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Most of the other responses are about their choice of fireball. One good house party would change these nerds' lives.

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[โ€“] RedQuestionAsker2@hexbear.net 60 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Eh, it's all aesthetics.

"Slamming a cold one into the capital", monster trucks, and the "dudes will see this image and say hell yeah" type of dudebro humor is really just one degree away from early 2000's "epic bacon" style comedy. If you're guy and don't like these things, you pretty much just politely get told you're gay because even innocuous forms of masculinity demand compliance.

On the other hand, calling it "redneck shit" is just naked classism. While I also don't find a truck with big wheels to be rad, arguing about it is just a platform to be condescending.

I don't even know why I wrote this out. I was gonna stop reading after I saw "look, he's probably fascist, BUT..."

[โ€“] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 40 points 8 months ago

In my personal experience, at least some of the performative masculinity dude bros are actually pretty okay because they just want people to have fun and they cant conceive that people have fun in ways different to theirs.

On the other hand, fun police libs almost always come from a place of wanting to wield a modicum of perceived power over others and are fucking insufferable to be around.