What is that thing? Why is that thing? It looks like the vehicles from Aliens. On the windshield, there’s a decal that reads “Apocalypse 6x6.”

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    8 hours ago

    A very scared man hides in this thing on his way to an unsatisfying job.

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    9 hours ago

    I love seeing trucks and cars that are supposedly for the apocalypse. Do you seriously think we’re going to have gas in the apocalypse??? Do you not realize the insane supply chain that needs to exist for you to have gas in your car? You can’t store gas, it goes bad pretty dang quick you dumb fuck. What’s your plan?

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      9 hours ago

      This is why my “shit hits the fan” vehicle is a 1982 diesel Mercedes.

      That thing will run on anything as fuel. I’ve tried running it on old used motor oil, used hydraulic oil from my car hoist, lamp oil, and yes ofc used fryer oil.

      I’m gonna be cruising in my old ass sedan laughing at the preppers in their modern trucks that can’t run on anything but the most pure of fuels without clogging their injectors.

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      8 hours ago

      They don’t think. They feel. They’re little better than toddlers. You wouldn’t ask a child how their blanket is going to protect them from ghosts.

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    13 hours ago

    Notice what you don’t see: Any scratches or dirt on it nor mud on any of it’s 6 tires. Total pavement princess.

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      12 hours ago

      Yeah, like, put that shit in the mud where it belongs you giant ass pussy.

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      10 hours ago

      I could give them the benefit of doubt and say it’s new and a Christmas present, but even if that’s the case it will likely never go off road once (maybe a gravel road if they’re feeling adventurous)

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    12 hours ago

    It exists because many people have more money than brains. As for the decal, what you have there is the 2024 Apocalypse Juggernaut 6x6 . My guess is that the owner is probably 5’ 9" and 300 lbs gravy seal with 30 guns and 20,000 rounds of ammunition who thinks he’s going to take over Florida when society collapses.

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      The rugged individualist of the gated community.

      If society collapses, if sure his survival instincts will kick in and he will try to buy something else.

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        2 hours ago

        If society collapses where is the gas for that thing coming from? Wouldn’t an electric car and some solar panels be an objectively better apocalypse vehicle?

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      12 hours ago

      Googling that truck name appears to show they sell for $250k-$260k. I can think of better things to spend that kind of money on.

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      And then when a group of anarchists just hose his entire house and car with multiple rusty AKs he’ll be looking up from Hell like “HOW DID I LOSE THAT THEY CHEATED”. Altho, having that amount of guns and ammo doesn’t really indicate gravy seal bullshit, if you go to the range often the ammo literally evaporates super fast. But that truck having no signs of being used off-road does clearly indicate that.

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      10 hours ago

      20k rounds and 30 guns…shit I’ve got triple that in 22lr alone. Round count and how many guns you own is a poor metric for gravy seal level bullshit.

      This dude probably has a gun or two and a few boxes of ammo. Most who pretend to be billy badass don’t actually have much in the way of firearms because they don’t actually go to the range, just like this truck is never going to see anything more than Florida paved roads.

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      11 hours ago

      thinks he’s going to take over Florida

      First one to go (and first to run out of fuel)

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    8 hours ago

    What’s with the weird archway over the front of the driveway? Is it getting married?

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    You laugh now, but when society collapses they’ll be safe for a full hour before they run out of gas. If they can make it into the truck, of course, since it looks too big to fit in their garage.

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    13 hours ago

    Every conversation with the owner: “goddamn gas prices! Stupid liberals!”

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    10 hours ago

    This kind of shit is typical in a lot of upper middle class neighborhoods in FL. You’d see Hummers, pseudo-monster trucks, etc sitting in front of dainty houses with highly manicured lawns. All so that they can drive vehicles that are far more likely to kill people.

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    10 hours ago

    Its funny because its built to destroy but the owner would likely cry if it was scratched.

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    7 hours ago

    I get so mad seeing these in the parking garage at work. Like, you drove that to park it at an office and then go up the elevator? WTF? And yes I’m in West Central FL and the arms race of ever bigger vehicles is insane.

    Though at least my neighborhood isn’t just a bunch of those garage houses, it’s older and varied and not many garage front houses. So many trucks though. Some are guys who need them for work, some are not.

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    9 hours ago

    These are the first people who would die in a real collapse, probably killing others as they go. I loved Max Max and Car Wars too, but I know it’s fiction.

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      11 hours ago

      While my little truck is a disgusting mess all the time. Shit in the bed, etc.

      It’s a truck. It gets the cheap $1 wand wash every 3 months.

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        12 hours ago

        I wash my Tacoma every 5 years or so, as long as I do not get stinky mud on it. The bed does get washed a bit more often.

        The last time I washed it it looked so foreign to me I kept losing it in parking lots.