I was outside shoveling up the last of the snow and what drives by when I lift my head up to see? A fucking cyberstuck. Wow these things look just awful up close. Really does look like a early 90’s vhs player on wheels.

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      Yeah say what you will about them (seriously please, say more things about them), but the only one useful thing they do is provide great big laughs to me and mine whenever we see them.

      So at least they are providing entertainment value to the community.

      Pagliacci’s Clown-Truck.

  • hell yeah. last time i saw one was last summer i think.

    it’s sort of an impressive aesthetic feat to make something that is so remarkable distinct that it can be distinguished from every other vehicle from the very limit of human visual perception.

    but also, the closer you get to it, the uglier and more stupid it looks. and its not even functional, so the contest of form vs. function was lost by both sides.

    the goddamn thing looks like a dishwasher fucked a robocop.

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    I was posted up in Austin, Texas for a month right around when they first launched the Cybertruck. At one point as I was driving in the distance there was a parking lot filled with Cybertrucks, must have been 100+ Cybertrucks, it looked like an N64 game

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    I love that these became some kind of chud-flex, because they really missed the mark in a big way on trying to impress anybody but their own stupid in-group.

    Like, I hate the car-gemony in the united burgers, but I’m still a little baby-brained vroom-vroom pilled and can appreciate neat cars. And it’s like, do you realize what a sweet friggin car you could have gotten for $90k+? You could have had a Viper, a Porsche, hell even an FJ would have at least had some niche-coolness and huge piles of (likely unused) functionality for way less than price, and that is what you chose to get with your fun-car budget?

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    I used to regularly see a matte black one around the neighborhood here and always assumed it probably belongs to the owner of the McMansion down the road covered in trump and israel flags

    Fuckin dumpsters on wheels. Haven’t seen that one in a while so maybe it shit the bed.

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    I feel like Musk’s brand of quasi liberal inventor-investor Tony Stark Ironman shtick has already kind of worn thin around the time of CTs launch, revealing the freak he always was. Obviously the Tesla brand started getting heat for his closeness to Trump and Musk’s own eugenicist etc. politics.

    I do get some satisfaction knowing that the ability of a CT owner to get a reaction out of people is kind of falling off. It seems like primarily only other Musk stans think they’re cool, but if you’re driving one and randos sneer at you for it at least you can tell yourself you’re tirggering the libs. When general audiences just have no reaction, now your status purchase is only worth its usefulness as a vehicle which is probably less than what you paid for it.