That photo gave me a some serious Goldeneye 007 on the N64 vibes, its like he unlocked the cheat code to get the golden car to go with the golden gun.
Until now I didnt think it was possible to make that thing look more low-poly.says he’s been cut off in traffic
It’s Massachusetts. That their state pass time
been yelled at and given the finger
If everyone you see (Plus, you drive a gold vehicle. Talk about self-absorbed) is an asshole, you might be the asshole
Hey, the second state pastime is giving the finger and yelling in traffic. We take these pastimes seriously, like sports and drinking.
The only way he could have made it worse for himself is if he had an RI plate. Mass residents have never been shy about letting people know how they feel about them (for better, or very worse 😅)
If there’s one thing Connecticut and Massachusetts agree on, it’s Rhode Island (but don’t worry, we can all shit on New Yorkers together)
News to me! Never been to the northeast. Anything in particular about Rhode island? Or just the typical “this state > a nearby state”?
It’s almost certainly the neighbors thing. The specific complaints are mostly that Rhode Islanders have a very distinctive accent (it’s no longer super widespread, but think Lois from family guy) and when your friends/relatives move there, they stop thinking of an hourlong drive (to visit you) as a day trip, but that might just be a trend in my circle.
That, and their clam chowder isn’t real chowder and wtf is coffee milk (yep, those are definitely just neighborly things to pick at). I always liked honey dew better than dunkin though.
Ha, thanks for sharing. I’m Midwest- Minnesota calls cheese balls (fried) “cheese curds”. Weirdos.
Nothing wrong with a bit of local pride.
Different world with the population density. Would rather live vicariously
Cheese balls are most certainly not equivalent to cheese curds in any form.
Cheese curds are an ambiguous term, they are either fresh or fried.
Traditionally, fried cheese curds are what one does with their extra cheese curds after they are no longer fresh.
Cheese curds are no longer fresh once they have been refrigerated and lose their squeak. Only thing left to do with them then is to batter and fry them. But they still aren’t cheese balls.
Silly blue plates don’t know shit about cheese.
Also drinking while driving with an attached snow plow. I see you, Berkshire county. It’s not a sport… Yet.
*pass times. As in, a way to pass the time, like with a hobby such as fishing or drinking.Edit: I stand corrected and humbled.
Wait, drinking is a hobby now?
Some people would say I have a problem. But according to this I’m a hobbyist.
You got change up the type and quantity of what you drink, that’s what makes it a hobby.
pass time
I just realized I’ve always thought of it as past time, I guess I usually see it written as “pastime”. Past time doesn’t make any sense at all, the way I’ve always thought of it. Neat!
“pastime” is correct. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/pastime
With a single “s”? I’ve never seen that.
Edit: until seeing this comment. Wtaf?
https://alexandrite.app/Lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/16674217
Edit: Well, I stand corrected. Pastime is right. I cannot believe I never knew that.
We’re both enriched on this fine day!
As the saying goes, if you smell shit everywhere you go, check your shoes.
They call it a ‘Boston Left’ for a reason.
Shows how well they have been treated for so long they feel entitled to politeness.
None of that is threatening or harassing behavior.
Jaroje was so worried that he tried to trade in the Cybertruck, but with no luck. He said he received a call and a text from a Tesla representative saying the company can’t take the truck back, even after sending them the hateful sticker.
“He confirmed with the text message that Tesla is not accepting Cybertruck trade-ins at this moment,” Jaroje said. He hopes the community will set aside judgment and be open to differences.
The vehicles are so bad that even the company that makes them won’t buy them.
More like, they can’t sell what they’ve already got so they aren’t gonna take even more stock.
Yes, because they’re so bad.
Also because people don’t like to support the Nazi billionaire who is actively destroying their country. But the terrible quality control of their overpriced and poorly designed cars doesn’t help.
Those are two different flavors of bad.
You can mix multiple flavours. It’s like a chocolate vanilla swirl except it’s just two flavours of dogshit.
Terrible QC is just the cherry on top. The things are just designed poorly front and back, inside and out.
