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I never see them because they aren't legally allowed on the road.
Everyone gets lost talking about this thing. Purchasing and driving a poorly-engineered or aesthetically-questionable vehicle isn’t the primary problem. That’s not unique. There have always been shitty vehicles.
People who drive these gave $80,000 to empower the Nazis. The fact that they’re shitboxes just underscores that conspicuous consumption and the support and affiliation for and with Fascism are the entire point.
Bruce Willis, Steve Carrell, William Shatner, Nick Nolte Avril Lavigne, Eugene Levy , Omid Djalili.
OTH really was just some random animated movie that was stacked with huge talents doing voiceover.
A lot of animated movies have super star studded voiceovers. The pay is pretty good for these actors and they don’t have to spend hours on makeup and wardrobe. They show up in regular clothes, talk into a mic for a couple hours then go home and cash a fat check. Vastly easier than actual acting roles.
Damn, thank you. We’re snowed in AF here in Jersey (New), and I needed a good family flick, the kids are shit at helping me pick.
And music by Ben Folds
I must mention, the ps2 / pc game that came with this movie was very liminal and surreal, especially the house level at night. This is the best screenshot i found. It doesn’t feel like a real house, but a set. I can’t explain, i think you might have to play this youself. Image
This movie was surprisingly good, I took a woman to see it in the theater when it came out, and fifteen years later we were still quoting it at each other.
Owning a cybertruck is an indication the driver is a Nazi. It was always an indicator of very poor taste, but now it marks you as a Nazi. Don’t bother trying to change my mind. I know it, my cat knows it, the mould in that tupperware I keep putting off opening in the far reaches of my fridge knows it.
No excuses now, and no bumper stickers will dissuade me. It’s been long enough, sell the thing or start sieg heiling.
my cat knows it
See, that’s what we call an appeal to authority
Very early on, I think there were some well-meaning people who were really excited about it. The idea of an all-electric truck was brand new, and the promise was huge. It unfortunately wasn’t until after many Cybertruck preorders had been secured that Elon plainly revealed his true colors, and then after it was delivered that people found out it was a piece of garbage
Idk, the first cyber trucks delivered nov 30 2023.
His takeover of Twitter was 2022, with plenty of bright red flags The “pedo guy” thing was 2019 All of his COVID violations were extremely public in 2020 and 2021
I think you’d have to be living under a rock to be completely unaware of what he was by the time preorders were locked in
Yeah, true. But we’re like several years past that now. If you could afford one of those sins against the design gods, you could afford to take the L by now.
They couldn’t tell from the look of the thing? When he first unveiled it, I thought it he was trying to make some sort of joke. Legitimately thought he was trying to prank people! The design is atrocious!
Every time I see one I think, “that’s so ugly it’s almost cute.” I just love janky crap.
this is not an endorsement of Musk or of Tesla or of cybertruck drivers - but this is a Very Online take. My boss’ husband drives a cybertruck, he doesn’t know what tiktok is, he doesn’t know what a meme is nor does he understand them when he sees them (he asks who it’s a photo of), the only news he consumes is in regards to logistics and supply chain and a little bit of the stock market.
I imagine he has as much understanding of why people hate elon musk as to I do as to why people love Sidney Crosby and hate Alexander Ovechkin - two people I had never heard of or know nothing about before googling “hockey players people love and hate.”
I won’t even remember their names in 5 minutes. I imagine a fair amount of cybertruck owners are like that.
I guess that’s fair, though my 89 year old dad who’s also not terminally online knows this, so I have a hard time with excuses now.
Much as it sucks, if I see your boss driving that crime against fingers, I’m still gonna see him as a Nazi. Maybe someone should tell him.
It’s not a “Very Online” take, it’s a “paying any modicum of attention” take. Willful ignorance is not a valid excuse for anything, and if your boss truly thinks of Elon Musk (the richest man in the world who has bought elections and media platforms and every American’s social security number) the same way that you think of some random hockey player, then your boss is being willfully ignorant. It’s giving “i’M nOt pOLiTiCaL”, which we all know is just cowardese for “conservative”.
Does your boss’s husband know what a hitler salute is?
Probably, because they drive a cybertruck.
God damn they better never give you any responsibility because you’re the most gullible person I’ve ever known. Your boss doesn’t want to tell you he’s a fascist.
If he’s that out of the loop on news, the poor bastard probably doesn’t even realize he dies in a fire locked inside it every time he drives.
