185 points

Scratching a stranger’s car is never okay.

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32 points

But what if it ain’t a car but a Cybertruck?

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2 points

Scratching another unmet civilians vehicular mode of transport is never okay.

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30 points

It is strange and striking that climate change activists have not committed any acts of terrorism. After all, terrorism is for the individual by far the modern world’s most effective form of political action, and climate change is an issue about which people feel just as strongly as about, say, animal rights. This is especially noticeable when you bear in mind the ease of things like blowing up petrol stations, or vandalising SUVs. In cities, SUVs are loathed by everyone except the people who drive them; and in a city the size of London, a few dozen people could in a short space of time make the ownership of these cars effectively impossible, just by running keys down the side of them, at a cost to the owner of several thousand pounds a time. Say fifty people vandalising four cars each every night for a month: six thousand trashed SUVs in a month and the Chelsea tractors would soon be disappearing from our streets. So why don’t these things happen?

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26 points

Because the law drops the hammer on them BIG time.

Hell, activists use to spike old wood trees marked for clear cutting back in the day. This would cause the saw blades foresters would use to explode in their face, in fact George Alexander, a millworker, was severely injured when a saw blade shattered after contact with a tree spike and cut his jaw in half.

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His name is Jason Alexander, he only played a character named George.

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4 points

George Alexander would then form a band, drop two hits, then write for other artists away from the limelight.

Oh wait, that’s Gregg.

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1 point

I thought no one was prosecuted in that case.

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6 points

I think it says more about the personalities on each side. ICE loving climate deniers are aggressive by nature.

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12 points

No, it’s more that people who care about climate change are good at long term thinking. There are no cuddly animals to rescue right now, so people who want instant gratification do other things.

People who are good at long term thinking commit fewer types of impulse crimes. Vandalism is an unintelligent way to get your point across. There’s nothing inherently wrong with the paint job on the SUV.

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5 points

Maybe environmental movements don’t attract the types of people who do this stuff or maybe it’s not personal it’s impersonal? Big difference between being told in your childhood house of worship that you are going to happy sky place if you die for skydaddy or seeing your uncle dragged off in the night vs. seeing a PowerPoint about climate change. Or maybe it’s just a number game. Environmental groups just don’t have enough people to get them in the pool.

Not sure.

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28 points

They probably just wanted to see if it’s really bulletproof…

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22 points

It is if they blatantly block sidewalks like the entitled assholes that they are.

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12 points

No! Bad DarkThoughts!

You call a tow truck and have the vehicle towed at the owner’s expense.

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Oh my sweet summer child. Sidewalk parking is more or less legal in Germany since cars are generally placed above people. It’s literally happening everywhere. My entire street is full of people being 1/3 on the sidewalk.

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2 points

In what world is a tow truck going to tow a car for parking on the side walk? They’re gonna tell you to call the cops or parking enforcement and the cops don’t even show up for gun shots

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Can’t say I agree. For example, if someone hits you with their car? It’s ok to scratch it.

Edit: The downvotes on this are fucking unreal, imagine being upset that the person you just mowed over scratched your car. Fuck right off with that bullshit.

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1 point

For example, if someone hits you with their car? It’s ok to scratch it.

Are you 12?

Or do you just see every unfortunate occurrence as personal victimization?

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10 points

Carrie Underwood has an entire song about how you are wrong.

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18 points

Yeah but it’s not a stranger in the song

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10 points

You know, I agree. But also, you can’t imagine how much I want to scratch the cars that just park illegally in my neighborhood. They park on the curves and crossings and in such small distances that I literally cannot pass through with my stroller without scratching them. So I end up going around the block(s) further and further away just to pass through some gap of illegally parked cars that’s just big enough if I am very careful. But then I end up thinking, wtf. Why do I have to be careful to not scratch their wrongfully parked cars, a private property that they left outside on a place designed and protected by law to be solely for pedestrians, with my private property that should be able to walk this road? And also, why do I not get the same protection if I want to park my bike or stroller outside? Because no one cares if my private property is damaged when it is left outside. If I scratch my stroller on an illegally parked car when I cross the road at the place I am supposed to be crossing somehow I am the one who has to pay damages.

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5 points

But giving them the finger is

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That doesn’t do expensive damage. I am pro-finger.

Edit: come on, “pro-finger”? Nobody’s gonna take that and run with it? I’m disappointed.

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4 points

On purpose yes, by accident, what can you do

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1 point

True. I had intentional damage in mind.

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1 point

Even then, in a “lorry problem” type of scenario, it could be OK. Like, you have a lever and there’s a fascist con-man polluting the world with bad ideas and products, and you could either do nothing or use the lever to go to town on one of those products to send a message to his supporters, I know what I would do

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Purposely, yeah, but if I open my door into it, don’t park do fucking close to the line

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12 points

But what if the person on the other side was parked over the line and I had to leave space to get out and then they left and now I look like I parked like an asshole and then some asshole uses that as an excuse to ding my car.

