Eh…

Clearly they don’t considering they had fascist governments decades ago and have one/are on their way to having one again now while it’s the first one in the US (Trump’s first term wasn’t like this one even if it was a shitshow…)

Again, if you are intelligent enough to not compare different builds (which it clearly seems you aren’t), there never is a 20% increase between generations.

A regular cab short box might be much shorter than the next generation supercar long box, but that is not the same vehicle. Again, that’s like comparing a hatchback and a sedan and saying the sedan is way bigger, well no shit Sherlock.

Anyway, I’m done arguing with your, no need to reply since you’ll be in my block list with everyone else who is unable to understand simple facts and that prefers to rely on their feelings to build opinions, people like you are the reason the world is turning to shit, hope you’re proud!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Ranger_(Americas)

There, those random numbers, your can verify them.

No the whole point is to show how idiotic it is to use a picture to base your opinion on the dimensions of objects.

Numbers don’t lie, I even pulled the numbers to prove you wrong.

The biggest increase is in length, you know why? Crumple zones. Have fun getting in an accident without them.

“Hur durr, a regular cab short bed truck is smaller than a crew cab truck!”

Here’s a picture for you, just the kind you will appreciate

Stop with your fucking pictures, look at specs sheets, it’s fucking numbers we’re comparing, not feelings.

Again, if you look at the actual specs and compare the same types of trucks, no, they’re not that much bigger. Feelings don’t trump facts.

Their hood might be higher, the box encompassing the vehicle isn’t that much bigger than it was back in the day.

Third gen ranger (the one everyone seems the be missing so damn much) dimensions: Length 188 to 203", width 70", height 69"

Current gen ranger: length 211" (+8 vs comparable model), width 75" (+5"), height 73 to 76" (+4" to 7")

Tenth gen F150: length 202 to 239" (+11" for model comparable to current Ranger), width 80" (+5), height 73 to 75" (about the same)

Nope, doesn’t make sense at that’s like saying cars got bigger because the Jetta is bigger than the Golf.

As far as headlight height is concerned, again, design difference, total height isn’t that different.

I’m saying the difference isn’t a big as what some people pretend when you’re comparing the same versions.

Short box regular cab vs long box crew cab, that’s what people usually use as a comparison to prove their point even though it makes no sense to do so.

The issue is the way they’re trying to put an end to it. A plan like the government giving priority to local manufacturers and forcing international bidders to build factories in the country is one thing. Imposing tariffs without any plans to compensate locally is just plain dumb.

“They’re much cheaper than comparable cars!”

People never think about where the savings come from, as long as they can buy stuff.

Seeing people who call themselves left wing defending globalism will always be funny to people like me who are left wing and were protesting against it back in the day.

People can’t seem to figure that out, to them a truck is a truck is a truck even though they’re the vehicles with the most variations in size for a same model built the same year.

A Nissan Hardbody is one of the small trucks people keep complaining aren’t made anymore.

Dimensions of the 4 doors variant: length 5.1m, width 1.8m, height 1.7m

Maverick dimensions (biggest model just to prove the point): length 5.1m, width 1.84m, height 1.76m

It’s the same thing with all trucks, compared to the equivalent model (i.e. not comparing a 2 doors with a crew cab like the anti truck crowd loves to do) modern trucks look much bigger but it’s a design and height thing more than anything, their length and width hasn’t increased that much, especially if you compare with cars of the same model over the same period (1985 Civic sedan vs 2025 Civic sedan for example).

If you don’t consider the impact that sending yet more manufacturing jobs to China will have in the long run and the fact that they have great value because what China is doing is called dumping and the goal is for them to have a monopoly so they can eventually increase prices without having any competitors.

Decades spent not investing in IT and hiring consultants and contractors instead, governments are wasting billions because they refuse to give competitive conditions to people working in IT so no one who is qualified wants to work for them. It ends up costing more.

Freaking hell Lemmy has a huge hard on for BYD.

Valve’s response to George Floyd was to give each employee a certain amount of money and let them choose which charity to give it to (if they did give it to charity), which means they could just as well give it to an anti BLM movement if they wanted to.

And you think stupidity is exclusive to the US? Italy elected a fascist, Germany’s far right party is gaining ground…

Popular support for something doesn’t mean that thing is good.

“Eat the rich!”

“Including Gabe?”

“Woooow there cowboy!”

I hate the hypocrisy.