• afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Hopefully. Maybe I wont see so many people who make very little money driving pickups so large they can’t even park them right and then returning them 4 years later to get an even larger one.

    I have an economy car. My whole family fits it, it is already more car than I actually need. I bought it when it was 5 years old. I will repair it until the point it can no longer be repaired. At which point I will buy another reliable used economy car in cash.

    A car is not an experience, it is not a status symbol, it is not compensation for your tiny penis, it is not for showing off, it is a machine that moves humans and goods from A to B.

    I have known a retired accountant who lived in an apartment with an oversized pickup, I have known people who make $11 dollars an hour with a bright shiny pickup, I have known a small retail store manager drive around in a Hummer they got modified to look militarish-copish, homemakers with one kid with a SUV that sits 8, people on the verge of bankruptcy telling me how they will be rich restoring a mercedes from the 70s.

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      1 year ago

      “My opinion is right any everyone else who doesn’t agree is wrong” if only it were that easy.

      Clearly not a car person. Many people enjoy their car because they think they’re cool, they enjoy them, and its how they chose to spend their money. I don’t necessarily agree but they’re entitled to their view as equally as you are to yours.

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        1 year ago

        It’s ok if they are actually spending their own money, the issue here is that those people have no self control or financial skill as they drive a vehicle they can’t afford because the dealer happily drags then down the drain and they believe his lies.

        Dumb idiots shouldn’t be dragged down for their whole worth, people who don’t know how to money need help.

        But seeing how the average american only cares about: “muh guns, murica” i’d say good luck as a nation to fix their dumb dealers filthy tricks.

        Money doesn’t grow on trees, it needs to come from someone and that someone tends to be the tax payer when shit hits the fan.

        Stop defending your own future downfall for the sake of some minimum wage workers Hummer H1.

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        1 year ago

        Fine they are entitled to their dumbass views and I am entitled to laugh at their dumbasses when their life sucks. Which for most “sports utility vehicles” it already sucks due to micropenis.