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January 3rd, 2025 at 5:10:33 AM permalink
DRich
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Quote: rxwine
Have no idea why you think that is a selling point.


It might be a selling point if you are a person that transports lots of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil.
At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a deterrent.
January 3rd, 2025 at 6:17:40 AM permalink
SOOPOO
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Quote: missedhervee



an apt metaphor for the coming year


Meaning when Dems don’t have control there will be more terrorist attacks like New Orleans a Las Vegas? At least these two terrorists are dead. New Orleans straight anti-American. Las Vegas more just anti-Trump. Edit…. or it may have been a pro-Trump loony! What a way to show your admiration…. Blow up a car outside his hotel!
January 3rd, 2025 at 6:47:25 AM permalink
Evenbob
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Quote: DRich
It might be a selling point if you are a person that transports lots of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil.


It's a selling point because obviously the truck is solidly built it doesn't even fall apart even when exploded. Which would you feel safer riding in, a truck that's built like a tank or something that can be crushed like a tin can. Of course it's a selling point.
If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose.
January 3rd, 2025 at 7:53:32 AM permalink
GenoDRPh
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Quote: rxwine
Have no idea why you think that is a selling point.


I'd say it's a great selling point. I just wish the truck wasn't so damned ugly...
January 3rd, 2025 at 8:49:54 AM permalink
rxwine
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Quote: GenoDRPh
I'd say it's a great selling point. I just wish the truck wasn't so damned ugly...


Truck is still totaled. Crumple zones saves lives. Odds of me being in any impact equaling that explosion is extremely low, and probably still be killed inside an intact truck. You’d need a real tank. Should we become Afghanistan, maybe I’ll start considering one.
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January 3rd, 2025 at 10:49:23 AM permalink
missedhervee
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Quote: rxwine
Truck is still totaled. Crumple zones saves lives. Odds of me being in any impact equaling that explosion is extremely low, and probably still be killed inside an intact truck. You’d need a real tank.


Or an old Volvo.

I've owned and driven them for decades: closest thing to "a real tank."

Our 740 Turbo was rear-ended by a small Japanese sedan while we were stopped at a light; the only damage to the Volvo was a bent bumper, but the other car was totalled.

My daily driver, an '82 Volvo Turbo, is close to being built like the proverbial "tank:" love that thick Swedish steel and the large, functional, stout bumpers.

Have you noticed how "real" bumpers seem to be going the way of the dodo bird on modern cars?

My wife's newer CX-5 Turbo has what seems to be decorative plastic where real bumpers used to be: is this real progress?
January 3rd, 2025 at 10:50:20 AM permalink
missedhervee
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But yeah, the cybertruck is one UGLY mo-fo.

Oh, this just in...the guy in the truck who blew himself up?

He was a big fan and supporter of Trump.

Go figure...
January 7th, 2025 at 8:10:47 AM permalink
DoubleGold
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It seems like world holdouts are converting to MAGA.

For example, META is now a free-speech advocate.

But of course, some will never make the conversion until having extreme pain, like Biden, Trudeau, & Macron.
January 7th, 2025 at 8:46:58 AM permalink
AZDuffman
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Quote: DoubleGold
It seems like world holdouts are converting to MAGA.

For example, META is now a free-speech advocate.

But of course, some will never make the conversion until having extreme pain, like Biden, Trudeau, & Macron.


I put up a post that FB is known to censor a few hours ago, still up so maybe they are serious.
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January 7th, 2025 at 9:03:26 AM permalink
DoubleGold
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Quote: AZDuffman
I put up a post that FB is known to censor a few hours ago, still up so maybe they are serious.



FB should be forced to give the FB_I the cash back they received from taxpayers for censoring conservatives without our knowledge so they could steal the previous election.

Imagine accepting taxpayer money from conservatives and then using that same money to censor conservatives.