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This is so tone deaf.
On the contrary, this speaks directly to their target audience
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.
What sharp wit those writers had. Futurama will never leave my cadre of favorite TV shows.
That was the most OP writing team ever
Didn't they have multiple doctorates on that team? Like north of double digits despite there only being like 20 writers total?
Three Ph.D.s, seven masters degrees, and cumulatively had more than 50 years at Harvard. I wont hold Harvard against them though.
Boomers and GenX whose parents paid for their college.
Or who could afford college with “a summer job.”
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
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.
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.
Future not matter, only current fiscal quarter matter.
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There's so many depressing layers to that joke. Like a sad, sad capitalist onion laughing at its own rotting core.
haha,
unnafordable education is funny
haha,
fuck them kids
Most of the comments here belong to r/orphanCrushingMachine, or the lemmy equivalent.
Alternatively: Die wondering why your kids don't talk to you
Let's face it, the people dumb enough to buy one of these probably aren't raising college material.
I went to public university in , and not only was it free but we got a monthly allowance. It wasn’t some subpar education, I managed to get a 6-figure salary working in the US for a Fortune 200 company until I decided to move back earlier this year.
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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)
The Micheal Jordan meme has entered the chat.
To be fair, there's a good chance that there isn't much of a future for kids cuase you know ..... gestures to everything
If my dad was an advertisement.
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.
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.
Education shouldn't cast a sports car.
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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Someone actually did think of the children. Not in a good way, though.
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!
Someone who looked around and saw a much larger demographic of "fuck you, I got mine"-ers who resent their responsibilities.
Gen X are the new boomers and boy are they turning out to be ultra selfish.
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.
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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The Mustang has been the car of choice for mid-life crises for a long time.
That's probably the worst ad I've ever seen.
So anyway, I'm buying foreign.
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Tbf I have more respect for enthusiast car ownership than many other types of cars.
I walk most places, take the train and limit the use of my own car. (mazda6 estate) Hard to do now that I have a three year old.
I would love an El Camino with an 400hp xl engine. A completely useless car that will be mostly tinkering and some summer driving. A Shelby is a nice car, and if cars are a hobby I say go for it.
I have more issues with oversized cars clogging up my town on what could have been done with a bike or by foot
This picture is almost 10 years old now, definitely from the beforetimes
A car is cheaper than most colleges.
This ad seems aimed at people who think you can still "work your way through college" without debt.
Sooooo. Middle aged people? Or are we now dealing with those going into retirement.
I think I'm technically "middle aged" now.... No idea how that happened... But I know better than to think you can work your way through college and not come out the other side with a crushing amount of debt....
My country subsidized my education, and provided me with a loan to attend college. I finally paid it off some 20-ish years after I started college.
I've never seen a six-figure salary, despite probably being owed one, but the top rate I can find for my vocation in my local area is around $80k/yr or about 50-60k USD/yr.
Yet, if I go to the USA, and get the exact same job, I can make $80k+ USD, which would easily push me over $100k/yr in my country's currency.
If you guessed I'm from Canada, you may have looked at my username, and noted my home Lemmy instance.
International students pay something like 5x what Canadian citizens do for college/uni (at least they did, the last time I checked), and my local provincial government set up a student assistance program, which provides loans to college/uni students.
I still walked out of college with over $40k in debt and this was in the mid 2000s. Costs have only gone up.
I support student loan forgiveness. It won't help me at all, but I don't really want anyone else to have to go through what I did trying to pay everything back.
That car starts at $110,000 USD, about the same as in-state cost of attendance in Michigan where the mustang is made and Nevada where Shelby is based
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Targeting that mid life crisis dad.
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