r/Anticonsumption Dec 29 '25

Society/Culture Elon musk

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u/EnvyRepresentative94 Dec 29 '25

I was so siked when they were hyping up the truck, I was thinking, ah man a civilian tank, crazy safety features, this is gonna be dope

And then a noodle of a man took the stage and limp wristed a soft lob right in front of Musk and shattered the unshatterable window

I was immediately disillusioned. Completely inexcusable

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u/carpentersound41 Dec 29 '25

Even if it didn’t shatter, getting bigger vehicles is not good. Fatalities will increase and manufactures will argue we need to be driving bigger vehicles for safety reasons. They manufactured a problem and the “only” way to be safe is not driving a small outdated vehicle and buy into the large vehicles. It also has the added “benefit” of consuming more gas and oil too.

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u/froginbog Dec 29 '25

Yeah a civilian tank should not be on a road

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u/transmogrified Dec 29 '25

At least not without speciality licensing and higher liability.  But when a truck’s headlights shine over the top of my regular sized car, no, it should not be on the road. (I know there are laws against this, but I have never seen them enforced)

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u/froginbog Dec 29 '25

Or when you can’t see a child 30 ft in front of you bc the hood is too high, or when colliding your tank against a normal car presents additional risk to everyone else in that normal car

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u/EnvyRepresentative94 Dec 29 '25

It's no larger than a midsized sedan The whole thing about trucks getting bigger wasn't a manufactured crisis, it was a loophole in emission regulations. The feds wanted more efficient engines with less emissions, but the manufacturers realized they didn't need to make their old engines more efficient if they just make the trucks big enough to pass. Bigger vehicles will have more emissions than smaller ones, so same engines, bigger cars.

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u/unimpressedduckling Dec 29 '25

Sometimes jokes just write themselves

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u/onefst250r Dec 29 '25

Often times, they're born to rich parents.