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Innocent User — 10 months ago(May 09, 2025 07:23 PM)
IsraHell said...
You mean views you don't agree with.
So, she's usually smart, but on this, she's a moron?
Do you think people who pierce their ears or get tattoos do so out of mental illness? How do you feel about circumcision?
That's right, I never agree with stupid views.
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/.ㅤ — 10 months ago(May 09, 2025 06:13 AM)
Initially it was fear.
They were trying to fix something that was never broken and have become stuck in a feedback loop.
Imagine a Fugazi double down, but with body modification where a person doesn't really respect the one body they were born with. You may see him doing something retarded and comment on it. In your world, you're trying to correct the record by trying to set him straight, but in his world that's filling a different set of needs. He doesn't want to be better. But he does want to control the narrative, release tension from his cognitive dissonance feedback loop, fulfill a need for social engagement through attention, etc.
One the other side of that, it makes profiling them and tracking them much easier. Facial recognition isn't as perfect as the media wants you to believe.
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Innocent User — 10 months ago(May 09, 2025 07:31 AM)
They were trying to fix something that was never broken and have become stuck in a feedback loop.
Exactly. It starts out as a mask to hide a perceived ugliness, but then the mask itself is ugly, so it too must be hidden. Eventually, the mask becomes so hideous, all they have left is the double down and the hope that you'll be fooled into thinking they believe their personalized aesthetic looks "cool".
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Innocent User — 10 months ago(May 09, 2025 07:16 AM)
It's simple. They hate the way they look and they want to own the repugnance. People are far more motivated to avoid pain than they are to seek out pleasure. They don't want the pleasure of looking better, they want to avoid the pain of being ugly. Being ugly through choice is gentler on the ego than being ugly by genetics.
They're hiding their self perceived ugliness beneath a mask that they can claim they believe is attractive. They aren't bothered whether it looks good, only that it covers up whatever feature(s) they hate. They incorrectly assume you'll think "why else would they do it to themselves if they didn't think it was beautification?" Unless of course you're one of the idiots who does actually fall for it.
See also ginger men with huge hair and/or who convert to Islam, black people calling themselves the N word, and goths, for a similar phenomenon. People are quite happy to degrade themselves if it creates a shield against external attack.
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Lilith — 10 months ago(May 09, 2025 12:56 PM)
I think there are a few reasons. Sometimes it has to do with the fact that things like piercings and tattoos and other forms of body modifications have always been a part of a subculture. It's a form of expression. I've seen some gorgeous piercings. A woman I knew used to have a "corset" pierced on her back.
I thought it was really pretty. She eventually removed the piercings, however, because it just became too uncomfortable for her to do her daily activities. I've also seen people do fakir-type suspension with their piercings, and that can (potentially) induce a spiritual connection/experience.
In other instances, and I think lately this is the more common one, it's become a type of "uniform" for people to recognize each other as having the same ideologies. It's about fitting in with others who share certain perspectives.
I'm also convinced that in many cases, it's just a phase, and people grow out of wanting them.
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sheetsadam1 — 10 months ago(May 09, 2025 01:56 PM)
Neither are my thing, but I would certainly prefer these types to the plastic people like Looney Tunes Loomer, Kristi Nobrain, Lauren Boobart, Melanoma and the other Trump women, all of the Faux News bimbos, all of whom look like department store mannequins dressed up as Pennywise.
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