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[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 125 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

My neighbor bought a new 64K truck (I know because he constantly mentions the cost) had a lift kit installed for 15K (I know because he constantly mentions the cost) has four kids who are bullies (I know because I see and hear them), and constantly complains about gas prices and property taxes, despite the fact that he is one of two houses in the neighborhood with kids.

Most of property taxes go to fund the public schools, which his children attend. Basically the neighborhood is subsidizing his children's education, but he thinks he deserves to pay less in taxes. I explained this, and he told me I was full of shit, but I think he knew I was right, because he started revving his engine early in the morning the day after that and did it for like two weeks.

Hilariously, he stopped doing it not because I complained -- I'm up early anyway -- but because his wife came out in pajamas and started screaming at him for waking her up. Quite the metaphor for Republicanism.

I gotta get out of this neighborhood.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 month ago (5 children)

But you are so close to the action! Set up a camera and make a documentary!

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 100 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I keep reading shit like that, Gas was too expensive, thanks Biden! Just shifting blame left and right. And hey, I come from the midwest where gas is essential because everything is so goddamn far apart - but I drove a civic.

Oh I'm so sorry you went out, spent way too much on a giant truck, bragged to all your friends how you just have to have a hemi/cummins, did everything you could to reduce efficiency, and now you have to spend even more on gas? What a shame. Just, such a shame.

You don't want to even do a tiny bit of introspection there? I drive an EV now, and they just rage that for a full "fill up" I spend $6. Total. My monthly travel bill (when not riding transit) is now about $15.

[–] leftist_lawyer@lemmy.today 46 points 1 month ago

"Introspection"??? What are ya some commie professor using nerd words nobody can understand? Move back to Oxford ya daisy sniffer!! 😜

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago (10 children)

“I’ll have you know that I use this truck once a year to pull something a sturdy station wagon could handle just fine! And what if you need a really shitty version of a U-Haul? Then who are you gunna call?!? I saved $200 moving that one time and all it cost me was an extra $35k and a gas bill with numbers mathematicians are still trying to describe properly.”

Trucks: If you don’t have a fifth wheel RV then you may just be a complete dipshit.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

God I hate the moving argument, the once a year thing. Yeah once a year I need something large from Home Depot. They have trucks I can rent literally there on site, or I go to the uhaul and rent one for $30 for the entire day. That's not "manly" though to them

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[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 19 points 1 month ago (6 children)

"How can you commute to work with EV that only have a range of 400miles? OP are you lying? I have to travel through mud road through a jungle so you must have too, it's impossible to not drive a diesel tank here."

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[–] takeda@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's all a manufactured outrage. They supposedly buy these cars because "gas is cheap" and then they lament when gas goes few cents up.

BTW: the gas will likely go up when US will decide to put on the final squeeze on Russia. Currently Russia escapes sanctions by selling their oil through intermediaries. This is purposefully ignored right now to keep the oil prices low.

[–] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Much of Russian oil production is going offline and is never coming back anyways. Since the fall of the USSR they haven’t been training engineers at a rate to maintain their own infrastructure. Many of the engineers they do have are nearing retirement age.

As a result don’t have the technical expertise to maintain their own infrastructure oil fields in Siberia. Those fields require oil to flow constantly otherwise the oil will freeze and expand and burst the pipes. The last time this happened was during the fall of the USSR and those well heads took 20 years to come back online and required Western expertise to repair.

They’ve depended on Western companies to build out and maintain those tracts ever since. When those go well heads go offline either through lack of maintenance or through Ukraine attacking storage centers where this oil is kept before its shipped, they won’t come back on again. They will still have tracts of oil fields in the Western part of the country that they can pump, but they will permanently loose a lot of capacity. Your likely to see a Venezuela style gradual drop off in production over the next ten years if they don’t change course and bring back Western expertise.

It doesn’t really matter to the US, we produce a ton of oil domestically and have been switching over our refineries to process it. Europe, China and India will be the ones to really feel the squeeze when Russian oil goes offline.

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[–] bisby@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Well I bet your power bill went way up!" Maybe. But not by as much as my gas station bill went down.

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[–] Omgboom@lemmy.zip 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gas is cheaper right now than it has been in years

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago (5 children)

It was the cheapest I had seen since 2021 last week for like 36 hours and then overnight jumped up 12%.

It always goes down slowly over a three week period and then hits a low for 1 day and then goes up 10% or more overnight.

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[–] Mobiledecay@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I saw a lady apolozing to Trump for not donating because she had to pay her medical bills and was living in disability. So she was basically giving her disability check to Trump every month. 😖

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[–] Evrala@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I work in a gas station, there is a MAGA regular who is constantly complaining about how broke she is, she buys 2 packs of unfiltered camels a day, that's $14.60 a pack, over $800 a month just for cigarettes cause she buys the most expensive packs in the store.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

at those prices meth is cheaper.

[–] noride@lemm.ee 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

At this point, I actually think the meth is more socially acceptable, too.

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[–] Jimbo@yiffit.net 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I find it so funny Americans complaining about gas prices. Where I am in New Zealand, fuel prices are perpetually high because of our location. If my calculations are correct I pay the equivalent of USD$5.67/Gallon for regular (I have to use mid grade). I use a 1.8L Miata infrequently and fuel prices are still pain.

