Are Knockoff Combat Uniforms Just as Good?
3rd November 2024
Inquiring minds want to know.
I found this interesting for a number of reasons. Firstly, this sort of thing is uniquely American. I can’t imagine Europeans or Asians or Africans doing this sort of content for a public video medium; I doubt that it would even occur to them. Secondly, I was impressed by the fact that, even though they went into the tests biased (a bias that they freely admitted), the tests showed results that were contrary to that bias, and they reported it fairly. If one believes all the complaints voiced everywhere about ‘social media’, the chances of that happening would have been negligible. Thirdly, it astonishes me that, in this world, in this country, there are people who are willing to devote so much time and effort to something so unquestionably fringe. I am reluctant to believe that there is a market for this kind of thing, but there obviously is. Fourthly — can you imagine how a garden-variety ‘journalist’ would react to seeing this? THAT would be comedy.