• nonentity@sh.itjust.works
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    21 days ago

    Authoritarianism is an admission of abject weakness.

    White supremacists are the weakest and most brittle snowflakes.

  • Padit@feddit.org
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    21 days ago

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

    • baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      21 days ago

      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.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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        20 days ago

        is it the reason. the folliculitis is pretty nasty to deal with, even ifts not bacterial. it takes longer to heal and refills with pus, and prone to bleeding and worst it can scar if it gets bad enough.

      • bstix@feddit.dk
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        21 days ago

        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.

        • forkDestroyer@infosec.pubEnglish
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          21 days ago

          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

          • bstix@feddit.dk
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            21 days ago

            Lots of good reasons to shave. Gas masks were also a reason.
            A soldier can shave real quickly before serving, so I just don’t get the ideal of keeping it like that.

            As far as I’m concerned it’s all cultural propaganda in the same way as the nuclear family with cut lawns and car dependency. At least it seems to be the same people preaching all of it.

          • kestrel7_7@lemmy.world
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            21 days ago

            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).

        • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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          21 days ago

          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.

  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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    21 days ago

    How long til he includes no black or gay folks, no women, no libs, and no one with a college degree?

    Wonder when jackboots are being added to the uniform.

  • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
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    21 days ago

    What a great idea Pete. It’s a good job that no future war will ever involve computers, electronics or creative problem solving.

    /s

  • Fontasia@feddit.nl
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    21 days ago

    Bro got his entire education of Vietnam from 80’s B movies and didn’t even watch First Blood