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Won't somebody think of the poor persecuted Cybertruck owners? /s
Dude, no. Feminists are awesome. This is a racist pretending to be a feminist.
Mmmmm tiny taste of being a cyclist haha
“OK, so did you ever get profiled anytime in your life for being gay?” And she says, “Yeah, all the time. I hated it.” And I was like, “Well, do you realize that you just profiled me based off of the vehicle that I drive and me wearing work boots and being a big white guy as being a Nazi when it's completely something totally different?” And she broke down in tears and apologized.
Sure buddy. She totally didnt say: "Your nazi ass chose to buy this car despite Musk being a nazi, so go fuck yourself!"
What is it with rightists and thinking they have the codes to make us suddenly realize the error of our ways and agree with them entirely? Like, they think they have these rhetorical truth bombs they can just drop at a moments notice to un-woke-ify an entire room at once. But those are actually usually dogwhistles or slurs...
God, this article is so much cringier than I thought it would be. It’s basically all “that happened” level content, like, “I told the gay lady to respect me and then everybody cheered.”
Uh actually she cried for thinking he was a Nazi (Jewish people can't be fascists sweaty)
Drive a swasticar, pay the price.
Wow look at all these persecuted small business tyrants.
Job: Entrepreneur and owner of a construction company.
Job: Runs a business called Smugglers Runs, which does “postapocalyptic off-road” rallies
Jobs: Frank is a consultant in the health care industry; Diane is a dog mom and former zookeeper
Job: Small business owner
Job: Stock trader
Job: Entrepreneur
Jobs: Shawn sells window coverings; Nannette is a branch manager for a credit union
Job: Cybertruck wrapper
LOL
"It's just a vehicle. So it's ironic that it would even become a political statement, but nonetheless it is." [Editor’s note: Taylor was arrested and convicted of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding in the January 6 attack on the Capitol. He was later pardoned by President Trump.
Hahahahahaha
Anything you don’t like about it?
I can't really see the front out of the windshield because it’s so long.
Best car I ever owned, can't see shit out of it.
I don't have the cringe capacity to read the article, that cover image alone is so cringe-inducing already. What a bunch of posers. "Off-road lighting" which reduces departure angles, road tires, vinyl wrap. Clearly all of this is there just to look cooler in a mall parking lot. Taking a picture on a dirt track which I could take my Prius on (when I still had it) is just cherry on top.
I 100% guarantee my 30-year-old van with cheapo M/T and a slightly cut front bumper, is better at offroading than those pieces of simultaneously over- and under-engineered garbage. And I use it exclusively for off-road and camping, no city driving (except for helping my friends move).
Owning a truck for personal use is stupid and reckless (except for very specific circumstances which apply to like <1% of the population). But a Cybertruck is just so much dumber. It's like someone took the idea of a truck, stripped it of any potential use-cases it might have had, designed it in the worst way possible, and implemented it with as many reliability and safety issues as possible while keeping plausible deniability.
Lol I don't do any of that. I just laugh and shake my head. Nothing makes these people's beans more than just not being taken seriously because of their own choices. Heh I just thought about how much they all paid for a ticking time bomb of failure points just to feel superior and really it just shows lack of understanding and judgement. Made me chuckle again. Dumbasses.
I saw one with a wrap pulling into a Tesla dealer. I had a chuckle at how much they're dealing with stupid issues
