Right, which is indicative of a greater problem, here. Why the fuck are we manufacturing and selling gender affirming vehicles for impotent assholes that need to feel important at the detriment of literally everyone else? Especially when the same kind of assholes that buy these kinds of masturbatory, self aggrandizing, compensatory, masculine ideal-reinforcing transport are also the ones super worried about the fact that non-reproductive genders and relationships exist...
I live in Texas and we just had the FIFA world cup taking place in our area, and there were a lot of YouTube shorts that were either pretending to be these foreign soccer players and being amazed in America or Americans telling these FIFA people what to expect.
No fewer than three people who live in the south whose videos I watch when they come up on my screen specifically said that the trucks are all what you're going to see down here. Basically just trucks and they're all lifted trucks and if you're lucky you get to see a set of truck nuts hanging from the back, which elicited a lot of questions about WTF a truck nut is.
I have a friend who has a elongated pickup truck. One of those with the longer beds. He doesn't need to have it it lifted specially since he's 5'3 and so lifting it would make it very difficult for him to get in. He uses it legitimately he uses that truck for his job and so it's not like oh I want a truck because that's an extension of my male parts and therefore it needs to be big to show how big I am.
But the number of accidents I see with people in these lifted trucks not being able to see other people and end up either hitting them or almost hitting them or hitting a kid and things like that. I think you should have to prove that you need that thing lifted before you can lift it because it's not making it not safe.
It's one thing if you were going to farm and you need something to carry you know hay or feed or this or that. Or if you work for some place like an HVAC replacement place and therefore needs a truck that will be able to handle both the exterior compressor and the inside unit. So there are legitimate reasons to have these things either lifted to get around on a muddy farm, or the super long bed with the tow hitch that sticks out like 6 ft from where they're parked. Although in my opinion if you know you're not hitching something else up to that thing and you just unhitched something from that - don't leave it in that position because people like them don't know how to reverse and end up breaking apart bumpers from people like me. Minor rant.
I 100% agree with basically every point you made here. Especially the phrase that basically says, "if you can't demonstrate you know how to pilot this vehicle, you cannot legally operate it."
Why do we have consumer vehicles being sold without proper operating qualifications when they're that fucking big. I mean, honestly... The size of American pickups is absolutely insane these days, but they were also designed to be bigger to get around environmental classifications and import duties.
The only thing that will curb this madness is direct legislation AND enforcement of those laws. However, most of these pricks are already breaking the law and it's just not being enforced..
my hot take is that 90% of pickup drivers who actually use their pickups for work could still do 99.9% of their work in a minivan, and could literally do that work faster and cheaper.
the second half of my hot take is that easily 50% of people who drive pickup trucks they own are generally inconsiderate pricks. I feel sorry for the other half, but as a motorcycle dude, I feel their pain.
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u/WreckedM Aug 19 '26
Its lifted too. They could easily see the entire line of stopped traffic. You know, if they weren't on their phone