• southsamurai
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    10810 months ago

    My cousin Donald now goes by his middle name.

    His quote: “man, fuck that yankee piece of shit.”

    • mad_asshatter
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      10 months ago

      Sadly, half of voting Americans think you’re a fascist, Chinese bot.
      Or a woke commie queer groomer in drag.

      • southsamurai
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        510 months ago

        Why not both?

        I mean, I can be a woke queer, fascist, Chinese groomer in drag that’s a bot, can’t I? It’s a free country ;)

        • mad_asshatter
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          110 months ago

          “Equal in the eyes of the Creator” allows us to be us, without adversely affecting our equals.
          The hypocrites don’t believe in mirrors.

        • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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          -210 months ago

          You could, but I’d imagine your therapist sending you a fruit cake every year at christmas as a thank you for latest new lambo you funded

          • southsamurai
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            210 months ago

            Well, are you okay? You’re kinda not making much sense in your comments here. Like, the individual sentences make sense, sorta (this one anyway), but they don’t match what you’re responding to very well.

            It makes it seem like you’re responding to the wrong comments. Is that the case? Gods know I fuck that up myself.

      • @Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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        510 months ago

        I still don’t understand how a bunch of Southern, trailer park rednecks who hate new York city rich people, decided that a Manhattan millionaire was the guy to vote for. Why do they think he’s anything like them or has why idea how they live? He’s literally a northern, cartoonish carpet bagger.

        • @garbagebagel@lemmy.world
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          110 months ago

          I’m sure there’s deeper takes on this but from my understanding, it’s a mix of things: 1) he convinced them he’s not like other politicians (which is true, he was not a politician at all) and 2) he convinced them he’s the “pull yourself up by the jockstrap” American dream and everyone can be like him - that’s just the typical American lie they’ve been using for decades if not longer. Then sprinkle a little bit of christofacist fear mongering in there and you got some undereducated folks excited to see someone who’ll “fight” for their American dream.

    • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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      -210 months ago

      I’m guessing either a brit, an aussie who hates rhyming slang, or a VERY unwilling to adapt southerner.

  • @pelletbucket@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    for some reason Donald Trump doesn’t go in the category of “people named Donald” in my head. like Tom Cruise, he’s not a Tom, or a Thomas, he’s always Tom Cruise.

    when I hear somebody else’s first name is donald, it doesn’t make me think of him

  • Victor
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    1910 months ago

    Reminds me of that other name that kind of just withered away. What was it?

    Oh yeah…

    Adolf.

    • dohpaz42
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      810 months ago

      My niece named her daughter after Bella from Twilight. At least her full name is Isabella, but the inspiration is there.

    • MushuChupacabra
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      510 months ago

      A lot of us jumped on the fad of naming our daughters after Game of Thrones characters, especially the ones popular in the earlier seasons. And then D and D came along as show runners, and fucking wrecked everything for our baby girls. So Hodor, I regret getting sucked into that show and hope you’ll forgive me one day.

      • I like the name actually and don’t think it’s bad at all. The shower thought OP posted just reminded me of it. This dothraki female liberator saving her people —-> dragon firing everyone lol

        I don’t think Khaleesi or Donald are going to be names that are dunked on in the future, at least not that badly.

  • @FireTower@lemmy.world
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    1810 months ago

    I don’t think people 20+ years from now will instantly jump to Trump when they hear Donald. Just like how if you meet George you don’t think of Bush.

    • Ech
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      2010 months ago

      Yeah, Adolf really doesn’t bring anyone notable to mind.

        • @DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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          1: Yet.

          2: That isn’t even the sum of the Holocaust, much less combat casualties from the USSR alone which are absolutely on his head.

          Edit: Tbf, the Holocaust numbers only beat that if you include Soviet POWs being genocided in the prison camps, so that is kind of double dipping.

        • Ech
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          910 months ago

          Let him have another term and we’ll see how he measure up. And he’s up to a few 100k so far in my books.

          • Diplomjodler
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            110 months ago

            Dammit, Donnie! These are rookie numbers! You gotta get those numbers up!

        • @LemmyRefugee@lemmy.world
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          110 months ago

          Estimates are between 50 and a 100 million people.For example USSR is said to lose around 18 million people in that war.

  • Stern
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    1110 months ago

    They’ll make lovely couples with the girls named Khaleesi

  • @intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    -910 months ago

    Depends on how far y’all’s Trump derangement syndrome goes. Don’t tell me you’re actually considering taking it out on kids named Donald

    • @Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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      910 months ago

      I wouldn’t say anyone would take it out on them. But I can imagine growing up and hating your own name. I sympathize because I hate my first and middle name equally.

        • @Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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          210 months ago

          It’s just an ugly name, too ethnic for my liking too. Nobody ever pronounces it properly, or I’m constantly correcting or spelling out my name. It’s a pain in the ass. My middle name has the exact same issue.

          I just wish I had a neutral and easy name if not a cool one. I made it a point to give my kid a good name because of it. I was named after parent’s relatives who I never knew. I just hate my name.