I think you misunderstood. I do not intended to interact with you or your childish and frankly laughable insults anymore. You can talk but you will be the only one participating. Have a nice life or don’t. I do not care.

Lol. Someone is going to write a script to populate a bunch of posts from random individuals living in the US with the message “Fuck Israel” just to fuck with this idiot.

Ah. So a troll then. Because clearly either you haven’t been paying attention to any of the protests going on in the US for the last decade, or you’re just insistent on being an asshole regardless of facts. Either way, go away. I do not have the time or the crayons. Especially not if we’re resorting to name calling. I’ll save my best insults for someone worthy of factual information.

When was the French revolution again? Oh yeah 1794. This comment was a joke to start with and it was a bad one. The French have a history of revolt and they have been a country longer than the US by something like 10 centuries. I get that people want to make fun of the US and our “revolution mentality” or whatever but let’s be real their last revolution happened around the same time the founding of our country happened. It’s not my fault you don’t know history.

https://historycollection.com/20-times-americans-rebelled-against-their-government/

Ahem. The US government has a habit of stamping that shit out but it has happened plenty of times in US history.

Once people get desperate enough, probably. Once people are actual starving. But by then it will be too late.

Yeah. Like. I get it. People are pissed because passenger vehicles in the US keep getting bigger and more unweildy and people don’t want them on the road because of the danger to pedestrians.

But at the same time, the people who service your roads, power lines and water systems and respond to emergency situations still have to drive on them.

Just because he’s being overdramatic about his own vehicle doesn’t mean he’s not right.

I am not denying the danger. Take a moment to understand that just because the vehicle is dangerous doesn’t mean anything as far as this particular complaint is concerned. My point had exactly zero percent of anything to do with what you’re arguing.

Even if this truck were lower to the ground (like the F150-F350 trucks of the 1990’s and early 2000’s) that still wouldn’t necessarily equate to a turning radius that would allow such a vehicle (looking at you fucking ambulances built on an F350 chassis) to turn the corner without edging into oncoming traffic which is against the law and is unsafe.

You can stop yelling at me. I’m not a yee yee truck driver. I’m not saying that this is meant to be a normal commuter vehicle.

I even agree with you that they’re dangerous. I never advocated for them to be used by everyday people. But they don’t require a CDL. Nor do they require any special license. And municipality’s use them all over for various tasks. So if the municipality uses a vehicle like that in normal operations the road should be able to safely accommodate it.

@rapist1 I see you don’t like me calling attention to your edgy ass name.

No. Lots of people bought them before it became public known what a shitshow Musk is. They bought them because they wanted to limit their environmental impact, the cars were fairly cheap (with the tax credit), and they had a new tech cool factor.

Now their valuation is in flux and people don’t want to buy them for multiple reasons including all the bad shit you listed, but let’s be real here, they can’t sell it for an equivalent vehicle and a lot of people don’t have the money to go without transportation for work or school to make a political statement.

If you buy a Tesla now? Yeah. I’d agree you’re cosigning all that bad shit. But there’s lot of people still driving them who can’t afford to just buy another vehicle who didn’t know and aren’t doing that.

It sounds to me like you haven’t been in a Ford truck for some time and you’re basing your opinion on safety rating information for certain events where the occupants aren’t wearing seatbelts and don’t take the proper precautions to prevent things from flying around the vehicle in a crash.

No offense but vehicles are better built for safety now than they were the previous 5 years, 10 years, 20 years etc. But this isn’t about safety in the event of a crash. If you mean ability to see pedestrians in front, this is true but it also has nothing to do with their ability to safely turn a corner without going into incoming traffic to do so.

Newer vehicles generally have better turning radii than older ones. I know for a fact that there are some passenger vehicles on the road including municipal working vehicles and ambulances that can’t make that turn safety without jumping the curb. With those rods extended upward vertically the front or rear bumper of a larger vehicle with a worse turning radius can’t clear that without breaking the law and swinging into oncoming traffic.

There is a reason that the law states that you must drive as if there are other people on the road.

As far as the argument about not all roads being required to support all vehicles, every road should generally be able to facilitate an ambulance being driven on it (not even in an emergency situation, but in general).

So while I admit that his personal truck can safely make that turn with no problem, that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have a point.

I would love to hear from a civil engineer or city planning engineer about this.

