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)
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.
This picture is almost 10 years old now, definitely from the beforetimes
The most narcissistic generation of parents yet.
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.
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.
Future not matter, only current fiscal quarter matter.
That’s a proverb I heard many times from Russian acquaintances.
Why do you hate freedom?
Ultra-individualism has been a disaster for mankind
The Mustang has been the car of choice for mid-life crises for a long time.
Corvette is mid-life crisis, Mustang is what enlisted military get
Nailed it. I visited JB Andrews when my best buddy was still in. I had a good chuckle at the parking lots where every 3rd vehicle was a mustang.
That’s probably the worst ad I’ve ever seen.
So anyway, I’m buying foreign.
That’ll be 10 billion dollars environmental tax please. Gotta protect against these polluting eco sedans and EVs
This is so tone deaf.
On the contrary, this speaks directly to their target audience
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.
What sharp wit those writers had. Futurama will never leave my cadre of favorite TV shows.
That was the most OP writing team ever
Didn’t they have multiple doctorates on that team? Like north of double digits despite there only being like 20 writers total?
Three Ph.D.s, seven masters degrees, and cumulatively had more than 50 years at Harvard. I wont hold Harvard against them though.
Ugh… Harvard…
Boomers and GenX whose parents paid for their college.
Or who could afford college with “a summer job.”
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
Alternatively: Die wondering why your kids don’t talk to you
Education shouldn’t cast a sports car.
If that sports car were an MX5 Miata or a BRZ/86, it would be a massive improvement if you could get a degree even from a state university for that price!!
Wiggles fingers over math textbook
“I CAST… SPORTS CAR!!!”
Points ruler at the PA system
Tate Mcrae plays over the PA
I need to find a spell scroll of this
It’s like 20 engineering textbooks. Unfortunately the material and somatic components are brutal
If my dad was an advertisement.
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.
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.
Mine is gonna be back any day now with that pack of cigs.
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
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.
Kicked out well before 18.
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.
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)
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?
glorified toaster on wheels
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!
Someone who looked around and saw a much larger demographic of “fuck you, I got mine”-ers who resent their responsibilities.
Gen X are the new boomers and boy are they turning out to be ultra selfish.
I’m sorry. (from a gX)
I’m not typical. I was one of the nerds even the nerds bullied on, and this was the hey-day of the jocks and nerds paradigm.
When George W. Bush started torturing, I thought that’s not the America I was raised to believe in and opened some books (on moral philosophy and history) and started my journey to becoming a raging far-left communist.
By the time we were learning about years-long crunching in video games development, I realized that our capitalists can’t even follow their own rules. Id est, the facts were not informing the hypothesis.
Nowadays, I see the species as primitive hominids who bomb other countries and strip away civil rights based on feels and vibes, or in other words, can’t follow rational instruction when we have the power to choose to not, and this is likely going to kill us.
Maybe some other animal can evolve complex social relationships and do better, or be less susceptible to selfish interests of a few subverting the community of many.
Yes, I’m bitter.
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.
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.
Would genuinely stabbed the fucker and told it i didn’t think it was bleeding, and id hit it if it kept lying to me.
reality is wrong
That’s what happens raised in a society that privileges religion.
Yup!
Gen X here. I think I deeply care for my children, and will probably go to dept to fund my children tertiary education, because I could afford it any other way. And I live in a country where college is free, but still needs money to fund the rest (rent, food etc.) That bagging and tagging shouldn’t be a one size fits all
Also genx and I’ll “plant that tree that I’ll never see the shade of”. After having kids, I’m much more interested in long term livability and quality of life issues than when I had a shorter term outlook.
I did hesitate with college though - my younger one got into an expensive private school but at my age and economic situation I just can’t see adding more debt. They’ll have to be satisfied with public universities or deal with their own debt
They have to do that, if they acknowledge how many of their own gen are the same they would be sad.
It’s not a generation, it’s a type of person, and they have always been here, will always be here.
I don’t align with the fuckcars movement.
Why is that, and what would you suggest we do to improve its appeal? I recognize that we’re sort of the radical fringe of urbanism and that’s on purpose (a radical fringe is necessary for any movement, in order to make the moderates look moderate), but within that bound I am interested in trying to develop as much credibility as possible.
(Feel free to PM me if you’d prefer to answer without inviting a public debate, and thanks in advance for any feedback you’re willing to give!)
I’m in the same boat. I’m here because I want to discuss things related to transit, walkability, better quality of life, renewable energy and new technology: there’s so much we can do to improve people’s lives while also being easier on the planet and cost less.
I’m not frustrated by cars, but more that cars are the only goal. From my experiences the best we can hope for in most places is less need of personal cars. It even gives us a continuing goal: however car dependent we are now, how can we be less so?
This tends to come out in discussions, for example, on parking minimums. While I agree we need to waste less real estate on parking, home and park-n-rides are different. The reality is people in the US are not giving up their cars any time soon. Let them keep them at home while giving them better options. Let them drive to transit while we improve the transit network.
A while back I saw a post on Shittit (Reddit) on r/fuckcars supporting “peaceful protestors” burning Tesla cars. Not only the OP but all the comments were supportive of it and encouraged that behaviour. I get the whole hating Musk thing, I hate him too. I started to see his real self when he did the bitcoin pump-and-dump in 2021, I lost a considerable amount of money because of him. Before that event I saw him kind of an revolutionary business man. Since that event I just him as a grifter lookong for new ways to earn more and more money. So anyway back to point, posts like this make the average joe who doesn’t know much about fuckcars movement think they are “extremists” advocating for violence against car owners and their vehicles. I hate Musk, but I don’t support and advocate for burning of innocent people’s hard earned car. Tesla is still considered a “premium car”, many people buy it on monthly installments. Imagine buying your dream car on installment and some random wacko set it on fire just because the guy behind the company started supporting the other party. Before the Trump-Musk relationship, Tesla used to be a “liberal” car since it was electric and liberals love EV’s. Deciding to turn against the car company you once loved and to the point to setting innocent people’s cars on fire is just ridiculous! And also, I saw a lot of “jealousy” and “sourness” towards car owners in r/fuckcars. Things like these made me avoid the whole movement. You are free to post my message on any community or magazine for debate. Just blur out my username completely and don’t like my profile.
That’s so dystopian
#nofuture
#nomercy
Max Headroom: Twenty Minutes Into The Future circa 1985
