U.S. — Patriotic Americans coast to coast raised a collective cheer today after hearing news that conservatism itself had been saved as a Muslim sex trafficker had been safely and triumphantly brought back to the U.S.
  • WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    58·
    22 days ago

    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.worldEnglish
      13·
      22 days ago

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

      • WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        5·
        21 days 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.

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    33·
    22 days ago

    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.eeEnglish
      11·
      22 days 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.

  • jaybone@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    22 days 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.

  • B312@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    22 days ago

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