• "get cyclists insured and I will avoid knocking them off the stupid contraption when they stupidly ride in front of me, and when I hit a wall, an on coming vehicle or anything else at least there will be some muppet I can claim from"

    "if cyclists just stayed out of my way then we would not have any problem"

    That implies that he has knocked people off, and it says that he does not care whether he does or not. He also claims that he overtakes dangerously when he shouldn't (which risks the lives of drivers not just cyclists).

    He has not outright said that he breaks the law, but he has said that he is a shit driver who does not give a fuck about others, which is just as bad.

    It doesn't imply he has knocked anyone off, nor does it imply that he intends to.

    Although these kinds of linguistic nuances are lost on keyboard warriors, in common speech people often phrase hypotheticals in the form of conditionals linked by the word 'and', and they may exaggerate those hypotheticals for rhetorical purposes.

    That doesn't mean that they're any less hypothetical.

    He would like cyclists to have insurance because he thinks its unfair that they don't have any whereas he has to, and he wishes that there were fewer cyclists. The rest of it is bluster.

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