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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

Let's face it, the people dumb enough to buy one of these probably aren't raising college material.

Someone actually did think of the children. Not in a good way, though.

[–] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.world 8 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I went to public university in , and not only was it free but we got a monthly allowance. It wasn’t some subpar education, I managed to get a 6-figure salary working in the US for a Fortune 200 company until I decided to move back earlier this year.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 points 47 minutes ago* (last edited 45 minutes ago)

Next thing you gonna tell me highschoolers working part-time during schooldays like they do in US is not much accepted in because they are encouraged to study.

And then you are gonna tell me "I don't want 16 year olds to be making as much money as me" doesn't come up in mimimum wage arguments.

And then you are gonna take it up a step and even tell me religious people including Muslim priests especially support this as having Nobel-candidate Muslim scientists in their community helps a lot.

[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Tbf I have more respect for enthusiast car ownership than many other types of cars.

I walk most places, take the train and limit the use of my own car. (mazda6 estate) Hard to do now that I have a three year old.

I would love an El Camino with an 400hp xl engine. A completely useless car that will be mostly tinkering and some summer driving. A Shelby is a nice car, and if cars are a hobby I say go for it.

I have more issues with oversized cars clogging up my town on what could have been done with a bike or by foot

[–] MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 39 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

There's so many depressing layers to that joke. Like a sad, sad capitalist onion laughing at its own rotting core.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 3 hours ago

Most of the comments here belong to r/orphanCrushingMachine, or the lemmy equivalent.

[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 13 points 12 hours ago

haha,

unnafordable education is funny

haha,

fuck them kids

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 23 points 13 hours ago

To be fair, there's a good chance that there isn't much of a future for kids cuase you know ..... gestures to everything

[–] El_guapazo@lemmy.world 26 points 13 hours ago

The Micheal Jordan meme has entered the chat.fk them kids- Michael Jordan

[–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 25 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Crazy how college is so expensive in the US that your parents gotta start saving 20 years in advance.

(Im guessing this is the US and also seeing this banner just gave me that thought)

[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

A car is cheaper than most colleges.

[–] greenhorn@lemm.ee 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

That car starts at $110,000 USD, about the same as in-state cost of attendance in Michigan where the mustang is made and Nevada where Shelby is based

[–] Allemaniac@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

holy fuck ya'll are getting ripped off so badly, even Mao Zedong had more empathy for his people lmao

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

This ad seems aimed at people who think you can still "work your way through college" without debt.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

Sooooo. Middle aged people? Or are we now dealing with those going into retirement.

I think I'm technically "middle aged" now.... No idea how that happened... But I know better than to think you can work your way through college and not come out the other side with a crushing amount of debt....

My country subsidized my education, and provided me with a loan to attend college. I finally paid it off some 20-ish years after I started college.

I've never seen a six-figure salary, despite probably being owed one, but the top rate I can find for my vocation in my local area is around $80k/yr or about 50-60k USD/yr.

Yet, if I go to the USA, and get the exact same job, I can make $80k+ USD, which would easily push me over $100k/yr in my country's currency.

If you guessed I'm from Canada, you may have looked at my username, and noted my home Lemmy instance.

International students pay something like 5x what Canadian citizens do for college/uni (at least they did, the last time I checked), and my local provincial government set up a student assistance program, which provides loans to college/uni students.

I still walked out of college with over $40k in debt and this was in the mid 2000s. Costs have only gone up.

I support student loan forgiveness. It won't help me at all, but I don't really want anyone else to have to go through what I did trying to pay everything back.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 129 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

There's a lot more to unpack here then it being a car ad.

"old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in" is a completely foreign concept in modern society.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 55 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

On the part of the company as well.

If your customer's kids go to college, they'll grow up to earn more money that they can spend on pointless expensive cars in the future.

But we need to chop down that tree for firewood. Not because they're cold, but because they like a nice pile of firewood.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 41 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 hours ago

ofc. Could you imagine if they DIDN'T create value for shareholders?? SHUDDER Unthinkable.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 12 points 17 hours ago

Future not matter, only current fiscal quarter matter.

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[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 57 points 18 hours ago

The most narcissistic generation of parents yet.

