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this falls into the “Pol Pot” category of things leftists should care about
Pickup drivers don’t deserve “the wall”. We’re not going to kill pickup drivers.
Lifted pick-ups: yes
Normal working man pick-ups: No
Lifted trucks can be good for working too. I have a lifted f-350 which is totally a work vehicle. Try carrying 3000lbs of gravel over rough off road terrain with out a lift kit. The only other way to do that is with a tractor which is even more expensive then the truck.
I’ve been wanting to get a lift kit for my ford ranger because the dirt road i live on floods almost monthly, and i can barely clear it with my current setup.
Thats a hell of a lot flooding. Would over sized tires work? they would provide some extra lift and be wider so less danger of getting caught in a current.
Pickup trucks are no vehicle of the “working man”. Trucks cost far more than a car and consume way more gasoline. Trucks are only advertised as the “working man’s vehicle” so that bourgies can cosplay as proles.
edit/ To all the people commenting that pickup trucks are a tool in the production process, ie means of production. What is the name of the economic class that performs labor but also owns their own means of production? Not the proletariat.
edit2/ I read all of the replies to this post. I don’t want to reply to them all.
I know that owning tools does not make you bourgeois. I know that owning a pickup truck does not make you bourgeois. I know that bringing your own tools to your wage work does not make you bourgeois.
I may have worded my post poorly. This post was meant to be an observation of how pickup trucks are inaccessible to most working class people.
Plenty of jobs require pickup trucks. Basically anything where you might regularly need to tow something or haul awkwardly-sized material on a regular basis. Think construction, lawn care, maintenance, agriculture, mining, etc. Tons of people buy them as an unnecessary status symbol, sure, but there are tons of real uses for them.
We need utes and small unibody trucks for this. There are like 7 people in the world that need an F-250 to tow around an entire herd of horses. Most people with trucks treat them exactly the same as they’d treat a station wagon. Kids in the back, big slobbery dog in the far back, spends 99% of its time on the road with only the driver inside, never used for towing.
Half of the trucks sold now have premium leather interiors and cost mercedes benz money for what’s essentially going to be a bigger commuter car with poorer fuel economy than an f1 car.
Trucks cost far more than a car and consume way more gasoline.
The old school light F-150 style trucks are on par with your sedan and far more efficient than the land-yacht SUV. The new comically oversized “I can’t fit my car inside my garage anymore” shit not as much.
Even then, I’d simply ask whether you’re using that flat-bed for anything. Like, if you’re actually doing construction or maybe you’re in sales and you periodically need a truck to do deliveries? Fine. Maybe you legit go fishing or camping on a regular basis? Also fine.
But the assholes that just find the biggest fucking vehicle on the market and do donuts on the inner loop? Fuck you sideways. 100% get the wall.
oh no oh no we’re ascribing moral value to individual consumption again! fuck! shit!
I know plenty of tradesmen and other manual laborers who own pickup trucks and get tons of use out of them. Have you ever met a contractor or farmer?
You’re talking about petty bourgies and not proles. You say that the person uses the truck in their labor production process. That makes the truck a means of production. Then you say that the person owns the truck, meaning that the person owns their means of production. Owning their means of production makes them not a prole, but instead a member of the petty bourgeoisie.
So I bring my own knives to my cooking job. This is because most kitchens are too cheap to provide decent quality knives if any at all. A lot of construction related stuff you have to bring your own tools as well. A truck is a single tool that can be part of the means of production not the entirety of it. You’re still working for a boss, you just need to buy a truck for you to use for him as well.
It really depends on the work. They can be a tool like a tractor or a skid steer, or a object to show off with for country cred in the burbs.
People who really use them as a tool don’t always daily drive them. example being Andrew Camarata on youtube. He dailys a small Mitsubishi SUV. And before you say something about it still being an SUV, you should see the road to get to his house.
owning a truck that you use for your job doesn’t make you bourgeois literally what the fuck are you talking about
Like others said, work trucks, unmodded trucks and even lifted trucks that have clearly been used for their intended purpose are generally fine.
It’s the BroDozer drivers that get the wall. Living in Texas, these people are all around me, and they’re usually upper-middle class white guys who either got one purely as a status symbol, or because they think that owning a pristine looking, jacked up, Dodge RAM 3500 dually with smokestacks and an LED strip somehow makes them a Redneck. And when that truck isn’t parked in front of their half a million dollar gated community McMansion, it’s usually sitting parked at their PMC job, or their small business, or barely fitting into a single parking space at the store, and is rarely, if ever, used for anything that a motorcycle couldn’t do. It’s pure dick-waving excess from some of the worst people in Amerikan society.
but they’re critical for the revolution :technical:
