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[–] [email protected] 108 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I have a hearty chuckle every time I see one of these things. Like spinner wheels, they're functionless wastes of money to make a statement, and that statement is "I am incredibly, just absolutely unbelievably stupid."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Are they not all electric?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago

Spinners are purely an aesthetic choice though. This truck literally doesn’t even perform its function as a truck.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This reminds me - I saw spinner wheels in public for the first time in probably 15+ years yesterday. I was genuinely shocked to see them. Man I hope they do not make a comeback.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Spinners are dope! I wouldn't buy them but they are certainly unique and flashy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

I had spinner hubcaps on my clapped out 85 Monte Carlo in 2004, it was awesome.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

Friend of mine got spinners on his cheap ass Toyota a couple years back because they all got ditched after the craze ended

If you know where to look you can get good ones for shockingly cheap, and putting them on old beaters or a Prius is fucking hilarious

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

At least spinners are good at what they do! The Cybertruck isn't even a good truck.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

Dude probably grew up around them, and now he's all grown up and can finally afford them. Live and let live. At least it's not a Hummer or a cyber truck

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

I like spinners and dont think they make someone an idiot. I probably won't ever buy them myself but they are at least fun. I haven't seen a set in ages though.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Some people work hard to tell everyone else that they are contemptible. It is now the job of society to make an artificial island in the middle of the Pacific so that they can live out the rest of their lives in a safe place, amongst their own kind.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Are you referring to the Great Pacific Garage Patch?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Great Pacific Garbage Patch kids!

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 day ago

Also known as Australia

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I was watching the taxi thing, and they didn't know on which sentence to cheer. Some would cheer when others cheered for no reason, but always sporadically between small groups.

It's a cult and they reinforce their worth in their echo chamber (cyber chamber? No echo chambers work).