Streisand Effect is going to hit him like a bus.
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What a weak, fragile man.
Boy, actually. At least thats his maturity level
That is exactly where the mind of brilliant commanders need to be in times of war.
Maybe you shouldn't get in front of a crowd if you can't handle the attention. You know how you spend your entire life trying to make your enemies look bad? Samesies!!
For somebody acting as violently masculine as possible he sure is a pussy-ass bitch.
You may not like it, but this is what peak (toxic) male performance looks like.
I'm reminded of another observation I read online, some time ago. To paraphrase:
The biggest lie put forward by toxic masculinity is that anger is not an emotion.
So is literally everyone who makes gender their personality.
To be fair, this picture was on the front page here for 3 or 4 days and was clearly chosen in bad faith by the outlet because Nazi.
Not saying I don't want him to walk in front of a moving bus, but everyone knows for a fact at this point that this administration will weaponize anything they can. The Irish Star should know better, but a Nazi salute that wasn't gets clicks so here we are.
Fascists being fascists, pictured as fascists. It isn’t a bad picture if it tells the story right. But I see your point. I’m just not sure if it’s right to give in and be nice just because the far right likes to control the narrative. We should call their bullshit for what it is.
Edit: Someone was a jerk about writing errors, so i tried to fix them. Thank you fellow human for calling me out. I am a better person now and the world got a little bit brighter.
You might have a point. Personally I go out of my way to make sure that people think I'm arguing in good faith. I think the absolute worst thing is to give someone, especially someone who is one the fence, any reason to think I'm just like the people he's moving away from. Some of them have been told that everything not originating from Trump-approved media is Fake News, and this picture of Hegseth is definitely fake news.
There's flattering photos of him?
More seriously, what photos is he even objecting to?
This is untrue, and they'd know this if they actually looked at the photos, which are perfectly normal, not bad photos. Hegseth is simply insane.
He wouldn't look like such a clown if he didn't put that grease on his hair like some kind of aspiring guido.
Or else the man child cries.
Secretary of Defense(wAr) focusing on the important matters of his position as usual I see.
A pocket square without a tie? At least he buttoned his jacket while standing.
I see where you're going here but at least Dent had a good side to start with.
Slop
Cmon man, dont insult my boy harvey like that.
But can we trust him?
Quit lookin so dumb than
This guy really loves war
And hair gel.
What a loser.
Oh this is definitely getting Streisand Effected.
Surely this is a fast track way of getting people to only take unflattering photos of you
Every person on the internet that dislikes this guy should go back through past video footage and find frames that are completely unflattering and screenshot them, inundating the internet with more unflattering images.
This is how you get the worst pictures of yourself published ad nauseam.
The weird thing is they weren’t even bad pictures of him. Like, he looks like a douchebag who would use terms like ‘warfighter’ instead of just saying soldier, but the photos were just him. It’s not like the Vanity Fair photos that purposefully focused on the lip injection wounds, etc.
It's not about the pictures. I honestly think this is just an excuse to get rid of journalists, and a method for hammering home the point that "journalists bad. news fake." I'm not even sure he's actually seen the pictures I question.
With that said, I wouldn't put it past him to actually be so vain that it is really about the pictures. However I think it's more likely that he would have done something like this anyway, and just picked an excuse.
I think it’s a form of loyalty test for them for sure, but also I really do think it comes it down to him being that vain. One of the first things he did after confirmation was have a makeup studio installed. Guarantee an hour or more of his day is spent in front of a mirror, every day.
Armchair psychologist: Things aren’t going as planned in Iran, and he feels like he looks like a fool for it, so he’s lashing out and attacking the media for making him look bad.
Guarantee an hour or more of his day is spent in front of a mirror, every day.
Not surprising, considering his previous job was a talking head on Fox or something like that. Which, in what's left of Trump's mind, makes him totally qualified to be the Secretary of Defense.
Snowflake
This photos aren’t relevant, only photos I care about the EPSTEIN photos!
I wanna see ugly photos and photoshops of him trending like we did with JD Vance.
Don't be a drag just be a queen.
What a snowflake.
Is it worth chiming in that I've personally never seen any image or facsimile of that thing that is in any way, shape, or form flattering to the subject matter? If I was making a catalogue of "shammies one would wash one's car with" its complexion might make an appearance in the appendix but otherwise nah. No redeeming value from a photographic stance, or, frankly, from any other point of view really.
He's not much good to humanity alive.
Speaking as a bald man, I would like to have his hair. For bonus points, it would be kinda fun to watch it being taken from him.
His skin would clear up if he stopped drinking.
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