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blargh513@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
I remember when everyone made fun of getting a sports car or muscle car saying it was a way to compensate for a small dick.
I guess folks who drove jeeps wanted in on that particular segment of being made fun of and went hard into it.
Now those of us who do drive fast things are largely left in peace with our tiny peckers.
Everyone should just get what makes them happy and ignore the weird shaming for driving anything other than a standard beige sedan.
Fast cars, off-road cars, big cars, small cars, electric cars, big trucks, custom wrapped/painted cars, ducked out jeeps, w/e.
I agree in principle, but I do think people should be shamed for endangering others because they want to feel cool. Large SUVs and trucks are much more dangerous to pedestrians and cyclists and such than normal cars.
Sports cars aren’t inherently more dangerous for others unless you fuck with them or drive like a cock.
Damn beige sedans! they ruined beige sedans!
There are still pressing environmental reasons to shame people for driving very inefficient cars when they don’t need one.
Yeah, I agree on the larger environmental goals and necessity. I suppose what I’m getting at is more of the part that feels like normative pressure and shaming eccentricities. As in, the same thing that has contributed to car colors becoming more and more bland over the years too. There’s a pressure for conformity that pushes people back into their box when they stick a toe out.
I don’t think it’s weird for people who are pedestrians, have children, or care about the environment we live in to have some pretty strong opinions on this. Your choice to drive a big ass truck has a real implications for other people that didn’t get to play a part in that decision.
…you posted the meme 🤣
What’s wrong with a standard beige sedan?
Infiniti M37x is a delightful beige sedan. Big comfy, quiet, a delight in so many ways.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
I’d be a lot more tolerant of people buying whatever they wanted if what they bought wasn’t so goddamn offensive and dangerous
huge, loud, blinding headlights, blocks my view of the road, they always fucking pull up past the stop line so you can’t see if it’s safe to turn right on red, they have to hammer the gas to accelerate decently because they’re massive, they can’t fucking see anything around them because of blind spots and so they are always trying to back into people walking in parking lots, etc