Spyke
lemmy.world

Maybe they’re onto something. What if, instead of voting for people based on their ideals and record, we just passed leadership down through bloodline? Has anyone tried that before?

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alexcreply
lemmy.world

Based on primogeniture, wouldn’t that mean Don Jr is taking over? Then Eric? Clearly, the girls would be skipped…

So does this mean Barron is going to kill his brothers to ascend the throne?

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Well, Don jr. will die from congenital gonnorea, and Eric is fated to drown in a bathroom after clogging a toilet with unshredded documents.

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djsoren19reply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

So does this mean Barron is going to kill his brothers to ascend the throne?

I mean, we can only hope...

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Mirshereply
lemmy.world

Tentatively excited for the American War Of The Roses.

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Some cultures embraced the concept of ultimogeniture, under the premise that the youngest child would be raised with the full benefit of wiser parents and inherit younger, but generally not too young.

It's apparently pretty effective when the culture encourages the youngest child to stay home as a caretaker for their parents, but in terms of kingdom inheritance can cause problems.

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lemmy.world

UK here just saying that if you want a monarchy, we've got a decent one (as monarchies go) that won't try to financially rape the peasants to death, we've moved past that now.

What say you Americans, ready to become Canada 2: Empire Boogaloo?

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I think we were a bit too hasty in declining George III's declaration of love.

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lemmy.blahaj.zone

You're seeing the US fall into fascism in real time, and this is what you're concerned about?

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lemm.ee

Hey, y'all… let’s go back to the old internet rule of not feeding the trolls. There’s a small enough amount of people actively posting right now to stop those users in their tracks if we ignore them.

In the attention economy don’t give them attention.

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VitoRoblesreply
lemmy.today

I like this comment because you can put it under anything.

It's such a nothing comment; the only side it picks is that the commenter posting it is better than everyone else, and wants to invite argument for arguments sake.

Can't put my finger on it, but it's very "Twitter bot"-esque.

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Account is only 2 hours older than the comment, so you're probably spot on with the bot assessment

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Nah, they've been pretty obsolete for the last couple of decades. They're unhealthy for female reproductive organs, much like anyone with the last name "Trump". It's a fair comparison, IMO.

xx

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lemmy.world

"He's a guy you can have drinks with".... Uh no? He's 18. You cannot have drinks with him unless your a piece of tra... Well that guy can, but that's more like peer pressuring someone you really out age

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smeenzreply
lemmy.nz

I was very confused by your comment until I googled the drinking age in the US, and found it's 21. I guess I assumed it was 18 like most countries

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Cethinreply
lemmy.zip

You are responsible enough for your own decisions at 18 that you can join the military and die for your country, but you can't buy a drink for another 3 years.

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That's because in the 1980s when we looked into drunk driving deaths we found most involved 16-21 year olds. The nations that have better public transport or are more densely populated dont have these issues.

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programming.dev

I hope that Kaya takes this opportunity to open her damn eyes.

Not surprised this happened, though.

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lemmy.world

To be fair no one should be talking to the press about students going to school who haven't done anything to be worthy of press attention.

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lemmy.world

Weird, is something most people can be called, I'm more concerned with the other linked article in the story, citing a former behavioral specialist of barron's recounting stories of animal, physical, and sexual abuse...

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lemmy.world

This is shit journalism. Yeah, his name is Trump so he's probably an asshole, but he's living his life, which has no impact on your life or mine. He's a private citizen, and his alleged assholery is not a public matter.

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I used to believe in the whole private citizen but then seeing News really blew it up like "Obama's daughters eat provolone cheese instead of American cheese!".

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lemmy.world

What? His 'living life' that's 'not a public matter' includes standing behind the president of the United States as he's sworn in. He deserves the utmost public scrutiny, especially considering three of trumps other children already take an active role in his presidency. They meet world leaders, but you just want to avoid looking at whatever sketchy shit this one might be up to. He had the option to avoid the public and decided to be another gremlin like his clown ass brothers.

Next time don't get on the stage if you don't want the limelight.