Fuck the cyber truck and all, but their sales numbers are still pretty good when you compare them to the other expensive EV trucks floating around.
If they were more affordable, I guarantee you that you’d see more assholes driving these.
They have thousands upon thousands of them sitting in their factories right now that they can’t sell
No they are not, last i hard they sold less than 4k cybertrucks.
Over 40k.
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Why would you? They can’t compare in any real metric, cause they’re not a damn truck.
Oh shit, I thought I was joking that he had no way to get rid of it.
Didn’t the people purchasing them have to sign a document saying they would not resell them to a 3rd party? Or did that not happen?
They backpedaled on that because they aren’t worth shit.
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*drop of water. The hat will scratch it.
So threatening someone is ok because of the vehicle they drive?
Don’t buy a car to attract attention and then complain it’s not the attention you wanted.
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“Did you see what she was
wearingdriving? Totally asking for it.”Won’t somebody think of the Musk fanboys?!
Not at all what I’m saying. Just saying that you’re using rapist’s logic by blaming the assaulted for the assaulter’s actions, and I think that’s a pretty shitty thing to do, even if they drive an rusty nazimobile.
If a woman wears a short dress to feel pretty that is not an invitation for someone to assault them.
If someone buys a vehicle that is a know disaster, from a guy who can’t stop lying and cheating, and then makes it shiny gold to really drive home that they love their nazi-built pile of rolling garbage and then complains that people are expressing their displeasure in said person’s support of the person who is actively doing things that are killing/will kill people well buddy they can absolutely go fuck themselves.
The basic mechanism is similar, but if you can’t see the ten mile wide gap between those two scenarios I’m not really sure how to explain it to you.
Fuck Musk, fuck fascists, and fuck anyone who buys Tesla during all this garbage(some people before may, or may not, get a pass but I mean come on).
Shiny gold with an ad for a business complete with QR code on the back. That makes it even worse to me.
Not sure why you are being so heavily downvoted. This is a reasonable contribution to the conversation, even if people disagree it.
You think people making fun of a shitty car is comparable to rape?
I’m not talking about making fun of the shitty car, I’m talking threatening and harassing the driver.
No, you’re talking about rape when you should really shut the fuck up.
Edit - this user has harassed me off site. He has been reported to the admins.
No I’m not, and no I won’t. I’m talking about harassing the driver. I compared defending that behavior to a rapist’s victim-blaming mindset. I’ve been very clear about that.
I’m not trying to put words in your mouth, not sure why you’re trying it with me, though.
Did you see the nazi uniform that guy was wearing? He was asking for it.
Was she wearing a swastika? If yes, she’s asking for a punch in the face. Same applies to driving one.
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Wow that is some Olympic level mental gymnastics, congratulations.
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Lol oh yeah I missed the context
The word for people who support Nazis is “Nazi”. Yes, threatening Nazis is okay.
Yes. 😘
You can have my upvote, but commenting here risks the echo chamber that is Lemmy to attack this comment too.
This place is perfectly OK stooping as low as the “other side”. Our violence is justified, theirs is not. Under no circumstance is the owner of that Cybertruck owned by someone that LOVES EV’s and just loves its looks/capabilities. They absolutely must have bought it because they support Nazi’s, no other reason. Everyone else here is virtuously perfect.
So each ‘side’ of America keeps stepping lower, justifying it by the previous act bringing us deeper into this hell we’re building in real time.
For the record, Elon can go f%$k himself, but under no circumstances am I going to inflict violence/anger on a random AMERICAN going about their day in their stupid Cybertruck.
If they’re just an EV enthusiast, they would have bought a good EV that doesn’t crash itself, lock you inside, and rust out from a little morning dew. A Rivian pickup still costs less than a Swasticar and functions a lot better.
This was a personal choice that these drivers made when they bought their truck, and they get to live with the consequences. Your argument has more holes than swiss cheese.
Our violence is justified…
Please point me to a news source that reported actual physical violence to a swasticar driver. All I’ve seen is light vandalism at best.