I’m from an old American city with some of the narrowest roads and residential streets and I wouldn’t discount his argument just because it doesn’t effect him.

I have a question. How do you organize 23.1 million people across 3,796,742 sqare miles of territory when the government just has the ability to jam communications?

What are the logistics of getting food and clean water to 340,000,000 people over that amount of territory? Whose going to do that?

How many people are stocking dry goods, know how to build and sustain a fire for heating and cooking, and own even a rudimentary generator? If you’re talking about armed rebellion there’s a lot that goes into it and when you get right down to it the government holds the keys to quite a lot of stuff.

What stops all those people who don’t oppose the government and will fight you from stymying every armed rebellion we manage to orchestrate?

You are someone who doesn’t think about the scale of what you are suggesting or the logistics. It’s nice to have the aspirations but you really gotta figure this stuff out before you suggest people get armed for something they also don’t understand the scale or logistics for.

This isn’t about defeatism. This is a reality check. If you don’t know the capabilities of your government you don’t know what you’re talking about. It’s clear to me that you don’t and you haven’t thought about this.

Movies do not teach you how long rebellions take or that it’s not about individual battles but about the ability to logistically survive to keep fighting. Your comment comes off as if you expect this to be a singular battle. It won’t be.

There are better ways to oppose a government that is acting against the population than to try direct violent force.

We are outgunned. Believe me the government spends more on military spending than it does on literally anything else. Our military industrial complex is extremely well funded.

If you don’t think about how people work, you assume that people are willing to take a bullet in order to rebell. What you lack understanding of is that they hold the threat of the use of their fire power over the vast majority of us and all it will take to quell the kind of rebellion you’re talking about is for them to sacrifice a single moderate sized city. They level a city and I can pretty much guarantee that people will back down.

Think about what happened when the BLM protests were happening. There were absolutely calls for violence from BLM leadership. The vast majority of people involved in those protests didn’t want violence and most of them didn’t want damage to property (even in left leaning parts of the population).

At the time I reminded people that you can’t have a rebellion without damage to property and the death of people. Real change almost never happens that way when you’re dealing with a fascist regime.

People did not want to hear it then and they don’t want to hear it now. They are not going to get trained and armed because that is too real. That is escalates this to what amounts to civil war and almost none of them are so attached to the idea of freedom and liberty from oppression that they are willing to go that far.

They’re worried about the Walgreens down the street or the target or whatever it is that gives them quality of life. They’ve never seen an active war zone and they literally don’t have any comprehension of even the idea of what a large military strike looks like when it’s happening to you.

So don’t tell me they’re going to grab their guns and fight the government. It’s likely they won’t even get that far.

January 6th involved less than 3000 people and the only reason they weren’t repelled with prejudice is because the idiot in chief ordered capital police and officials to stand down.

And for the record, the rich and powerful will absolutely just leave and nuke us from orbit. They have that ability. They don’t need to stick around.

There are more firearms than people in the US. The problem is the vast majority of them are owned by people who are cool with how the government is being run at the moment. Even if they weren’t, our government is perfectly capable of drone strikes. We the people are outgunned.

You could have picked any name and that’s the one you chose?

This isn’t meant to be a hate comment or anything like that, but a closed mouth don’t get fed. I think it’s good that there’s discourse about this browser and every browser, pointing out the scummy things they do. If we didn’t do that there would never be any backlash and most people who know these things now wouldn’t know.

Not every truck a municipality’s public works department uses is this size. You don’t need special licensing to drive a dual wheel F350 long bed, and I’d wager that might be a problem to turn that corner depending on what it has in it. If they need to replace signs, or even just do road work, they need to be able to turn that corner. I have a lot of questions about this.

What happens when it’s an ambulance (a lot of those are built on f450 chassis and don’t require a CDL).

Any municipal vehicle. They don’t get sewage backups or anything? They never need an ambulance?

No offense but that’s a basic F150 Ram 1500. It’s got one of the shortest beds of the lineup.

A vehicle with a longer bed or dual wheels, or even with a trailer (say a municipal vehicle for the sake of argument) might have trouble making that turn. It’s not necessarily that his personal truck can’t do it. Just because his truck can doesn’t mean all vehicles can.

It needs to be safe enough for all vehicles that might have to travel that road.

No problem. I have ad blockers on ad blockers but I can see how it might be problematic for people on more locked down hardware.