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“Have the kids tried growing” - MAGAcuck
TBF we’re rapidly approaching an idiocracy situation, so maybe killing children is a mercy. (/s in case it’s not abundantly obvious)
We must raise them even higher in order to not discriminate against children.
These haven’t really invaded New Zealand yet, but I walked past a parked one once and the bonnet came up to my shoulders - I’m six foot tall.
These… things are a “clear threat” to fully-grown adults. They’re well beyond that for children.
Oh, they’re here. Our parking spaces aren’t big enough for American cars, so they park as far back as the curb will let them – you can see their towballs lining the paths like tripmines.
Gor a chuckle out of a ‘ute’ with the empty bed pulling a trailer with the tradie’s gear in it though. Awww, your two-cab lifestyle ute’s open bed too small for a 2x4 there buddy?
Look; kids need to be killed. It’s easier if you don’t need to see them.
Are you going to tell me americans shouldn’t cull the weak? That we shouldn’t be americans?
This is what happens when politicians create laws and never revisit them to make corrections. Im a pretty tall person and i was on a dealship lot walking amongst the trucks and the amount of them I couldn’t even see over was terrifying. How much bigger do these need to get before they start classifying them as big rigs?
In the US? I don’t think there is a width or height requirement for a Big Rig (something that requires a CDL). Vehicles cannot be over 102 inches wide, any anything over 80 inches wide requires some additional marker lights. Height, anything up to about 13 feet is fine and legal. Maximum length is 65 feet. CDL’s are generally for certain weight limits, (26000 lbs) not physical dimensions.
I drive a normal sized pickup and almost every day I come out of work I have that freakout moment where I think my car has been stolen because it is 100% completely hidden behind one of these kid killers some other person keeps parking next to my pickup.
Trucks don’t need to be that big. Half of them have extended cabs and shortened beds, which kind of kills the point of having a pickup truck. The full bed for hauling shit is the whole point.
Also, why would you condemn yourself to the pain of parking one of those wherever you go?
Also, they kill children.
Half of them have extended cabs and shortened beds,
Somebody correct me if I’m wrong, but I think it’s literally all of them at this point. Aside maybe from fleet sales and other special cases like that, I don’t think there are any pickup truck models in the US that are actually available with a regular cab anymore.
(The Slate truck is supposedly going to be regular cab, but it doesn’t count because it’s not out yet.)
6 ft beds are available, but you have to special order them made from the factory…
Imported Kei trucks have the same bed length as the newest F150, if not a little longer.
I miss the days when single cab pickup trucks were the norm. Because that meant not only smaller trucks, but also the sacrifice of passenger space discouraged people from getting them unless they actually needed one.
pipi small, but wroom wroom big
The full bed for hauling shit is the whole point.
Why not get a van though? You get much more carrying space that can also be converted into enough passenger space so that it’s basically a bus.
As an adult I can attest to some vehicles being way too damn high up for their own good. I’m slightly below average height for my area and while out shopping I walked by a truck with a grill that came up above my height. If the driver was in and decided to get rolling, there would definitely have been a good chance of I was directly in front of it that I’d be in the hospital.
If the drive would be unable to see me when I’m right up against the grill, a small child would probably stand no chance a few feet away. The people with vehicles like that definitely should to stop stroking their 1mm peter like it’s a 2 footer and think of other people’s safety.
This isn’t a discovery, this is just one of the things men in US society decided to ignore the danger of and the rest of us dutifully complied.
Nah, at least in the US women buy these too or giant SUVs with the exact same problem. Maybe it was marketing to men that started it, but it certainly isn’t exclusive.
Can y’all stop making feminists roll in their graves? Learn some basic elementary school shit about how women can intentionally, unintentionally, consciously or subconciously participate in sexism against women. Please, I am terrified of how powerful an undead feminist uprising would be, human men would be fucked (or rather not fucked) for the next 10 million years. Even if we are going to continue to be sexist can we at least all agree that sexism is more nuanced than a binary “does this person possess sexism or not?” and that you can be sexist without realizing it, or be forced or cajoled into participating in sexism without realizing it?
By far the funniest evidence for my point is that I am myself a heterosexual white man who falls in a lot of ways along the stereotypes of what a heterosexual white man is like, and yet the single biggest point I am getting in pushback in this thread is that my attack on men isn’t warranted because women drive pickups too so that can’t be a toxic masculinity thing… but by that logic it would be impossible for me to be sexist towards heterosexual white men right now since I am a heterosexual white man, and yet I am or at least I arguably am being sexist according to many other people on this thread?
So which is it? Can you participate in toxic sexism without being part of the group that is on paper given permission to participate in applying the sexism with force to vulnerable groups? Can you participate in sexism intentionally or unintentionally as a victim of that very sexism? Can you participate in sexism against the categories that society or you yourself have imposed on yourself? Or is it impossible/nobody would ever do it and I am not being sexist because I am a man?
See the thing is, I do agree, we shouldn’t be sexist towards men and men have lots of problems facing them right now (chiefly, men being allowed to grow into adult babies who are incredibly emotionally immature and don’t know how to deal with intense emotions in a healthy manner, especially when they stem from their views being challenged but that is a tangent) but if everybody is going to insist on having a conversation about it like we are all babies, than I will continue to light heartedly shit on men… as a man.
shrugs
This isn’t a discovery
No, but it’s a Range Rover, so close enough.
