Edit: What do you judge them for?
MAGA shit, thin blue line, black US flag, etc…
In case a civil war actually happens, it’s good to know the enemy.
Add “Gulf of America” shirts to the list
All of that plus any “Punisher” logo on clothing or vehicles.
I’m about to get a LGBT punisher logo for my car. 🤣
That fits with his ideologies far better than the thin blue line skull nonsense.
Especially that punisher skull motif with the Trump hair. That takes the cringe to a new level.
I thought you were making this up, but no, we’re really exploring new frontiers of cringe
It’s also a fundamental misunderstanding of the character. It’s like all they know about him is the name and the logo.
The punisher would shoot them for that and not look back
So far, I’ve only seen one of those. They’re so stupid looking that if it had been by itself, I wouldn’t have been able to tell if it was meant as a joke. They also had one of those “thin blue line” American flag stickers, though, so that cleared it right up.
I had to do a search. I’m sorry I did.
What’s wrong with a black US flag? It’s a discrete way to display the flag no?
It’s not really a us flag once you change it.
It supposedly means that “no quarter will be given”.
Well, shit. Didn’t know that thanks
Because I’m surely not the only one going ‘why would I want change, I paid with plastic’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_quarter
That’s also what US Nazis say.
Indeed.
Start asking for bills then. No point in asking for dimes or nickels.
It’s against flag code and is considered not a proper flag.
Seems like a dogwhistle confederate flag to me.
At this point in my life I couldn’t care less about the flag code. I just like to be discrete. But as people have pointed out, there are meanings that people are already using it for of which I fundamentally disagree with so….
Good thing I never got around to it
I mean, if it’s on clothing, it’s not a flag, it’s a flag image. Ergo, the flag code doesn’t really give a fuck.
Ugh. I hate it when people downvote others for asking legitimate questions. I didn’t know it had a special meaning either, so thanks for taking one for the team. 🤷♂️
I’m Canadian, they use a black flag up here too. I don’t know or care about proper flag usage, I just know if I see a black Canadian flag on someone’s car or clothing that they:
- hate the left
- own a gun
- want “freedom”
- don’t care about the environment
- possibly racist?
100%. I’ve recently added the “Grunt Style” tshirts to my red flag catalog.
Beats headphones.
“Oh yeah those look cool. Did you want something that sounds good though?”
I used to work retail and was helping a college aged guy pick out some new headphones. He was deciding between some Beats and some Bose headphones. I literally asked him “do you want something that sounds good or looks good” and was amazed he actually said “looks good”. So I reluctantly sold him the Beats.
Hah, I appreciate the honesty though 😂
Sometimes the headphones are just a public statement of “Don’t talk to me please.”, and the music is just secondary. In that case, the looks may win.
I mean, if your intent is to be ignored, why would you want the supposedly “cool” one, then? Seems antithetical, like they’re just a douche who wants to look cool and use it as an excuse to ignore people they don’t want to socialize with.
Heeeey my bose QC headphones lꝏk pretty gꝏd ‼️
I asked for Beats back when i was a teen for my birthday. They were fairly new still and everyone thought it was so cool i had a pair. Eventually they got old and I replaced them with Audiotechnica headphones that were a fraction of the price and holy shit I never knew how poor the sound quality of Beats were before that moment lol.
One of those giant stickers meant to make it look like there’s a tied up woman in the back of their pickup.
At best, it’s advertising that they think abusing women is funny.
Eww, thats a thing???
Sadly, yes. You’d think that somewhere along the line, someone would say “hey, maybe this isn’t a good idea”, but nope.
Im struggling to imagine what would drive somebody to put that on their vehicle, thats utterly vile
Cybertruck owners. That is all.
Anything clearly expensive = fucking idiot
I have never seen rich people wearing the fake rich brands you see having shops in the expensive parts of the city.
Yeah, expensive shit that looks just like normal shit is a real phenomenon, it’s not only in Succession. Although that’s also dumb.
Prada is for people dumb enough to buy Prada.
The funny thing is that there are non rich people that will go out of their way to look rich. Pure ostentation
I must say this seems a bit shallow…
There is a saying in my country - I am not rich enough to buy cheap stuff.
This means that buying cheap stuff, which usually has poor quality, means you need to pay more to either buy new cheap stuff when it breaks or pay for repairs or maintenance. An expensive item would probably pay itself off and be cheaper in the long term simply due to better quality.
I’m Brazilian and live in a hot coastal city, so I usually pay attention to people wearing hoodies at weird times of the day. Bonus points if they’re wearing a hoodie and shorts (it usually mean that guy is concealing something in it, if the guy was actually cold they wouldn’t be wearing shorts).
