Wonder if tacticool gear fetish is in any way related to runaway tattoo addiction. 🤔
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I think a larger percentage of tacticool also hav tattoos vs baseline.
It is body decoration and expensive signaling. Very tied to a personal identity and narrative.
Also an income, education thing with tattoos. Expensive guns (HK’s etc) and expensive tattoos are signaling
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I find it's more comorbid with bad taste in automotive enthusiasm. Lots of lame kitted out trucks at the range... Lots of people overcompensating
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It very much is.
Not even kidding-
Badging/iconography is key with ‘warrior tribes’, the ‘good gear’ obsession is exactly what causes the substitution of ton-o-ink for having an actual functional personality (as opposed to the fanatic ‘unafraid of Death’ who not only feels SO
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