• @afraid_of_zombies
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    911 months ago

    Step 1: don’t buy the largest possible vehicle. Buy at or near at what the minimum will work for you is.

    Step 2: enjoy a vehicle you can afford

    • @Maggoty
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      -411 months ago

      This has McDonald’s Family Budget energy all over it.

      • @Sparlock
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        511 months ago

        Your comment has small dick energy all over it.

        • @Maggoty
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          -211 months ago

          Oh no! Not some random person I’ve never met trying to insult my dick size. What ever will I do?!?

          • @[email protected]
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            311 months ago

            Learn some self control and don’t speak out loud every thought that pops into your brain. This is called “self control” as is a sign of a mature and developed persoanlity.

            • @Maggoty
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              -411 months ago

              Oh boo, did calling that other poster disconnected from economic reality for most Americans make you feel something bad? I’m sorry I’ll make sure to use my self control to do it again in the future.

              • @afraid_of_zombies
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                311 months ago

                I still don’t get if you are implying I am rich or poor.

                • @Maggoty
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                  -211 months ago

                  Rich. Rich to have a car, any car, you can afford. Half of all Americans are below 37k a year in income. If you’re missing the reference, McDonald’s published a suggested budget for it’s employees that was hilariously out of touch and included a second job.

                  • @afraid_of_zombies
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                    311 months ago

                    Gotcha. I am rich now because I bought a sensible used economy car that I plan to maintain to the point where it can no longer be maintained. This makes me rich. Hey everyone look at how lavish my lifestyle is! I bought a 2008 Honda Civic with no extras off a lease in 2013 and still drive it. This is like using silk toiletpaper after eating a meal of caviar on my private boat rich. Me telling people to not buy more vehicle than they need is rich people advice and instead everyone should go out and what exactly? Buy more vehicle than they need?

                    Go find another strawman to attack you clearly aren’t listen to me you are listening for the arguments you want me to say.

              • @[email protected]
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                211 months ago

                It didn’t make me feel bad, it made me feel very sad for you. I still feel that way as I type.

          • @Sparlock
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            111 months ago

            Putting the utter lack of self-awareness in your comment aside…

            • @Maggoty
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              -211 months ago

              You know there’s supposed to be something after the ellipsis?

              • @Sparlock
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                Again the lack of self-awareness needed to admit you couldn’t fill in the blank with anything is astonishing.

                Perhaps you aren’t just giving off small dick energy, you’re a moron and an asshole too.

                • @Maggoty
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                  -211 months ago

                  Are you having a stroke? No really, the best you could come up with is a hamfisted description of Dunning-Kruger?

                  Shocked.

                  • @Sparlock
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                    11 months ago

                    That you don’t know that the Dunning-Kruger effect was an artifact of research design, not human thinking is really the cherry on top to show you are a moron.

                    Here so you can educate yourself: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-dunning-kruger-effect-isnt-what-you-think-it-is/

                    Your repeated, gormless self owning is making me feel a little bad for being mean to you. It’s a bit like hitting a toddler ( even if your dick might be the same size as one ) over and over, it’s just not sporting.

    • @Kbobabob
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      -711 months ago

      There’s not usually much joy found in the minimum.

      • @[email protected]
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        311 months ago

        Who said a car is supposed to be a source of joy. A car moves you from point A to B, you might be able to find joy in either of those two places but the consumerism of financing a larger than necessary purchase is pretty fleeting.

        • @Kbobabob
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          011 months ago

          Who said a car is supposed to be a source of joy

          Ummmmm, OP i replied to? Step 2…

        • @[email protected]
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          -111 months ago

          LOL you just had happen to you what the country did to Jimmy Carter who dared to say that people might spend a little less since the economy wasn’t’ happy. It’s why Reagan got elected and we’ve never recovered.

      • @[email protected]
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        211 months ago

        LOL this isn’t like the 1950s which were filled with propaganda films touting freedom on the road. No, we’re in a world that is slowly collapsing economically and people have to stop chasing the shiny and focus on what they need. Let the monkey brain rest for a while, it will always want more shinies.

      • @afraid_of_zombies
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        011 months ago

        Very true that is why it is so sexy when a woman is completely covered head to toe vs say a short skirt.