• afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Step 1: don’t buy the largest possible vehicle. Buy at or near at what the minimum will work for you is.

    Step 2: enjoy a vehicle you can afford

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          1 year ago

          Oh no! Not some random person I’ve never met trying to insult my dick size. What ever will I do?!?

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            Learn some self control and don’t speak out loud every thought that pops into your brain. This is called “self control” as is a sign of a mature and developed persoanlity.

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              Oh boo, did calling that other poster disconnected from economic reality for most Americans make you feel something bad? I’m sorry I’ll make sure to use my self control to do it again in the future.

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                  Rich. Rich to have a car, any car, you can afford. Half of all Americans are below 37k a year in income. If you’re missing the reference, McDonald’s published a suggested budget for it’s employees that was hilariously out of touch and included a second job.

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                    Gotcha. I am rich now because I bought a sensible used economy car that I plan to maintain to the point where it can no longer be maintained. This makes me rich. Hey everyone look at how lavish my lifestyle is! I bought a 2008 Honda Civic with no extras off a lease in 2013 and still drive it. This is like using silk toiletpaper after eating a meal of caviar on my private boat rich. Me telling people to not buy more vehicle than they need is rich people advice and instead everyone should go out and what exactly? Buy more vehicle than they need?

                    Go find another strawman to attack you clearly aren’t listen to me you are listening for the arguments you want me to say.

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                Again the lack of self-awareness needed to admit you couldn’t fill in the blank with anything is astonishing.

                Perhaps you aren’t just giving off small dick energy, you’re a moron and an asshole too.

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                  Are you having a stroke? No really, the best you could come up with is a hamfisted description of Dunning-Kruger?

                  Shocked.

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        Who said a car is supposed to be a source of joy. A car moves you from point A to B, you might be able to find joy in either of those two places but the consumerism of financing a larger than necessary purchase is pretty fleeting.

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          LOL you just had happen to you what the country did to Jimmy Carter who dared to say that people might spend a little less since the economy wasn’t’ happy. It’s why Reagan got elected and we’ve never recovered.

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          Who said a car is supposed to be a source of joy

          Ummmmm, OP i replied to? Step 2…

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        LOL this isn’t like the 1950s which were filled with propaganda films touting freedom on the road. No, we’re in a world that is slowly collapsing economically and people have to stop chasing the shiny and focus on what they need. Let the monkey brain rest for a while, it will always want more shinies.