• gregorum@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    willing to bet the driver of the tiny truck has a bigger… ahem

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        11 months ago

        And potentially family. It’s a 4 door truck. It’s a transportation vehicle with a bed and slightly greater towing capacity than a sedan. Lot of suburban dads have these.

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            11 months ago

            I’m a tiny-truck-lover, and want one badly, but my family’s big 'murica truck is waaaay more comfortable than my current sedan :( Unrelated, but do tiny work trucks come with Bluetooth now?

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              Damn I hated riding in the back of my dad’s Silverado. I’m almost 6ft and I can comfortably fit behind myself in the back seat of my impreza. The new Maverick looks like a pretty cool small truck option

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            Eh, your cheaper compact sedans are comparable. It’s definitely not great, but good enough. The front seats are comfortable, at least.

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          Smol one can tow stupid ugly one. What do you need to tow, that is heavier that stupid ugly one?

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        In this case it’s not about body shaming but about shaming a means of compensation. Also it’s not really a literal take. “Big dick energy” has nothing do with actual dick size. And being a “Karen” has nothing to with a persons actual name or gender.

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        11 months ago

        Neither is trashing the climate with pointlessly big vehicles just to compensate for whatever insecurities they have. We need to either tax or regulate these stupid vehicles back to a reasonable and safe size.

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          It’s not just big vehicles that do that. For instance I wouldn’t call a supra a big vehicle but when they wake me up at 3 AM because they have to be louder than fire sirens I feel like that is compensating as well.

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          You agree that body shaming is not okay and yet you contribute to it. Why?

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        11 months ago

        But the body on right is so much bigger, and takes up so much wasted space!

        The smaller body on the left is more fuel efficient too.

        Plus, body shaming when you’re ugly and useless like that is okay.

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          Not sure if you’re serious but i will answer as if you were.

          A common attack against people with large trucks is that they have a large truck to compensate having a small penis. This implies having a small penis is bad/unacceptable. This is obvious body shaming but also contributes to toxic masculinity.
          Both of these are unacceptable.

          There are many alternative ways to talk shit without playing into these kinds of comments and TBH, the compensation comments have been used so much and are so obviously baseless that they don’t hit very hard, IMO.

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            11 months ago

            well, i didn’t actually say that, and i’m not responsible for others filling in the blanks with their own negative thoughts. as you can see, several others actually managed to conclude something different.

            don’t blame the Rorschach test because you see something you don’t like.

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                11 months ago

                that’s exactly what blaming me for something i didn’t say is

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                  It was implicit. If you can’t deal with being called out on your rhetoric, perhaps you shouldn’t use it.

                  Body shaming is dumb and so is owning such a huge truck.

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                    11 months ago

                    you’re projecting your own insecurities onto me and making yourself angry over something you imagined. I a not to blame for things your imagination does.

                    work out your problems with a professional, not by attacking random internet strangers.

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              Blocked. User has nothing useful to contribute and will argue in bad faith when called out.

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      Death wish? I love kei trucks but I fear getting into a mash up in one of them.

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          Exactly. Death wish is inversely proportional to vehicle size.

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        Better to get the one that’s specifically designed to kill toddlers then. If children have to die so you can be less scared of a “mash up” then it’s all worth it.

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          specifically designed to kill toddlers

          “Lead designer to ensure child lethality” is such a badass job title.

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        11 months ago

        American 🫵😐

        Typical “Everyone drives a big truck so I will too!” mindset that misses the core issue on why kei trucks are the better ones. You simply can’t imagine a world where the Ford Death Cruiser 4 billion doesn’t exist.

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          Japan, the country that invented kei cars, also has larger cars. You’re not looking at the same chance as running into a hummer, but crashing a kei car into a white plate out here still doesn’t look good for the kei.

          In kei trucks and other models where the engine is behind you, a crash is gonna fuck you up, no matter what country you’re in or what you hit.

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              Sure, but they’re not banned from highways. It’s not uncommon to see them, although you’re right about lower speed limits-- a lot of highways are about 80 km max

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          2 wheels for me please.

          But, thank you for taking the time on that well thought out, informative post.