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[–] einlander@lemmy.world 193 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 219 points 1 week ago (2 children)

On the contrary, this speaks directly to their target audience

[–] stinerman@midwest.social 122 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 52 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What sharp wit those writers had. Futurama will never leave my cadre of favorite TV shows.

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That was the most OP writing team ever

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Didn't they have multiple doctorates on that team? Like north of double digits despite there only being like 20 writers total?

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Three Ph.D.s, seven masters degrees, and cumulatively had more than 50 years at Harvard. I wont hold Harvard against them though.

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Boomers and GenX whose parents paid for their college.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or who could afford college with “a summer job.”

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 138 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 60 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Future not matter, only current fiscal quarter matter.

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[–] aislopmukbang@sh.itjust.works 114 points 1 week ago

Alternatively: Die wondering why your kids don't talk to you

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 65 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] suswrkr@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 week ago

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?

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Kicked out well before 18.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

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)

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 57 points 1 week ago

The most narcissistic generation of parents yet.

[–] MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There's so many depressing layers to that joke. Like a sad, sad capitalist onion laughing at its own rotting core.

[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 18 points 1 week ago

haha,

unnafordable education is funny

haha,

fuck them kids

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[–] Coldgoron@lemmy.zip 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If my dad was an advertisement.

[–] stinerman@midwest.social 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 days ago

every time i see people who have bought expensive things the only thing i can think is "that could have been thousands of toys for poor children who have rarely known a moment of joy in their lives"

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[–] telllos@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Education shouldn't cast a sports car.

[–] epicstove@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wiggles fingers over math textbook

"I CAST... SPORTS CAR!!!"

Points ruler at the PA system

Tate Mcrae plays over the PA

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[–] El_guapazo@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

The Micheal Jordan meme has entered the chat.fk them kids- Michael Jordan

[–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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)

[–] BubblyRomeo@kbin.earth 25 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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!

[–] Soleos@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

Someone who looked around and saw a much larger demographic of "fuck you, I got mine"-ers who resent their responsibilities.

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Gen X are the new boomers and boy are they turning out to be ultra selfish.

[–] AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] LePoisson@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 24 points 1 week ago

To be fair, there's a good chance that there isn't much of a future for kids cuase you know ..... gestures to everything

[–] Cocopanda@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's probably the worst ad I've ever seen.

So anyway, I'm buying foreign.

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Let's face it, the people dumb enough to buy one of these probably aren't raising college material.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The Mustang has been the car of choice for mid-life crises for a long time.

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago
[–] drsilverworm@midwest.social 15 points 1 week ago

This picture is almost 10 years old now, definitely from the beforetimes

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Targeting that mid life crisis dad.

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