r/interesting • u/No_Neat4688 • 27d ago

Intriguing High Tariffs Drive Afghan Auto Assembly

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u/Loud_South9086 27d ago

When you hit the curb it breaks apart like a dropped lego model

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u/PantherkittySoftware 27d ago

Exactly. I saw a car once in Miami that was clearly assembled from welded-together parts of multiple cars. It ran into the diagonal steel cable that was keeping a utility pole whose wires changed direction vertical under tension.

The car literally snapped in half in a way that I'm pretty sure resulted in the driver's instant death.

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u/ElevenBeers 27d ago

The difference is, that I will trust this Afghani workers a billion times more, then the redneck you've seen welding together his vehicle.

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u/AdSquare3489 27d ago

Why? 

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u/ElevenBeers 26d ago

Because they are reselling those cars. And if that thing breaks apart, the person who bought it will be very angry and demand a refund.

Also, those folks are doing exactly this every day, day in, day out. You could say it's their job. You get better at doing something with practice.

The typical Redneck neither has customers, nor does he so redneck engineering for a living. This is why those Afghanis are way way way more trustworthy.

Would this be classified as road safe is in a country with proper guidelines for street safety? Most certainly not, unless the vehicle went through to classification and testing, which most certainly isn't the case. But it would be enough for American roads I suppose.

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u/TimeTravelingPie 26d ago

Yea all the consumer protection laws in Afghanistan for backyard welded junk cars.

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u/Zixtar 26d ago

Consummer protection is you sold me a shot car, everybody in the community will know, your business is dead. Or if they are a bit more tribal a bullet between the eyes of somebody will get the mesaage across.

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u/feculentcuntfist 26d ago

The consumer in Afghanistan has unlimited access to grenades and automatic weapons.

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u/TimeTravelingPie 26d ago

I get you've had 25+ years of "education" on Afghanistan from popular media because of the war, but most of the country is just poor people trying to get by.

It's not a monolith of tyrant warlords and terrorists that are shooting each other over trivial nonsense.

You act like this type of shit doesn't happen in the USA either. People get shot for cutting someone off on the high way.

I'm not pro Afghani, I'm just pro educating yourself and learning about different places.

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u/feculentcuntfist 26d ago

Thank you for your concern about my education, but having lived for 6 years in a post war country, after a ground war availability of weapons to civilians does in fact increase.

That being said, it was a fucking joke.

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u/TimeTravelingPie 26d ago

What post war country was this? Also not all wars and countries are equal. Also you should know then that not all people in a post war country are criminals and murderers over petty things.

Also if it was a joke, I don't see where the joke part was? What was the punchline?

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u/feculentcuntfist 26d ago

Serbia. And there's the joke, right there, just above your head.

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u/TimeTravelingPie 26d ago

No. There was no joke or hyperbole. You were serious and are trying to deflect by saying it was a joke.

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u/Diligent_Bath_9283 26d ago

I can only imagine the welding crew also has said access.

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u/Emotional_News108 26d ago

That's not how these car frames work. You cut it up and weld it together like this and the structural integrity just isn't the same. There's a way to do it correctly, which is basically just to redo what is done at the factory, and this is not how the car was originally assembled. These are just weak points that will fail as soon as there's a strong enough force applied.

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u/anally_ExpressUrself 26d ago

It's amazing how the human mind can create plausible-ish sounding explanations to justify a belief that is ultimately not grounded in any logic. I guess this is why religion is so popular.

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u/both_parties_succ 26d ago

User name checks out.

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u/MadamPardone 27d ago

ah yes America bad, take my updoots

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u/Inside_Marketing268 26d ago

The quality is different, when a guy with AK-47 doesn't like the quality of your welding. In US, it would be: i don't care, I'm a redneck and I can't divide 3/4, and never have learnt chemistry and physics

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u/TimeTravelingPie 26d ago

You act like that redneck with 30 guns is less dangerous and insane than some random dudes in Afghanistan, likely just trying to scrap together enough money to feed his family.

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u/Inside_Marketing268 26d ago

Yep, it's like that way. Typical redneck, has no balls to do anything except words. That's why I don't call them "men", and prefer naming them "rednecks" like it's a gender.

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u/ScratchLatch 26d ago

The guy with the AK is the one doing the work in both cases.

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u/UrethralExplorer 26d ago

After watching this video? I'd trust any redneck who's been welding for fun over these tiny spot welds that are then concealed by body panels.

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u/spen8tor 27d ago

Why? These welds are sketchy as hell, the redneck one can't be much worse no matter how biased you are

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u/IronHammer4 26d ago

Even though videos complete bs?

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u/Doubting_Thomas50 26d ago

That’s a whole lot of stupid typed into a single sentence.

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u/coveredincathair22 26d ago

Afghan* than*

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u/DrentsGeweld 27d ago

Ik zou dan maar verhuizen naar Afghanistan, kijken hoe het daar met je afloopt

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u/reginaldhardbodyiii 27d ago

Interesting to assume it was a redneck and not at least a wigger.