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[–] [email protected] 204 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 224 points 1 week ago (2 children)

On the contrary, this speaks directly to their target audience

[–] [email protected] 126 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fry: Sorry, I'm not here to buy.

Car Dealer: I understand, and it's wonderful that you don't care whether anyone questions your sexual orientation.

Fry: I care! I care plenty! But I just don't know how to make them stop!

Car Dealer: One word: Thundercougarfalconbird.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What sharp wit those writers had. Futurama will never leave my cadre of favorite TV shows.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That was the most OP writing team ever

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Didn't they have multiple doctorates on that team? Like north of double digits despite there only being like 20 writers total?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Three Ph.D.s, seven masters degrees, and cumulatively had more than 50 years at Harvard. I wont hold Harvard against them though.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Boomers and GenX whose parents paid for their college.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or who could afford college with “a summer job.”

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

Or those who didn't go to college, and bought a house soon after getting a "professional" job out of high school, and wondering why more lazy kids aren't doing the same

[–] [email protected] 142 points 1 week ago (3 children)

There's a lot more to unpack here then it being a car ad.

"old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in" is a completely foreign concept in modern society.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 week ago (2 children)

On the part of the company as well.

If your customer's kids go to college, they'll grow up to earn more money that they can spend on pointless expensive cars in the future.

But we need to chop down that tree for firewood. Not because they're cold, but because they like a nice pile of firewood.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Future not matter, only current fiscal quarter matter.

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[–] [email protected] 123 points 1 week ago

Alternatively: Die wondering why your kids don't talk to you

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It is amazing how the Nepo baby parasite class was able to convince the boomers to not help their children.

As if there is a class war going on out there lol

Kicking kids out at 18 was so in vogue 20 years ago. Boomers are fucking caricatures.

I wonder if that still happens

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah I think something that people who didn't grow up upper middle class in the US don't realize is that a good chunk of the kids who grew up upper middle class in the US have this weird relationship with their parents where their parents refused to accept them into their economic class, or at least refused to acknowledge their children are entering a completely different life experience and economic class than they did.

I think it stems from a sense that their quality of life as people living the american dream enshittified over their entire lifetime and now the only way out of it is to admit they have built a way of seeing the world that is utterly blind to the most critical things and they simply refuse to do that, full stop.

(I don't mean this is as "feel bad for us upper middle class kids" at all, no pity needed... I am simply pointing out how fucking weird it is, how hollow the whole american experience is even sometimes for the children of successful parents, it emphasises how the US pysche really is a pathology.)

There will never be a generation of humans that will do more damage to Earth and the future lives of human beings than upper-middle class boomers, it simply won't be possible without the extinction of humanity. If any future generation does it will lead to the extinction of the human species, and if any generation before us betrayed the human species as deeply we simply wouldn't be here to talk about it as we would already be extinct.

I know focusing on it as a generational thing isn't helpful in a lot of ways, I recognize that and I don't blindly hate boomers or anything, I love talking to people older than me they often have so much wisdom to learn (and often have transmuted that wisdom into a killer humor too) I just wish there were more of those older people and less of the older people that I have learned I have to actively not listen to because their advice/help is so unhelpful it is worse than nothing by a margin as wide as climate change is dire.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

ah yes the PMC class, professional management consultants. its funny because the PMCs themselves are being tricked by the owners into thinking that they are also owners and not workers. So why should they bother organizing with the riffraff?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Kicked out well before 18.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I fled from one parent before 18 and managed to basically force my estranged father into taking me in but the only reason I didn't get kicked out at 18 by him was because I had 2 months of school left, was gone the second that wasn't true anymore (both Gen X).

He recently lamented to me that I didn't visit often after that and figures I must have hated living with him so much that I chose to avoid him.
God they are so fucking oblivious to how they make the world a miserable place.

He said he wanted to teach his new kid more resilience than me. God help them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Oh yikes at that last bit. I hate how few parents seem to understand that the basis of resilience is support. It begins at a young age, you let them go get hurt and come crying to their parents who patch their injuries, tell them that they were brave and tough, and let them feel comfortable venturing out again. You scale it up as they get older, so they know that they're encouraged to seek the boundaries of their world and abilities independently, and that when they fail they have people who can help if they need it.

Trying to "toughen up" a kid so often just scars them and encourages an unhealthy relationship with risk (and with their parents)

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 week ago

The most narcissistic generation of parents yet.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There's so many depressing layers to that joke. Like a sad, sad capitalist onion laughing at its own rotting core.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

haha,

unnafordable education is funny

haha,

fuck them kids

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If my dad was an advertisement.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sure he didn't want to help his children with college, but strangers are going to notice him more due to the car he's driving and you can't put a price on that.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I just everyone driving a (at least a new) muscle car, fairly or unfairly be-damned. It shows you waste your money and care more about appearing "cool" above many other things. Either that or you're insanely rich which also makes you a bad person. People in mustangs and corvettes are always the one putting the pedal to the floor to get to the next stop light. Fucking moron assholes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

every time i see people who have bought expensive things the only thing i can think is "that could have been thousands of toys for poor children who have rarely known a moment of joy in their lives"

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Education shouldn't cast a sports car.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wiggles fingers over math textbook

"I CAST... SPORTS CAR!!!"

Points ruler at the PA system

Tate Mcrae plays over the PA

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

The Micheal Jordan meme has entered the chat.fk them kids- Michael Jordan

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Crazy how college is so expensive in the US that your parents gotta start saving 20 years in advance.

(Im guessing this is the US and also seeing this banner just gave me that thought)

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I don't align with the fuckcars movement. But what the fuck is this Ad? Who thought it would be "great marketing stratedgy"? Whoever came up with this Ad should be fired!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

Someone who looked around and saw a much larger demographic of "fuck you, I got mine"-ers who resent their responsibilities.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Gen X are the new boomers and boy are they turning out to be ultra selfish.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

one of my gen x friends told me "i dont really care about the science of climate change, i dont believe it so its not happening."

....and i just couldnt even.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

When people say shit like that I really want to just piss on them and tell them I don't believe I'm pissing on them so it's obviously not happening.

It's mind boggling how many people exist that insist reality is wrong. As if just wishing or believing something hard enough will magically make that the truth.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

To be fair, there's a good chance that there isn't much of a future for kids cuase you know ..... gestures to everything

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

Just to cut off the rage bait. This would have to be at least a 4-5 year old sign. They stopped selling the GT350R in 21 I think. So this car is not readily available to buy anymore. And it’s worth even more now. It’s just a silly joke. There’s like maybe a nine hundred GT350R’s in existence. I would rather the Mach1 with the track attack package. But I enjoy my Gen3 Coyote in my 2019 GT. I barely drive it as it is and usually take my eBike everywhere. I only have a eBike because of spinal nerve damage. I can go for hours on it. Where a normal bike wears me out by the first hour.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Let's face it, the people dumb enough to buy one of these probably aren't raising college material.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's probably the worst ad I've ever seen.

So anyway, I'm buying foreign.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The Mustang has been the car of choice for mid-life crises for a long time.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

This picture is almost 10 years old now, definitely from the beforetimes

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I went to public university in , and not only was it free but we got a monthly allowance. It wasn’t some subpar education, I managed to get a 6-figure salary working in the US for a Fortune 200 company until I decided to move back earlier this year.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Targeting that mid life crisis dad.

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