Are you going to four-wheel drop a joke like that in this conversation!!?
The ceo of gmc is a woman
They also sold 884k full size trucks. How does the CEO being a woman change that the vast majority of these purchases are men?
How does the ceo impact how a company designs their product?
Gee, I dont know.
Elon has entered the chat
Business person makes business decision, must be because they’re a woman
I’m too tired for this shit
I mean… wasn’t that the argument of the original comment but reversed?
I’m providing evidence that it isn’t just men making these choices.
No, I’m not entertaining this anymore - it is overwhelmingly men at the core of the truck problem in the U.S.
A woman literally runs one of these companies that designs and builds these monstrosities. I’m sorry that doesn’t align with your feelings on the matter.
Men buy them, sure. But a woman helps them get there.
checkmate feminists
makes it about sex
gets refuted
goes silly mode to deflect
You will never escape samsara.
Hey, we are boiling together in the pot after all Rigatoni eh?
do not make me hungry for squirrel pasta
This isn’t a gotcha. It’s a literal fact.
People of all types - brown, white, black, man, woman, + - contribute to the problem.
Yes, the truck owners are majority men, but who makes the ads, who designs the trucks, who approves the designs?
“Leftists” will stop at nothing to be sexist as long as its against the “in” group. For some reason, we are ok with that.
This reminds me of a B52 meme… On the right side is the conservative B52 with Nazi and confederate symbols. On the left is the Liberal B52 with feminist and LGBTQ+ symbols … Both B52’s are raining hellfire on some minority because capitalist dictatorship masquerading as “democracy”.
This community is “FuckCars”, not “FuckMen”. There are plenty of men here who are here because “Fuck Cars”. I don’t think that alienating the men of this community will do any good.
lol do you think I am powerful enough to alienate entire categories of men? Who do you think I am some kind of god destroyer?
I’m afraid to be here because you said something about my big truck. Gonna have to add a punsiher skull and tattered “thin blue line flag” silkscreen to my back window to reinforce my manliness.
lights up cigar rolled with rainbow leaves
loads chain in and cocks DEI-A 50 Cal
Better hope you hid your heart deep enough in your toxic masculinity for these puppies not to blast through.
pets cute dog walking by
WHERE WAS I IN MY MONOLOGUE damnt I always do this
Line!
Alienation can result from actions of individuals, yes.
I am sexist. Do you really think i am contributing to the problem? wow.
There is little to no self-awareness for people like this.
Yeah. I mean, I am a feminist. I know that a lot of problems are caused by the patriarchy, and yes, men in general sometimes.
But car-dependency is not one of them. And conflating them for no reason just hurts both causes.
You hurt his big manly feelings.
OK BOYS LISTEN UP WE GOTTA RAISE THE HOOD HIGHER NOW IT IS OUR ONLY OPTION
Unfortunately that disease isn’t exclusive to the US.
No shit?
Regards
The rest of the world
Unfortunately this is not only a UK problem. Most SUVs as you find them all around the world are bigger threats to humans of all ages…
EU regulation, babe
I dunno, I think the Yanks still outdo us.
My favorite part about this is that many of these Sherman tank drivers come speeding behind me and then when they’re a car’s length from me, veer over into another lane, leaving the car behind them(who had been matching their speed) with the nasty little surprise of my car, which had been completely invisible to them a second ago.
They do that shit on purpose to piss off the car behind them for daring to “tailgate”. I’ve had former friends and family who brag about it.
Literally putting a random person’s life on the line for a small bit of petty revenge at a perceived slight.
Gotta love American exceptionalism … and then when other countries copy the U.S., you kinda gotta facepalm.
And when they don’t copy fast enough? Believe it or not, trade war.
I’m 5’3 (160cm) and feel like I am invisible to trucks when I’m in a parking lot. It also feels like they’ve doubled their height (or more) over the last ten-15 years
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This is all caused by the CAFE act of 1992-1993.
Considering that this article is about the UK/Europe, that causation is pretty indirect.
Normally I would agree, but even the European auto makers have been following these horrible “guidelines.”
Bonnets close to eye level and long bonnets are a shit combination.
I’m quite high up in a Mercedes Sprinter, but I’m not mowing down kids because the bonnet is well before eye line and goes down on a steeper angle.
I loved driving a Sprinter when I was making deliveries. It’s undoubtedly a large vehicle, but I could fit that thing fucking anywhere. Tiny alleyway? No problem. Parallel parking on a busy street? Fuck yeah, perfect three point park every time. Super tight loading dock? Let me just squeeeeze right between these two semis. And it was in large part because the visibility was excellent. I never needed to worry about if I was going to hit something, because I could 100% see all the way around the vehicle. Between the giant mirrors, short hood, and top-mounted (birds eye view) backup camera, I was able to fit that thing into places that would have scared a regular pickup truck driver.
It was to the point that I was considering buying one for myself, and converting it into a sleeper. I was freelancing at the time, and many of my job sites were 1-2 hours away. If I’m working in the morning and evening, but not during the afternoon, it would have been nice to just chill in a van. Instead of driving all the way home only to turn around and drive right back, I’d often end up finding local things to do instead. I had like 16 different library cards at one point, because that was a fairly reliable place to just chill for a few hours. No matter which town I was in, there was almost always a library somewhere nearby. But if I could have just rolled the windows down and taken a nap in my van, I probably would have done that quite a bit.
