• DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world
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    Back in November 2020, I remember some meme with text along the lines of “Yes, Biden won. Now, watch me not build a shrine to him on my yard or put his name all over my truck like a fucking weirdo.”

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      The Trump weirdos have done that, they just put Fuck or Truck (if they’re pussies) in front of Biden or Brandon

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    In Fallout 2 there’s an option to become a slaver, which lets you make some extra money in the short term, but comes with a hefty reputation penalty with almost everyone in the wasteland for the rest of the game, since it comes with a “SLAVER” tatto on your forehead. You’ll be locked out of some quests, some characters refuse to join you and bounty hunters will be harassing you. It’s 100% not worth it, though it can make for a more challenging playthrough.

    Not sure why I just remembered that.

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    A long time ago, a manager called me into her office, and pointed at a report I had sent to her about the company’s products. Her words are just as relevant to this situation:

    “This is a career-limiting move.”

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        Exactly. I get paid and this asshole has to publicly show how stupid they are for the rest of their life? Easiest decision ever.

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          Yes but, there is something called professionalism. No respectable tattoo artist would do this. There is a code of ethics. This can only be done in some shoddy back alley crackhouse for 20 dollars and a blowjob.

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      This would be an equally bad idea even if it said… I don’t know… “CLOONEY”.

      What a stupid thing to do.

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      I was thinking that. It’s one thing to be in a mental state to decide you want a Trump tattoo but… strikes me as pretty unethical of the tattoo artist and parlour.

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      Forreal. Somewhere in the Modern Primitives book one of those old heads talks about making people wait a year for a face tattoo. If you’re serious enough to come back a year later then it’s not just a passing impulse. Good policy. Kinda doubt homegirl waited a year, but it’s possible.

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    But no, it’s not a cult…

    I really don’t remember any of this nonsense during Bush or other R’s

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        W had his fake folksy persona and butchered sayings. That’s gotta be at least as much of a personality as raging narcissism on display, no?

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          Yeah, but it’s not a personality that people want to build a cult around. You generally need someone who’s extremely charismatic. I hate trump more than anyone else on earth right now, but even I have to admit he’s charismatic.

          The other qualifier I believe, is that you can just unabashedly lie to your followers. Just look them dead in the eyes, and lie through your teeth. About politics, their opponents, religion, etc. Just lie straight to their face. Because you’re going to have to. Nobody who’s interested in a cult is going to follow anyone who’s promising mediocre results. You’ve gotta promise the outrageous and unrealistic.

          Bush had none of those qualities.

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            I just don’t get how he is charismatic. I’m amazed people say this. At his best, his personality is oily car salesman (and I say this as someone who has relatives I love very much who sell cars) using vague generalities to praise himself or people he wants to boost. That’s how Trump seemed to me twenty years ago. Now he’s all that AND can’t stay on topic for 15 seconds or answer literally any question without diverging into a rant on some other subject entirely.

            Even his body language seems so calculated for “strength” or “power” or whatever. OH SHIT you steepled your fingers, I feel like I have to go along now, etc.

            I find the guy to be a transparently awful performance artist at his best and a doddering barely coherent performance artist at his worst.

            This is not because I hate his guts, this is just how he has always seemed to me.

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    Tell her “Wow! You’ve really got a lot of extra chromosomes!”

    She’ll respond brightly “Thanks!”

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    Shit’s fake. No redness around the other letters. Also if it was a tattoo the artist should be embarrassed by her shit lines. Michael J Fox could draw a straighter line.

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      Also over caked on makeup. I don’t know shit about tattoos, but I know you sterilize the surface before repeatedly jabbing a needle into your skin.

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        My tattoo artist only makes the area and a bit around it sterile. So I don’t think any tattoo artist would sterilize the whole face.

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      The visible inflammation and progression of healing you can see on her Tiktok and the video of it being done mean it’s either a very convincing fake or she’s actually that insane. She’s not even American btw.

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    Tattooing the name of a convicted rapist, felon, and person who’s responsible for taking your rights as a woman away is not the flex she thinks it is

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    One of the funny parts about this is that I think the guys who believe any kind of tattoo is unattractive (and that it’s important women with tattoos know that they find tattoos unattractive) lean more conservative. So she’s likely getting negative feedback already from some of the people she wanted to impress with this.

    And in a decade or two, that name could either be seen similar to Hitler’s or as an embarrassment.

    Plus block tattoos like that are difficult to cover up in a way that looks nice. And lazer removal hurts more than getting the tattoo does, plus isn’t perfect, so she might need that and a cover up to prevent it from being at least faintly visible.

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      Difficult to cover up? Just write TRUMPET. 🎺

      Ok, it wouldn’t be centered anymore, but better than before. And then join a brass band.

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      Imagine if this was your mother and she was giving a speech at your wedding or you bring a girl home, or maybe you’re still in highschool and she picks you up.😄

      I can’t think of any other occasions, my family was never close.

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      Just graft some skin from her ass over the top.
      Better to not be able to sit down and to look like Frankensteins monster than walk around with that tattoo