• @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    403 hours ago

    Slightly off topic:

    When my parents divorced, I was bummed out that I had to attend two thanksgiving dinners. The second was not turkey. We charred hot dogs over an open fire (lived in the midwest at the time) and made smores. It was pretty great.

    This had nothing to do with the election. It’s just a nice memory.

  • Victor
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    62 hours ago

    merely because they believe my one vote…

    He thinks his vote doesn’t contribute or something?

    • @beebarfbadger@lemmy.world
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      21 hour ago

      Oh nonononono - you see, when Trump does it, he gets the good words: HE is “good at nicknames”, “strong” and “tells it like it is”. When anybody Trump doesn’t like does the exact same thing, then they are being childish, rude and it is altogether absolutely inacceptable.

  • @Dasus@lemmy.world
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    655 hours ago

    “I let them”

    Dudes showing internally he thinks he controls their votes. That he could’ve not let them had he chosen so.

    So his daughters should be thankful for such a benevolent patriarch. /S

    • @Soleos@lemmy.world
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      51 hour ago

      He clearly said in context “I let them vote in peace without objection or argument frome me”. Kind of like how I can either let your comment go or choose to respond without claiming to have control over you. The man is still ignorant AF though.

    • @x00z@lemmy.world
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      -95 hours ago

      Well it’s kind of semantics. The symbolism behind this is not the hill you’d want to die on. Letting somebody do something can either be allowing it or simply not disallowing it. I hate Trump and his low IQ followers, but that sentence does not imply anything.

      • @Dasus@lemmy.world
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        235 hours ago

        can either be allowing it or simply not disallowing it

        Exactly.

        When I go take a shit, did you allow it, or not disallow it? Neither, because you have no agency over me, so it’d be a stupid fucking sentence.

        I’m not saying he thinks he owns his daughters like some 16th century inbred minor noble.

        But connotations and implications can exist even when they weren’t particularly intentional by the writer (or speaker.)

  • Hossenfeffer
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    225 hours ago

    I hope the three girls organise heir own thanksgiving dinner and invite their mom.

    • @ReCursing
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      The American definition of Liberalism is the exact opposite of the original meaning, so maybe he was just being extra-oldschool?

    • @uis@lemm.ee
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      -55 hours ago

      His wrongness was so great, that it caused integer underflow and him saying something correct.

      Or horseshoe theory.

      • @infinite_ass@leminal.space
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        -548 minutes ago

        The screen sings its song of doom for you. But not for your benefit. Balance that against a lifetime of parental love.

        Why is the screen heavier? High technology of course.

  • JackbyDev
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    7912 hours ago

    With lines like “[your political opinion] is a mental disorder”, why is he surprised they aren’t coming?

  • @ntma@lemm.ee
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    -153 hours ago

    I kicked my son out of the house when I found out he voted for Trump. That was 8 years and I haven’t spoken to him since. I heard from my daughter that he was homeless for a couple of years and is now working retail while couch surfing.

      • @Shortstack@reddthat.com
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        41 hour ago

        I’m torn on that tbh.

        Hurt doesn’t heal hurt but on the other hand is rewarding disgusting behavior the way forward?

        The family members who supported turning half of us into subhuman citizens don’t deserve business as usual.

        History doesn’t care why germans voted in hitler in the 1930s, be it economic anxiety or hate for minorities, they’re just nazis.

  • Queen HawlSera
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    11414 hours ago

    “I voted for the idea that women aren’t people, now the women in my life don’t like me.”

  • @DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz
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    7014 hours ago

    “Liberalism is a mental disorder” These people are very telling how they treat people who they think legitimately have mental illness.

    • Dragon Rider (drag)
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      -5413 hours ago

      Conservatives 🤝 Liberals
      “The political positions I dislike are caused by mental illness”

      Socialists: "Hey guys maybe we could try not denigrating mental disorders? Maybe we could try building a left wing that welcomes and accepts the neurodivergent and marginalised?

      Liberals: “Fuck you, we’ll never accept psychopaths like Trump!”

      Socialists: “I never agreed with you that Trump is a psychopath. We don’t have to accept Trump in order to treat ASPD folks with dignity!”

      Liberals: “You’re disgusting, enabling abusers like that. If we treat psychopaths with basic dignity, they’ll only use it to abuse us!”

      • @Shizrak@sh.itjust.works
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        Words like psychopath have a common usage for people not in psychology/psychiatry. I’m sorry that we’re not meeting the clinical definition that you want, but I don’t think ranting about it all over Lemmy is going to help anything.

        When the average nonspecialist individual thinks “psychopath” they think of someone like Hannibal Lecter, who is dangerous and must be locked up to prevent them harming others, and that’s not going to change from a short form text post. It would take a semester of psychology.