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lemmy.world

They did. They were also terrible and I moved out at 17.

Barron's parents are without a doubt worse, he was 18 at the 2025 inauguration, and you still want to describe the situation as if he's a small child getting dragged around by his legal guardians. He's a little fascist under daddy fascists wing.

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Rich parents exert a huge amount of control over their children via financial manipulation.

There's been essentially no reporting on him, so where are you getting this "fascist" accusation from?

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lemmy.world

On campus, nobody really knows what’s up with that guy, other than that he’s not like any of the other students. “He’s sort of like an oddity on campus,” says Kaya Walker, the president of the NYU Republicans. “He goes to class, he goes home.”

That seems like a pretty kind assessment for what must be a super weird experience for everyone else on campus. A constant Secret Service presence seems like it must disrupt the other students’ lives, as well as the professors at the school. In fact, Walker quoted one of her own professors as saying “he doesn’t really belong here.”

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themakarareply
lemmy.world

I might be projecting here, but sounds to me like he just wants to be left alone. Like, no matter where he stands politically, being the son of the president alone (let alone this one) must be pretty difficult for an adolescent.

I say let's leave him be and not judge him based on his family. If he if he joins the others, that's different. But don't treat him as an extension of his father, no matter how much of a dipshit that father may be.

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someguy3reply
lemmy.world

I believe he tweeted something about the government stealing your money. He's taken his stand.

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themakarareply
lemmy.world

That's not really a stand on his father though. Just on government and taxes.

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That's pretty obvious what camp he's in. Not just "fiscal conservative", it's burn down the government. You don't need to extend past that to his father. Point is he's openly taken his stand.

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Yeah I agree. Even if he disagrees with his father, he can't say it. The magats would be all over him.

I actually kind of feel bad for him, too. He's in a difficult situation no matter what he thinks.

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I know a kid who went to his last school. He said Barron was nice and well liked. He's 18 so there's little chance he isn't having a rough time adjusting to adulthood especially considering being Trump's son. Weird subject for a story though

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lemmy.ca

Poor kid, he's only 18 still, that's gotta be a really tough way to grow up.

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nescreply
lemmy.cafe

He is pretty rich kid, with close to zero possible problems in the future, and potential to become new US god-king after trump. Not that bad of a life.

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programming.dev

On the one hand, you're right.

But also, there's a chance that Barron opens his eyes and sees how sheltered he is from everything, and that his only friends are people slightly less rich, and much older, than he is.

I know it's not likely, so far all the trump progeny have been less useful than human shit, but I think there's still a chance that Barron gets depressed because he "has it all" and can't even play basketball with a potential new friend his own age.

ETA: damn, I guess Lemmy thinks a child should always pay for the sins of their father, huh?

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nescreply
lemmy.cafe

You do have a point that he can one day change his life and become a monk. but.

It's not that child should pay for the sins of a father it's more that he is: not a child - 18 is considered adult almost everywhere, not a victim by any metric imaginable, is from extremely priveleged background. Why would you or anyone should feel pity for him when he is doing great actually?

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programming.dev

I said nothing about taking pity on him, and definitely didn't take it anywhere near becoming a monk. I didn't even claim Barron would be a good person if he deviated from his father's bullshit, I'm just putting out food for thought that he may have the potential to deviate.

And yea, laws consider him an adult at 18, but the body and brain are not finished developing.

Any way, my edited point was more about immediately suppressing an opinion that isn't even all that controversial or impossible to occur. It's reddit behavior, I said something incongruent with the hivemind, therefor it must not be discussed. If it was misinformation or just a straight up lie, then I get it. But that isn't so.

Like I mentioned in the post, considering his brothers it's not likely he will make a change, any way. However, he does have a different mom than the others, and growing up with a much different type of publicity. I have two half-siblings (we share a mom, diff dads). Just because we're related doesn't mean we have the exact same beliefs, or comprehend our parents' words in the same way. My siblings live for money, I live in a forest and don't talk to them at all.

