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[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 122 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Maybe they’re onto something. What if, instead of voting for people based on their ideals and record, we just passed leadership down through bloodline? Has anyone tried that before?

[-] alexc@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago

Based on primogeniture, wouldn’t that mean Don Jr is taking over? Then Eric? Clearly, the girls would be skipped…

So does this mean Barron is going to kill his brothers to ascend the throne?

[-] DemBoSain@midwest.social 23 points 2 months ago

Well, Don jr. will die from congenital gonnorea, and Eric is fated to drown in a bathroom after clogging a toilet with unshredded documents.

[-] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 months ago

So does this mean Barron is going to kill his brothers to ascend the throne?

I mean, we can only hope...

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

That is on my 2026 bingo card, not 2025

[-] Mirshe@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Tentatively excited for the American War Of The Roses.

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[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 points 2 months ago

Some cultures embraced the concept of ultimogeniture, under the premise that the youngest child would be raised with the full benefit of wiser parents and inherit younger, but generally not too young.

It's apparently pretty effective when the culture encourages the youngest child to stay home as a caretaker for their parents, but in terms of kingdom inheritance can cause problems.

[-] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

UK here just saying that if you want a monarchy, we've got a decent one (as monarchies go) that won't try to financially rape the peasants to death, we've moved past that now.

What say you Americans, ready to become Canada 2: Empire Boogaloo?

[-] EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago
[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

I think we were a bit too hasty in declining George III's declaration of love.

[-] RattlerSix@lemmy.world 97 points 2 months ago

My daughter goes to NYU although she isn't in the business school which probably has more conservative assholes than she encounters in her line of study. She says everybody around her thinks it's weird and basically debate how much shit to give him should they cross his path.

From what I gather, there are two camps.

Camp A thinks he's a trump therefore they'll call him a fucking Nazi to his face if given the chance.

Camp B thinks he's not responsible for his father's actions but he hasn't done anything to distance himself from them so they'll call him a fucking Nazi to his face if given the chance too

It's a very nuanced debate, I don't know which side I would support.

[-] NielsBohron@lemmy.world 42 points 2 months ago

NGL, you had me in the first half

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[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 50 points 2 months ago

I wouldn't expect the son of a sociopath to be terribly well-adjusted.

[-] Kingofthezyx@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago

TWO sociopaths.

[-] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 2 months ago

"The douche doesn't fall far from the bag."

[-] otto@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 months ago

The turd doesn’t fall far from the asshole

[-] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 9 points 2 months ago

Don't belittle douches like that, at least they have a purpose on this planet.

[-] cokeslutgarbage@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Nah, they've been pretty obsolete for the last couple of decades. They're unhealthy for female reproductive organs, much like anyone with the last name "Trump". It's a fair comparison, IMO.

xx

[-] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 46 points 2 months ago

"He's a guy you can have drinks with".... Uh no? He's 18. You cannot have drinks with him unless your a piece of tra... Well that guy can, but that's more like peer pressuring someone you really out age

[-] smeenz@lemmy.nz 16 points 2 months ago

I was very confused by your comment until I googled the drinking age in the US, and found it's 21. I guess I assumed it was 18 like most countries

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 19 points 2 months ago

You are responsible enough for your own decisions at 18 that you can join the military and die for your country, but you can't buy a drink for another 3 years.

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[-] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 31 points 2 months ago
[-] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 15 points 2 months ago

I hope that Kaya takes this opportunity to open her damn eyes.

Not surprised this happened, though.

[-] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago
[-] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

Weird, is something most people can be called, I'm more concerned with the other linked article in the story, citing a former behavioral specialist of barron's recounting stories of animal, physical, and sexual abuse...

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[-] ehpolitical@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 months ago

Poor kid, he's only 18 still, that's gotta be a really tough way to grow up.

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 81 points 2 months ago

It didn't help my kids growing up to have Trump in the Whitehouse either.

[-] nesc@lemmy.cafe 29 points 2 months ago

He is pretty rich kid, with close to zero possible problems in the future, and potential to become new US god-king after trump. Not that bad of a life.

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[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

On campus, nobody really knows what’s up with that guy, other than that he’s not like any of the other students. “He’s sort of like an oddity on campus,” says Kaya Walker, the president of the NYU Republicans. “He goes to class, he goes home.”

That seems like a pretty kind assessment for what must be a super weird experience for everyone else on campus. A constant Secret Service presence seems like it must disrupt the other students’ lives, as well as the professors at the school. In fact, Walker quoted one of her own professors as saying “he doesn’t really belong here.”

[-] themakara@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

I might be projecting here, but sounds to me like he just wants to be left alone. Like, no matter where he stands politically, being the son of the president alone (let alone this one) must be pretty difficult for an adolescent.

I say let's leave him be and not judge him based on his family. If he if he joins the others, that's different. But don't treat him as an extension of his father, no matter how much of a dipshit that father may be.

[-] limelight79@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah I agree. Even if he disagrees with his father, he can't say it. The magats would be all over him.

I actually kind of feel bad for him, too. He's in a difficult situation no matter what he thinks.

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[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

MAGAs are weird

[-] DougHolland@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

This is shit journalism. Yeah, his name is Trump so he's probably an asshole, but he's living his life, which has no impact on your life or mine. He's a private citizen, and his alleged assholery is not a public matter.

[-] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 5 points 2 months ago

I used to believe in the whole private citizen but then seeing News really blew it up like "Obama's daughters eat provolone cheese instead of American cheese!".

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[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The non-existent value of weirdly comparing his profile to a Greek statue aside, it's not even a good comparison. He has a way more prominent nasal ridge, a higher, more angled and sharp jawline, lower cheek bones, and a much flatter brow/forehead. What exactly is meant to look similar here except that they are both white guys?

[-] Revonult@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I see it more from the "Mythological" aspect. Less face simular and more both are legends and should be immortalized as statues.

Edit: To be clear I am not supporting the comparison. I am just explaining my take on the attempted symbolism of the image.

[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

jerk off motion

[-] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

From the article:

Of course he’s famous and sought-after — he’s a Trump. People would book Eric as a clown at their kid’s birthday party if he wasn’t so afraid of being his true self. Everyone wants to be close to a famous person, and people who want to curry favor with Donald Trump will say any manner of sweet nothings about his children.

ETA: although I chuckled at the above statement, this author is biased as shit. All his articles are nothing but Reddit-style fan service and exhaustively regurgitated comments. He even perpetuates the couch fucker lie in other articles. Everything reads like he's trying to make the best joke in order to get his karma numbers up.

Even though I lean left, I wouldn't trust anything this guy has to say and would do extra research before I took it seriously.

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[-] stoly@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

I love the fact that it's turning out that he's just like his brothers and fathers--empty.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago
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[-] tonytins@pawb.social 6 points 2 months ago

These have no lives.

[-] AshMan85@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago
[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Is a behavioral specialist not bound by HIPAA rules? Revealing this stuff would seem to be a problem if they are.

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[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Conservatives are unable to imagine things clearly and so have to look to the past to better understand what is being said. But they also don't have the imagination to distinguish between what's being imagined and what happened in the past. So the end result is conservatives don't want to do anything new because they don't and/or can't understand it.

MAGA look to the past to celebrate the psychotic asocial Trump crotch goblin because they don't know and can't guess what he will become. They can't say "he's going to be great because of this!"

Instead we get screenshots showing two human heads and how close they are to being the same. The person behind each is so radically different that there is literally no real comparison. But they want the accolades and history to remember them and the only thing they know is old shit that has happened.

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