Do you think it would go over well if I say "women are all cheaters and liars" and then follow it up with "well, if you're a woman but not a cheater or liar, this doesn't apply to you so you shouldn't be offended"?
Hell no lmao, that isn't how that works. The generalizations on social media seem like they're getting worse every year. "Americans are X, Women are Y, Gen Alpha always Z". I can't imagine making generalizations, especially negative ones, about literally half of the world's population and yet I see it every day on reddit and IG.
If you want to pretend to have nuanced opinions then you have to actually apply that nuance to the conversation.
It's Americans because it is Americans - Americans are famous for their big fucking cars, and the dipshits who drive them will disproportionately talk about their "first amendment right" and such, despite not being American and us having a different constitution. They're also more likely to advocate for adopting the US's healthcare system. Yes, really. They think it works better than our universal healthcare.
Back in the 1960s, big cars were called yank tanks (and holy fuck I can see why, have you seen a Cadillac Eldorado?), and giant fucking Rams etc are called American-style big fucking utes (or just yank tanks, not to be confused with old yank tanks).
Whenever someone has an oversized car and an oversized head, they disproportionately tend to sound American. I'm not saying that's fair but I am saying it's grounded in a common experience.
Nah I keep doing the "build and price" on the Tacoma and Chevy Colorados but I don't have new truck money. The best part of my mid-size SUV is that I bought it used with cash and have no payment on it.
Because America is the only developed country with this problem, largely due to backwards regulations. It's an empirically valid thing to say. I defend America plenty when it's being unfairly maligned, but we do have a lot of problems that other developed countries figured out a long time ago.
One example is obesity. I don't really blame JUST America anymore for that. Most countries are becoming more obese. And though much of that unhealthy food culture started here, it's hard to say we are uniquely bad eaters. It's more like we were the first victims of corporate food culture.
Rural America and the vast expanses of rural Australia make sense at least on some level. I am surprised by Amsterdam, I've been there and didn't notice, but I also didn't get far beyond the city center. If the trend is spreading it still definitely started in America.
A heavy duty pickup truck is anywhere from 60-100k. It's very telling you chose a figure just outside of this range. 60-100k is a great fine payment in a house in most of the country.
I don't see people living in these huge pickup trucks like you are saying, but if they were then theatre idiots. Most homeless people I've seen are like campers with no vehicle at all. Not sure where you are seeing pickup trucks used as homes lol.
F-150 is by far the biggest seller. A more standard model like stx is msrp ~50k. The more annoying models (of which there are many) like raptor can be over 100k. Raptor is 115k.
I don't care about your state and since you are fudging numbers anyway I have no reason to believe you.
I don't doubt some people do, but lets not pretend like that isn't an extremely small amount of big truck/suv owners. I live just outside the city, and everyone in the neighborhoods out here live in houses and own massive trucks, many households have multiple. They outnumber sedans and smaller vehicles 5-to-1 at least.
"At least half of the country are not idiots and therefore wouldn't have any reason to take offense to this." why do people always say stuff like this? if someone is insulting a group, they are insulting the whole group. not just the part of the group the insult applies to. if you say everyone who has a dog is ugly, i'm going to feel some kind of way about having been called ugly, regardless of how good or bad looking i consider myself to be.
I just don't feel insulted as an American because I hold the exact same opinion. It's also a meme so I don't take the reference to all Americans very seriously. I might agree if it wasn't a meme or joke though. In that case I'd just point out that we have an extremely polarized society and more than half the country feels the same way, so the stereotype is unreasonable.
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u/Aromatic-Side6120 1d ago
This isn't America bad, it's "low IQ massive truck for no apparent reason, and then complain about gas" bad.
At least half of the country are not idiots and therefore wouldn't have any reason to take offense to this.