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Sean's avatar

One huge part of the gunner fantasy you mention is GEAR GEAR GEAR. The kid's wearing a 5.11 tactical shirt in the photo. His AR-15 is pretty basic, but obviously, he's been brought up in the community. So much of our gun culture points back to the military-industrial complex figuring out that it could make a pretty penny by selling tacticool garbage to individuals. Just take a look at right-wing Instagram and you'll see it: everybody wants to look like a spec ops action hero. It was only a matter of time before their warped internal psychosis started bleeding out into the real world.

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were screwed's avatar

Neverending war always finds its way back from the imperial periphery to the imperial core. Profits must be made and minorities must be suppressed you see

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Sean's avatar

one pretty weird example of this is how the industry has grown from pretty standard tactical accouterments to t-shirts and morale patches. stuff like this: https://www.gruntstyle.com/products/commie-killer

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3XL is sold out. Dying 🤣

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