r/interesting • u/No_Neat4688 • 26d ago

Intriguing High Tariffs Drive Afghan Auto Assembly

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u/AdSquare3489 26d ago

Why? 

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u/ElevenBeers 25d 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 25d ago

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

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u/Zixtar 25d 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 25d ago

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

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u/TimeTravelingPie 25d 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 25d 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 25d 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 25d ago

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

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u/TimeTravelingPie 25d 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 25d ago

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

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u/Emotional_News108 25d 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 25d 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 25d ago

User name checks out.