I also tend to be kinda annoyed at people with christian stickers on their cars.
I work in a bakery. Bakeries are hot as fuck, so I wear shorts. They also open early as fuck, so I’m frequently walking to work sometime between 3:45 and 5:15, when it’s almost always very chilly.
Sweatshirt and shorts is basically my uniform, plus I look annoyed and I’m out in the middle of the night and fully sober. I imagine I’d put off a vibe I’m not intending to for you, lol.
Socks and slides because blisters aren’t fun.
Oh man, you’d hate the Midwest. Aside from the obvious reasons, there’s a baffling culture of white dudes who only wear shorts and hoodies no matter the temp outside.
Eh, I wouldn’t be concerned about something like that if I lived in the US, here tho having a hoodie and no pants is the telltale sign of some dude up to no good. Hell, the last time some dude tried stealing bikes from our apartment building and we caught him in the act he was actually wearing an orange hoodie and shorts lmao
Canadians do this too, and then like flip flops or slip ons with socks. It’s a choice…
someone doesn’t appreciate comfort
I’m one of those strange folks, but I’m not wearing a hoodie in the summer lol. For me, it’s a compromise between sensory issues and running warm. I hate wearing long pants, and I don’t really mind the cold on my legs, so I wear a hoodie to stay warm and shorts to be comfortable. I’m not putting on a show for anyone, but lots of kids in the midwest absolutely do it for attention.
Congrats on being the first response in the top twenty or so comments to not reference politics or religion lol
oh wait you did in the second part, oh well you get a pass. this whole thread is “Wedding like conservatives” which, like, yeah i get it, I don’t either, but it’s really boring to read
Hoodie and shorts is standard winter wear here in Queensland.
If someone has a good quality bicycle that they actually use: you got your shit together!
Crucifix.
I’m amazed nobody has mentioned a confederate flag (or confederate anything) yet. My first assumption would be that they’re racist and proud of it.
At this point that falls in line with MAGA gear to me, which lots of people have mentioned
Good point. At the risk of making it sound cool, I’ll say that confederate flags are the OG MAGA gear.
You’d be surprised at the number of Democrats in the South with them.
It’s particularly jarring when people have them in Canada.
Pop Figures
I judge them for shitty spending choices.
Why buy a piece of plastic that sits in the box, and that box sits on a shelf. Theres literally no point to them. You can walk into the mall, look at all the pop figures in each store, and you just had the same experience as you would have if they sat in your house.
Granted, I also can’t stand their art style, but you just described every piece of decorative art. The only requirement of art is for someone to say it is.
Unique art is a statement. Pop figures and the like are deliberately uniformly derivative ripoffs of something else that is actually art.
So to liken it to food, real art is a delicious meal, and Pops are the digested remains of what once was a delicious meal, homogenized in to the always familiar shit, ready for the brainless flies to buzz around.
A tesla
the car, the coil or the autistic savant?
Always remember
Hm. Cop uniforms. I
accurately appraisejudge them to likely be problematic in all kinds of ways that might threaten my safety and certainly that of othersFord Ranger drivers, and to a lesser extent large dual-cab utes in general. Cashed up bogans to a man. They just have a reckless disregard for other road users and take up far too much space. They’re all registered as ‘commercial’, so they’re a tax dodge as well.
curious about the rangers…why do you hate them?
I don’t. Just the dickheads driving them. It’s beyond me why they choose that particular vehicle, but there’s definitely a pattern.
Sounds like local subculture thing. Rangers are the small trucks that polite truck guys own around me.
Probably. It’s a fairly different market in Aus than in the US, although we’re seeing an increase in Dodge RAMs and the like being imported, usually by the same cashed-up bogans that have apparently decided that Rangers aren’t compensatory enough. I realise even those are fairly ‘small’ by US standards. Y’all are insane with your trucks as daily drivers.
I don’t know what they look like over there, but in the US, Dodge Rams are often oversized trucks. The mirrors stick out like they’re trying to high five every vehicle (though useful if you’re towing.) They’re often lifted, dually (double back tires) with oversized exhaust. Drivers sometimes like to “roll coal” which means to spew thick black diesel exhaust everywhere. It’s as obnoxious as it sounds. Is that what you’re seeing there?
Pretty much that, except ‘rolling coal’ would get them a massive fine over here. Edit: not a fine initially, but they’ll tell you to fix it, but it is finable ($495 and 2 demerit points)
You probably could get fined for it over here, but that’s going to vary by each county within each state. I don’t live in California, but they’re known for much stricter emissions regulations for instance. Where I live, they don’t even test or regulate emissions.
