• Didn’t Iran just kick his warrior ass? Do we not have to personally and sincerely apologize to the entire world because we elected these bozos, and let them trash the global economy?

    I want my woke military back. I want my DEI federal government back.

    (Actually I want them to be way more woke and DEI than they were.)

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    22 days ago

    Only pathetic chuds who will absolutely PISS themselves the first time they’re sent into combat for the Epstein class and find out it’s not like CoD at all…

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    What is a beardo? A man with a beard? I thought they wanted the tough manly guys? Hä?

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      there is for example irrating razor bumps (pseudo folliculitis barbae) which comes with shaving your beard, and it predominantly affects people with curly hair, so black people. this might be the true reason. alternatively I’ve heard pete hegseth has some kind of close personal issues with beards, but i can’t find the source for that anymore. wouldn’t surprise me if he has a beard trauma.

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        I wouldn’t be surprised if the clean shaven soldier is some kind of marketing conspiracy.

        People have shaved for all of history, but the idea that the default is a clear chin is something that only started during WW2 and with the following GI Joe comics. Beards go in and out of style, but to consider the clean face an ideal probably comes from the American religiously puritanical way of thinking.

        The image is part of the cultural spread of the American Dream and sold alongside Gillette, Frosties and Coca Cola through the American “liberators” of Europe.

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          It began with WWI, beards hindered gas mask sealing. That led to the rise in clean shaven being seen as professional as well as the origin of the postage stamp mustache (as made memorable by a certain Austrian and an actor who hated him)

          America loved beards in the 19th century and mustaches were in in the early 20th. Facial hair trends come and go, we were into clean shaven looks in the 18th century, and even wore the stupid wigs the brits liked then.

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          but the idea that the default is a clear chin is something that only started during WW2 and with the following GI Joe comics.

          I thought the idea of keeping your beard short can’t from older warfare where you’d get your beard grabbed for an easier stabbing if it was too long? Don’t even know where I heard that though… Just remember getting it from decades ago

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            Most militaries started requiring their soldiers to shave during WWI, because facial hair will break the seal on a gas mask (see also: why I started shaving during covid).

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      It’s a wild thing. So the term grew out of the manosphere actually, it was mainly a term for present fathers who steered their boys away from that garbage because they recognized it was only going to hurt them. It kind of grew from there to encapsulate everything they hate. Now, they associate beards with hipsters, dads, LGBT+, nerds who like games, music, books, theatre, and basically any man with a soul and two brain cells to rub together, which is precisely who they see as the enemy because they’re so transparently evil.

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    Brilliant. Make get shot at for protecting the interest of demented pedo billionaires even less attractive as an occupational option. Superb recruiting Pete!

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    Authoritarianism is an admission of abject weakness.

    White supremacists are the weakest and most brittle snowflakes.