let's talk about pickup trucks, because I just can't get enough of conservatives calling things "soy"

people like @tedcruz assumed that I was talking about all pickups in the tweet from the other day. but I was talking about a specific design trend: the cliff-face front grille. here is the 2020 Silverado HD

I actually grew up driving trucks and doing construction work in rural Colorado. this part right here is both dangerous and pointless. you create a much bigger blind spot & foul up your aerodynamics for no reason

so why do they do it? it is 100 percent marketing. here's the designer of the GMC Sierra HD https://www.musclecarsandtrucks.com/2020-gmc-sierra-hd-design-the-origin-story/

I think the fact that @tedcruz reflexively defended this adolescent marketing gimmick tends to suggest he's a soft, feeble man who has been ensconced in elite white-collar institutions for his entire life and never once done a day of hard manual labor

at any rate, there is an alarming surge in pedestrian fatalities in this country, which are up 53 percent since 2009. all evidence suggests the addiction to SUVs and trucks is the main reason why https://theweek.com/articles/929196/case-against-american-truck-bloat

one addendum: I didn't get around to CAFE standards and other tax benefits in the article, but this is true. regulations have been encouraging larger vehicles for years https://twitter.com/swolecialism/status/1291728885005000704

seen this attempt to blame the victim over and over by asserting pedestrian deaths are about cell phone use. but Europe has phones too and EU deaths are down 40 percent since 2007 https://twitter.com/JLBird/status/1291801277257703430