• argv_minus_one@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    At least burgers do something useful, namely feeding you. Do the vast majority of these truck owners actually get any more use out of their trucks than they would out of a smaller, more efficient, electrically powered vehicle?

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      1 year ago

      A lot of the us is extremely hilly and dirt or gravel road. Id say only like 50% really need a truck though.

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        1 year ago

        Unless they regularly haul, like, furniture, even people who have to drive on steep inclines or off-road would probably be better off with a Jeep or SUV (and electrical vehicles are actually really good for driving on inclines)

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        1 year ago

        These posts about people needing pickup trucks are so funny to me, I live on the side of a mountain and my village has one paved road and 5 unpaved roads leading away from it.

        The most popular vehicle used by tradespeople and farmers here is the Citroen Berlingo. Before that, Citroen C15, and before that the Renault 4 (still see quite a few of those around).

        My Renault Clio has zero problems on unpaved mountain roads.

        I have no idea why Americans need or want such big trucks.

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      1 year ago

      Burgers feed you, they just do it badly (unhealthy).

      Trucks get you to where you want, they just do it badly (bad gas mileage)

  • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    They do stupid shit like that because eating burgers and driving trucks is part of their subculture and they feel attacked, so their natural response is to lash out and be defiant, which is understandable. I don’t really eat burgers like that or beef in general, but if someone was openly criticizing my food preferences, I’d eat that exact same food in front of them to spite them.

    Actually the left needs to be more openly spiteful to y the right in a lot of facets in life. It would improve things, even if it just scored moral victories. Like why don’t we openly complain about circumstances to their faces after they try to shame us into stopping, or openly wear pride shirts around them while open carrying or something?