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[–] 48 points 8 months ago (5 children)

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
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  • [–] 29 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    And sometimes it doesn't actually remove the snow.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    It actually doesn't remove the snow, which I think makes it a PERFECT analogy since you've wasted a shit ton of energy on the flashy,expensive, idea instead of just doing what actually works.

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