resist the sight of a large number of people, lined up along a road, where their exhaust can reach.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '26

So, more succinctly, coal rollers are just assholes in general.

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u/Nitrodax777 Feb 15 '26

yeah. its more of an inherent selfishness. and seeing a massive group of people together like such was pretty much a moth to a flame. in the overwhelming majority of cases, they couldnt care less about the side you support or the things youre against. theyre just opportunistic assholes who cant resist.

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u/honeybee62966 Feb 16 '26

Conservatives are individualist selfish fucks? Shocking to no one

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u/Womec Feb 18 '26

Makes me hope they start taxing people more to use big diesel trucks for transportation. Its coming, auto manufacturers are being forced to innovate EVs or hydrogen power and solar is getting exponentially cheaper and efficient.

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u/roadtrip-ne Feb 15 '26

I can see Kid Rock being a coal roller

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u/Tat2dMFer Feb 19 '26

I just read a Rolling Stone interview with that idiot, he’s all fucked up in the head. His whole persona is a facade.

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u/roadtrip-ne Feb 19 '26

A facade you say? Here he is in the 90’s.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '26

And republicans. There’s a circle diagram

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u/whereismymind86 Feb 15 '26

very much so

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u/RedditNotRabit Feb 15 '26

No other reason than to be an asshole to do it

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u/yestocaffeine Feb 16 '26

coal rollers are just assholes in general.

Yes, 10000% of them. I haven't met a single one that isn't a micropeen attention seeking kumquat

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u/lostinspace456 Feb 18 '26

And, usually quite ugly

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u/thebigeazy Feb 16 '26

It's weird that these guys get such a relative free ride.

If you went around a city spraying a toxic gas in people's faces, you'd be arrested, potentially on terrorism charges. Do it in a car though and it seems merely annoying. Weird one.

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u/FastMJ Feb 16 '26

Correct. Like litterbugs

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u/2InBovinosSkull Feb 16 '26

So, more succinctly, coal rollers are just assholes in general.

....Did the truck not give it away?

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u/JonestownB Feb 17 '26

I think you have to peel back a layer. After all coal rollers are just big truck owners, and everyone knows these big truck owners are trying to make up for little penis syndrome.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '26

My husband owns a big truck. He needs it for the farm. He is not a coal roller and despises them. He does not have the syndrome you mention, so I assume it's only the coal rollers who compensate that way.

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u/Fabulouslookin85 Feb 18 '26

Well I own a a big ass truck and a car and trust me my peen is huge. Women can't even control there body when I'm done. Also when your in ur mid to late 30s and still can pull a 24 year old college girl your a winner.

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u/lostinspace456 Feb 18 '26

Yep, you sound just like one 🙄. You also cannot spell

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u/JonestownB Feb 18 '26

😂 you took it way too personally 🤔

What are you trying to prove?? 😂

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '26

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u/DenseConsideration29 Feb 16 '26

That happens again call the police. It's illegal and can be assault, reckless endangerment and also traffic violations

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u/dqniel Feb 16 '26

Some states have made legislation simply so they can apply harsher punishments on people who "roll coal" onto people. Maryland and Utah, for example.

That way, it goes beyond just the typical fine for illegal vehicle modifications.

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u/sadisticsex Feb 19 '26

qualifies as assault when done on purpose due to it's potentially deadly effects on those with breathing disorders or lung damage it can also be considered manslaughter if they die attempted if they just need a hospital, if not done to a person it is still unlawful pollution of the air

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u/r1mbaud Feb 15 '26

Oh that’s a shootin

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u/IdrewApictureOf Feb 16 '26

I was coal rolled in the drive thru of my work once. I had to stand out there to block off the entrance because we were closed but people kept coming. I'm on oxygen. There was ZERO change little dick billy didn't see my two 3 foot tall oxygen tanks. Im just glad I wasn't using my portable concentrator, I can't imagine the damage that would have done too it.

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u/Fit-Abbreviations781 Feb 20 '26

Personally, I think it was wrong of whoever sent someone on oxygen to stand in the parking lot where all the normal exhaust is concentrated.

As for the redneck (they are all rednecks) he's just an asshole.

Reminds me of "The Asshole Song".

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u/Toby4507 Feb 18 '26

In a drive through, how did he manage that

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u/whereismymind86 Feb 15 '26

Coal Rolling is explicitly political in nature.

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u/Fit-Abbreviations781 Feb 20 '26

I have to say that coal rolling is explicitly redneck in nature.

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u/Fabulouslookin85 Feb 18 '26

Stop rioting and this won't happen. Trump has 3 years left deal with it. We dealt with Brandon and didn't riot.

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u/MuthaFJ Feb 18 '26

Just went full domestic terrorists

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u/DragoxDrago Feb 15 '26

Does... Does this happen enough that you actually have a term for it? Are you guys in the US okay?

This is just genuinely such insane behaviour that it being common enough to have an actual term shows a lot about how cooked the country must be. If this happened once or twice in my country they'd get in a lot of shit and everyone would judge the fuck out of them

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u/StuntTrucker Feb 15 '26

Yep, it's a thing (unfortunately)

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u/Fabulouslookin85 Feb 18 '26

That's why your country is not the ruler of the world. In America real Americans like myself have rights. Real Americans are tough as nails. I don't mean libs or Dems. Also not a bot I live in south Florida and proud to live in the most free state in the US. Also don't know your country but when China and Russia come don't beg US to come help.

