• RGB3x3@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Its tagline (“more utility than a truck, faster than a sports car”) speaks almost poetically to two distinct but orthogonal archetypes of threatened masculinity: the tacti-cool milspec dork, and the showboating rich guy.

    This is fucking hilarious

    "Sometimes you get these late civilization vibes, the apocalypse could come along at any moment, and here at Tesla we have the finest apocalypse technology,” Musk mused.

    What’s that thing about capitalists selling you the apocalypse?

    Maybe the rich survivalists playing out Blade Runner meets Mad Max in their Cybertrucks haven’t considered that when everything burns down, the power grid will go down too.

    I do love this article. These morons buying these trucks are cosplaying as tough guys, but don’t realize how ridiculous it all is.