• kautau@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    As someone from the US, they’re mostly not appropriate here either. They rarely get used for anything except driving to/from work. They are more like massive uneconomical vans with four luxury seats rather than work trucks (again, when they nearly always have a driver and no passengers).

    That being said, my fiancé lives in the Philippines (Specifically in Manila, the most densely populated city on the planet), and every time I visit it’s clear the same stupid oversized trucks are everywhere and I doubt anywhere in the EU will be different.

    Just like requiring seatbelts to be a rule, you need to put rules in place so the idiots don’t destroy everything, that’s pretty much advanced modern society.

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      20 days ago

      Yeah there are a fuckton of “real men” in Europe, influenced by the firehose of toxic culture coming from the US. I agree 100%, governments need to prevent selfish idiots from endangering others with their bad choices.

      • birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Those ‘real men’ are showing how tiny their dicks and how fragile their egos actually are.

        REAL men bike, show off their muscles, and are kind on the road. Dare to show some kindness to everyone, and that is the true manship.