In which men, desperately lonely and alienated, pay thousands of dollars to pretend to be Tier One operators. I urge you to read this if you want to stare deep into :amerikkka: brainworms

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    When Schmidt saw that sizzle reel, he loved it. He needed it, recognizing some of the hardcore drills from his Navy training days. “Believe it or not, I actually really enjoy that stuff,” Schmidt tells me. “Yeah, I love suffering.”

    “Why?” I ask.

    “To grow! I love to suffer, because that’s the only way you’re going to grow.”

    You know how dogs get zoomies because they haven't burned off enough energy or gotten enough mental stimulation?

    I reckon this is the male equivalent.

  • Nakoichi [they/them]M
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    3 years ago

    Three types of people sign up for this shit: :frothingfash: :le-pol-face: :thumb-cop:

  • SuperNovaCouchGuy [any]
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    3 years ago

    Most men suffer in silence, Keuilian wrote, because they feel disconnected from their larger purpose in life. They gorge themselves on distraction: TV, social media, food, booze, pornography. These vices lead men further astray, jeopardizing their income, marriage, family, and sense of self-worth.

    Imagine thinking through all of this and coming to the "solution" that the "larger purpose in life" is to give oneself fully to the satanic Christian zietgeist, dominate, outcompete and annihilate every other human resource unit within the disgusting modernist market which alienated everyone in the first place. No shits given about other people outside of the family, nor the environment, nor a common goal for the betterment of all humanity. Neoliberalism has truly won.

    Whelp I guess #grindset it is then.

    :doomjak:

    Also why do we call the withered wojak "doomjak" instead of "withered"?

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    The part they leave out is that navy seals enjoy bootcamps like this because they're ice chewing psychopaths who get off on being hitmen for the evil empire.

  • DragonNest_Aidit [they/them,use name]
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    3 years ago

    Absolutely infantile. Privileged middle class men living in the biggest empire in the world living without want feeling put down by society because they can't behave like brainless teenagers acting without consequences.

    I've said it over and over here but this is exactly why the west deserve to go through a century of humiliation.

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    idea: we get a network of socialist bros together to do log drills and stuff across the US for free instead of charging ten grand.

  • HodgePodge [love/loves]
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    3 years ago

    Men would rather pay $10,000 for bootlicker camp than go to therapy.

    Pathetic.

  • D61 [any]
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    3 years ago

    I've got a chainsaw, hand axes, pickaxes and forest full of trees that need to be thinned out and invasives that need to be dug up.

    I only charge 100$ a day and nobody needs to see you sitting naked in cold water. You get to choose your own manly names for free!

      • D61 [any]
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        3 years ago

        Its a thought that my wife and I occasionally joke about, but we're not the most personable of people all the time, there isn't much quality living space on the farm for more than the two of us, and its far enough away that anybody that has come out to the farm to help out does it once and can't (or doesn't want to) come out again.

        Maybe someday enough pieces will click into place for something like this to be more likely to happen than not...

        • D61 [any]
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          3 years ago

          No comrade, not "gulag"... "MANLAG" where MEN aren't BORN, THEY'RE MADE!

  • trabpukcip [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I feel pretty manly every time I load the dishwasher and hit "start" no idea what these guys' problems are

  • OperationOgre [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Seeing Keuilian’s tattooed sleeve, his square-set jaw, listening to his gruff, gravely voice, Deol thought, “This is a man I want to be like.” His thoughts kept tumbling: “Am I man-crushing this dude? Holy shit.”

    ... Keuilian began his career selling supplements online using tactics learned from the digital marketing world, where advertisers rely on direct-response copywriting, which attempts to tickle an emotional trigger in customers that is only relieved by buying now.

    falling in love with an advertisement