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   myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 00:31:09 JST myrmepropagandist

   I've written a bit before about the expensive purse and car scene that orbits the 'luxury' shops on Madison and 5th Ave. in NYC.

   These are mostly young people 15-25 from NJ, The Bronx, Deepest Brooklyn, SI and Queens. They are mostly non-white.

   The way it works is the boys rent, or borrow (almost never own) impressive cars and park them in front of expensive purse shops to pick up girls who are also fictionally shopping for 5k purses.

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 00:32:21 JST myrmepropagandist

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     You can keep your Prada, your Gucci, your Ferrari and Bugatti. But showing up with a tesla is an insult to all those girls who have gone to so much trouble to be dressed nice with just the right purse on their arm! Have a little respect.

     Might as well show up with a Kia. (It is in fact worse than a Kia, but I think simply saying it's too low rent is the fastest path to knocking Tesla off of the list for these kids.) 4/4

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 00:32:23 JST myrmepropagandist

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     What would be needed are some girls their age, a group of three maybe. And all they need to do is giggle a little.

     Maybe post a video "they think they really did something" -- just a little of this kind of content could bump those cars off of the list.

     I'm not a fan of the whole "culture" but I also consider it none of my business and from a certain perspective it's endearing.

     But it kills me to see these kids thinking there is any status at all in this brand.

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 00:32:24 JST myrmepropagandist

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     I have been dismayed to discover the a Tesla is still an acceptable car for these purposes but I think it would be trivial to disrupt this. And not even cyber trucks, I saw some young men from *my* neighborhood getting prepped to go down the other day with the most boring work-a-day red tesla and an obscenely large Bluetooth speaker.

     I didn't say anything, I have a certain gravitas as an older little teacher lady but it is the wrong gravitas for this project. 2/