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they look so dumb (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I’m pretty staunchly anti-MAGA/Trump, but the ear bandage thing doesn’t bother me. Looking dumb is kind of the point. It’s like shaving your head when your friend goes through chemo. A shitty thing happened to them and now there’s an outward facing aspect of it that they can’t change. You do the same thing to yourself so they’re not alone.

That being said, I’m very much looking forward to outliving Trump and hope to revel in some schadenfreude if he ever faces karmic retribution.

Also, the cult is real and terrifying for about a billion reasons outside of the ear bandage thing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Original scene

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Isn't the right ear the gay one? Just sayin

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

They are just glad it something everyone can see. After all few see the diapers they are wearing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Mounting a huge bloodied bandaged ear on the wall like a crucifix.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Please don't think that I endorse this or that I think that Trump is anything but a disgusting idiotic asshole, but how is wearing a bandaid on your ear to support a person any different than the ever popular shaving your head in support of a friend going through cancer? Do these also look dumb? I mean that there are Trump supporters is bad enough in itself, but at least they show compassion to a person when something happens. So the gesture is only bad in context I guess.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hairstyle is a big part of most people's identity, and a disease, or anyway it's treatment, strips it away. People shave because their hair falls out like their body is just giving up. With the hair goes the ability to keep your sickness private. Everyone you know, and most people you come into contact with will know you're going through something big, and they will treat you differently. You're not you anymore. You're sick. Friends or family might try to show you it's not such a big deal by shaving their own heads, but strangers won't do that.

Let's contrast that with trump. His body isn't failing anymore than it already was. This doesn't strip him of his identity. If anything it solidifies it. This doesn't change the way people interact with him. This doesn't divulge any information about him that wasn't already public, by his own choice. Given his obvious insecurities, we would know if his ears were one of them and they are not. These people have no personal relationship with him. This isn't about making him feel better. It's about these people's own identity and demonstrating group solidarity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

This is a perfect response 👏

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Because he’s not their relative or friend - and if he could have them killed to sell their organs for a dollar, he’d do so without blinking.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I see, yet I feel that if this was another celebrity, it would not be called dumb. If Julian Assange had been injured I believe the reaction would be different. Even if the bandaid looked the same.

But, again, just to be clear - having overbearing sympathy with someone who promotes violence and hatred after he got away with a scratch is at best questionable. Supporting such a person and believing that they will do them good is awful and naive. Being said person is... morally wrong, to say the least.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

I really don't think it would happen with another celebrity and if it did I would consider those people cultish too.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

It's like the Passion of the Idiot. Now instead of stigmata the hot thing is whining and wearing a bandage on your face.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Can you buy those on Mike Lindell’s website?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

This is a freakin fantastic meme.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The 45-47 hat… 🤦‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

So, I'm actually curious. If he was elected again would he be considered also the 47th president? Or would he still just be the 45th but with a second term? I don't think a president has ever only served one term and come back to serve again. I'm in the camp that he would still only be the 45th but served his second term after 46. And whomever serves after him would then be considered the 47th.

Edit: Thank you, I was unaware these actually already has happened before.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

David Tennent was both the 10th and the 14th doctor. Do what you want with that information.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

Grover Cleveland was #22 and #24

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

He would also be the 47th. Pretty sure this has happened before and it wasn't not counted

[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 months ago

Wearing face masks is unacceptable, but…

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

They want to partake in the glory of having almost been assassinated.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Is she... picking her nose?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And what if I did do it? Even though I admit to nothing, and never will. What does that make me? And I'm not here just defending myself but all those pickers out there who've been caught. Each and every one of them, who has to suffer the shame and humiliation because of people like you.

Are we not human?! If we pick, do we not bleed?! I Am Not An Animal!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I don’t wanna be a pirate.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

No, her finger's curved.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

the best way to sneak drugs into the concert....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

The trick is to sneak them in in your blood stream.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 4 months ago (2 children)

“We’re not a cult. We’re a collective of like minded free thinkers that aim to make America great again by supporting the convicted felon Donald Trump in his third presidential campaign”

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Dozing Donald. Rapist felon dozing Donald.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago

*fourth. He also ran in 2000 for the Reform Party.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

They all yearn to lick the orange butthole.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

If you ever roll up to a cult in your vehicle, and it's THAT cult, don't stop, you're in danger.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

they even look like people who would do that