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[–] [email protected] 160 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (8 children)

Yes, real men, real women, real people of any or no gender, and of all ages, wear diapers. That is not something anyone should be shamed or ridiculed for.

I don't give a shit if trump or his supporters wear them, they are out there causing actual harm to others, and there is plenty to actually criticise them for, why the fuck resort to this ableist bullshit? We rightfully give them shit for judging others by what's in their pants, yet gleefully judge them for what they wear under theirs?

Fuck this noise.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 6 months ago (4 children)

We're not the ones resorting to this ableist bullshit, they are. They are the ones wearing diapers and making a mockery out of it. We criticize them for making a mockery out of it simply to emulated someone that makes a mockery out of everything. Do we need to remind everyone of Trump mocking a disabled person on live TV?

Yes, I agree, fuck that noise. But we're not the ones making that noise.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

This. Nowhere is the paradox of tolerance more dangerous than around "ableism" issues; people gotta learn to keep their targets sighted on the actual scum Insidiously using empathy to cross purposes.

The rightfully tolerant protector of the less able does not argue against the Nazi arguing he should be able to punch people without repercussions, they punch the Nazi until he shuts up and go back to equity for everyone else with a clean conscience.

Don't tolerate the intolerant; don't shield them with the benefit of the doubt or stop those with the conviction to stand up for those being told to sit either.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It would be much better if the hypocrisy was pointed out in the article. Republicans are responsible for repeatedly taking away protections and supports for the most vulnerable in our society. And most of their voters don’t know or don’t care as long as they’re hurting the right people. This wearing of diapers is a mockery of support for people with disabilities.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The problem is - they don't give a fuck about the hypocrisy, so all that's left is the ableism, from both those who regularly harm disabled people ignorantly using diapers to make whatever statement, and those mocking them for wearing them (and no one is going to ask them each individually about their medical needs, so you can never actually know if it is legitimate use or not). The impact remains - adults wearing diapers are the punch line, deepening an already existing and harmful stigma, for no other reason than a cheap and ableist laugh.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

I'm sorry you got downvoted because you are calling out a cruel stigma. You are very right and people who suffer from incontinence should not be laughed at. We must offer more dignity and compassion to people.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago (9 children)

Considering the main attack on Biden from the right is that he is too old, it's fair game to do the same for Trump. They opened that can of worms.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (4 children)

You are absolutely correct. The stupidity here, though, is that word got out that Trump uses them, and that has caused a lot of his supporters to start wearing them, whether they need to or not.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

I don't think it's the wearing of nappies that is worthy of ridicule. You are right, it's a medical question, people who need it should wear it, and everybody else should just stfu about it. (Except perhaps in the odd case when medical conditions do come into question while assessing the fitness of a candidate to an office, especially such a high stakes and demanding one as the potus, but that's by the by).

What is chilling is the followers of Trump who try to make a virtue out of it. And ridiculous. Laughing at them is the right response because the other option is utter despair.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Nominally, I agree. Trump and his die-hard supporters are the exception.

I understand that there will be splash damage. I regret that there is splash damage. But the fact remains that the objective is to sap support from his base, and from people who are (somehow) on the fence about him. That can be done by sharing these unflattering facts about him.

I get that it’s offensive. Again, I regret that the tactic has become necessary; but it HAS become necessary. This is a “pull out all the stops” situation. If it stops that fascist fuck from winning, I’m willing to live with being labeled as “intolerant” because I used his own tactics against him. I’m not reveling in this, or joyously clowning on those less fortunate than me. There is a specific reason why I’m willing to cross that line, and it’s “we might not have small-d democracy anymore if he wins”.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

I understand that there will be splash damage

Heh heh heh heh. Splash damage.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm sorry what? Do you understand the difference between, for example, mocking a blind person for using a cane and wearing dark glasses, and mocking people who think it's cool and decide to start wearing dark glasses and using a cane while being perfectly sighted? Do you think that is a reasonable thing to do? Do you think it would be ableist to laugh at perfectly able people who are pretending to be disabled?

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[–] [email protected] 118 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Conservatives. Shitting their pants to own the libs.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

TP USA has been doing diapers long before this. Regressives just love publicly wearing diapers for some reason. It must be a weird sex thing, and, in typical Repub fashion, they are involving unwilling third parties in their fetish.

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[–] [email protected] 111 points 6 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (8 children)

May Eris bless us with humorous chaos instead of just the sad kind

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I feel bad for The Onion, their job just keeps getting harder & harder. They should probably switch their business to fortune-telling.

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[–] [email protected] 100 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

At first I found the absurdity silly and amusing.

But then I realized, this is the same demographic that would shoot up a drag show, simply because of men wearing dresses. Now they're wearing diapers in public support of a convicted rapist that shits himself.

As a trans woman, the thought that they would even wear diapers to justify their hatred of me and love for their incontinent idol, it is disgusting. I'm literally nauseous right now, they think people like me are beneath an actual man baby.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 months ago

It’s literal cult behavior.

Stay safe, sister.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

These guys weren't against wearing diapers to begin with. They were at least curious about it, or even desperate to finally try it in public. Maybe being out as their true selves will help them develop emotionally a bit. I support more MAGAs wearing their diapers in public spaces.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 6 months ago (5 children)

The next 1/6 insurrection in 2025 will consist of hundreds of diapered men smearing the walls with shit. That dude that smeared his shit on the wall at the inaugural insurrection of '20 is gonna think he started a 'movement'

[–] [email protected] 50 points 6 months ago (2 children)

A bowel movement if you will..

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

Coming this Superbowel Sunday!

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Never, ever, say “you can’t get any dumber than that”… these morons take it as a challenge.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You can't get dumber than that

(I want to see them get dumber)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

okay. so I take that as permission to send them your way to be dealt with?

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Cult. Can we skip to the Kool-Aid part?

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How is this real? What has happened to the world I used to live in?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!

[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago

We have merged with the GTA Timeline

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Great leader is a real man.

Great leader wears adult diapers.

Therefore real men wear adult diapers.

I think we can drop the "like" from "cult like".

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago

Real men perform innumerable felonies, publicly declare their participation in them, avoid taking the advice of lawyers and in fact actively fight them and the judge at every turn, and nap during their trial. Real men serve out their sentences in silence and, where appropriate, avoid voting thanks to their felony charges. They’d be such badasses, the truest Americans if they followed through with the full lifestyle.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago

A couple of years ago, there were memes about this exact thing to mock this cult. I didn't think the day would actually come, but some part of me is really happy that it did.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (1 children)

omg.

I saw someone comment the other day that his idiot followers were saying that, but assumed it was satire (what little shreds of satire still exist thanks to the clown pictured here).

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago

This can't be real holy fuck lmao

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago

Cuuuuuuuuult

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

“Hey look Happy peed his pants!”

“All the cool kids pee their pants!”

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I mean, this seems on-brand for the GOP, since so many of them appear to be grown-up children who never actually reached the mental maturity to be considered "adults".

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Wow, this is fucking desperate

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

This is hilarious. Anything to "own the libs" including standing there, pledging allegiance to their leader while shitting their diapers.

It's the gift that keeps giving.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

"If peeing your pants is cool, consider me Miles Davis."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I wonder what Kaitlin Bennett's perspective is on all this.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

While i would admit its better than shitting your pants, there has to be a better solution

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