Light vandalism is a good start. Violence against Nazis IS justified - it’s the only language they speak, so be sure to communicate loud and clear.
Your argument is bad, and you should feel bad. 🤦🏼♂️
How many logical fallacies can you spot, kids?
If you loved EVs, why on Earth would you get a Cybertruck when there are legitimately good EV trucks out there?
https://www.caranddriver.com/rivian/r1t
If you scroll down to the list of other EV trucks, the Cybertruck is the most expensive after the Hummer, which, no shit that’s ridiculously overpriced like all Hummers. That’s not an endorsement.
Seems a question you’d have to ask the person that bought it, not me.
I think everything about them is stupid. EVs in general do not fit my use case.
I do track days / time trials in my fun car I tow a boat and haul stuff with my truck (sometimes hundreds of miles). I guess if I could have a third commuting car a EV might work, but I use my motorcycle for that whenever possible.
You’re the one who came up with the explanation that it’s about loving EVs, not the person who bough it. So I’m asking you.
Reread what I originally wrote…
I was, in fact, expressing how silly it is for someone to assume the Cybertruck owner was a Nazi or wanting to suck off Elon. That it couldn’t possibly be owned by someone that loves EVs or the Cybertruck for their own reasons not within the narrow narrative associated with someone that would purchase such a vehicle assumed in this thread.
That’s all the more effort I’m putting into this.
Yes, I read what you wrote. You came up with an explanation for why someone would do that. Then you acted like it wasn’t your explanation. Now you’re just outright refusing to back up what you said.
It’s not a good look.
Fuck off with the bullshit moral equivalence.
Damn straight, violence against Nazis is justified when violence against egalitarian people is not! What the fuck is wrong with you, that you think defending against hate is wrong?
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I think your reply got attached to the wrong comment.
Oops, yes it did. Thank you.
Dude he bought a truck and it’s a little tacky. Settle down…
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No, but I’ll still enjoy every article where they complain about it.
Found the nazi
We’re all human
Why is he ok with people that don’t treat others as human, yet expects to be treated as human himself, then?
I think the easy answer is that people like that have a narrower definition of human.
I agree. Those people are twats.
Because the best summary of conservative logic I ever read way “I get to tell you what to do but you don’t get to tell me what to do.”
GOLD Cybertruck…
“Look at me! Pay attention to me!”
“…oh no, not like that.”
While the Cybertruck is a screaming gold color, it’s for a reason. It’s a billboard for the medical spa the Syrian immigrant said he worked hard to build from the ground up three years ago.
There’s no billboard on the car in the article. There’s likely a small sticker somewhere. This is a common practice by business owners so they can file their personal vehicle as a business expense and dodge some of their tax liability. Frankly it’s a pretty shitty practice.
The billboard is on the back, complete with QR code. LOL.
It’s common to buy whatever the new eye catching vehicle is and wrap it for a business, we saw it when the new VW Bug was introduced, and again with the PT Cruiser, but for a cybertruck, he should have looked at WHY it was eyecatching… like a fish hook.
I like that you got a couple downvotes, I guess for calling a large text URL that spans the entire tailgate width and a giant fuckin QR code and the logo for the foundation a billboard? Like it’s not as flashy as a lot of advert wraps but it’s plainly visible from a decent distance, and it’s on a gold cybertruck so I guess it is flashy. I wonder what the opposition to you calling it a billboard is
Maybe they wanted the picture? 🤔
Somehow this, and I didn’t know how this is possible, makes me feel even less sympathy for him than I did before seeing it.
That is a terrible way to advertise. Who is going to use that QR code, other drivers? Put it on the side of the car.
Oh, so it’s even more offensive because it’s a goddamn advertisement?
Edit: and a fucking tax dodge, to boot!
It’s just digging this entitled fuckwad’s hole even deeper.
Isn’t tax dodge the true American dream?
No.
“Look, it’s an ugly gold Cybertruck! Clearly I must go to this medical spa that I don’t know the name of or that it exists at all!”
