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PaperclipPerfector  1mo ago (text post)   2914 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for November 16, 2025

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My TikTok is suddenly filled with Trump, Clinton, Epstein and Trump giving Clinton a blowjob. Does anyone know WTF this thing started?

I’ve been amused at the homophobia implicit in most of the left-wing comments I’ve seen about it. The same people who’d scold anyone making gay jokes about Pete Buttigieg suddenly find it hilarious to make similar jokes about Trump. Just goes to show it was all about whose ox was being gored all along.

Huh?

I don’t know what specific comments you’ve got in mind, but there’s a pretty obvious difference.

Very crass things, like Trump loving the taste of another man’s sperm. Which in ordinary circumstances would be defended as perfectly ordinary and good, but which in this case is assumed to be obviously degrading and emasculating.

You frequently see the same thing with the body positivity crowd, though to give credit where credit is due, I’ve also seen some principled activists push back against it. It’s not at all uncommon, though, to find body positivity folks mocking Trump, Gingrich, Giuliani, etc., for being fat and ugly.

I’m reminded of Scott’s observations in part V of this essay, where all his friends were disgusted at celebrations of Osama bin Ladin’s death, because “we should never rejoice in the death of a fellow man,” yet only a few years later, those same friends forgot that principle and publicly rejoiced at the death of Margaret Thatcher.

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