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The real money is gonna be made from exporting truck nuts.
Well, people first need to want to buy these things. When they realize they are unable to park those things properly, due to our infrasturcture not being made for them, they will return them back.
The people who buy this will feel fantastic about parking them like assholes in a way that it bothers people.
Unfortunately, no, you give people too much credit. It's a status symbol to assholes, and assholes beget assholes. People need to treat them like Teslas were during the DOGE debacle.
People will buy it despite infrastructure not being built for it. And they they will demand that the infrastructure accommodates them. And then they will build new infrastructure taking them into account. And then they'll rebuild the old infrastructure to accommodate them.
There are idiots in Europe too. There are oversized American trucks in Europe too. And they too occupy 4 parking slots if they are European sized instead of America sized.
hopefully also when people treat them and their stupid big vehicles appropriately like shit
Why would anyone in the EU buy them? They are expensive, maintanance nightmare and in most cities to big to drive comfortably. The only reason I can think of is that you need to compensate for a small dick.
I cannot think of anything else the EU could have done to damage it's own brand image as this has. It's clear the EU has it's own oligarch problem.
it's clear the EU has it's own oligarch problem
That is quite the claim to make and calling it "clear"
To quote Wikipedia:
Ibrahimovich.jpg:
I give you defense protection
In return, you give me your lives to American pickup trucks.
This is going to be unpopular opinion, but the EU caving in so quickly to one-sided trade deal, is in return for American protection and arms contracts. With Cheetos in chief in charge, this is the Munich Agreement of our time to bide time, while European arms production gears up. Let's face it, the EU is too weak and reliant to achieve strategic autonomy at the moment, if ever. Several EU members don't even want to increase military spending, because they very well know that this will take away precious funding away from coveted welfare investment, and that will be unpopular for electorates.
EU is being turned into economic colony of the US and China.
EU can't even handle russia in its own back yard.
Recently they tried to shove some green energy reporting requirements on energy companies... Literalyl ex Uk colony qatar, send a letter and told to shut it down.
EU tucked their dicks and did as they are told.
Pathetic.
RAM < Dodge < Stellantis NV
Itโs not even a US company lobbying for this.