Ah, so he deserves it, then
“That’s why I came to this country. I pursued my dream. Now, I’m enjoying the free speech, but with this taking a different turn, that made me very concerned,” Jaroje said.
Freedom of speech doesn’t mean your free from consequences.
“It’s not just about what happened to me. It’s about everyone in this country. If you disagree, don’t retaliate. Don’t be violent. Don’t try to hurt your neighbor. We’re all human,” he said.
He is encouraging a nazi oligarch through the purchase of what is a gross flashy display of his wealth in a time where the wealth gap has never been so wide. You’re just asking for it at this point.
Freedom of speech doesn’t mean your free from consequences.
This is why the current administration is beginning the removal of freedom of speech (by enforcing removal of certain words from all government forms/sites/documents)
Oh no. Anyways…
It sounds like we all agree. Despite all the rightful cybertruck hate and despite the garish gold color, this driver was not even particularly persecuted. He was just living the life of a normal Bostonian (which always includes other drivers cursing at you, cause that’s what we do here).
So… This is actually just a non-story. The headline could have been “Ridiculous gold cybertruck exists in Massachusetts, driver treated normally”
Or perhaps,
“Driver of ridiculous gold cyber truck somehow still isn’t getting enough attention!”
Man buys ridiculous car gets ridiculed. More news at six.
Right!
That doesn’t help their persecution complex…
“I wish to buy something that tells everyone that I’m richer and better than them.”
Later…
“Waaaah! Everyone’s being mean to me because I’m telling everyone I’m richer and better than them!”
He thinks his family isn’t safe in it… Yet he continues to drive it
You drive a rolling swastika and BLARING sign of historical wealth inequality that you’ve literally wrapped in gold - you deserve so much more fucking hate culminating in a brief rest of your heavy head that wears the crown on the guillotine. Tone deaf, fucking ghoul.
Poetry
Apparently he tried to trade it in, but Tesla isn’t accepting cybertrucks back. Wonder why…
Dude who can take anyone who drives this thing seriously.
YOU LOOK RIDICULOUS.
Me driving around in my clown car “I just don’t understand why everyone keeps calling me a clown and laughing at me 😭”
Laughing is one thing
Threatened is something else. No excuse for that
We all know this guy is embellishing. “My wife screamed how she would never drive it again!” No, that didn’t happen.
And then if it did, uh, good? Points to the wife for refusing to drive a symbol of hate.
Hard to find any sympathy for the guy. A cybertruck costs almost 3 times the amount of comparable electric trucks.
You pay that much extra because you want the hate.
“I bought this car because FUCK THE LIBS! But why are they harassing me?!”
Funny that the people with Teslas used to be libs.
There’s stickers going around that day “I bought this Tesla before Elon went crazy”.
I hate Elon as much as the next guy but there’s no need to spread blatant misinformation.
Cybertruck MSRP: $80-100k
Ford F-150 Lightning MSRP: $50-90k
Chevy Silverado EV MSRP: $55-95k
and that is the majority of your options. Obviously cybertruck isn’t near as capable as the other two and it’s also an ugly piece of shit, but there’s no need to make things up to diss the idiots buying them, they do it themselves.
*Edit: formatting
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/30/23663618/ford-f-150-lightning-price-hike-original-price
When it was originally released the lightning started at 40k and that’s what I was thinking of. Your point about the price today are fine, but there is no need to assume things.
Buy overpriced ugly truck from an outward Nazi
Cover it in shiny gold wrap to draw even more attention and be obnoxious to anyone who doesn’t want to be blinded on the road
Be surprised when people don’t like you
???
Do obnoxious stuff for “librul tears”.
Cry like a baby when people do obnoxious stuff back.
He’s a doctor what kind of doctor lacks the foresight to buy a Cybertruck.
*seeing that his practice is called Sculpting MD
Oh never mind.
Ben Carson was a brain surgeon… need I say more?
Ah, but Ben Carson made a ton of money by grifting to the right. The billionaire class collectively throw billions at their propaganda machines
Well… yeah, but he was also a completely incompetent idiot yet was inexplicably a highly trained surgeon. Which was the point.
