What a fucking loser
So beards aren’t masculine enough for “warriors” now? They keep narrowing this bizarre definition.
in this context he ment black men allowed to wear beards to prevent medical issues. he means the hard R
primarly its hurts african americans, because they are prone to pseudofolliculitis from shaving.
I expect he'd prefer no body hair at all.
Are there any queers in the ~~theater~~ army tonight?
Get them up against the wall
There's one in the spotlight, he don't look right to me
Get him up against the wall
That one looks Jewish!
And that one's a coon!
Who let all of this riff-raff into the room?
There's one smoking a joint!
And another with spots!
If I had my way
I'd have all of you shot!

Hey, Pete, you know what happens when you decide to kick all those people out? You lose all the people running the cybersecurity division. Funny how that stuff works.
As the old saying goes. A plane crash returning from a furry convention would put the software and cybersecurity industries back decades.
This thread brought me to a new thought. As with most essential parts of our government, maybe he is trying to push for privatizing the military. By firing top positions without reappointment and cancelling or delaying payment to labor, they create a volatile work environment. Spending increases on military does not go to our servicemen. Now attacking the people who want to serve is making their jobs near as unsafe as the frontline. This they hope will lead to low recruitment and retention, resulting in a need to hire more contractors.
Because when you are losing a war, the sort of facial hair you have really matters. Reality doesn't back them up, so they have to go for crass appearance. Not "weak" my ass.
The fuck is a beardo?
It's a wild thing. So the term grew out of the manosphere actually, it was mainly a term for present fathers who steered their boys away from that garbage because they recognized it was only going to hurt them. It kind of grew from there to encapsulate everything they hate. Now, they associate beards with hipsters, dads, LGBT+, nerds who like games, music, books, theatre, and basically any man with a soul and two brain cells to rub together, which is precisely who they see as the enemy because they're so transparently evil.
So basically a wholesome father with a big bushy beard.
Exactly. They've been working real hard to make it about gas masks in the military, which is a thing, but that's not why they're going off about it. "Beardos and Weirdos" specifically is a dog-whistle for men who actually have honestly held values, don't consider sex, violence, and substance abuse the point of life, and try to be a mentor, a partner, a part of a community or who otherwise contradicts their narrow, machismo-laced, lecherous and reductive definition of "Man."
Look here now, a man can enjoy sex, violence, and substance abuse(not necessarily in that order) a whole lot without it becoming a part of their personality. Plenty of us are happy to be degenerates in private
OK but why you're getting cucked in Iran?
And then he puts fucking Elon Fatty Musk wimpy nazi in charge. Yanks - please kick out this administration
Says the guy that has his own makeup people.
Anyone seen the video of this douche bag trying to do a workout with the army. By workout, I mean essentially calisthenics. The guy looks like an absolute moron with the side steps.
What really gets me about those clips is he posted them! This wasn't some leaked video. He saw that and thought it looked badass.
I regularly ask myself how much they believe their own bullshit. For a long time I thought they didn't but Hegseth might actually be that clueless.
He is the fucking radical! Look at his tattoos and listen to his speeches! Racist supramacist radical POS
All I'm hearing is Pete can't grow a beard and resents beards in others.
Outrage about woke is 2023
Even MAGA has woken up to it being the great con played upon them
This bloke is like a tiktok streamer playing the role of defence secretary from a 1980s action movie
Yeah no trans people means your dumb ass just crippled military intelligence.
Also aren't special forces super into having beards? I'm glad if we're cutting back on them, especially the seals, the psycho bastards. And of course he's a weirdo himself
It's a dog whistle. Everyone who's been in the army with an ethnically mixed population knows many black people (think West African mostly) have severe skin issues if they shave fully. I had two guys in my section (so I assume more in the company but I can't recall) with exemptions and, of course, they were black.
First they came for the fatties
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a fatty
First they came for the fatties.
And they caught me because I was a fatty.
Is part of Hegseth's mental health problems that he can't grow a beard. It wouldn't be the first time in history (Alexander the Great famously count grow a beard and forced his troops to be clean-shaved).
its interesting how this was reported in the Australian press, selective quoting, this is from the AFR, the Aus. equivalent of the WSJ, just a complete misquote...

I guess warriors don't know logistics. It's that how he managed to lose the Iran war?
What is a beardo? A man with a beard? I thought they wanted the tough manly guys? Hä?
What a fucking weirdo.
Okay "no longer the weak department", how is Iran thingy going for ya
He definitely goes to Turkish bathhouses and sucks dick.
It's like 4chan... Used to be a fun place to talk shit and look at regular porn.. then all the right wingers took it over more every board is full of whining about Christianity and every porn board is full of trans and gay porn..
Right wingers ruin everything.
reminds me of voat. for a while the site was doing very well taking in those tired of Reddit. and it was pretty great. and then Reddit banned the most rascist subreddits and voat was suddenly full of christians. strange coincidence lol
Well I might be a fattie freaky weirdo beardo, but I saw you lift weights and, well, that's it.
Authoritarianism is an admission of abject weakness.
White supremacists are the weakest and most brittle snowflakes.
Isn't war in 2026 mostly about logistics and maintenance and signal tech?
For every 1 masculine man man with epic guns surely there needs to be 10 or 20 other mild mannered technicians and cooks and geeks to pilot the drones and what not.
Ffs... Beardos? Pete just can't grow a beard because he's not fucking man enough. How is it manly to engage in purely cosmetic rituals to make one look more child-like daily?
Man is showing his kinks
did he make this announcement after thirty minutes hair & makeup as usual?
Video here: https://youtu.be/3JY3j11tl4s?t=33
I timestamped it at the end where he does a surprisingly good Trump impression
I'm something of a radical beardo weirdo myself
I’ve said it before & I’ll say it again: Satire is nigh-impossible when reality is already this ridiculous.
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