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I can no longer tell what is and is not satire. (mander.xyz)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/25971320

Is this a joke? What else could be under that tarp? It even has a little flap for the plug.

I feel my ability to understand satire is being attacked by reality.

And I checked the comments and its a mix of musk riding:

"I don’t understand how people get so easily manipulated into hating someone that has done so much to change our life’s. Elon is great man and is doing great things for our country and uncovering so much corruption and honestly he needs more credit"

or thinking this is a joke:

"That’s not hiding the fact that there’s a swastikar under it"

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Oh yeah totally looks like a F150. Good job 👍

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What a shitty ass car tarp

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Its even ripped already

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

That's for refilling the meme tank.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No wonder we don’t buy US cars in Europe - in which city center could that monster fit in?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Moscow

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Nope, its pretty narrow and Tesla would be there simply stolen

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

In scrap parts*

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I dont think the owner of this car would care about the disgusting lower class meat or their so called opinions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

If you can tell what car it is even when it's under a tarp it's a bad design.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What a weird take.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

My point that nobody seems to be able to actually get is that if you are making a car it should look like a car.

It shouldn't look like a weird art installation because ultimately it has to work as a functional vehicle first and foremost. And part of that is not being in death trap to everyone in the local environment. There's some reason these things aren't sold in Europe.

If a car is unsafe then it has failed in its most fundamental aspect of being a useful vehicle. Because a unsafe car is not a car that you can use.

The only reason these things are allowed on the roads in the US is that the US don't actually care about their own citizens well-being.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I hate Tesla as much as the next guy, but recognizing a thing with just a silhouette doesn’t mean it’s a bad design, it just means it’s unique and memorable

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Cars shouldn't be memorable at least not by their silhouette. Cause all the shape that they are because that is the shape that is optimum for a car to be. So if a car is memorable by its silhouette then that means it's not an optimum shape.

Whoever designed that vehicle doesn't have a grasp of the aerodynamic concepts, so I assume it was Elon himself.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Usually I’d let this go but by all principles of design and all historic reality you’re just wrong. You want “optimum shape” wtf are you even talking about? Optimum for what? You talking aerodynamics? Because newsflash, check last 30 years of F1 with as optimized aero as it gets and it’s a spec car … yet they still have brilliant unique and recognizable designs. Idk what a designer did to you to be so salty about this but you’re just wrong and it’s a very weird hill to dig yourself onto

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

No I'm talking about how it doesn't conform to safety regulations which for some bizarre reason appear to be optional in the United States.

Cars have to conform to certain requirements in order to be a functional vehicle part of being a functional vehicle is to be a legal vehicle. If it's so goddamn angular that you would cut a pedestrian in half upon impact then it isn't functional.

Racing cars aren't really relevant because racing cars aren't meant to be around the rest of the public so they can do whatever they want.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

If you want to launch into a completely different and separate conversation about safety and street legality of the cybertruck here we can but the short of it is - I agree that swastikar shouldn’t be road legal.

HOWEVER, your initial claim was about how the design should not be recognizable under a tarp and that it’s a bad design if it is. That’s just objectively false.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Username checks out

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That's just false. Some of the most beautiful cars ever made have such distinct body lines that most car enthusiasts could easily pick them out even when covered in a tarp.

Yes I picked one that is comically easy because of the giant wing, but I'm using it on purpose. Simply because a car can be identified while coverd doesn't mean it's bad design.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Your example car looks like a bad design also. Some people may really like the truck design, I mean, think about all the crap that becomes popular.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That car got kicked out of NASCAR for being too fast and winning all the time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I stand corrected, it is a good design for racing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Roadrunner?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

It's actually Elon musk under that blanket

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Truly no one else in history has ever or will ever again design a car after their rib cage. You've done it, Elmo, you've invented something in your life!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

I thought it was Saddam Hussein for a second.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Fucking brilliant

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

Why is he wrapping that dumpster?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

JFC that car is humongous. I could fit my small car twice under that tarp, with room to spare. Or that guy is tiny.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I could practically fit my apartment under that tarp

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

it’s not, the person is actually a midget

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

They barely fit in parking spaces

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, I would feel so ridiculous, propelling this whole fucking boat just to move my ass to the grocery store...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Swasticar owners take no publicity is bad publicity to heart. Get that attention in one way or another!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Makes you wonder "why not put it in your garage" but then oh yeah, because tiny man want big truck to feel big, so big he can't park it in his garage anymore

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think one would fit in my garage...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Edmund's spec sheet gives a height of 70.5in (5'10.5) so he's probably around 5'6

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

A bit of him is probably very tiny.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Swastiboat with sparky tail butt plug

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

Ah yes the F-150 with the sharply angled roof.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Finally something in which I can flex my specific knowledge of the human world!

It is a joke: the shape of the truck is quite peculiar and covering hides none of its typical features.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Are you sure? I didn't see any tags. Best to be safe and assume this is something serious and malicious.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I don't see any tag in your reply I'll therefore assume you are being serious and malicious.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Lmao, this is obviously a troll.

It's not even satire, just straight up trolling.

When you use the cover, guess what gets blocked? The cameras.

So no more sentry mode.

This just makes the cybertruck an even more attractive target.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

i think the actual purpose is to prevent water damage

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's a dust cover, not a waterproof tarp.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah, so the purpose is to trap in moisture to accelerate that coveted patina

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Coveted Patina is also the less successful sequel to Stephen King's Needful Things.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Nice

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Lord knows that car can’t do so by itself.

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