I know this is a shitpost, and everybody is shitting on the kid (or, let’s be real, the stereotype of a certain type of person). But imo, the takeaway shouldnt be “look at this idiot”, but “Look at this person who does some things right but has been sucked into a cult. He’s still reachable.”
Also,… Barb?
He has a barbed penis, like a cat.
I like this answer the best. Headcannon
Another poster said Barb is what Nicki Minaj fans are called. I’d say that is the most likely one to be real.
His DND character is a barbarian.
Barb. Barb is his ex-wife. Usually Deb is the current wife, in HOSSTALK. “WHY U CRYIN’ LIBRUL?!! I’M CRYIN’ CUZ BARB LEFT ME” etc.
I know a padded resume when I see one. Dude is having a hard time getting dates, so he threw a handful of more desirable keywords in there.
Written in Rust
“Results-oriented lover”
Reduced deliverables by 100% and still meet client goals
This isnt even a unique or uncommon type of guy Lol you find these dudes everywhere at Hypebeast stores and corner store vape shops
I can’t find the pro-LGBTQ+ ones are they on backorder?
Bro is a cognitive dissonance junkie
Why would he have a bad person on his hat? I don’t think a bad person could be a good president, but even if we allow that he still doesn’t have to buy merch.
I think this is a common justification among Trumpists that are only mostly stupid. Idea is that he might do bad things in his personal life, but because he’s an asshole who doesnt care about what polite society thinks, he’ll be able to fix the broken system.
I assume they’ve been watching too much netflix, because this is basically Thomas Shelby’s redemption arc.
Because making sense is so 2010, grandpa
Exactly what I thought of. No way this guy is serious; he just wants a wider dating pool.
He’s an ambiguist.
Sometimes at the bar I’ll swipe my friends hinge account with her and it’s hilarious how “otherwise attractive” people are stuck there with
conservativeon their profile.He either just wants everyone to get along or he’s trying to piss everyone off at the same time
True chaotic neutral in real life.
That there is either a very confused short bus rider or someone cleverly hedging his bets.
I’m gonna guess the former.
short bus rider
A what now?
In many school districts, children with mental handicaps are often picked up for school by a small version of a school bus. It becomes a jokey reference to call someone mentally challenged if they “Ride the short bus”
To be clear, those are usually for any handicap, as they are outfitted with wheelchair access and usually have extra adults riding along to help.
They are (or at least were in my area at that time) much more comfortable, similar to public transit busses. I got to ride along with a friend with a muscular problem on one a few times in the late 90s early noughties and it was lux.
Our school uses them for pretty much all students with special needs not just mobility issues. It gives them a shorter route, less kids, more adult supervision, and the option for seatbelts.
So regular kids don’t get to be safe? Oof.
The seatbelts are more so that the non-verbal autistic kids don’t start running down the aisles and pushing buttons while the bus is moving. Also, kids aren’t “regular” or “irregular”….
Oh huh. And this is common enough where you are that people use it as a metaphor and people broadly understand its meaning?
Yeah, pretty much every American public school student understands that the shorter bus picks up the handicapped kids. It might take a few years before they’ve heard the mean-spirited phrase of “riding the short bus,” but it’s pretty much universally understood by the time a kid leaves elementary school.
I remember I got picked up by a short bus to take me to sports practice in middle school, and got teased mercilessly because of it. I can’t imagine what the handicapped kids had to deal with because of it. I try not to use the phrase myself, since you’re probably bringing up bad childhood memories from anyone who actually rode one of the smaller busses.
It’s astonishing to me that in a country as car-brained and individualistic as America, school buses are so ubiquitous that not only is everyone familiar with them, they’re even familiar with how their design changes for different minority groups.
Lol, the “individual freedom” is just the packaging for how they pitch it to workers.
The real beneficiaries of car-centric infrastructure are the employers, who get to purchase cheap land in the middle of nowhere and demand workers be able to get there as quick as physically possible with zero to little notice.
From that lens, of course American kids take the bus to school. Anything that would take adults away from their jobs for an extra minute is unacceptable.
I’m just passing by to marvel at how somebody on good old car-hating Lemmy managed to pull off the mental gymnastics to arrive at the conclusion “mass transportation (a bus) is bad now.”
Let’s not forget that having the means to pull in students from a disparate area was key in finally being able to desegregate schools, literally to the extent that motherfuckers to this very day use “busing” as a euphemism for, “We’re mad about there being black kids in our kids’ school.”
The thing is, Australia is only slightly better as regards motornormativity and individualism. But the American concept of school buses is rather foreign to us. Most kids are either driven to school or take the same public transport that everyone else uses.
Public transport is seen as being really sketchy and dangerous in America, so the idea of letting your kid ride it unattended is seen as neglectful in many areas. There’s even a whole Simpsons episode about it, where Homer is his classic idiot self, telling his kid to ride the bus like that’s okay, and spends the episode trying to find her when she inevitably ends up somewhere she’s not supposed to be. At the same time, parents are expected to be at work by the time the kids are going to school, so it’s not common to have the parents drive them, either. Thus, the ubiquity of the school bus.
In the US, yes. It was more common before the mid-2010s when the r-slur was very commonly used.
That slur is getting disturbingly popular on Lemmy.
Learned something today.
Thats a lot of words to skirt around using a slur
He’s clearly a centrist.
He’s a centrist the same way the center of gravity of a hula hoop is at the center of the hoop.
This one of the most apt and well-constructed metaphors I’ve heard in my life.
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
I’m not even sure bro is 21.
Please don’t use offensive words like “bro”.
Bruh
Also saw the power tripping mod post? Lol
Dude’s either 10 steps into manipulating you or 6 steps away from pulling away from the republicans. I’m not up for that gamble.
Thats a lot of words to say that he likes that Trump deports South Americans.
virgin widow lesbian mother of 2 saving herself for marriage type beat
John was a little cripple, midget, lesbian boy. But he stood ten foot tall with a knife.
That’s some magic knife there.
“If it doesn’t affect me, then I don’t care”
Barb?
BARB LEFT AND TOOK THE KIDS BUT AT LEAST I’M STILL CRANKING THAT HOG
HELL YEAH BROTHER!!! ID CRANK WITH YOU BUT MY CRANKSHAFT FELL OFF AFTER THE ACCIDENT
Nicki Minaj fan.
I’m just going to change my head Canon to say he plays a barbarian in Diablo 2.
I was going to say JusticeForBarb from Stranger Things.
He looks more like the Diablo 4 type to me.
Barbarian in TTRPGS. I myself prefer Bard or Cleric.
Je favors the Grog, if you know what I mean…
