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• Derproid@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah really, keying the car is a huge overreaction. If you want to fuck with them just surround their car with shopping carts.

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• bossito@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This car is a status symbol. It’s completely over dimensioned. It pollutes much more, without any added value in transport, harming air quality (people’s health) and climate, it diminishes other’s views on the road, it diminishes driver’s own view of a child crossing the road, it kills much more easily any unfortunate pedestrian. it’s a very strong statement of “fuck everyone else but me”, damaging this car count as self-defense.

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  • sith_lord_zitro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There is so much anger to unpack here, I don’t even know where to begin. Violence directed behavior such as yours is just the start. In the near future you’d be trying assault people who think differently from you and could potentially kill someone. I think damaging your person before that happens would count as self defense.

    It’s such a ridiculous argument that people in the United States driving pickup trucks are solely killing the planet. When it comes to climate damage, it ses to fall exclusively on the west. Not China or India, but exclusively Tundra drivers in the US.

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    • bossito@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Did I say that? Did I say they’re the only ones? I didn’t. I said that that extra pollution serves no good purpose. It’s for a status symbol and it’s not just in the US. Of course it’s not the only thing killing the planet but it’s the easiest thing to cut, and not even that is being cut.

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      • sith_lord_zitro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Many people, myself included, use pickups this size for their livelihood. Mine is purposely modified with a lift and oversized tires for the daily off road use that is required for my work. Contractors use vehicles this size to haul loads of materials, tools, or people to jobsites. If you want to remove all of these vehicles from the road, then tell me what your replacement is. Tell me what I should be driving to get through 2+ feet of snow or 8+ inches of mud to do my job. You seem to want to dictate what other people are allowed to use, so in your infinite wisdom, what is the alternative?

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    • reverendsteveii@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If you’re willing to key a truck you’ll soon be a murderer, so I should murder you now just in case

      bro get sober the people that you love miss you

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  • bemenaker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Most people who own pickup trucks actually use the bed of the truck to haul stuff, or to two things with it. If you want a usable truck bed, Toyota is the best, you can lay a full 4x8 sheet of plywood or drywall down in it, most have well wells in them not making it less usable.

    Giant SUV’s are the status symbols you think you are referring to.

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You pulled that “most” out of your ass. Most don’t use their full-size truck’s capabilities.

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      • bemenaker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Just because you don’t use a truck for it’s full capabilities everyday doesn’t mean you don’t have a valid reason to own it. That argument is ridiculously stupid. I live in the Midwest where you will find the most trucks. I know many truck owners. And almost everyone one of them has a truck to pull a trailer with, be it a boat or an RV. Can some SUVs do that, yes, but not all. And the ones that can, get even worse gas mileage.

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    • Restaldt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I drive a full size truck but mostly because i do not fit in other vehicles being almost 6’8

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