[–] alleycat@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's still incredibly cheap compared to european gas prices. Here in Germany it's (converted to Freedom Units) around US$8/Gallon.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's still really cheap! I'm stationed in Antarctica and here to fill my F150 it's about US15$ per gallon!

[–] NecroParagon@lemm.ee 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Man, you guys. Out here at my homestead on the Jovian moon Ganymede I have to pay $10,500/gal. And don't get me started on the radiation shielding tax.

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[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Surely the immigrants are to blame?? Or the gay kids! Yes, they did this.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Surely the immigrants are to blame??

The Immigrants:

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[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (6 children)

$100k watches? I have seen many instances of the pickup truck driving stereotype but I’ve never seen any of them wearing any sort of watch, let alone an expensive one. Is this specific to some country?

[–] Donut@leminal.space 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's a reference to the 100k Trump watch. So still specific to the US

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[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

I personally have pity for rank and file Republican voters.

They were simply easy marks our education system intentionally failed to teach critical thinking and reason to because obedient laborers don't need that, and were then spoonfed sensationalist lies that appealed to their fears and anxieties, the easiest avenues for indoctrination, for the last half century under the guise of being "news" for the private profit of private shareholders and to turn them into useful idiot dependable votes for those same private shareholders to effectively capture their regulators and government that was once meant to protect us from them.

As just one in an ocean of examples, Fox "News" has been telling these poor sad bastards that "man made climate change is a hoax for scientists to sell books!"

[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago

So what you're saying is, you don't hate the fools, you pity them.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

And all this with the dirt cheap gas prices in the US. In comparison to Europe, gas in the US is nearly free...

[–] unrelatedkeg@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Sorry to hijack your comment, but seeing that "my grandchildren are in my daughters' ovaries post" right above this one and your comment made me wonder:

Why is gas so damn cheap in the US while saying "healthcare is expensive" is a giant understatement.

Compared with Europe, where gas prices are regulated (and gas stations still seem to be doing just fine to the point that new ones keep popping up around where I live at an astounding rate) while it's the healthcare that is subsidised and made availiable to all.

How come? Why aren't gas companies in the US be as greedy as hospitals and pharma there? Why aren't European gas stations few and far between, continuing to barely hold on, fail and ultimately closeleaving Europe gasless?

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[–] NutWrench@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

" . . . and an RV and a garage full of boats and jet skis."

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Oil Industry Guy When Gas Prices Go Up: "Oh no! It costs so much money to drive my big truck and cool my enormous house and afford business class airplane tickets and now I can't afford my Carnival Cruise to Florida! This is the fault of the Evil Communist Green Party Democrats! Only Republicans can fix it!"

Oil Industry Guy When Gas Prices Go Down: "Oh shit! Oh fuck! I'm unemployed, broke, foreclosed on, and drowning in debt! This is the fault of the Evil Communist Green Party Democrats! Only Republicans can fix it!"

Oil Industry Guy When It's Time To Form A Union: "Fuck you, you fucking socialists. I don't need the government to do anything for me. I can pull myself up by my own bootstraps!"

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But during all those scenarios...RECORD PROFITS FOR OIL INDUSTRY

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[–] John_CalebBradberton@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Okay the 70k lifted truck is valid. But I don't think maga people are out there buying 100k watches

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Recently Trump was selling $100K gold watches; I'm assuming it was mostly maga folks who bought them

[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It was almost certainly a way to hide "donations" (bribes), from multimillionaires and billionaires, not random maga poor people

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[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 month ago

Forgot to include giant flags, which I guess you can include as maga merch.

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Man. I stopped on the side of the road the other day to help a guy with a "need gas" sign. I'm not exactly well off myself, but I figured I could give him a ride. "I ain't got no cash, but thanks for stopping!" Dude's driving a pristine pavement princess. Priorities, man...

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[–] SaharaMaleikuhm 13 points 1 month ago

Same, but I ride my bicycle. The fuel is food which I cannot afford.

We are not the same.

[–] Grappling7155@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In anglo Canada we have our own version of this that includes at least 1 oversized Canadian flag, at least 1 “FUCK 🍁 TRUDEAU” and 1 “FREEDOM” optionally also on flags or decals, something sloppily painted in white complaining about coronavirus mandates, and getting more common is something insulting Jagmeet Singh.

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[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Obsolete Biden stickers! Lol I hope they have boxes of these dishonest attacks on a candidate who's not running anymore...

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

dont forget donating shit tons to trump campaign

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

7 political signs in their yard, always wears a ua fReEdOm t-shirt, a hat with a flag on it, and their wife looks absolutely miserable all the time.

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[–] SwordInStone@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

15 mpg means roughly 15.7l/100km for the sane folk

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's such awful mileage in 2024. God damn, there's excavators with better numbers 😂

[–] ZMoney@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Listen how can I get a quart of milk from the store without also taking two chairs, a loveseat, a sound system, my heater and air conditioning unit, some steel armor plating, and a storage unit?

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[–] cows_are_underrated 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Even if you drive a small car being forced to pay about 15% of your total income just to get to work is still fucking expensive. And no, public transport or bike isnt a suitable option for everyone.

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (18 children)

And no, public transport or bike isnt a suitable option for everyone.

So we need to build infrastructure for it. And more electric cars charged with greener fuel sources.

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