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Like I get these groups are generally filled with horrible awful people, but there aesthetic is just so goofy. All there club names are like "The Bad Dudes who Do Bad Stuff MC" or "Nasty Motherfuckers who Fuck your Mom MC" and they all get skull tattoos. It's like a 13 year old's idea of what's badass.

Also that skeleton looks like he's fucking the motorcycle.

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[-] Rom@hexbear.net 31 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
[-] Chana@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago
[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 27 points 2 weeks ago

he'll yeah skeleton-guns-akimbo brother

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 23 points 2 weeks ago

There's still some committed racists and assholes and such, but it seems to mostly to be a few stages down the simulacrum these days for many participants. It's like a persona some of the petit borgies use to play dress up and assert their anti-normie cred. I think that's partly why the aesthetics are just silly in a cargo cult sort of way.

[-] Big@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago

True. My area has a surprisingly large amount of motorcycle clubs, and most of them are just bored office workers and managers. A lot of them don't even own any bikes. It's just cosplay for people who thinks dressing up like 90s macho outlaw characters can compensate for their neutered existence as capitalist drones.

[-] segfault11@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago

what if instead of outlaw motorcycle gangs there was inlaw motorcycle gangs where you ride motorcycles with your partner’s dad

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 20 points 2 weeks ago

It's weird thing for sure, because on the one hand they sell meth, but on the other hand, they love Trump and I think some of them work with the cops? Certainly not getting into shootouts with the law from what I gather.

"you gotta hand it to the white supremacist mafia"

smh, self-crit

[-] ConcreteHalloween@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago

Oh I hand nothing to them. Like I said they're horrible people.

But I fund their dumb leather vests funny.

[-] Tiocfaidhcaisarla@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Goofy as hell.

I once saw this confederate looking bumper sticker on a truck that I looked into, found a biker facebook group with the header image some cartoon of 2 bikers racing away from a cop car labeled "the fuzz."

Truck also had a thin blue line flag sticker.

[-] space_comrade@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago

It's funny how you can picture with very high certainty EXACTLY how the guy driving the truck looks like, like it's almost certainly this exact guy

[-] pissbabymaggie@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The front of the motorcycle is the skeletons hog which it also has handlebars for 10/10 no notes skeleton-guns-akimbo lets-fucking-go

[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago

I don't know a lot about it but i think there's biker organizations who use the tough guy aesthetic to help children i.e. escorts to school for bullied kids or escorting kids set to testify in court against abusers and i think that's kinda cool

[-] Piltdowntown@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

Disagree. They're even cringier and more pathetic than "punk" is and that's a feat.

[-] bourgeoisie_burgers@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

Are there any examples of the contrary ? Curious, would love too see a bunch of drag queen bikers selling acid and driving hogs .

[-] SerialExperimentsGay@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago

Lesbian biker culture has been a thing since at least the early 1980s, although i don't know of any butch MCs.

[-] Blakey@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

I guess dykes on bikes aren't a motorcycle club per se but I feel like they warrant a mention

[-] SerialExperimentsGay@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

yeah that's specifically what i was getting at. Obviously lesbians have been driving motorcycles since the invention of the motorcycle, but the subculture having a presence at pride parades also goes a long way back.

[-] spudnik@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Idk if it counts as contrary, but in the us there is an entire parallel/mostly separate black biker culture. Segregation still existed legally when biker clubs were first becoming a thing, and even for years after black riders were excluded from the private clubs formed by white people. So obviously they formed their own clubs, ran their own bars and hangouts, and even their own rallies to rival Sturgis. Women also make up a way bigger proportion of black motorcycle riders in general (up to half at some events) which is kind of cool too

[-] OptimusSubprime@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

OP's post had me remember a 2003 movie called Biker Boyz, about Black motorcycle clubs and two wheel street racing, featuring Laurence Fishburne as Smoke - The King of Cali and Derek Luke. It features this goofy "well done son" guy plot but I watched it more because it reminded me of the first The Fast and The Furious movie. Bonus for me was finding a (unknown to me) Yasiim Bey (Mos Def) cut opening the movie. It's an ok popcorn movie but it counteracts the goofy (but dull) White biker type with the previously unknown goofy (but fun) Black biker.

Warning. Kid Rock has a brief cameo. But it's very brief thankfully.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

us-style mcs have nothing on brazilian grau culture.

they ain't the middle aged posers with expensive harleys, i frequently see these kids giving some fuga on the police. generally being loud and rowdy and doing some skillful but super risky stunts.

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