I know it's just a fascist bullshit, but how do these guys not know that toned muscles are due to diet and planned exercise routines, not something inherent to health or whatever. I'm guessing almost no one looked like that for the entirety of pre-modern human history.
https://mobile.twitter.com/OrwellNGoode/status/1557400252931522560
I can only image how incredibly online you have to be to think these are common jobs today. There are probably more people making a living as a carpenter than all of those combined.
It's also pretty funny that the top jobs have social media fitness influencer bodies. I guess porters were notorious for their use of PEDs back in the day.
Some of the replies seem to think that people in the trades are "looked down on" and people with social media jobs are "looked up to". Like are you 17? Have you never been outside? Talk to someone over 30, I guarantee you they'll think a typical twitch streamer is an "loser" and a plumber is not.
they’ll think a typical twitch streamer is an “loser”
:gamer-gulag: truly the most oppressed class
These people spend all their time on social media, which is the one place in the world where content creators and influencers have more clout than tradespeople. If they ever logged off, they'd see that nobody gives a single fuck about all the shit they say is destroying society.
90% of masc workers™ I've seen:
- Smol twig man with mild beer gut
- Tall AF slenderman
- Old stocky dadbod guys
Oh, you lift? Have you ever stacked pallets for 8 hours???
I thought farmboy or manual labor strength was a thing just harder to measure.
manual labor is still some exercise and done regularly, so they're going to be physically stronger than office workers who live a sedentary lifestyle.
an athlete who works out according to regimens is going to out match them though because they're doing it with the intent to maximise muscle gain rather than do the job
Yeah this post was 100% made by some reactionary IT dork who has never worked more than a summer of physical labour. You don't get a Herculean figure from manual labour jobs, infact you get a really bizarre build depending on what you do. My job requires a lot of squat lifting and core strength, virtually no arm activity, and a high calorie diet; the end result is the default body type of string bean arms, a large but muscular gut (gut not abs), and well developed glutes with tiny calves. It's like if you put an incredible ass on a Mr Potato Head
Jobs in the past: doppelganger, dark slayer :chad:
Jobs now: trickster :virgil-sad:
The funniest part about this is that the bodies on top are all modeled after entertainers and fitness models. The exact type of person that's supposedly frail and out of shape.
The "Royal Guard" is literally traced from Chris Benoit, a wrestler who murder-suicided his family after suffering like a billion concussions.
and is also not a real job that contributes anything to society
My version of communism still has professional wrestling but the plots get more political. Give the "people's elbow" a whole new meaning.
Your comment reminded me of this guy wrestling in Appalachia. He was the tour's villain whose schtick was he's a huge Hillary supporter. His finishing move was called "the liberal agenda" lmfao. Brave dude tbh
I want to be clear proffessional wrestlers are entertainers who often put their bodies under enourmous strain.
Royal guards can fuck off
The ones in my country are glorified police officers and they were first formed to help inflate the ego of the president at the time.
Body image issues aside, these dorks think they'd be skilled labor, ye olde coppe :thumb-cop: , or anything other than :you-are-a-serf:
We're in- we're in fucking 1320, motherfucker. You are a serf. Bitch, you live in Alsace. You are a peasant. You need to give your fuckin lord the GRAIN. Your - your fucking children, you've had 15 child - you've never taken a bath. You have literally never. washed. your. penis. You're fucking a- you've never used toilet paper! Motherfucker, you have WORMS. You are dying. You've had forty children, three of them are alive, two of them are child soldiers in the duke's army. Bitch, the greatest thing you can hope for, is to die at the ripe old age of thirty six. You - you fucking can't read? You fucking, you dont know what TV is? You are literally, if you were transported to today, you would be the worst gamer of all time. You don't know shit, you literally probably don't even know what the direction LEFT is.
So, I'm sure some "medieval guy" is gonna get mad at me for this, bitch, i've been to the renaissance fair. I've eaten a large turkey wing that the juggalos call 'bitch beaters' which i think is problematic but a funny thing to call them. Motherfucker.. you've gotta - you've gotta recognize where you are. And then, you've gotta get past that. You gotta be - you gotta be unemotional, and i know im not being a great, great uhh display of that myself, but you've gotta - you can't sink into this hole. you LIVE in the oubliette. your job is to crawl up the ladder motherfucker. You live in the hole. You're in the hole. You are a rat. And the rat, when he's in the hole, gets FUCKED. People, they only throw trash in the hole. You know what you need to eat? you need to eat a BODY, and you need to carry the plague. And you need to carry the plague around this whole world that will change this whole fucking world. And, and, and - and all your fucking enemies will vomit black bile and they will choke on blood and grow boils and DIE, but only if you get together with your other rats, and you come up with some kinda super-plague, to fuckin END YOUR ENEMIES and END THIS NIGHTMARE.
Royal Guard is especially funny. Those guys have a lot of propaganda talking about how badass they were, but in 99% of cases those kinds of high ranking defensive military institutions were just job programs for wealthy failsons.
99% of cases those kinds of high ranking defensive military institutions were just job programs for wealthy failsons.
Still are!
No really, I want to ask them: "What's their excuse?"
There are either one out of two different scenarios:
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Most likely they aren't anything special themselves. Maybe they're cool on the internet, but they're not irl. If they're so great and better than everyone else, why are they so mediocre themselves?
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Maybe they do have an awesome life. What are they doing wasting life rubbing in their superiority towards us lowly rubes, anyway? Go enjoy your flawless life and ride off on your high horse Mr. Perfect.
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It's true, every carpenter I know looks like a professional bodybuilder.
Jobs in the Past
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Farmer
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Farmer
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Farmer
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Cooper
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Charcoal Burner
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Farmer
Jobs in the Present
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Importer/Exporter
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Food Critic
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Cop
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Online Guy Making Memes That Neglects The Existence of Farmers
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My belief is that 90% of people who are "instafit" are people who grew up in bourgeois households, because I don't believe that anybody who didn't has the time, money, or access to pharmacology necessary to get those kinds of gains.
Beauty standards within class societies are fundamentally ways to reify social & economic power, imo.
I guess most people in the field are firmly from middle class backgrounds, but I find it's really common in like software engineering and adjacent STEM fields. And it was something they got into during undergrad. But yeah, like most beauty standards it's just barely disguised classism for the most part.
I try to do my best as someone who works line production, but I often find myself in situations where I outright cannot maintain a workout schedule for at least 3-4 months out of the year due to accruing physical injuries.
I’m on blacksmithing TikTok all the time and this is not what blacksmiths look like. If you’re gonna depict a blacksmith’s strength, you don’t emphasize their ability to do sit-ups. You emphasize their GRIP STRENGTH
Example: https://www.tiktok.com/@nopanicbutton/video/6951783268589096197
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damn wtf, I always thought a can would pop if I squeezed it hard enough. Just bent. Now I've got to do dead hangs or something
I wish I had one of those sinecures with a name like Keeper of the Royal Swans that was actually just a life-long government pension
sorry, all I got is Groom of the Stool, which was actually a fairly important and powerful position
Royal guards were picked for their loyalty rather than their physique and even then, not likely to be cut since strong guys were usually built like powerlifters
Carpenters usually hire laborers to help them do the heavy lifting, not particularly strong at all
Porters would more likely be spry because the point is to move things quickly and that involves using carts and help
Blacksmithing involves a lot of repetitive upper-body actions, but even then they'd get apprentices to help out, probably have strong arms but not much else