I used to drive an old red Ford Ranger 5-speed for a job and I loved it. Small truck compared to modern though. Shame it’s got that rep in Oz.
Harley Davidson clothing: they’re very insecure.
Harley Davidson: „Pay tomorrows prices for yesterday’s technology!“
Wanna know the difference between a Harley and a lawn mower?
The lawn mower has a reason to sound like that.
I’ve heard part of the reason some people choose a Harley is because the sound makes them more noticeable in traffic, as a safety thing.
The merch is fucking stupid, but at least the noise does have a safety benefit, plenty of motorcycle riders get killed because other drivers didn’t notice them – good luck not noticing a Harley in close proximity.
The lawnmower also serves a useful function.
I mean, a motorcycle is transportation. It can transport maybe you and one passenger (and some light cargo, I know), but it’s more practical in a car-centric service economy than walking everywhere. They’re also pretty fuel efficient for being so light, and fairly dangerous if people don’t notice your tiny ass (which is an advantage of all the noise)
I have literally zero negative or positive opinions about Harleys as motorcycles, I don’t own one or know anyone who does, I don’t even have a motorcycle license so feel free to correct me if you have a differing opinion – to me, they just are what some people enjoy. It’s the… quality of the people who tend to enjoy them that gives me the ick. Like a bar that didn’t quite fully kick the Nazis out. I know they aren’t all Nazis, but there are still a disturbing number of Nazis. Or at the very least, American neo-nazis are not frequently depicted riding crotch rockets from overseas.
That’s true, a motorcycle is transportation. And, I suppose if you just go for a ride around the city taking pleasure at annoying people with the sound of your loud pipes, it serves a “useful” function for you, in that it brings you pleasure.
I have literally zero negative or positive opinions about Harleys as motorcycles, I don’t own one or know anyone who does, I don’t even have a motorcycle license so feel free to correct me if you have a differing opinion
Ok, well that’s where I differ. Harleys are terrible motorcycles. They use engine technology from the 1960s while bikes from every other manufacturer use tech that’s decades more advanced. The power to weight ratios of their bikes are absolutely terrible, and not just because they’re cruisers, every other cruiser out there has a better power to weight ratio. Then, even worse is the price. The performance you get per dollar from a Harley is just awful.
With Harley you’re paying for the brand name. You get a bike that in every measurable way is worse than a bike by virtually any other manufacturer, but because Harley has done such a good job of establishing a certain image, people will overpay for an underperforming bike as long as it has that brand name attached, and as long as it has the Harley sound and feel. (And that “sound and feel” is basically an engine that is going to shake the fillings out of your teeth because it’s using ancient technology that every other manufacturer has ditched.)
The Nazi-adjacency is part of the mystique. They’re the “outlaw motorcycle gang” brand, and a lot of the outlaw motorcycle gangs are not just violent, they’re also racist, sexist, homophobic, and so-on. It’s really the brand for dentists and lawyers who have boring office jobs but want to spend money to feel like they’re badasses. They’re not going to commit heinous crimes, but they can dress up like the people who do, and feel a bit of a thrill that maybe the people that see them on their bikes are going to be a bit afraid.
Want to look like a bad-ass tough guy [please don’t look into this], without having to actually do anything other than buy merch and possibly buy an overpriced motorcycle? Just buy Harley Davison gear, and we promise people won’t actually be laughing at you.
I would go so far as to say anything Harley Davidson related, even their motorcycles. They are over priced and under performing compared to literally every thing else.
Yeah, I was on the fence about that. If someone has just a motorcycle and none of the gear, I might give them a pass, based on which motorcycle and how they have it set up.
Pretty much ‘anything’ clothing. I guess if it’s a clothing brand of good quality and there is no choice except to wear it with the logo they stick on it might be an exception, but anything outside of that is basically paying to belong to some club with basically no membership requirements except spending money.
Really good quality clothing doesn’t have prominent logos.
Right, if it’s good enough it can quit advertising itself.
Really the only reason for a logo like that is to advertise to other people that you are wearing good quality. Upper income people who can afford actual high quality can’t effectively ‘show off’ that way, so they usually content themselves with flying under the radar while still comfortably fitting in wherever they feel like, or showing of in other ways like cars and vacations, but mid or lower income didn’t have as much leeway and have to take advantage of what they have available if they want to feel either part of a group or better than others.
If someone carries a gun and they have a normal low-threat job and live in a normal low-threat suburb: wow, that person lives in a fantasy world, and is just looking for an excuse to hurt someone. What an absolute loser.
