We used to be a country [OC]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.crimedad.work/post/64788

cross-posted from: https://pixelfed.crimedad.work/p/crimedad/677571022315439525

We used to be a country

#ElCamino #ClassicCar #Boardwalk #NewJersey #SeasideHeights

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What a dumb title. I would've otherwise upvoted a cool pic, but the title makes it sound like you're trying to make some unrelated dumb political point

No no, the country changed so now it's different, and my vision of a "perfect" country is the right one, so obviously your vision is wrong!

OP is probably just trolling, but I see this all the time, and I'm so tired of it. Sure, as an old person they remember their "golden age" but they never stop to think that everyone remembers their own separate "golden age" and theirs is just as valid as someone else's

I just think the pickup trucks are too big these days.

Looks more like a pickup car.

More than enough for most late model pickup owners.

Most late model pickups are family vehicles now. They’re 4 doors and seat 5. Most current late model truck owners would be better served by the old station wagons. Those could tow plenty too, you used to see them dragging airstreams all the time.

Take a joke!

So you quoted something that someone actually said. And we're supposed to know that you aren't actually saying it because...?

Sometimes a joke goes over your head. It's okay.

Sometimes you make a shitty title and you don't want to admit it to yourself

If you've got such a problem with it then report it to the mods.

There's nothing to report to the mods. I think the original commenters comment could be translated into constructive criticism to help you for next time, if you want to bother. If you don't, then there's really not much left to discuss.

Not a bad photo, terrible title.

It was either that or "Why can't we have reasonably sized pickups like this anymore?".

That would’ve been better, honestly.

Everybody's a critic!

Sorry, dude. Figured I’d be semi constructive rather than just a downvote. I haven’t seen one like that since the SSR.

That is true.

It helps to "know your audience"

Yes, I was wrong on two assumptions: that people would check Wikipedia to find out that this car was discontinued in 1987 and that there was any consensus that that wasn't a great year in the USA.

Oh, so you really suck at titles, and context.

What are we now op?

We're a bizarre Rhodesia of living rooms on wheels.

Fuck that unrecognised state.

Now you're getting it.

Yeah, you're pushing shitty politics in a photography sub. Fuck off.

Alright, I give up. What's your problem?

You expressed feelings of nostalgia, but phrased them in way that may by implication indicate fault in current regime. It's called blame, and you know what they say.. You can't spell "blame" without "lame".

The only implications one can reasonably find in my post are that the trucks are too big these days and that cars looked cooler from about 1982 to 1987 than they do now. "We used to be a country" is an embarrassingly melodramatic phrase on its face, which is why we have fun with it as a meme now. Of course, some people also have fun contriving implications in whatever they look at and I suppose that's just their business.

Hey! That’s Atlantic City! That’s where I’m from

That’s probably the Boss’s car lol