• WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Is there any one quality that more of the people surrounding Trump share than being serial sex abusers?

    I can’t think of one.

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      I think they all have to share their “special secret”. If one of the group doesn’t, they are a liability.

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        Undoubtedly sort of.

        It’s not so much “closet homosexuality” as that sexuality is a spectrum, which means that most people have some greater-than-zero amount of attraction to their same sex, which is a problem for desperately insecure bigots, and he’s a desperately insecure bigot.

        For the majority of people, the portion of their sexuality that’s focused on their same sex is not significant enough to justify defining themselves as anything other than heterosexual - it just is, or possibly just was, a source of occasional thoughts or fantasies or, in some cases, experimentation. In fact, it’s quite possible that, not particularly concerned about it, they’ve never even consciously realized that some portion of their sexual attention is drawn to their same sex.

        However, for the “incel” personality type, like Tate, that amount greater-than-zero of attraction to their same sex can be a cause for overwhelming shame. It’s not enough for them to be heterosexual overall - their insecurity and self-doubt and need to puff themselves up demands that they be 100% straight manly men. And they aren’t. Never mind that that portion of their attention that’s focused on their same sex is near certainly insignificant in and of itself - to them its mere existence is an existential threat to their already shaky self-images, so they feel a need to, and often do, put an outsized focus on stamping it down and making every effort to pretend it doesn’t exist at all. Which ends up warping their personalities, and ironically enough making them even more focused on homosexuality than they would’ve been had they, as most people do, just not worried about it in the first place.

        So yes, sort of.

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    This is not the onion, but Desantis might go after him. It could all be a stunt, of course.

    https://www.salon.com/2025/02/27/zero-tolerance-desantis-says-andrew-tate-is-not-welcome-in-florida-as-maga-celebrates-release/?in_brief=true

    From the Miami Herald article:

    But Tate’s claim that the Romanian case against him was dismissed in December isn’t true. While a Bucharest court ruled that the first criminal case could not proceed due to legal and procedural irregularities, the charges against the Tates remain in effect. What’s unclear is how further cases will proceed now that the Tates are back on American soil.

    https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article301122934.html

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      If he does, this will be the one and only time I ever root for that piece of shit. Desantis that is, not the other pos.

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    Did something change with the babylon bee? Sudden surge of actually decent content all of a sudden

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      If you go to their site this is definitely the exception and not the rule. The rest of the articles today are bashing Zelensky.

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      Clicked the link and got a banner for a movie trailer which mocks the idea that January 6 was violent.

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      Right wingers are starting to act non/anti-christian more prominently from power, it seems. So Babylon bee has material from the right to make fun of. Or maybe not, it kind of always existed, now thinking.

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        Idk, I always felt that there was a conservative slant to the bee. It’s never there 100% of the time, but it’s kinda like if the Onion was written by a bunch of bootlickers.

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          like if the Onion was written by a bunch of bootlickers.

          This is exactly what it is. Seth Dillon was also the guy who recruited the Libs of TikTok lady, if memory serves.

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      I mean look at all the fake-ass christians infecting the world, is it so hard to believe that there are plenty of fake-ass muslims too? I was friends with a Palestinian/Jordanian guy and he told me it was commonplace in Jordan to have a group of men drinking tea at a cafe, except the tea pot was full of liquor. I don’t know if it was meant to hide it from other people, hide it from god, or both.

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        I mean. The only place to get alcohol past midnight in the Canadian town I grew up in was an all night tea house. But we were just trying to hide it from the cops.

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    Real news is more oniony than The Onion now. They ought to start doing super bland fake stories like “Cat Stuck in Tree, Saved by Local Fire Department.” Kind of like a form of eye bleach.

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    Is he an actual Muslim? Or did he convert just to lessen the heat on him?