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What's the term right wing folks use? Virtue Signaling? The cyber truck is that. People buy them because they are politically charged, and you can be seen as a
by nahwut 2y ago
What's the term right wing folks use? Virtue Signaling? The cyber truck is that.
People buy them because they are politically charged, and you can be seen as a tribe member.
But I kinda think it's sad, because I think most tribes make fun of the cyber truck buyer, so they've bought a very expensive, very shoddy ticket into an in group, only to mark themselves as an outsider who bought their way in.
- flapadoodle 2y agoLike nearly all gigantic trucks driven in cities (and almost never off road), though the cybertruck is a new low in likelyhood to kill innocent pedestrians. The most accurate term for this phenomenon is either Emotional Support Vehicle or Gender Affirming Vehicle.
- the_clarence 2y agoI'm a leftist and would definitely buy a cyber truck if I could park it easily
- yyuugg 2y ago[flagged]
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- llamaimperative 2y ago[flagged]
- mst 2y agoThere *are* a bunch of people who've bought them because they genuinely think they look cool. I ... do not agree with that opinion ... but people are allowed to have different taste than I do, even if I think theirs is terribad.
- qwerpy 2y agoCT owner here. Maybe I’m just more boring than the usual person who gets this truck, but my reasoning for getting one was a lot more simple than this. “My Teslas have been great, this one looks cool, my family can benefit from having a truck, I’ll put down a deposit!” Not sure which group I was supposed to be buying a ticket into. Around where I live the group seems to be Asian men with families, but I was already a member of that group before the truck :)
- yyuugg 2y ago[flagged]