https://twitter.com/twjpdx23/status/1569795584936275968

christ, what a fucking abomination

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Larger vehicles pressure other consumers into buying larger vehicles so they don't become invisible on the road. :stonks-up:

  • CTHlurker [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    If a state government actually tried to ban these monstersized trucks, what would actually happen? The American state has significant capacity for violence, but it never uses it in service for anything good, so I imagine that this would just lead to some strongly worded letters from some far away authority, which every car dealership would just ignore.

    • CarsAndComrades [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      DC is trying to make them more expensive to register:

      https://jalopnik.com/washington-d-c-wants-to-charge-residents-more-to-regi-1848982897

      • CTHlurker [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Why the ever loving fuck would you drive those monstrocities in DC? Isn't DC chronically congested and filled with all manners of demonic cars? Also, DC is build on a swamp, and the closest thing to manual labour is probably somewhere south of the Raytheon areas of NOVA, so why would you even have those things :whywhywhywhywhy:

        • CTHlurker [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Actually I've changed my mind, I want more of those trucks in DC, and specifically I want to see Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi both attempt to drive one of them as a show of "everyday-human-behaviour" that those ghouls do for every election. And then i want to see them both try to step out of the car and laugh as every bone in their body simultanously splinters from the impact of them falling.

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  • 4zi [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Was doing some work for the courthouse of a rural county in my state and half the sheriffs vehicles were lifted trucks. We were super confused because when the fuck are the police ever gonna use the truck bed?

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    if the whole mini-strugglesession (it was pretty bloodless) over sticking lentil beans into the valve stems of these lifted truck monstrosities and not SUV's I'd actually be 100% onboard. (Yes I know the article was talking about Euro-land and yes I know over there SUV's are basically the lifted truck equivalents in your social fascist countries. I'm just late to the party over assuming it's all talking about Burgerica and y'all wanted to run crazy through literally all the neighborhoods, both rich and poor, of the land ruining the lives of probably millions of people and getting mad about it)

    Anyways why the fuck do people drive these things.

    • Justanotherone [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      They drive them usually cuz they are small guys that also are pretty homophobic. I have a friend that commented about us looking pretty gay in my wife's Honda fit, he thought people world be saying that and was worried that some one he knew would see us. also says that a bidet is weird. My guess is his the type that doesn't even touch his anus when washing. Cuz that's gay His also a diesel guy.

      They have them cuz they are literally compensating. Diesels suck for off roading. The engine weighs any where from 700-1100lbs more than the standard gas v8 that hd come with, that makes them bouncy afv when offroading. These lifted ones It's all aesthetics. It's all a bunch of homophobic bros in very fancy lad type of trucks. There's no function it's all form. It's too project an image. Stock ones do work. And why are they so big? Cuz a truck that was designed to tow 15-25k pounds and haul 4k lbs is going to be big no matter what. It has to be to handle the weight it was designed to handle. They don't have to be so lifted though. That is purely a design aspect that manufacturers are chasing cuz a chunk of the customer base just wants big truck to look big and manly.

      • PowerOfGlove [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        In fairness: Bidets are kinda weird when you think about it.

        It's like a water gun specifically for your asshole.

      • gueybana [any]
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        2 years ago

        cuz they are small guys that also are pretty homophobic.

        what, tall guys can’t be homophobic? I love how short guys are presented as this conservative class of people that hate women for not fucking them and tall guys are virtuous good leftists. The guy in the image crossing the street is a small guy and not the owner of this car but you all want to label him the enemy either way.

        • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          I do think it's kinda fucked up that it's now bad taste to make fun of almost every physical characteristic except a man for being short.

          Solidarity with my comrades of all heights.

          • gueybana [any]
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            2 years ago

            never mind the material disadvantages that come with being short such as lower wages and fewer opportunities, we have to also have to attribute homophobia, misogyny, and bigotry to them.

          • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            Especially because, if Reddit is anything to go by, being short is a pretty major insecurity for a trait you have no control over.

          • gueybana [any]
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            2 years ago

            dick bag fash energy real hard in ur asshole

      • raven [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Sitting in a hot tub Driving to my office job 6 feet apart off the ground 'cause I'm not gay.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      It's an arms race where the larger vehicles have right of way over smaller vehicles so the pressure is to get larger vehicles to not get crushed. Also there's overcompensation and other insecurity issues. :frothingfash:

      • raven [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Absolutely, I can't see shit over a truck at an intersection when I'm in a sedan. Everyone behind me is going to just have to wait. It isn't my fault this guy pulled all the way out into the crosswalk.

    • InvaderZinn [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      The short answer: It's compensating for something, they are trying to buy their way into being a cowboy movie villain in hopes of looking like macho tough guys.

      They are literally the coldsteel bio. "Likes: Hurtin' people, Bein' badass..."

    • Plants [des/pair]
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      2 years ago

      I agree. In the US the focus should be the on deflating these. There's literally plenty of them in my area

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  • raven [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I've said it before on here, but how are you supposed to load whatever presumably heavy thing into the bed of these things when it's at fucking eye level without slipping a disk? Isn't that the purpose of the rear half of the vehicle?

    • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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      2 years ago

      how are you supposed to load whatever presumably heavy thing into the bed of these things

      You're not. That's the point. They're intentionally unusable for anything other than taking up space or committing vehicular manslaughter.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      I've never seen a farm or construction company use a lifted truck. They're all for cruising around the suburbs.

    • MoneyIsTheDeepState [comrade/them,he/him]
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      2 years ago

      The fashion comes from the motorhobby mudding, far as I can tell. Most of them don't actually go mudding - it might mess with their underglow or obscure their Insta@ decal - but that activity is the sole use I'm aware of for a lifted truck.

      • WittyProfileName2 [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        Makes sense, but if that bloke in the photo is 5'7" then that door handle would be above my head.

  • DialecticalShaman [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    I came face to face with one of these (GMC Denali actually) on my bike yesterday. One of those situations where you're in the cross walk and the right turn lane on the far side is empty but someone pulls in over the sidewalk just as you reach it.

    They stopped in time to not hit me.

  • thirstywizard [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Fuckers in the bigass trucks never seem to be able to drive them nor park them neither.