Pick up trucks are the new enemy of the left.

[The Sage of Main Street]

Of course its political. The instant the narrative is "this must be banned" it becomes political because only government can effectively ban something.

​Bipartisan Totalitarianism From the Same Totally Useless Class

[donttread]

The left continues to prove that they are totalitarians at heart. They are not content with allowing people to have options. They want to tell us how to live.

They want control of everything. From the places we live, to what we eat and the vehicles we drive. They want total control of how we educate our kids and even what we do for recreation.

https://www.axios.com/2023/01/23/pic...-weight-safety

• Plus, the tall front of a truck strikes pedestrians in the torso or head — home to vital organs — whereas the lower hoods of cars typically strike pedestrians in the legs.
• Pickups also tend to be more dangerous in collisions between differently sized vehicles — car drivers are 2.5 times more likely to die when colliding with a pickup as compared to another car, per a 2019 study.

Well then they should buy a truck if they desire safety in collisions. But trucks represent fossil fuels, independence and have gun racks.

[The Booman]

What comes first the pick-up or the stove?

[stephenpe]

jeebus...............so far off topic, you just couldn't help get a dig in about $#@!ing abortions.
God, you are so sad.

So my response to this idiocy was off topic?

tauhman said: What aspect of our life is the left not trying to control?

So I pointed out the trumpian clone in Fla wants HS girls in Fla to reveal their menstrual cycles. Of course the FHSAA is doing the bidding of the little guy running for Pres on the same stupid asss shttt that the base will respond to. Its dumazzz enough he wants to micro manage public education in Fla with his campaign...............cant have our poor little white kids learning about Emmitt Till and Ruby Bridges.........it might hurt their feelings............The free state of FLa. btw when is your next period.........what a fckwad.........

[countryboy]

The article was not political, nor are the studies whose findings it detailed. I have to wonder why every time someone points out a potentially dangerous situation now - even when the facts are indisputable, and when no attempt by anyone to "control" or ban anything has even been suggested - certain individuals are triggered into a "the Left wants to take away my freedom" rant. Are studies that show the medical dangers of playing professional football politically motivated, as some have suggested? This Straw Man mentality of attributing ulterior motives to anyone who points out anything certain people don't want to hear has reached ridiculous levels. Advocates for vegetarianism who outline the health benefits of the practice are regularly accused of being leftist stooges. I just read a couple of posts in the thread about the Chinese scientists who believe the Earth's core is undergoing some cyclic change that expressed skepticism based solely on an imagined link - made by no one - with human activity. Does absolutely everything in the world have to be linked to or influenced by political considerations? Can't we simply evaluate facts on the basis of whether or not they appear to be true, without subjecting them to a test for, for want of a better term, political correctness?

Do you ask your leftist comrades the same thing when they politicize things unnecessarily? Of course you don't.

[Mister D]

So my response to this idiocy was off topic?
So I pointed out the trumpian clone in Fla wants HS girls in Fla to reveal their menstrual cycles. Of course the FHSAA is doing the bidding of the little guy running for Pres on the same stupid asss shttt that the base will respond to. Its dumazzz enough he wants to micro manage public education in Fla with his campaign...............cant have our poor little white kids learning about Emmitt Till and Ruby Bridges.........it might hurt their feelings............The free state of FLa. btw when is your next period.........what a fckwad.........

DeSantis is pretty popular in Florida.

Emmitt Till. Lol

[RMNIXON]

Do you ask your leftist comrades the same thing when they politicize things unnecessarily? Of course you don't.

With just about everything so politicized these days how dare anyone make an observation even in jest. Let me crawl back into my hole of conservative ignorance and drive a truck over the top packed full of gas stoves so I can never get out!

I don't need Axios to tell me trucks are more dangerous than some other vehicles. That comes from a society where we still have choices so rapidly being taken away.

[countryboy]

With just about everything so politicized these days how dare anyone make an observation even in jest. Let me crawl back into my hole of conservative ignorance and drive a truck over the top packed full of gas stoves so I can never get out!

I don't need Axios to tell me trucks are more dangerous than some other vehicles. That comes from a society where we still have choices so rapidly being taken away.

I don't know about that. I t-boned a 2004 Lincoln Continental in my 2009 Chevy Silverado at about 60 mph, rolled over a bunch of times, and walked away, albeit gingerly, and into an ambulance, lol. But I wasn't seriously injured. And no, I wasn't at fault. Guy tried to make it across a busy highway. He wasn't seriously injured either, but if he had a passenger, they wouldn't have made it.

[The Booman]

Why are liberals worried about trucks? They never leave the basement.

[Now_What]

Why are liberals worried about trucks? They never leave the basement.

Conservatives need pickup trucks to get to their klan meetings.