That seems really odd to me. Generally people do at least a bit of research about a vehicle purchase, especially that expensive. I’m not even referring to Musk shit, just vehicle buying in general. Anyone looking up anything about the cost/value of a cybertruck would pretty quickly get an abundance of info about it being a bad buy without getting into any of the Musk stuff.
I guess if your boss’ husband just has the money and liked the look/what it said it’d do, then fair enough. Just seems strange to knowingly buy a lemon.
No excuses now, and no bumper stickers will dissuade me. It’s been long enough, sell the thing or start sieg heiling.
Hard to sell them when the only potential buyer market is people you want to avoid at all cost or a used car place that will buy it for an insulting fraction of it’s value.
And buying a replacement in this economy? We can judge new buyers all day long, we can judge people with 200k salaries that keep them, but the folks that can’t sell it are stuck with a car that no one will buy; maybe they got laid off, had to take a big salary cut to keep living, can’t afford a new car, and because they can charge the car for free at work they have extra moey for food.
Yeah. I flip them off every time.
I never flip anyone off. Never honk. Never do much of anything…
But I flip Nazi’s off every time.
I too, flip these car/trucks over anytime I see them. They aren’t going anywhere upside down.
No excuses now
I believe this.
At the same time, they’ll get what’s coming to them. They bought a shitty cybertruck that will break down and has shitty resell value.
… It’s been long enough, sell the thing or start sieg heiling.
Or at least sieg selling… AMIRIGHT? 😅
I’m really hoping to pick one up cheap and make the monster-truck-DeLorean-time-machine of my dreams reality 🤓 But I’m only going up to $3.50 USD… gotta’ crash the whole CyberShmuck™ economy in the process 🤑
I saw a very obviously trans person driving one the other day. Asked them if they were taking themselves to the camps or if they were into it rough.
Rough trade.
And the Tupperware also got more brain than a cybertruck driver.
Sadly this doesn’t hold true for red states. I’ve seen multiple people putting their children at risk by ferrying them around in a vehicle that makes the Ford Pinto look safe.
I’ve seen one many times driving to work, or home from family visits (on the same road) and I always make sure to see my finger flying out the window. The last time I saw them, they were having an argument, and I choose to believe they were arguing over something to the time of,
“I HATE RIDING IN THIS THING, WE ALWAYS GET FLIPPED OFF”
“IDK WHAT TO TELL YOU, IT WAS A GREAT INVESTMENT”
Even if that’s not it, seeing people be miserable in a cybercuck makes me happy on the inside.
I heard a comedian a while back talking about how her husband gives people a thumbs down instead of flipping them off in road rage situations and it pisses people off so much more, so I’ve been doing that to cybertrucks. I love it.
Now I need a big thumbs-up… like, carnival lollipop sized emoji prop, but with The Elon’s face blended into the thumb 😎
Oh! Finally a reason to try Grök… 50/50 all the other fingers end up being CSAM 🫣
I always enjoy flipping off another man’s kids too! 😝
Man that phrasing is so close to being entirely not what you meant…I hope.
Leaving all the downsides of the Cybertruck aside - the fact that it’s built by a fucking nazi, the fact that it can turn in to a death trap, the fact that the build quality is shit…
Who the fuck buys a hideous, hideous car like this…? Who suffers from such poor taste that they think a piece of junk that looks like it was designed by a five-year-old is something worth spending money on, let alone so much?
I don’t know, I think it looks cool.
Completely impractical, shitty car built by a Nazi that nobody should even consider buying. But in terms of looks alone I like it. I’d gladly drive one in, e.g. in a video game (if the look wasn’t associated with Musk, unfortunately it’s tainted now).
It looks cool? Well, we have completely different ideas of cool looks, apparently… I think this car looks cool. Image
I hate the cybertruck, but I think it’s chassis modularity is really neat, they just cut a predefined line in the chassis, then drop in a replacement section, although I’m not sure if I should trust the glue they use to fuse them, even after seeing how it happens in JerryRigEverything’s video on it.
Cybercucks buy these shitty vehicles for the same reason they do anything - to own the libs. That’s the only point of it.
I’m not defending the Cybertruck, but I used to think the same thing about the Honda Insight. It looks much nicer now, but that was after a huge toning down of toddler design.
That may be true, but in case of the Cybertruck, I doubt that there is any lipstick you can put on that particular pig that can somehow turn it into something I would even remotely consider buying.