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-2 points

Drive a normal sized car and that won’t happen. Or just you know walk a bit extra. Won’t kill you.

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That’s just how the cookie crumbles. If you really can’t stomach any dings leave the car in the garage

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If you drive a douchemobil, you shouldn’t be surprised when people think you’re a douche.

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64 points

Carter tells the paper he has never been a fan of the limelight, somehow forgetting what sort of attention a massive, angular truck would garner him.

Lmao dude bought the fugliest car ever made and didn’t think twice about that decision

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4 points

and later,

He knew the truck would be an eye-catcher in Maine. But he wanted it for its uniqueness.

“It’s so ugly it’s cute. It’s like a French bulldog,” he said. “I don’t think it’s the most attractive car in the world, but it’s different. And I like to be different.”

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I think it is more “carter lies in the paper’s face that he has never been a fan of the limelight”

You literally don’t buy a cyberrustbucket unless you are dying for attention.

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2 points

Thinking someone is a douche and actively damaging their car are two completely different things. Not cool to damage property like that, just point and laugh or loudly exclaim how that is the ugliest looking car you’ve ever seen and you pity whoever thought it was a good idea to buy one.

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108 points

People being assholes over it is dumb, but I can’t say I would want one. I saw one recently at my local grocery store and I couldn’t stop thinking how poorly built it looked. It just seemed like the fit and finish of the body panels was kinda bad. I got an overall feeling like it was something put together by a couple of teenagers in metal shop.

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36 points

There’s one down the street from me. It’s a damn eyesore.

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20 points

Have you tried quitting to the menu and turning up texture detail? Looks like it might be something to do with anti-aliasing. Hopefully will be patched in the next update.

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9 points

Instructions unclear: now wearing eye patches and can’t see anything, task failed successfully

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2 points

Yeah but then all the NPCs outside wouldnt have lara croft triangle titties

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14 points

Complain to the HOA… no junkers on the property or street

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12 points

Lol we don’t have an HOA around here thankfully, otherwise my 50yo camper would have to find a new home

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People can be shitty, but I still find it amusing that it’s so ugly and stupid it provokes people into a rage.

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35 points

I think it’s because it costs an obscene amount while being something only a moron would buy. So when someone who is struggling to make ends meet sees that an absolute moron has so much cash that they can blow it on something this dumb, they get angry. It’s not fair that they work hard just to make ends meet while some failson has $100k to blow on a dumb car. At least a Maserati, Porsche, or Ferrari of similar price looks cool.

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10 points

Or on the flipside… No one feel this way about hideous AMC cars that have been lovingly restored and maintained. I love those hideous monsters lol.

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I find all these comically oversized pickups obnoxious.

The cybertruck is just the latest, most obnoxious model to date.

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9 points

Isn’t that the goal of owning a machine like that? You are trying to provoke a reaction. The car I own was the single most commonly sold sedan the year it was made. I don’t want people reacting to me, noticing me, etc. I want to be another person in the crowd.

If you take a shit in front of a camera you can’t really be upset that people are commenting on it.

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I don’t think it’s the car per se that angers people but the idiocy of lemmings who are destroying the world by supporting people like Trump and Musk and Nick Fuentes. And by buying a Tesla car, that’s what you do, you enable Elon Musk to keep on destroying the world.

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2 points

The exact definition of a ”hateful car”.

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4 points

One of my neighbors has one. When the ford flex next to it is the better truck in all respects…ya done fucked up

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“I don’t like attention.”

– Guy that gave multiple interviews about all the attention he is getting.

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45 points

He doesn’t like negative attention and is too dumb to realise that was the only thing that would happen by buying such an obvious “I’m dumb and a dickhead” statement piece.

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8 points

It’s all marketing for his pot shop.

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How bad at you at selling weed are you that you need to do this?

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5 points

He may have paid a coked up publicist to get all this going.

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2 points

This isn’t what gets me into a dispensary a second time.

Feeling like I can ask a dumbass question, get a coherent answer, and they will have product in stock at the promised price; gets me in the second and subsequent times.

Hypothetically, of course, but no different from the local booze warehouse, really. My loyalty is to the place where I asked someone “I see you’re out of x, what’s similar?” And they a) tapped out because it wasn’t their area of expertise and b) connected me with the person who could provide options and talk about that particular niche ad infinitum.

Don’t be flashy if you run a dispensary, just know your stuff and educate your staff.

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82 points

Not only did he get an unpopular truck, but he still uses Reddit. This guy is 0-2. What’s next?

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51 points

He uses Twitter. Probably watches Televised News

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22 points

Anyone that supports muskrat is an automatic pos in my book. He’s an evil degenerate.

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19 points

I’ve never liked that nickname, just because muskrats are pretty cool and don’t deserve to be brought down to that shithead’s level.

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1 point

I bet if you knew this guy you’d realise he’s actually 0 - infinity

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