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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by lemmylump@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

What a fucking Dingus!

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[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 48 points 1 week ago

Republicans, tell us again how it’s the trans people we should all be afraid of.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

Not a Republican, but I think I've got it figured out.

See, they think everyone has these awful, sinful thoughts that they can't control. When they see trans people living their lives they feel like those trans people are giving into the nasty, sinful thoughts. Or gay people. Or people in interracial relationships. Or really anyone who's doing something they've been told is a naughty, sinful, deplorable thing that no one should do even if it feels good and hurts no one.

So when they see people accepting others who have dirty, naughty, sinful thoughts they assume we're okay with sin. The conflict arises because we have a different view of sin that is less self-interested. We're not about punishing people for doing things that feel good and hurts no one, we want to help the people doing things that feel bad, and let people do things that don't hurt others.

This makes their brains get hot and when their brains get hot they feel angry.

[-] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 week ago

"Psychological projection" is a much shorter phrase and describes exactly that, and basically the entirety of right wing, fascist idiology.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

And has been since at least the Nazis

[-] Glide@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Unironically, exactly right.

This is the same reason they see homosexuality as a sinful choice, and take issue with homosexuals just simply being alive. They struggled so hard to suppress their homosexual urges, and now these people are flaunting theirs, openly? And the rest of the world wants to celebrate this moral failure, despite it being something that everyone struggles with? I mean the mental gymnastics required to succeed in choosing to be heterosexual, while celebrating someone else who failed to do so is just absolutely insane.

You can see how this all logics together if you assume everyone feels the way you do, and you're fighting an urge to do something you see as morally wrong. Obviously, abusing your teenage daughters trust to give yourself a mild sexual release is morally wrong, but the point stands. These people play the moral high ground card because they struggle with these thoughts every single day.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

I feel a similar thing when I see people doing absolutely immoral things like denying health care coverage and making tons of money doing it. I've been taught all my life that if someone asks for help you help them, so seeing someone getting praised and paid for being an asshole pisses me off to no end.

[-] frunch@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I feel this comment. 🙌

[-] deHaga@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Oh, he definitely is. Those are the dirty, nasty, sinful thoughts he has. And he needs help for them because it's not right and he's hurting people.

But what he'll get is an overly-emotional testimony in a church where he "repents" and pushes those intrusive thoughts even deeper rather than dealing with them, where they'll fester and he'll probably do something worse than sniffing dirty underpants.

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Wesley Dingus

He really lived up to his name! I can't imagine voting for a mayor whose last name was Dingus anyway.

[-] bender223@lemmy.today 23 points 1 week ago

are these the family values that the repubes be talking about?

[-] EtAl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 week ago

That is nominative determinism at its finest, second only to Anthony Wiener sharing dick pics.

[-] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

According to the official report, the teenage girl explained that she had grown suspicious that Dingus had been entering her room without her permission. Seeking proof, she bought a small video camera and set it up in her bedroom.

Allegedly, on the morning of January 13, she left for school around 7 a.m. She said that about 15 minutes later, she received a motion alert from her camera. Upon reviewing the footage, she saw Dingus enter her room and smell her underwear.

The next day, she received another alert at 7:17 a.m., and the video again showed Dingus entering her room, smelling her worn underwear, and touching his groin area over his clothes. This evidence was handed over to law enforcement.

[-] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

His name is Dingus? Wtf

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

What the fuck.

Good for her catching him.

[-] HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 week ago

Ready for the wave of conservatives telling on themselves by saying this is fine

[-] AHamSandwich@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

It's just scent bonding!
-The Society for Epstein-Americans

[-] arin@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Key note missing in title is that she is a minor so he's also a pedo

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Dingus was shown in photos attending the arraignment wearing jeans and a plaid shirt, standing next to his attorney, James Mayer III. He pleaded not guilty. Dingus, who is currently out on bond for an incident last summer after he "struck a suspect fleeing police" with his car, arrived to court fairly experienced with the process.

It wasn't Dingus' first time being arraigned. In August 2025, Dingus was in front of the judge to face numerous charges for allegedly "running over a man wanted for violating parole."

Dingus was indicted on four counts in that case, including aggravated assault, vehicular assault, falsification, and dereliction of duty. The first two charges are fourth-degree felonies.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Was he a family values guy on the warpath against trans and drag queens though?

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Well OBVIOUSLY! He was only sniffing her panties to check for trans germs, and make sure she isn't wearing drag clothes! God! Not everything has to be sexual!

(In case it's not coming through, I'm being highly sarcastic. This guys a creep, and hopefully his dick falls off from being too small)

[-] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

hopefully his dick falls off from being too small

That's not something that happens right? Asking for a friend.

[-] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago
[-] pool_spray_098@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

That's his actual name, too... These Republicans are too fucking much, man.

[-] lemmylump@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Republicans are all scumbags.

[-] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago
[-] Blade9732@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

It's always the one you suspect the most.

[-] Novis@lemdro.id 7 points 1 week ago

The P in GOP stands for Pedophiles

[-] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

It's always who you most suspect

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago

the onion just can't compete.

[-] foodandart@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

What does Mrs. Dingus think of all this, that her husband is creeping on her daughter.

Hmmm. I see divorce in the future.

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[-] devolution@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago
[-] mvilain@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago

I wonder what would have happened if had been his 14yo son's jock strap.

Having been a 14-year-old boy once, I'm guessing his nose would get pregnant.

[-] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

That's why they say a sneeze is 1/8^th^ of an orgasm[^0][^1].

[^0]: Don't hold me to that specific value for a wide variety of reasons. I chose 8 because 8-choose. Excuse me. [^1]: Also, while reading up on this, I landed on the wiki page for sexually induced sneezing. Turns out there's erectile tissue in the nose (and not in a crude "your mother" joke temporary kind of way) so "nose boner" could be a way to describe one's response to a pleasant smell.

[-] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

But but butbut he's Saved By Teh Blood O'Jeezus, so it's all OK.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago

PedoCons be PedoCons.

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

They are all so fundamentally twisted in their religions, these things probably happen more than gets noticed or reported

[-] Akasazh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

The amount of Drag Queens and Trans people getting caught doing stupid sexual suff to people:

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[-] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 2 points 1 week ago

You can’t make this shit up, if it weren’t about real life you’d think it’s one of those early 2000’s comedies alla American pie or a Gilbert Gottfried skit.

Wtf republicans 🤮 for all the hating these ghouls do… disgusting.

[-] evol@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago

How is it so hard to just not do this

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