FenrirIII@lemmy.world to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoThe Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.swww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square11linkfedilinkarrow-up185arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up185arrow-down1external-linkThe Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.swww.nytimes.comFenrirIII@lemmy.world to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square11linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squarenotsosure@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·3 months agoA typical US problem, quantity over quality.
minus-squareSwingingTheLamp@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·3 months agoIt’s not quite so straightforward. The United States has a deeply broken culture (hyperindividualism, for one thing), and these giant vehicles offer individual balm for the systemic rot. That’s why we can them emotional support vehicles.
minus-squarenotsosure@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 months agoOver here they say: small man syndrome. Or compensation model: small dick, big car.
minus-squareSuccessful_Try543@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 months agoIf you can’t make it better, make it bigger!
A typical US problem, quantity over quality.
It’s not quite so straightforward. The United States has a deeply broken culture (hyperindividualism, for one thing), and these giant vehicles offer individual balm for the systemic rot. That’s why we can them emotional support vehicles.
Over here they say: small man syndrome. Or compensation model: small dick, big car.
If you can’t make it better, make it bigger!