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Also. Why would an allegory for fascism driving your dumbass tiny pp truck be an endorsement? Why is that something you'd want for yourself?
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2024
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Simple: Elon is a dipshit.
Man someone came and down voted all us. Who's still stanning musk on the fediverse in 2024?
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Simple: Elon is a dipshit.
You could say he's a simp
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Because musk is a fascist, duh?
Exactly, I saw this and thought "why the hell would I even want to be like judge dredd?"
Saw it for the first time in person yesterday and I can confidently say….
It’s even uglier in person!
I don't know how to explain it, but it absolutely is. I saw my first a week or two ago, and was taken aback by how off-putting it is visually. I thought maybe it'd have an awkward charm, but no, it's just physically uncomfortable to look at.
What struck me was how ungodly huge it is, for basically no reason. There was one outside of Costco with people trying to get some huge thing to fit in the bed. It didn't go well. They already had it loaded by the time I walked into the store and they were still there putting ratchet straps on it when I left 30 minutes later.
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It's like looking at a texture that hasn't fully rendered or something, just visual blur despite the sharp edges
I saw one in person the other day and physically uncomfortable is a good description. I was trying to describe it to my friends who have only seen pictures and I couldn't stop laughing because it's so much dumber looking in real life. Really just horrible.
Huh. I actually saw one for the first time in person yesterday too. On the way back from a camping trip, in a little village surrounded by corn fields.
It really i the ugliest car I've ever seen. Including the car Homer designed in the Simpsons.
Couple of weeks ago I saw several, all parked next to each other, in a parking lot. Assumed it was some car club, or people going to some car event. Anyway, seeing them all lined-up like that, made me realize just how out of place they looked. They looked fake, like mock-ups, or something. It was weird. I have seen a lot of very highly stylized cars, lots of specialty vehicles designed for industrial, and military, use and never have I gotten that vibe. The only other time I got the same feeling was when one of the Nolan batman movies was being filmed near where I worked, and they had the "bat" vehicles parked in a private lot I passed, on my way to work. Getting to see them up close, and in person, really made it clear that they were fake vehicles, that required distance, and editing/cgi, to look real.
Homer's car was pretty cool...
- two bubble domes, with muzzles and restraints in the back
- shag carpet
- tailfin and metal bowler hood ornament
- three horns to play the song "La Cucaracha".
- gigantic cupholders (which actually became a feature on many cars in the 1990s onward)
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Interesting to know it’s just my area (which does make sense, it's SF Bay Area), but I see them all the time, multiple a day sometimes.
There is only one by me that I see somewhat regularly, and oh what a trash bin it really is in person....
But yeah, don't see a lot here. I do live in a progressive area, but we are surrounded by farmland and maga outside the the townships into the more rural parts of the county. The cyber truck isn't something a farmer is going to ever touch since it's garbage for actual truck tasks, it's a very specific pavement princess vehicle. Around here they actually use their trucks.
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Cybertruck or Elon?
Yes
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I'll bet Elon thinks that Dredd would put a Punisher sticker on it too.
...with that blue stripe, just complete the oblivious look
Oof, look at the replies of all the Elon fans. They just can't take it.
Why is he a simp, I don't understand.
"Simp" has been in use as Mega-City One slang since the 80s. It is a subculture of people who have checked out of society and act like simpletons. See, for example, Megazine #15 and, more recently Prog 2207. This was really leaned into with Jack Point: The Simping Detective.
So, he's basically calling Musk a clown.
In a finer, better timeline, there was a Judge Dredd movie directed by Terry Gilliam
Now that would have been one Hell of a film! And Gilliam would have had simps in it.
That's a very comprehensive answer, thank you. Although I have to concede that the car does suit the aesthetic of that comic.
the car does suit the aesthetic of that comic.
It... really does not. The cybertruck looks like the sad compromise of a too low polygon budget for a 80s game. The JD aesthetic is robust (*) and thick, sure, but not minimalistic.
(*) to which I mean the extent in that the Cybertruck looks robust.
Which is just a classic musky thing to do. Say some BS that barely passes the "as long as you don't know anything about what I'm talking about, then it might sound right!"-test, and simps abound to make the bullshit asymmetry even more asymmetric.
PS: I'm sorry. I have blocking filters for "Elon" and "Trump". Too many fucking morons with megaphones these days.
The cybertruck looks like the sad compromise of a too low polygon budget for a 80s game. The JD aesthetic is robust (*) and thick, sure, but not minimalistic.
And, like a lot of Carlos Ezquerra's designs, the early Mega-City One aesthetic was very rounded and organic ("bubbly" even).
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Nah, it looks like someone wanted to design a car but realized curves are complicated and hard to draw and model.
Judge Dredd aesthetic is brutal but aggressively practical, with function deciding form. The cybertruck was made in reverse, with a design that the Tesla engineers were forced to cram a vehicle into.
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He's simping for dredd - an explicit satire of authoritarianism and police brutality
As noted higher up it's actually a different slang in the comics, but Dredd is a literal fascist so either way it's not a good look to want to attach your brand to him.
Yes I saw, I am suitably shamed :)
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oof, nothing like the word of god shutting you down.
Here's a vehicle from the 1995 movie. I think the cybertruck could fit in with something like that if it had some greebles and a matching paint job.
The only Judge Dredd movie I recognize is the one with Karl Urban, which was sadly under-advertised and didn't make the money it should have..
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The only Fleetway Character I like that makes me think of Elon is Super Sonic
And if you know the book, that's not the compliment it would be in any other continuity
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You’re wrong, simp.
oof
It's clever because it's an in-universe insult different from and far older than the current population culture usage, and all of the fake fans won't understand that and will out themselves objecting.
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