Hey, German here. What the f*** are Americans doing at the other side of the Atlantic? Some of you already know this monstrosity. I did’nt. This is a Ford F650 Truck and when I stepped out of my Youtube Bubble I realized, it was marketed as the “biggest, baddest Truck on the road” for the everyday American. Are you guys serious?! Is the end goal really to drive a Monster Truck to McDs to get a McFlurry? Americas bloodiest wars have been fought in the middle east to secure oil, bombing nations to rubble. And all, for this bullshit? The excess, waste and decadence is mind boggling to me and people on Reddit seriously justifying this by “you know dude I’m 6,4ft. I don’t fit in any other vehicle” makes me go up the wall.

  • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    7 months ago

    “Tax on poor people who have to be work at a certain time” – By this you mean anything that increases the costs of driving, I assume? The problem with that kind of thinking is that it uses a current symptom of the problem as an excuse not to solve the problem. In other words, increasing the costs of driving wouldn’t be a problem for poor commuters if, in so doing, we also solved their need to drive to commute.

    In that case every proposed solution needs to solve the need to drive for a commute on Day 1 of implementation. If you don’t want to disproportionately hurt poor people and the working class, that is.

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      7 months ago

      That’s the issue. It is like saying we could get rid of fire departments if we installed fire suppression systems in every home, then we get rid of fire departments.

      We need to make mass transit better, once that happens people will stop driving as much by choice.

      • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        Exactly. Fixing the underlying issues to a problem takes time to propagate. It’s only about 2 years after a president takes office that their policies have affected the national economy and such.

        Great analogy by the way. We need the fire department until those systems are installed. In this case, it probably means avoiding congestion taxes and the like until there’s viable public transit for commuting. Otherwise we’re just squeezing the working class.

        This is why technologies to reduce emissions on cars and electrify them are so important. We need to minimize their impact since they’re going to stick around.