uspol mention, five minute hate, vehicles
Also, it's time to mention I HATE
HATE
HATE
truck drivers
I'm sure there are people who have big 4x4 trucks who *aren't* Trumper gunwaving bigot shit but it's going to be years before I unclench about this one, and they're all fuckers eating way more than their share of the road and the planet's declining petrochemical resources anyway.
re: uspol mention, five minute hate, vehicles
@Leucrotta My dad was safety director and later vice president of a trucking company, and I'm shocked, SHOCKED to hear you talking in such dismissive terms about truck drivers...
...because they're remarkably accurate and it makes me wonder when you spent so much time around them? :D
Granted, this was the 1980s and I've actually got friends who have driven trucks -- Rowan for one -- but my god, were the truckies I met through dad's business trips dumb, reactionary, and all-around sleazy.
It was like being introduced, five to ten years too young, to every Coen Brothers story just waiting to happen. :p
re: uspol mention, five minute hate, vehicles
@Leucrotta oooops, honestly, i'm gonna attribute that error to early-morning poor reading skills -- I'm gonna stand by it, though, that was a... a... a very Coen Brothers bunch of people in general. :) Not all necessarily bad, but definitely the ones I met were conservative leaning and... peculiar.
re: uspol mention, five minute hate, vehicles
@zebratron2084 I wish we had a good popularly accepted term to distinguish “working class and possibly PoC driver of a 10-18 wheeler, politics unknown” from “drives 4x4 pickup the size of an M4 artillery tractor, ethnicity and politics assumed.”