Needs a sheet of rub-on tattoos with vaguely “I didn’t serve in the military but really want to imply I did” to “outright white supremacist” themes.
My favourite is that “Three Percenter” design that effectively coopts the design of one of America’s least-successful coins. I sort of want to talk one of their ears off about numismatics and watch their brain smoulder.
Oakley shades, goatee and probably shaved head. If he’s with his wife she looks miserable.
Well, it’s fake. So you’re almost right.
True but how is this a microblog meme
ALPHA DOGS FOR JESUS ARF ARF
Dammit, I swear I saw some white dude wearing that exact shirt yesterday.
lol, that dude isn’t scared of cities. He’s packin hoping someone starts shit.
Yes, scared.
It’s your choice, you can be packin or you can be lackin.
Terrified
Not when you have the mystery mousekatool on your hip… It becomes an adventure.
To be fair, I’m not sure I could park some of the emotional support trucks. They are not compatible with urban parking. They are simply too big.
Yup. Every now and again I’ll have to take my work truck to LA to meet my wife and her family, and I hate it every time.
It’s easier to park a Humvee than a Brodozer.
True, but one might gently suggest that’s a poor excuse for retrograde worldview. LOL.
Had to rent one for a few weeks not long ago. Toxic masculinity insecurity had me worried “they would be better than me” and my “pussy urban ass” couldn’t handle a big truck. Within minutes your brain adjusts and it’s just driving as usual but your ass is further away… which you can see with eyes and mirrors, and account for, way more easily than you’d expect. They also have better backup cameras, sensors, and beeps, than my “nicer” car.
What’s nine line?
I had to look it up. Seems to be a “patriot economy” company named after a military medevac request.
Made in Bangladesh surely
A t-shirt printing company for people that want you to know they’re a veteran, related to a vet, or are just general bootlickers. 95% of the vehicles they drive have at last 2 bumper stickers/window decals from them, “we the people”, gadsden flag, fjb, lets go brandon, back the blue/thin blue line…
There is an island specific brand that cater to this pseudo militarism demographic that’s maybe even more cringe: https://www.mayjahleagueclothing.com/
It’s not that every one wearing this brand pulls Trump flags along with Kanaka maoli flags on the weekend. But every one pulling flags on the weekend wears this brand.
At one point in my life, I would have thought this site was satire
I mean, for sure. But then I also get it and it’s no different than how rudderless males get vacuumed up into reactionary movements everywhere else.
And that’s the sensitive topic no white people in sociology departments want to discuss, is that the Hawaiian sovereignty movement at this point, is an entirely reactionary movement. It’s also a weird bastardization of some genuinely good things, like the spirit of kama aina and aloha. It comes from a lack of political or economic control over ones life. The predominantly Hawaiian neighborhoods are incredibly impoverished. Most Hawaiian families that I know are living right in the edge of survival or collapse (if not in slow collapse trying to keep up). So they look for anything that can offer them the sense of control they lack. Thing is though, the guys wearing these brand. They the same ones dropping litter all over the beach, messing with the turtles, or taking dirt bikes up into the jungle trashing the trails. They not building shit for the community. It’s weird because it’s a respect culture that seems to have lack it. And they’re almost all Trumpers.
And it’s kind of the same thing with a white 18 yo from Idaho. They have no real political or economic power and so they look for any path they think can give it to them.
So like I do understand it. But it’s weird.
Interesting, so Hawaii is pulling a Texas, rather than an indigenous sovereign space, thing now?
Where I live, the type of people that wear these fascist bro clothing brands are generally comfortable, middle class, suburban, guys with comically large trucks. These people are not wayward youth, who feel powerless. They are privileged white people who feel like their power is being “unnaturally” challenged by people, they consider to be, vermin.
I just want to make sure I’m not over-emphasizing this. Its not an ubiquitous thing and the moment isn’t a monolith. But this kind of branding is specifically moving the idealism of the movement towards militaristic.
Beard is too neatly trimmed.
Not fat enough.
Sometimes. There’s a definite contingent of “GRINDSET!” “GOTTA PROTECT MY PEOPLE WITH MY MUSCLES!” “PROTEIN KETO!” types as well.
When it comes to hair, no one is more bitchy than conservative males.
-Jack Donaghy
That was the before time, when they weren’t wannabe dirt bikers from suburbs.
Has to keep it sharp for Grinder.
In the model’s defense, dude is just modeling the shirt and not necessarily espousing the political view
We all have to draw a line somewhere.
Nine Line is the least offensive off all these tacticool brands. It’s the one owned by the Black Rifle Coffee guy who donates to Act Blue.
Maybe even a stock photo where someone slapped a t-shirt design.
Its also missing the “i beat my wife but it’s okay because i go to church on sunday” wraparound blue sunglasses.
They have to be on backwards when indoors, as well.
I always picture the glasses. They’re key.
Found a conservative.
“You’re going to Chicago?! You mean Chicongo? That place is a bloodbath, man.”
Chiraqganistan
He’ll be fine, he’s part of Y’all-Qaeda
I don’t think I know what the nine line helicopter is supposed to mean.
It refers to a 9 line, which is a type of radio comm standard used for casualty evacuation and close air support strikes.
Making a shirt out of it is a bit strange to me.
Recruits get hazed in to memorizing the 9 Line in various idiotic ways during basic. Unless you’re in the air force where it’s just strongly encouraged. Regardless, as a result it’s a type of cultural flagstone for service members.
It’s just a common brand worn exclusively by members of Y’allqaeda. Living in the south I see atleast a dozen of these guys a day.
Y’allqaeda… Love it. Thanks @Ostrichgrif@lemmy.world
That, or the underarmor FREEDOM tshirt. i swear these guys have a total of 5 shirts in their closet
It’s so weird to me that Underarmor started becoming a regular clothing brand. It sounds like an adult diaper.
Lol I think it means like thermals when it’s cold as a base layer. But yeah regular clothing is odd to me too.
Also an underarmer branded adult diaper sounds hilarious.
Needs a MAGA baseball cap and wrap-around shades.
Also “Suburban Dad” works
I’m a suburban Dad. That’s how I know this particular brand of them is a real thing. You can also spot them by how they ignore their kids when they can’t weasel out of a school event.
With cargo shorts and a ten year old Star Wars shirt, I can circulate among them without drawing too much attention.
On a road trip through DC and Philly this summer, at the sights, and they make themselves so obvious.
Like a real Mmmerican, I loudly lecture my kid on liberty, equality, and fighting for others; read every MLK, JFK, FDR, et al, speeches from walls and plaques, in entirety; publicly ranting about perhaps having to fight Nazis to the death if an uprising happens here and we need to defend our country because these colors don’t run, like both sides of our family did last time; while referring to traitors, their cult, and insurrectionists hating our freedoms and they should like it or leave it.
They wear upside down black and white flag T-shirts and stand around like they’re waiting for their wives outside Sephora, not knowing how to smile in photos.
I’m still nice to everyone. Because I’m a real American. They are deplorables that should be deported.
