• Mossheart@lemmy.ca
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        Well, only one of em is alive, so that narrows the field dramatically I’d say.

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          Yeah, that’s kind of my quandary. If they were both alive, I probably wouldn’t feel quite as strongly about Bourdain. Heck, I barely knew anything about him other than watching some of his stuff before he passed. I’d love to ask a bunch of questions about the current political landscape and a previous successful democratic president, but it’s not like I’d get the time of day from them for more than an autograph or a selfie.

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    Guys, we’re at war. That’s what all this fucking nonsense is about. We didn’t find a pedophile. We found a structure. We are all civilian casualties of a post-mutual destruction psychological, narcotic - pick the front war. From the red hats making you assume you know what your neighbor thinks without asking, to the fentanyl from Chinese precursors to the “dating” apps full of scammers, we’re looking at the results of infiltration. Guarantee the list has been destroyed.

    Let’s waterboard Trump.

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    Not the point but does the tweet’s OP not know the word Vietnam? Why always clump huge regions together like the individual countries don’t matter?

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      “Vietnam” is not widely known for sex tourism, but “Southeast Asia” is coded. “Sex Tourism in Southeast Asia” is a familiar term in American English and the image caption is tailored to leverage that association. This image was created to be misinformation and the creator chose the phrasing to increase the image’s impact.

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      If they didn’t know where the original image was from that’s a decent guess. The only obvious signifier is the words on the wall and I’m happy to excuse them not knowing what Veitnamese looks like from that.

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      Idk i’ve talked to wait staff who said when he visited their restaurant he’d had some girl jack him off under the table. Kinda a gross guy but he was an interesting media presence.

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      Too many fall pretty to Fuckitol® in its various forms. 🥲 He was a major inspiration to me, in coming and in life. (and a surprise visitor at a humble cart I ran, back in the pre-Voodoo days, but I froze up.😱)

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    I just now realized… T**** hates Obama because Barack was naturally cool, in a way the felon in chief will never be.

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      Barack was naturally cool, in a way the felon in chief will never be.

      It was so cool, the way Barry turned a blind eye to a decade of financial crimes while overseeing the automation of the Pentagon’s mass surveillance and automated their preferred tools for repression and assassination overseas. I loved how he prosecuted whistleblowers all casual and sexy, kept the torture prison in Cuba open indefinitely, and unleashed the FBI on the largest movement of black civil rights activists since the 1960s.

      Trump will never be as suave or as sexy while committing war crimes, suppressing domestic dissent, or papering over the horrors of the plutocracy. I ❤️ You Obama!

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        Genuine question: why is this something so many people latch onto? He has done and is doing actually horrible things. Who cares if he needs adult diapers? He’s old, a lot of old people need them, along with other people with other issues.

        My rights are being eroded, I do not care about his diapers.

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          I think mostly because Trump would care, as would a lot of his followers. That makes it an effective attack, even if it shouldn’t be.

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          The problem is that people who need diapers are generally too old to see that the world is not as it was 25 years ago…

          Such old folks are just too obsessed in trying to turn back time.

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          Because he already did horrible things for 4-8 years and literally nobody gave a single fuck - nothing ever happened, no consequences were ever met, and it’s clear that people don’t actually care about those things. So we focus on him being weird and dirty, which right-wing weirdos oddly actually do seem to care about.

          They’re both losing strategies, to be clear. You don’t peacefully get out from under fascist government.

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      I don’t know, pulling a sheet of images of both side by side. Other than hair color and some age wrinkles, I’m not really seeing it.

      I think showing a picture of a celebrity right now with a middle-aged greying man with disheveled hair just predisposes us to seeing him.

      Here I found two pictures of them with almost the same exact expression. The ears and nonses are wildly different, the chins both have divits, but are shaped differently.

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      Man, it still hurts that he’s gone. My first introduction to Bourdain was in No Reservations, and after not getting enough of his wit and love of all things culinary and people (because of too much time between seasons), I picked up Kitchen Confidential and was instantly hearing his voice in my head as I read.

      Depression is a motherfucker.

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    It’s only a matter of time before pictures of Epstein surface, partying with Karl Marx himself. Then the evil commie Democrats will be forced to support President Trump!

    • It gets better.

      Elvis is alive, and lives on Epstein Island. So do Michael Jackson and both Robert and John Kennedy. Sasquatch is also there, although he had to come to the mainland briefly to break into Pam Bondi’s office to steal the list from her desk, which was facilitated by the aliens who also hang out at the island.

      The only true part about this is the list, which will not get released until we re-enact 1787 and get rid of the oligarchs, who are all on it.

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    CHECKMATE LibtaRdsS!

    -People who Ignore the Pictures and Videos of Trump with ACTUAL Epstein and then call Epstein an American Hero!