You’re absolutely correct. What struck me was the juxtaposition of a line of parents picking up their kids and a truck that’s been modified to say “war” (or “raw” if you read it in a mirror)
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NGC2346@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
I’ll play devils advocate here, but in a free society, cant people ride the vehicule they want as long as it’s legal ? Although his truck is ridiculously large, it’s not like the majority of people drive those.
I just feel like there’s way worse in life than Johns enlarged Dodge Ram.
paranoid@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 20 hours ago
I’ll take the war. Nobody should be "raw"ing anyone in a school pick up zone.
DNS@discuss.online 21 hours ago
You can ride any vehicle you want, but will also be opened up to criticism in your decision. No need to drive a massive dodge ram thats 5’ lifted. There was a study that shows those type of trucks cannot see pedestrians in front of them, posing a risk to school children and distracted drivers.
The real issue is Big Auto circumventing laws to make these massive vehicles to avoid paying additional taxes on fuel efficient cars.
At my kids school, there’s quite a few lifted vehicles with pristine paint jobs, letting others know that they never take their car out on trails let alone use it for what it’s made for. Pathetic pavement princesses.
AlexLost@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
John’s gotta make up for his small peepee somehow after all.
orioler25@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Except, John’s enlarged Dodge Ram makes him statistically a greater danger to everyone and their kids. In daily life, John is a more relevant danger to me than pretty much anything else. If John is in the USA, the children at this school are most likely to die of a car collision – with increased fatalities correlated with popularity of trucks like John’s – or a firearms incident, funnily enough also subject to a statistical correlation with light truck ownership. Between 19 and 24, vehicle collisions are the number one cause of death regardless of gender; only beat out by poisonings and suicide as you get older. Again, light trucks are correlated with higher rates of fatalies. If you’re in those age groups and don’t have a substance abuse or mental illness disorder, John is the most likely thing to kill you in your life.
People like John are apathetic about the casual brutality of such a vehicle, that is in fact the point of the hypermasculinity molded into it. I don’t want him around me, and I don’t want him around my kids. He chose to be dangerous and individual rights doesn’t mean you can threaten others with impunity. That’s why neglect can land you with murder or manslaughter charges.
NGC2346@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
If you’re american, i’d stress about guns and school shootings before Dodge Rams.
orioler25@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Read the comment bud.