[–] Cocopanda@lemmy.world 17 points 16 hours ago

Just to cut off the rage bait. This would have to be at least a 4-5 year old sign. They stopped selling the GT350R in 21 I think. So this car is not readily available to buy anymore. And it’s worth even more now. It’s just a silly joke. There’s like maybe a nine hundred GT350R’s in existence. I would rather the Mach1 with the track attack package. But I enjoy my Gen3 Coyote in my 2019 GT. I barely drive it as it is and usually take my eBike everywhere. I only have a eBike because of spinal nerve damage. I can go for hours on it. Where a normal bike wears me out by the first hour.

[–] einlander@lemmy.world 192 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 214 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

On the contrary, this speaks directly to their target audience

[–] stinerman@midwest.social 118 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Fry: Sorry, I'm not here to buy.

Car Dealer: I understand, and it's wonderful that you don't care whether anyone questions your sexual orientation.

Fry: I care! I care plenty! But I just don't know how to make them stop!

Car Dealer: One word: Thundercougarfalconbird.

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 51 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

What sharp wit those writers had. Futurama will never leave my cadre of favorite TV shows.

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[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 42 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Boomers and GenX whose parents paid for their college.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 33 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Or who could afford college with “a summer job.”

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 22 points 21 hours ago

Or those who didn't go to college, and bought a house soon after getting a "professional" job out of high school, and wondering why more lazy kids aren't doing the same

[–] aislopmukbang@sh.itjust.works 112 points 22 hours ago

Alternatively: Die wondering why your kids don't talk to you

[–] drsilverworm@midwest.social 15 points 16 hours ago

This picture is almost 10 years old now, definitely from the beforetimes

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 61 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

It is amazing how the Nepo baby parasite class was able to convince the boomers to not help their children.

As if there is a class war going on out there lol

Kicking kids out at 18 was so in vogue 20 years ago. Boomers are fucking caricatures.

I wonder if that still happens

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 33 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Yeah I think something that people who didn't grow up upper middle class in the US don't realize is that a good chunk of the kids who grew up upper middle class in the US have this weird relationship with their parents where their parents refused to accept them into their economic class, or at least refused to acknowledge their children are entering a completely different life experience and economic class than they did.

I think it stems from a sense that their quality of life as people living the american dream enshittified over their entire lifetime and now the only way out of it is to admit they have built a way of seeing the world that is utterly blind to the most critical things and they simply refuse to do that, full stop.

(I don't mean this is as "feel bad for us upper middle class kids" at all, no pity needed... I am simply pointing out how fucking weird it is, how hollow the whole american experience is even sometimes for the children of successful parents, it emphasises how the US pysche really is a pathology.)

There will never be a generation of humans that will do more damage to Earth and the future lives of human beings than upper-middle class boomers, it simply won't be possible without the extinction of humanity. If any future generation does it will lead to the extinction of the human species, and if any generation before us betrayed the human species as deeply we simply wouldn't be here to talk about it as we would already be extinct.

I know focusing on it as a generational thing isn't helpful in a lot of ways, I recognize that and I don't blindly hate boomers or anything, I love talking to people older than me they often have so much wisdom to learn (and often have transmuted that wisdom into a killer humor too) I just wish there were more of those older people and less of the older people that I have learned I have to actively not listen to because their advice/help is so unhelpful it is worse than nothing by a margin as wide as climate change is dire.

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[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The Mustang has been the car of choice for mid-life crises for a long time.

[–] arin@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Corvette is mid-life crisis, Mustang is what enlisted military get

[–] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Nailed it. I visited JB Andrews when my best buddy was still in. I had a good chuckle at the parking lots where every 3rd vehicle was a mustang.

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[–] telllos@lemmy.world 32 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Education shouldn't cast a sports car.

[–] epicstove@lemmy.ca 18 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Wiggles fingers over math textbook

"I CAST... SPORTS CAR!!!"

Points ruler at the PA system

Tate Mcrae plays over the PA

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Yay Capitalism!

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 17 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

That's probably the worst ad I've ever seen.

So anyway, I'm buying foreign.

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[–] Coldgoron@lemmy.zip 36 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

If my dad was an advertisement.

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[–] BubblyRomeo@kbin.earth 26 points 22 hours ago (13 children)

I don't align with the fuckcars movement. But what the fuck is this Ad? Who thought it would be "great marketing stratedgy"? Whoever came up with this Ad should be fired!

[–] Soleos@lemmy.world 23 points 22 hours ago

Someone who looked around and saw a much larger demographic of "fuck you, I got mine"-ers who resent their responsibilities.

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