• Soulphite@reddthat.com
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    I dunno how much longer Bobby John from Oklahoma can take filling up his RAM 3500 Dually lifted XTREME offRoad Pavement Princess Edition™ @ $150 a pop for much longer, Mr. Pedo. You’re making your cult followers very angry!

    Keep it up!

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      The baseline tank size for a ram 3500 is 32 gallons. Diesel is $5.74/gal on average in the Midwest. So a full fill up is ~$184/tank. You underestimated that, yikes.

      For more fun, you can also upgrade to a 50 gallon tank, making it $287/tank.

      These get a respectable ~18 mpg, so $0.32 per mile.

      Just throwing money away

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        They get 18mpg when you drive them like a fucking baby on the highway. Your average idiot who floors it at every stoplight, and does 90 on the interstate gets half that.

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        I can’t think of a time past 2000 where driving conventional ICE trucks/big vehicles has been anything other than a money sink.

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        I have a Subaru WRX and it requires 91+ octane. It was $5.64/gal for me a couple days ago square in the Midwest. $71 to fill up and my gas light wasn’t even on. Right next to the 91 on the pump was 88 at < $4.50/gal. When I filled up 2 weeks ago it was $5.09 then 2 days later $5.39. Fuck Trump and his admin so hard.

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          Midwest for me too, cost me $71 to fill up my GTI on Saturday. $6.25 a gallon for 93. Guess I should be grateful I can tune back to stock and run 87 if I have to.

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        These get a respectable ~18 mpg

        maybe downhill. lucky to see 12-15 after lifting, or even less with towing.

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        Fucken hell my 25 year old Tacoma gets better mileage, that’s factoring in uphill mileage loss of going uphill along the 15 towards Vegas.

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          No shit your midsize pickup gets better mileage than a heavy-duty full-size one, even if the latter does have a diesel. Were you surprised??

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            It’s just the fact that my old ass car is getting better mileage than a modern truck. Especially since most of these big fuckass mobiles generally leave the basement less than my basic bitch Tacoma which is just a 2WD drive.

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                Bikes will always get better mileage than basically any other gas powered vehicle with maybe the sole exception of trains. If memory serves right Germany was still using motorcycles right till the end of WW2 after a everything else ran out of fuel.

                Idk just seems weird for anyone to want a gas guzzler when better shit is available especially when you don’t need it for anything else. Hell with how shit modern cars are and how expensive they are on top of that you could probably pay someone to build you a car if you supplied the frame for cheaper.

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      I just perused approval ratings in reuters this morning, he is 80% support amongst Republicans, which is down.

      But it’s a lot. Independence and Democrats so much less so that his overall approval rating is like 38% last I checked, nevertheless. His base is solid behind him.

      Remember towards the end of his first term he was around 40%, and Biden was at 40% for 3 years and did nothing to change that.

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        nevertheless. His base is solid behind him.

        That’s what Fox News, AM radio and this lovely new crop of manosphere jerkoffs are all put on the air to do. Create this cult.

        Propaganda works. Usually only in one direction, usually only on most people. Add some evil-science military psyop characteristics and yeah. You get that.

        If our billionaire ‘free’ press could get to breaking that down, that’d be great kthx.

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          The Internet has just totally changed things, the crazies, the kooks, the cranks, prior to the internet they would say something crazy and be ostracized for it.

          Now they get online they find a million other people that believe the same thing. And those Rich billionaires are using those crazy people for their own ends

          The only answer is for us to organize and counter use those crazy people against the people trying to use them against us, that’s the truth and we can do it. But obviously there’s a lot more to it than that.

          Obviously mass media was a thing before this and a huge problem, I was just illustrating away things have changed but you’re right Fox News well first of all they are the devil, or at least the voice of evil, but the entire reason we have ended up in this place. Not just them but you know that the worst obviously. Or they were.

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        approval ratings in reuters this morning, he is 80% support amongst Republicans, which is down.

        Let’s just cut our losses and all agree the USA experiment is a failure. Just split it up.

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          If only, that would solve a lot. Got the Eastern corridor, the upper midwest, the southeast Deep South Southwest and west.

          Unfortunately leaving the union is not an option I seem to recall something about a group trying to do that at one point and they were prevented from doing so.