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[โ€“] 75 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Not to mention that they are extremely wasteful and not good for the environment and our roads. If a small car and SUV went into a head collision the chance of survival of the passengers in the smaller car are much lower.

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  • [โ€“] 17 points 2 years ago

    Bigger car = safer is exactly the kind of backwards thinking which causes so many people to unnecessarily buy big cars. The entire concept of Chelsea Tractors comes from middle-class parents thinking they need to do the school run in a tank so little Tarquin and Lilliput will be safe. We have Euro NCAP safety ratings for cars, judge the safety based on the actual tests!

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  • [+] -59 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    That's one of the reasons I prefer being in the big truck

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  • [โ€“] 58 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    This is why I drive a tank. Fuck other people, only I matter.

    Once the shells come in I am firing at construction sites to keep housing prices high.

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  • [โ€“] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    This is the same logic Americans use with gun ownership and look how well that's working out.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Hey, if I could own a welrod or even a goddamned slingshot without breaking the law here, I would.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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    Because maybe I want to relive my glory days as a youth with a toy projectile-thing and not go deaf because our laws require the gun be fucking loud as shit and big over here in murica. ยฏ\_(ใƒ„)_/ยฏ

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago

    Ohh. You're complaining you can't own a less lethal weapon, I interpreted it as you couldn't own a lethal weapon at all where you lived. I don't understand why you'd want a lethal weapon at all, that's insane to me.

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  • [+] -89 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    which would you rather your children be transported in

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  • [โ€“] 92 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Uh... The best case scenario is two smaller cars. Riding a bigger car to protect yourself is not only extremely selfish, but entirely counterproductive as you encourage other people to do the same. This is very much a tragedy of the commons situation.

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  • [โ€“] 32 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Indeed. What happened with cars in the US is an โ€œarms raceโ€ on the road. Everyone wants to be in the bigger car so they just get bigger and bigger and reach a point where that e=mcยฒ equation is pegged.

    max selfishness โ†’ max energy

    As expected, right-wing U.S. republicans disproportionately drive big cars. While liberals tend to favor small cars or bicycles.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The EPA essentially banned station wagons and people realized you can have spacious, often luxurious, vehicles for their children and whatever shit they're carrying. I prefer mid-sized sedans, but I only have dogs.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 2 years ago

    Thanks for demonstration how being a parent can actually make you a worse person. Your children, or OPs for that matter, deserve to be safe and secure only as much as anyone else's, despite what your hormones may have convinced you.

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