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Lemmy is worse when it comes to opinions that challenge the general consensus, that's for sure. It comes from being really small even in absolute numbers, and community being separated at least between two big-ish camps, and people from both of these camps holding more or less homogenous views.

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I knew Rodger Stone's kid in high school. I never knew who his dad was at the time but his son was a fantastic guy. We aren't our parents.

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lemmy.world

I think a child, who is not a child, he's an adult, who has already been accused of sexual and animal abuse, is likely to be even worse than his father.

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lemmy.world

Yeah try finding a decent source that runs that story. It's unlikely to be true.

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lemmy.world

What decent sources are left in the U.S.? Every mainstream media outlet kowtows to Trump. Do you think any of them would risk running a negative story about his son while he's threatening to throw him in prison?

Edit: always check the modlogs...

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lemmy.world

This ran before the elections. It was a trash story then.

Why are you bringing modlogs into this? Im banned because I refuse to blame all the Jews of the world for the crimes of the IDF.

What kind of fucking loser are you that you need to do this? Get off lemmy for a while and get that job you need to find.

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I've literally been submitting CVs all day, since 5:30 this morning, and taking brief breaks to look at Lemmy. What do you think I should do, go door-to-door with my hat in hand asking if they need their toilet unclogged?

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programming.dev

If you have something concrete to back that up, then I'm with you. I am not aware of this.

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But then you gave me an article from one of the most left-wing confirmation-bias writers I've ever seen.

I will continue to search for it on my own.

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One of the most horrific things I've seen is people on their death-beds, when they knew there was no more turning back and they had to say good-bye to everyone and everything they'd loved in this world.

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lemmy.world

I'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt, but his last name is Trump, so the odds of him being a cesspool of a human being are astronomically high.

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The non-existent value of weirdly comparing his profile to a Greek statue aside, it's not even a good comparison. He has a way more prominent nasal ridge, a higher, more angled and sharp jawline, lower cheek bones, and a much flatter brow/forehead. What exactly is meant to look similar here except that they are both white guys?

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Revonultreply
lemmy.world

I see it more from the "Mythological" aspect. Less face simular and more both are legends and should be immortalized as statues.

Edit: To be clear I am not supporting the comparison. I am just explaining my take on the attempted symbolism of the image.

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From the article:

Of course he’s famous and sought-after — he’s a Trump. People would book Eric as a clown at their kid’s birthday party if he wasn’t so afraid of being his true self. Everyone wants to be close to a famous person, and people who want to curry favor with Donald Trump will say any manner of sweet nothings about his children.

ETA: although I chuckled at the above statement, this author is biased as shit. All his articles are nothing but Reddit-style fan service and exhaustively regurgitated comments. He even perpetuates the couch fucker lie in other articles. Everything reads like he's trying to make the best joke in order to get his karma numbers up.

Even though I lean left, I wouldn't trust anything this guy has to say and would do extra research before I took it seriously.

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lemmy.world

I love the fact that it's turning out that he's just like his brothers and fathers--empty.

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Conservatives are unable to imagine things clearly and so have to look to the past to better understand what is being said. But they also don't have the imagination to distinguish between what's being imagined and what happened in the past. So the end result is conservatives don't want to do anything new because they don't and/or can't understand it.

MAGA look to the past to celebrate the psychotic asocial Trump crotch goblin because they don't know and can't guess what he will become. They can't say "he's going to be great because of this!"

Instead we get screenshots showing two human heads and how close they are to being the same. The person behind each is so radically different that there is literally no real comparison. But they want the accolades and history to remember them and the only thing they know is old shit that has happened.

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Is a behavioral specialist not bound by HIPAA rules? Revealing this stuff would seem to be a problem if they are.

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lemmy.world

Doing the thing people are shaming the students are doing in comments. We can't just judge someone based on their family tree. For any son of a president they're not going to fit in nicely at a university due to being the son of a president. Hate the president all you want but don't diss people just because they happen to be related to them.

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Fuck that, I'll keep that in mind when you are in a concentration camp with general baron leading you to the chamber. Trump and his whole family can kick cans and die

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