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It doesn’t matter how capable, efficient, affordable, powerful, etc. the truck is. That’s not the point.

The point of a truck for 90% of American pickup truck drivers is that it signals to the world around them what team they’re on. This truck is a signal for the wrong team.

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This is a good illustration of what's wrong with American not politics, but, I'd say, psyche. Every little (an not so little, like a truck) thing is used to signal allegiance to one of the two irreconcilable warring factions. No union, no values, no common cause, just us vs them, doubtless virtue vs doubtless vice.

It's really, really disheartening to see; not in the parent comment, but generally in life.

I wish an electric truck could alleviate even a small bit of that.

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