• TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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      I heard of anecdote of a guy who worked as waiter for the rich in a luxury yacht. He said pretty much what rich people ever talk about is building more wealth. These people are psychopaths. They see life as material transactions.

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        not all, but most rich people are constantly obsessed with positioning themselves versus their peers in business and family. its how the untalented keep score.

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      Rain is not wet. Water makes things wet, but is not itself wet.

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        This seemed a little sus to me so I checked the dictionary. Merriam-Webster says wet can mean consisting of liquid such as water. (See 1a of screen capture).

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        Wet is used as a synonym for rain in my local dialect. The endless flexibility of english is amazing. Noun that verb! Adjectivize all the words!

        Just don’t put colour before size in your stack of adjectives or everyone cringes, for some reason.

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          Water makes it self wet? The other definitions and reasoning is plausible. Water makes water wet? Stoner ideas?

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                I’m just tired of people arguing that weter isn’t wet when it’s right there in the name.

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                  There are a number of things that are wetter than water. So yeah, it’s wet, but it’s not the epitome of wetness.

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                  Well, telling someone to shut the fuck up is quite rude, and definitely an overreaction. You need to touch grass.

                  Also, what is weter?

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      I genuinely think she was. To psychopaths, everyone is transactionally of limited use. I think in him she genuinely saw and identified someone like herself. And if something had happened to her. Charlie would have 100% done the same as her. They aren’t well.

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        She’s happier now, I’m sure, because he’s more useful to her dead than he was alive. There’s a transaction for ya.

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            Eh… he was a fair target for mockery and it’s not like his death changed any minds for the better… Charlie the martyr is far worse than Charlie the living douche.

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              I think the less hate spread actively, the better. Its a drop in a bucket, but a light rain is better than a heavy downpour.

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    MAGAs don’t do martyrs well because they’re all psychopaths, and can’t maintain the pretense of caring enough to keep someone’s legacy alive.

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    Wait till you see how fast Melania moves on and profits from Donny’s death. She might set a land speed record.

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    Should surprise no one since she obviously didn’t marry him for his looks or personality.

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    We are somehow surprised a shitty person had a shitty wife? There are plenty of dynamic asshole duos.

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        On the trigger, not looking at where it’s pointing, and what’s she going to do, is that her resting pose, just going to hold it out there all day long.

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    As much as they are both (all 3 actually) are horrible people, there’s nothing nefarious in her not grieving how people want her to.

    Perhaps she doesn’t care. Perhaps she does, but sees an opportunity and can suck it up. Perhaps she does and she is using work to distract herself. Perhaps she does and it comes out differently. Perhaps she does and shes good at acting like nothing is wrong.

    It’s all just a distraction story.

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      In some ways I completely agree.

      Its absolutely possible for someone who loves their husband to appear happy after they suddenly pass away.

      However, the pivot to capture the TP USA business is a conscious one, and it definitely feels pretty gross to anyone who understands that it is indeed a business.

      The thing is, to people receptive to their message, its not a “business”, its a cause or a movement. They can just say “Charlie would have wanted her to continue his work!”

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        Yes but even if it is a conscious decision and she doesn’t or didn’t care about him, there’s nothing illegal about it. It’s just unseemly. She should be able to do as she pleases, no different to any other awful grifter. It’s not really news. It’s gossip.

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          It’s not a matter of illegal, it’s a matter of how much of a grift it is. Celebrating merch sales about your husband’s death is just sociopath level.

          It matters in the context of this movement trying to play like they gave a shit about this man for the sake of sympathy when even his own widow clearly cared about engagement and merchandise than his actual death.

          Admittedly, not that newsworthy because most of the world has stopped thinking about him, but TPUSA is still rolling and still riding that martyrdom angle.

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          Nah the Trump administration hitched their wagon to the Kirks so her unseemly behavior is newsworthy IMO.

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      I mostly agree with you, but I don’t think this is just a distraction story. The more interesting thing is the rift forming between MAGA influencers. Candace Owens clearly has beef with Erika Kirk.

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        Owens seems to lash out against everyone when she feels she isn’t getting her due. That’s a problem normally, but she seems to have outlived her usefulness to them. She’s been sidelined in that crowd for a while now, and only really makes the news over crazy shit

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    Since not even his wife seems to care, can they just stop reporting? Some podcaster got shot a while ago, a lot of people get shot all the time.

    Kids get shot, ICE shoots people who the fuck cares about this guy?

    Why was this ever big news?

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      They immediately used his death to try to argue that trans people are all domestic terrorists, and organized witch hunts to get people fired for making comments (often targeting professors that were on TPUSA’s hit list). There is a good chance that the Trump regime will cite the shooting as evidence that trans people should be viewed as terrorists.

      I think it also really exemplifies the “reality show” - iffication of right wing American politics. The president is a reality TV star, Dr Oz is administering Medicare, Hegseth was a news personality; Erika Kirk is just an opportunistic vulture like the rest. The kind of person who spends their life trying to get on Big Brother or Survivor so that they can make a career out of partying and socializing.

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    I’ll never be rich or famous, and I’m a member of a group these folks actively stoke hate towards. But I’ll say this, when I die, I know my wife will actually be sad about not having me anymore. That’s something a lot of these folks can’t honestly say

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    My husband’s dead. Like, I’m not trying to be morbid, but he’s dead.

    She should put that on a t-shirt.