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Cybertruck might be the first bicoastal-blue assault on a red-America institution, which I’m learning is a lot more peacocking than the honest, utilitarian function we’ve been led to believe it is 🤣 The vanity “classic” pickup truck as the fake-news/failing-NYT of red states?
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It is not yet another ornate faux-testosterone focus-grouped plastic-tchotchke-encrusted basketball-sneaker-on-wheels designed by marketing wanks who vomit shit and somehow convince everyone to think it’s not crap because apparently people are fucking sheep.
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I sometimes wonder how the very sophisticated red state cultural-institutional landscape manages to pretend it is some sort of simple throwback to Jeffersonian-agrarian America Hats, boots, mannered cowboy culture, pickup trucks, country music, talk radio, oil, coal, big ag
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Fancy bourbons, expensive guns... it’s billions of $ of narrative theater that’s as impressive as Acela corridor, or west coast theater. It just pretends to be a few rugged individuals bravely keeping a dying honor culture alive in the face of neoliberal fake ness.
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