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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.

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[-] grue@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago

“These monstrosities” will exist in anything short of a significantly de-growthed society. OP’s picture is not typical of an F650. They are usually converted to flat bed towing, refrigerated box trucks, utility cranes, ambulances, and dump trailers. If you don’t believe me, well, here’s a listing of used ones. Notice how many have anything like the original bed.

I wrote "F650 pickup truck." I also, pointedly, did not write "F650 chassis-cab commercial vehicle" or anything similar. I generally choose my words pretty carefully when writing these comments.

Maybe you should make sure you read what a person actually wrote before falling over yourself to post a dishonest strawman argument.

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[-] grue@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

Communicating poorly and then acting smug when you’re misunderstood is not cleverness.

Well, at least you admit that you misunderstood instead of doubling-down on the claim that I was talking about commercial vehicles. That's, frankly, better than I would've expected had we been discussing this back on Reddit, so thank you.

Since these barely even exist as pickup trucks, who’s making the strawman, here?

The person who posted the thread, of course. That's part of [or at least adjacent to] what I was complaining about to begin with!

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