cross-posted from: https://lemmy.crimedad.work/post/64788
cross-posted from: https://pixelfed.crimedad.work/p/crimedad/677571022315439525
We used to be a country
Not a bad photo, terrible title.
It was either that or “Why can’t we have reasonably sized pickups like this anymore?”.
That would’ve been better, honestly.
Everybody’s a critic!
Sorry, dude. Figured I’d be semi constructive rather than just a downvote. I haven’t seen one like that since the SSR.
That is true.
It helps to “know your audience”
Yes, I was wrong on two assumptions: that people would check Wikipedia to find out that this car was discontinued in 1987 and that there was any consensus that that wasn’t a great year in the USA.
Oh, so you really suck at titles, and context.
What are we now op?
We’re a bizarre Rhodesia of living rooms on wheels.
Fuck that unrecognised state.
Now you’re getting it.
Yeah, you’re pushing shitty politics in a photography sub. Fuck off.
Alright, I give up. What’s your problem?
You expressed feelings of nostalgia, but phrased them in way that may by implication indicate fault in current regime. It’s called blame, and you know what they say… You can’t spell “blame” without “lame”.
The only implications one can reasonably find in my post are that the trucks are too big these days and that cars looked cooler from about 1982 to 1987 than they do now. “We used to be a country” is an embarrassingly melodramatic phrase on its face, which is why we have fun with it as a meme now. Of course, some people also have fun contriving implications in whatever they look at and I suppose that’s just their business.
Hey! That’s Atlantic City! That’s where I’m from
That’s probably the Boss’s car lol
Seaside Heights actually! It’s certainly a boss’s car lol.
But now we’re a car?
Always have been.
I was expecting this to be about Texas and the car to have swangas
What’s a swangas?
Weird rims with like big chariot spike types of things. I might be mis-remembering/-spelling the name. Google should show some … Interesting? Picture
Oh cool I didn’t know those had a name.
Still are, but we used to be.