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    12 hours ago

    what works with my normie “what’s the big deal” is the following analogy:

    this is akin to cleaning out your snowed-in driveway with a twin-engine afterburner from an F14 Tomcat - holy shit, it actually cleaned the thing! saved me a buncha time! and it cost pennies!

    yeah, but:

    • gas is subsidised by Northrop-Grumman’s investors for the first year or so; afterwards it’ll cost you dearly. and the maintenance, madonn’
    • there are no city snow cleaners no more and no store is selling shovels
    • it obliterated all the trees and grass and critters and shit and damaged parked cars
    • you polluted the shit out of your sight line, nothing will grow there for generations and the runoff poisoned every body of water this shit touches
    • now you gotta clean the burned shit
    • nobody in your neighborhood can get no gas no more; there’s some two boroughs over, but it’s 3x the price
    • nobody can fix their cars with cheap parts, all raw materials go towards NG’s production/maintenance
    • the “explode” and “afterburner” buttons are kinda close together so the former happens eventually
    • everybody says you’re fucking loco and fucking stop with that shit but everytime you press the blast button, a pleasant “you’re so awesome!” voice booms and it makes you feel very special