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  • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
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    Can an American explain to me why having random guns strewn around is a flex? What concept is being flexed? Do y’all fancy yourself local warlords?

    • HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world
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      Its only a flex to extraordinarily insecure (and in some cases paranoid) men.

      Your average working Joe who isn’t a MAGA moron looks at this with disgust and a desire to see his ass taxed more heavily.

      Your average MAGA cultist dipshit thinks this is peak existence and what all [white] men should strive for, and anything else is subhuman and beta. This is because this appeals to men who are deeply insecure and desperate to compensate for that insecurity by hiding it behind wealth and weapons.

      These types of pathetic shitheads aren’t just American, BTW. Cunts like Andrew Tate have a lot of international fans. Just look up the big “free Andrew Tate” protest that occurred in Greece when he was arrested.

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      A high end custom gun is pretty expensive. So it’s the same kind of flex as showing off an expensive car.

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      As an American, I do not understand it at all. I think most of it is just juvenile and they don’t want to be told what to do and like to see shit blow up. Which is fine. I like watching a good action flick and understand it’s a story telling device. But when you go deeper with them it turns into a dumb joke. I really don’t think they think more about it then “come stop me”.

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      I personally think its the idea of “don’t touch me or me and my gang gon’ fuck you up”.

      At least that’s what I see after watching newer rap music videos romanticizing old gang war concepts in newer popular hits. Then seeing shitty streamers doing the exact same thing the videos show.

      I know it’s not just rap stuff, but that’s just the easiest example that comes to my mind atm.

    • skozzii@lemmy.ca
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      😂

      I’ve always wondered the same thing about the guns, also real people with money don’t need to flex, its just the grifters that do this shit.

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    Is that the guy who recently got annihilated in a boxing ring in full view of the world? I’m not jealous but I did enjoy his broken jaw photo.

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    I had a bit of heartburn from too much Christmas turkey and went to see 3 different doctors, got prescribed some medication and spent the night at the hospital.

    The money in this picture wouldn’t cover that in the US, I paid like 20 euros for the pills and that’s it.

    • Drusas@fedia.io
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      I’m the US, you wouldn’t need to see three different doctors to get some heartburn medication.

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      European with the same condition, here. What are some good remedies for heartburn? (Some that don’t require retroactively eating less, please)

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    Where’s the “rest of the world” image from? I know it but I can’t remember and it’s really bugging me :(

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    Says something about that state of the world that the poor guy can’t afford a holdall for his savings and his much needed protection on account of being a terminal prolapse.