• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    My whole family were farmers and one of my cousins jacked his truck up so much it could only pull one of his wagons…

    People still give him shit, even tho it was like 20 years ago.

    Point being, the stupid shit you see isn’t even practical. The only point of giant modern trucks is helping men with low self esteem. And it doesn’t even help them, it just makes them keep wanting an even bigger truck than everyone else.

    Which is why they’ve been consistently getting bigger for decades.

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      10 months ago

      I own an '01 3/4 ton suburban for boat and camper hauling. It’s small compared to a stock 1/2 ton today. The top of their beds is almost at my roofline. All that size increase comes with very little gain besides dick measuring it seems. I will never understand why people buy them, especially for 60k+.

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        10 months ago

        More money more dick.

        Fortunately, those 12% APR loans they use to buy them are bankrupting them. I have to view this as an exercise in social darwinism.

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      10 months ago

      When I had to buy a new car a guy at work who was big into cars asked me what I was getting and gave me grief for not getting a big truck. I asked him why I would want such an impractical and expensive truck for just myself (and I lived in an apartment) and he only gave me macho signaling answers.