Hey, German here. What the f*** are Americans doing at the other side of the Atlantic? Some of you already know this monstrosity. I did’nt. This is a Ford F650 Truck and when I stepped out of my Youtube Bubble I realized, it was marketed as the “biggest, baddest Truck on the road” for the everyday American. Are you guys serious?! Is the end goal really to drive a Monster Truck to McDs to get a McFlurry? Americas bloodiest wars have been fought in the middle east to secure oil, bombing nations to rubble. And all, for this bullshit? The excess, waste and decadence is mind boggling to me and people on Reddit seriously justifying this by “you know dude I’m 6,4ft. I don’t fit in any other vehicle” makes me go up the wall.

  • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    134·
    11 months ago

    People prefer to jerk themselves off instead of having genuine and difficult discussion. Actual improvements require compromise and accepting your position doesn’t work as an absolute. And who wants to do that when you can just demonize the other side instead to feel good about yourself?

    • aesthelete@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      People prefer to jerk themselves off instead of having genuine and difficult discussion.

      While this is true, what is the point of having genuine and difficult discussion on Lemmy / Reddit / social media (especially about societal issues) anyway?

      Are lawmakers going to look through Lemmy threads to get legislative ideas? Probably not, right?

      • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        Fair enough, but it’s still possible to discuss something without devolving into an ideologically pure circlejerk. I’d like to say it doesn’t matter, but this is how we ended up with so much fake news in the US. Bubbles can be really bad when they start to change your perception of reality.

        • aesthelete@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          11 months ago

          I’d like to say it doesn’t matter, but this is how we ended up with so much fake news in the US.

          We ended up with a lot of fake news in the US for a lot of reasons, but I don’t think Fuck Cars is likely to turn into a launchpad for the country’s first left-wing authoritarian.

          In other words, I think people are getting all jazzercized up about something that’s essentially meaningless. But that’s life too I guess. 🤷

          EDIT: This country is very strange. People do nothing about right-wingers going on shooting sprees, but someone posting a slightly annoying image about how big trucks have gotten and everyone forms a line to decry it for “balance” reasons.

          • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            Oh I completely agree this is fairly inconsequential, but it’s the sort of thing we should practice regularly anyway. The consolidation of an ideology is the first step in the death of the ideology.