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Most of the other responses are about their choice of fireball. One good house party would change these nerds' lives.

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[–] pooh@hexbear.net 76 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Leftists really should embrace monster trucks. I've been saying this for awhile.

I once had this idea to crowd source buying this giant Lenin head and mounting it to a monster truck frame:

Would be even cooler if you added custom laser eyes and flames shooting out of his nose or something.

[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 55 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That pic makes it look like a Diglett Lenin.

[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago

we gotta dig him up!

[–] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

We need Soviet Dugtrio

[–] dannoffs@hexbear.net 51 points 2 years ago (4 children)
[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Better yet, the ZIL-E167 was a real Soviet truck.

[–] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

pulling up to my costco in this

[–] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

I need it to fit a months worth of fizzy water cases in (I'm trying to cut back on drinking)

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

That thing is fucking massive! Like thousands of feet tall. Those sparks would melt the crowd

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[–] dannoffs@hexbear.net 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Welcome to the Democratic People's Republic of Diesel.

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Mount Comrade Lenin's head on a Kei Monster Truck.

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[–] Aquilae@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

~~Tankie~~ Truckie

[–] RedQuestionAsker2@hexbear.net 64 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Eh, it's all aesthetics.

"Slamming a cold one into the capital", monster trucks, and the "dudes will see this image and say hell yeah" type of dudebro humor is really just one degree away from early 2000's "epic bacon" style comedy. If you're guy and don't like these things, you pretty much just politely get told you're gay because even innocuous forms of masculinity demand compliance.

On the other hand, calling it "redneck shit" is just naked classism. While I also don't find a truck with big wheels to be rad, arguing about it is just a platform to be condescending.

I don't even know why I wrote this out. I was gonna stop reading after I saw "look, he's probably fascist, BUT..."

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 42 points 2 years ago

In my personal experience, at least some of the performative masculinity dude bros are actually pretty okay because they just want people to have fun and they cant conceive that people have fun in ways different to theirs.

On the other hand, fun police libs almost always come from a place of wanting to wield a modicum of perceived power over others and are fucking insufferable to be around.

[–] CommunistBear@hexbear.net 50 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In my communist utopia, the only cars that still exist outside of necessary work functions are monster trucks. If I can't watch truckasaurus eat a smaller car, what's even the point?

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 51 points 2 years ago

Actualizing the total extinction of cars via Truckasaurus

[–] leftofthat@hexbear.net 46 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I went to a monster truck rally with my kids and it was better than any ballgame I've ever been to hands down

[–] LeylaLove@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

Old lady neighbor got free Monster Jam tickets and gave them to my family when I was a second grader. One of the best memories I have from my childhood. I was obsessed with the Yankees, but Monster Jam was way better than watching the Yankees play

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[–] GoAdventureTo6665RutledgeDriveFairfaxStation@hexbear.net 46 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

oh lol iirc that guy actually got banned from like half a dozen instances and even from shitjustworks for posting multiple extremely transphobic rants

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Mfw transphobic scratched libs pretend to care about trans rights so that they can justify being genocide joe fanboys surprised-pika

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

They must have been really bad, because in my experience most instances don't care about banning transphobes. Not a shocker that he's still posting on .world, because they definitely don't care over there.

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Dudes will see a truck with giant tires and say "hell yeah"

And tbh why not? Dudes rock, lemmy.world libs do not!

[–] NewLeaf@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago

Fireball isn't for all night, it's for starting the night.

It's just fun

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I hate normal daily car commuters much more than I hate midnight street racers. Monster trucks very rarely kill pedestrians.

[–] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago

Monster trucks are cool. F-350 super duties with a lift kit and obnoxious mods are anything but cool.

[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

if one in ten US reps isn't regularly plastered on the house floor, i'd be very surprised

[–] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The only fun you're allowed to have under liberalism is going to see Hamilton and then having brunch after!

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[–] Mokey@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago

I would take the biggest shit on Nancy Pelosis desk

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Fireball is the most basic white girl alcohol possible. You want to impress me? Slam gin, tequila, or absinthe in a federal office. If not for how much sugar's ramrodded into that synthetic cinnamon 'whiskey' shit, I could replace my water canteen with it.

[–] Sickos@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Okay but what about boofing fireball with squee and the boys?

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[–] SmilingSolaris@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 2 years ago (5 children)

But it tastes like candy. I like candy :(

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[–] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Same thing with guns. Big boom is bad ass suck off me

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[–] HelltakerHomosexual@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

Flying Squid is a fucking turbolib, ignore them. I've seen them before, they only have haughty libshit to say.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Flying squid is terminally online to the extent that I worry about their health. Look at how many comments they have and how long they're account has existed. I am concerned

They're ultralib like absurdly vehemently liberal

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