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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 127 points 3 months ago (8 children)

My cousin Donald now goes by his middle name.

His quote: "man, fuck that yankee piece of shit."

[–] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 59 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Too bad his middle name is Elon. πŸ˜’

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 28 points 3 months ago

Ima start calling him that lol

[–] dogsnest@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Sadly, half of voting Americans think you're a fascist, Chinese bot.
Or a woke commie queer groomer in drag.

[–] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

~~half~~ 1/10th of voting Americans.

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Eligible, not voting. It's roughly 1/3 of voting folks are maga.

[–] dogsnest@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Ding! Ding! Ding!

EVERYONE here has the internet, yet 4 wrong answers before this...!!!

[–] 2ndSkin@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

maga is 1/10th of voting Americans?

[–] Forester@yiffit.net 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Remember only 2/3  of the country votes that has the ability to vote
[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You're claiming there are 800 million eligible voters in the USA?
And you got upvoted at least 10 times!

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Why not both?

I mean, I can be a woke queer, fascist, Chinese groomer in drag that's a bot, can't I? It's a free country ;)

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[–] pelletbucket@lemm.ee 37 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

for some reason Donald Trump doesn't go in the category of "people named Donald" in my head. like Tom Cruise, he's not a Tom, or a Thomas, he's always Tom Cruise.

when I hear somebody else's first name is donald, it doesn't make me think of him

[–] tautalas@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but it makes me think about Donald Duck

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[–] Sensitivezombie@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Not at this time, but if he were to create such damage that it impacts a generation and unanimously agreed as a villain then at that point the name Donald will be associated with him. Ex: the name Adolf is associated with Adolf Hitler.

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[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 29 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Donald as a baby name has been steadily dropping in popularity since at least 2000.

You need to search here (can't directly link the result):

https://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/babyname.cgi

[–] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 9 points 3 months ago

My link was bad. This should be closer.

https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/rankchange.html

It quickly reversed in 2022. More likely a statistical anomaly. Why not go up in 2016 to 2020?

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hey, whoa! C'mon now. We don't know that's yhe reason. Retro cartoons are on the rise. So much so that MeTV just launched a retro cartoons network called "MeToons".

How do we know it's not because of Donald Duck????

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[–] FireTower@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I don't think people 20+ years from now will instantly jump to Trump when they hear Donald. Just like how if you meet George you don't think of Bush.

[–] ech@lemm.ee 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, Adolf really doesn't bring anyone notable to mind.

[–] FireTower@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Trump may be a very poor candidate, but he didn't kill 13 million people.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

1: Yet.

2: That isn't even the sum of the Holocaust, much less combat casualties from the USSR alone which are absolutely on his head.

Edit: Tbf, the Holocaust numbers only beat that if you include Soviet POWs being genocided in the prison camps, so that is kind of double dipping.

[–] ech@lemm.ee 10 points 3 months ago

Let him have another term and we'll see how he measure up. And he's up to a few 100k so far in my books.

[–] Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Yeah, he only killed about 1.4 million.

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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Not yet. He's certainly working on it.

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[–] EnderLaw@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It was a perfectly good name until that no-talent ass-clown ran for president.

[–] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Why should I change my name, he's the one who sucks

[–] beefbaby182@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Nice. Office Space reference.

[–] greenshirtdenimjeans@sh.itjust.works 24 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Remember when Khaleesi was a popular name?

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 20 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Which I never understood. Khaleesi was her title, not her name.
ItΒ΄s equivalent-ish to naming a kid King or Czar or something.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Like Cesar, or Roy, or Regis, etc.

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[–] Chozo@fedia.io 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It's even worse, because my understanding is that "Khaleesi" doesn't actually mean "queen", but would more accurately mean "concubine/wife of the king/khal". I believe the queenship is only implied after the death of the khal.

[–] ech@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not really implied by the term itself, since after the death of the khal the khaleesi are basically exiled to the capital. Daenerys only brought greater meaning to the title when she used it in her conquests.

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[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

My niece named her daughter after Bella from Twilight. At least her full name is Isabella, but the inspiration is there.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Tell her to tell people she's named after the Phineas and Ferb character. There's zero down side.

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[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

A lot of us jumped on the fad of naming our daughters after Game of Thrones characters, especially the ones popular in the earlier seasons. And then D and D came along as show runners, and fucking wrecked everything for our baby girls. So Hodor, I regret getting sucked into that show and hope you'll forgive me one day.

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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Reminds me of that other name that kind of just withered away. What was it?

Oh yeah...

Adolf.

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[–] Stern@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

They'll make lovely couples with the girls named Khaleesi

[–] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why though? Glover is cool.

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He’s not too happy that his parents named him β€œDon Glover” (dong lover) though.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

One man's dong lover is another man's Don G. Lover...

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[–] smallpatatas@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago

I feel bad saying it but a lot of them probably aren't vaccinated, so

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

There were a lot of German boys called Adolf back then...

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