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America has lost its f*****g mind. (feddit.de)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In fairness, there was a small window of time in the late 2000s where GM and International marketed similarly-sized medium-duty commercial truck conversions directly to insecure men with micropenises -- but yeah, turns out it's a very niche market, and they discontinued those products very quickly. Now it's exclusively the domain of third-party upfitters to give drivers that "ultimate feeling of superiority" that only an apocalyptic amount of conspicuous consumption can provide.

No, seriously, that's from a review of one of these monstrosities:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I remember those. Seems like they were only on the market for a short time. My company has one of these for our large bucket truck.