I mean, I’m European, I can’t buy the fricking thing anyway, but I am also rather glad that I’m spared from ever seeing it in the wild.
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What starts with c- and ends in -uck?
___ Cybertruck
Hey! No kink shaming please
Let’s not pretend that this is a unique issue with cybertrucks.
Every day at work it’s nothing but single dudes riding their pavement princesses. My M3 has seen more family time and off-roading time than these things.
This weekend I saw a “wrapped” yellow ClusterTruck parked at a local funeral home. I’ve never wanted to be THAT disrespectful before.
Of course not. What kind of man would want to see his family burned with him in a fiery death trap?
The kind that thinks the Cybertruck is a good use of money in the first place?
This could be said about any EV ever that uses lithium ion batteries.
Petrol of course being famously non flammable.
No, most doors have fucking handles.
Teslas are especially unsafe, and often lock people inside when they fail. This is because Tesla is run by one of the dumbest men who ever lived.
Not ones with real door handles.
Only if they get into a salt water flood.
I never thought about this before, but it’s true in my experience.
A surprising amount of students at my uni have cybertruck.
No fucking clue.
lol is it Harvard
Worse Yale
Low resale value ?
I’m near SpaceX in CA and see plenty of men in them because SpaceX purchased a bunch for company cars when Tesla couldn’t sell them.
Also it’s really weird to see like, 8 of them in one place.
I live in Austin, and I probably see 1-3 Cybertrucks per day. I used to feel deep vicarious shame for them, but that’s slowly transformed into speechless incredulity
The flat surfaces make them look very… stackable. Do you know anyone with a crane?
Now I need 2 so I can do a space shuttle wrap job! We should set up a GoFundMe or something to make as many dumb cyber trucks as possible 😅
Oh! 3 in a row; human centipede style, Drumph up front, Elon in the middle, and either Miller or Bondi bringing up the caboose 😎
Maybe I can get one cheap/busted to pull the drivetrain out for a project car…
The other night i rallied a group of also drunk strangers outside a bar i just left to berrate a douche bag in a cyber truck until he left. It’s always one guy alone
I’ve seen one with those family stick figure stickers on it, but just the one dude driving. Must’ve gotten divorced andsnd she took the kids.
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A whole family driving any truck would be difficult since there’s only room for one person on the drivers seat.
Older pickups had a bench seat so could seat 3. Then there are the crew cabs who can seat 6.
Musk = POS Nazi.
not true, i saw an oldish lady all alone
Enjoying her divorce settlement as much as possible 🤣
Sounds like her lawyer was terrible if she got stuck with that chudmobile.
There is only one in my city and it’s parked in a church parking lot every Sunday.
Only place it won’t get vandalized 😇
I love the endless contradictions of … [political content redacted]
Pam is already up Dump’s dumper
One angry and bitter chud muffin
I never understood this weird hate boner that Reddit and Lemmy users have for cybertrucks specifically. It can’t be a moral position because they’re fine with regular Teslas, just not this one. It also can’t be about the ugly design because they’re fine with other ugly cars.
The thing is that I’ve seen a few of these out in the wild, and they’re almost always driven either by Indian tech bros or white finance bros. I’ve never seen any right wing types drive these like so many people here seem to think. In fact, the right wing types have this weird vendetta against all electric cars and they intentionally go for the gas guzzling pickup trucks. Which this hate boner even more baffling. It’s like people are mad for the sake of it.
People don’t hate on other Tesla vehicles as much because there is plausible deniability of the being naughty before Elon when mask off Nazi. The cyber truck was announced after he gave everyone good reason to not support him.
The design is not only ugly, it’s also dangerous, hard to maintain and repair, (and I believe the repair work must be done by Tesla mechanics) and very distinct. Other ugly cars are ugly yes, but they aren’t nearly as eye catching as the mobile refrigerators.
Indian tech bros and white finance bros can be right wing too.
Yeah many right wingers hate electric vehicles. Which highlights why it was such a bad idea for Elon to be so openly a Nazi. He pissed off the people that want electric vehicles, and sided with people that hate them.
It’s a mobile version of a man cave - a schmuck truck.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Every cybertruck I see where I live has some company logo or wrap on it. It’s great advertising – it lets me know never to hire that company for anything.
The most hilarious one is for a company that does waterproofing. Like yes, I’m going to hire a waterproofing company that just spent $100K on a vehicle that can’t go through a car wash.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
That’s gonna look even worse when it starts rusting.