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[–] nothingcorporate@lemmy.today 129 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Perfect! This is perfection, nobody will ever make a better use of this meme format!

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 4 points 5 months ago

Nah the mitt romney one

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Is there any one quality that more of the people surrounding Trump share than being serial sex abusers?

I can't think of one.

[–] Dadifer@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

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

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] Drunemeton@lemmy.world 51 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 39 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don’t understand if this is satire anymore.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Reality hasbecome too hard to satirise.

[–] 1SimpleTailor@startrek.website 26 points 5 months ago

So they're all at least 5 months old? Must be bringing their girlfriends.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 33 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Nelots@lemm.ee 11 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 28 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Watch the tate brothers become members of Trump's cabinet

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Head of the minister for women and gender equality, an obvious choice.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

What better position? Secretary of safety of women and children

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 5 points 5 months ago

That's too much. That's like putting an antivaxxer in charge of health!

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago

Ehh. They are rapey enough but don't you think they look well, a little on the brown side? Doesn't seem like there's any reason to compromise when there aren't DEI rules in place and there are plenty of rapey whites that are well qualified.

[–] DarthKaren@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Watch them become the new Epstein for the rich and powerful. tRUmp still has the jet iirc.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 months ago

I thought that's why he got them out/they came over here

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago

The title could also start as "Family values saved..."

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm not sure if it's widely known, but Tate started a political party in the UK called "BRUV" ("Britain Restoring Underlying Values"). The manifesto is all AI generated garbage. I'm unsure how that'll turn out as a refugee fleeing European justice.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

By the party of law and order

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] PolydoreSmith@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Babylon Bee is garbage, don’t post this shit here.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk -2 points 5 months ago

How come? Because it's conservative?

[–] B312@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago

He converted before the fiasco

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 5 months ago

I heard a rumour he got paid to do so or something

[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.vg 2 points 5 months ago

Perhaps Trump needs someone new to replace Epstein.