• Furbag@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    How does this little dweeb have a reputation at all?

    Totally on brand for the Trump clan, though. Mary Trump really is the only one sane enough to wash her hands of the mortal shitstain that is the Trump legacy.

  • SailorFuzz@lemmy.world
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    I hated all of the “say what you want about Trump and Melania… but leave the kids out of it” bullshit.

    It’s a fucking family of monsters. That’s what these “upper crusts” produce. More fucking monsters that never learn accountability, gratitude or anything. Because everyone is so obsessed with sheltering the kids from the actions of their family. And then guess what, that kid grows up and acts EXACTLY like their parents because they were never challenged to be different.

    Fuck Baron, just the next link in a chain of fucking monsters.

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      I hated all of the “say what you want about Trump and Melania… but leave the kids out of it” bullshit.

      Well, I have said repeatedly in the past that while his father is a fascist criminal, his mother is a scam artist and a shameless gold digger, and his two elder brothers are professional crooks, Barron deserved the benefit of the doubt until he showed whether he decided to distance himself from his terrible family or not.

      I guess he deserves the benefit of the doubt no longer.

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        he was always going to turn out this way. Because he had no reason not to. He was being raised by crooks, racists, thieves and rapists. And everyone was like “nono, we shouldn’t interfere, it’ll be fine”.

        Want to know why I’m not a red voting racist dipshit like the rest of my family up and down the tree? Because I was challenged as a kid to defend my views and actions of my family. I had to think critically about who was raising me and if that was moral and ethical. I felt ashamed of knowing what my family was instead of just adopting their views wholesale. Because OTHER people didn’t just let it happen.

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          he was always going to turn out this way. Because he had no reason not to.

          Sometimes people escape their faith, and they shouldn’t be judged before their reveal their final personality.

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            19 hours ago

            This isn’t faith this is money and power. And he’s not going to give it up.

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            no, they don’t. Not unprompted. They have no reason to question it because they’re not forced to. And if they grow up surrounded by people reinforcing it, encouraging it, and no one to question it, that becomes their reality, it’s how they view the world. Normal to them, a monster to everyone else.

            Literally Plato’s cave. It’s what they’re exposed to and what they know. It’s their curated reality, taught by monsters. And when they grow up, they reject new information because it doesn’t align with what they understand as “reality”.

            Every person who ever “escaped” their faith, had some external factor that made them have to reconcile their reality. Question the shadows on the cave. Something outside of their bubble made them think that the world was different from what they were raised on. And then they had to choose to learn more over the more comfortable prospect of staying inside. It’s why cults work, but no one says “say what you will about the leader, but leave the members alone”… it’s the same operating principle.

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      I think that it’s perfectly fine and morally and tactically best practices to not attack minors. None of his kids is a minor anymore. It’s also generally for the best to leave out kids who don’t participate in politics. All but one of them have made policy decisions for him.

      It’s the difference between attacking Obama’s daughters vs attacking Chelsea Clinton vs attacking Jeb! Bush

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    I would have been surprised if a directionless, powerless in the shadow of his family, smug rich kid didn’t subscribe to some macho bullshit snake oil salesman offering him some feeling of legitimacy for being shitty. And of course the redpill carnival barker is going to latch on to the useless rich kid because of his family.

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    Did anyone actually read the article? It shows no link between Tate and Baron or even a rumored one.

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    What reputation did he have? Just that he was mostly silent before this?

    How far did people expect this apple to fall from the tree?

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    His reputation as a shitty little freak child of a giant pedophile rapist?

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      Well if anything it proves his pedigree. I also have a strong feeling this is someone we’re going to be hearing about for a very very long time.

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        Idk, he’s a troubled son of a politician. They have a tendency to make choices that aren’t conducive to a long life.

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      The kid’s clearly on the bad path, but that particular claim is one person without any substantial proof.