• creamlike504@jlai.lu
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    5 days ago

    I feel like the gas and the monthly cost of the loan they took out against their mortgage is probably tax enough.

    I genuinely believe most of these super-truck owners already have one foot in the financial grave and are just in denial about it.

    • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5 days ago

      Clearly not, because these dickheads are out there driving vehicles that are way over-specced for their use cases, all because they have tiny penises and need to compensate! Some of these things are that tall that you can’t see an average height adult standing in front of the grill from the drivers seat.

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        5 days ago

        Yeah, and they’re not even needed, except as an emotional support vehicle for their impotent owners. Very few are working vehicles - how often are they seen with the bed loaded up?

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          4 days ago

          A coworker was telling me all about how “once you own a truck, you realize all the things you can do with a truck that you couldn’t before”

          And like, he’s not wrong but all the things he listed were my non-urgent to-do list that I keep written down and when it has 3-4 items I rent a truck from Uhaul for the day. I spend about $20 while they’re spending thousands on their monthly payment, not to mention gas.

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          I rarely see anything in the back of these Earth killing things. And where I live, every idiot owns a diesel version. Louder and dirtier.

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      4 days ago

      The flip side of this is that people who actually want a small, practical truck for utility purposes cannot buy one in the US. Doesn’t exist. Those supertrucks are all you get now, and yeah, the finances don’t make sense for this utility use, either.

      And for fucks sake, nobody point me to the Maverick. That is not any kind of small utility truck and you know it. The Maverick is “well, there’s spam egg sausage and spam, that’s not got much spam in it” except for trucks.