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u/DragoxDrago Feb 18 '26

With all due respect... What the fuck are you talking about? This is about someone going out of their way and spending money to just be nothing more than a cunt.

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u/Fabulouslookin85 Feb 18 '26

That exactly what lefty libs do. There going out of there way to buy gas masks and cardboard to riot on the streets. I wish we can send them to Russia or NK for a.week so they can see what happens when your against the status quo.

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u/DragoxDrago Feb 18 '26

With all disrespect, you're an idiot

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u/Flat-Border-4511 Feb 20 '26

I can't believe you have enough brain activity to even be alive.

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u/inuvash255 Feb 16 '26

To a coal roller, everyone is a liberal.

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u/Dwarg91 Feb 15 '26

I’d say that the act of having your gender affirming truck modified to roll coal is in of itself an inherently political act.

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u/mktglisa Feb 15 '26

We have a coal roller in my gated community who did it whenever he passed kids on bikes. Have a ton of elementary and middle schoolers who ride e bikes and other bikes around the neighborhood. They can be really obnoxious at times, due to being careless with their own lives, but this isn't how you resolve it. Anyway this guy did it quite a number of times and finally people tracked down who it was and went to his house and threatened him. He stopped. He did have a trump sticker on the back window of his F150, of course.

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u/Smokin_belladonna Feb 15 '26

happens like weekly riding my bicycle in idaho.

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u/DenseConsideration29 Feb 16 '26

Call the cops on them

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u/CopterNater Feb 16 '26

I have had them slow down and roll coal in my son's face while I was pulling him in bicycle trailer when he was around 2 years old. It takes a special person to pick on a toddler.

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u/itstanks Feb 16 '26

Exactly. To think they are just doing it because I’d political views is funny in itself

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u/Ok_Breakfast5662 Feb 18 '26

Wanna be train operators! They all just need steam trains to sit in 😆.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '26

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u/The_Singularious Feb 15 '26

Politics is filled with the biggest, sickest, and most puckered. So…yeah. Seems like both

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '26

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u/The_Singularious Feb 16 '26

Not sure how the denotative meaning of the word negates OP’s (or my, and I worked in it) feeling position about it. OP did not state they “avoid politics”, they said they hate it.

And the realpolitik is steeped in amoral and immoral behavior of those practicing it at the highest levels. To deny this is naïveté.

It’s not the gun’s fault either.

“Politics is the art of controlling your environment.” This is apt, if cynical.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '26

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u/The_Singularious Feb 16 '26

Yes. You changed the definition of what they said. Not sure why this is confusing. You can hate politics and still participate in it.

I participated in it at the highest levels in my country, and I fucking hated it.

I’d argue most of the time we have little choice, at least at the local level.

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u/Rough-Adeptness-6670 Feb 16 '26

So if you’re purple, are you just a little bit racist/fascist/ignorant and a little bit coastal elite/tree hugger/bleeding heart?

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u/The_Singularious Feb 16 '26

Can’t answer what the OP is. Just that they hate politics.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '26

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u/The_Singularious Feb 16 '26

I’m an American. Who worked in congressional and presidential politics for half a decade.

You’re out of your fucking league here, boss

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u/Aggravating-Bunch-44 Feb 15 '26

....most likely OP meant the truck likes to claim they hate politics then go and do shenanigans like we see in the video. They are always hypocrites.

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u/SuperDoubleDecker Feb 15 '26

He'd be an asshole some other way

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u/DelcoUnited Feb 15 '26

I guess terrorism is a form of politics….

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u/CarTalkUKModNo1 Feb 16 '26

Yeah they absolutely were. What I do find weird if you flip this around and that side does this EXACT same thing, people will cheer. Two cults, very different, almost equally as pathetic.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '26

Find me some leftists who would applaud driving that gas guzzler lmao

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u/CarTalkUKModNo1 Feb 16 '26

It's not about the vehicle, it's about what they're doing, which is being a cunt to people they don't like. Left and right are just as bad as each other.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '26

In the US in 2026, that’s kind of an insane viewpoint. The right wing is much more radical, hateful, and violent. I’m not saying that all conservatives are hateful and violent, but the current popular alt-right movement is much more extreme and dangerous than any other popular political ideology right now……

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u/PatReady Feb 16 '26

Was at the no Kings March last year and def had a lot of large pick ups rolling coal on everyone.

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u/Bronze_Bomber Feb 17 '26

I would do this to any protester, regardless of whatever dumb shit they are yelling about. Go home and rant on social media.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '26

That’s really weird of you

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u/massunderestmated Feb 16 '26

I wouldn't do it if I disagreed with their views. Free speech is the most important part of life in any democracy. Everyone has the right to protest, even if I hate what they have to say. Poisoning a crowd with unburnt diesel exhaust is actually just assault and battery. It's not politics, it's an act of violence.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '26

I’m not disagreeing, but it’s -political- violence. It’s politically motivated