Ever since Barron Trump came of age as an adult, the entire conversation around him has changed. Even the staunchest critics of Barron’s father left the boy alone before he was 18, out of respect. And although I always thought it likely that he’d turn out to be, well, a Trump, I thought that was […]
  • madame_gaymesEnglish
    1514·
    2 days ago

    On the one hand, you’re right.

    But also, there’s a chance that Barron opens his eyes and sees how sheltered he is from everything, and that his only friends are people slightly less rich, and much older, than he is.

    I know it’s not likely, so far all the trump progeny have been less useful than human shit, but I think there’s still a chance that Barron gets depressed because he “has it all” and can’t even play basketball with a potential new friend his own age.

    ETA: damn, I guess Lemmy thinks a child should always pay for the sins of their father, huh?

    • MothmanDelorian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      I knew Rodger Stone’s kid in high school. I never knew who his dad was at the time but his son was a fantastic guy. We aren’t our parents.

    • nesc@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      81·
      2 days ago

      You do have a point that he can one day change his life and become a monk. but.

      It’s not that child should pay for the sins of a father it’s more that he is: not a child - 18 is considered adult almost everywhere, not a victim by any metric imaginable, is from extremely priveleged background. Why would you or anyone should feel pity for him when he is doing great actually?

      • madame_gaymesEnglish
        9·
        2 days ago

        I said nothing about taking pity on him, and definitely didn’t take it anywhere near becoming a monk. I didn’t even claim Barron would be a good person if he deviated from his father’s bullshit, I’m just putting out food for thought that he may have the potential to deviate.

        And yea, laws consider him an adult at 18, but the body and brain are not finished developing.

        Any way, my edited point was more about immediately suppressing an opinion that isn’t even all that controversial or impossible to occur. It’s reddit behavior, I said something incongruent with the hivemind, therefor it must not be discussed. If it was misinformation or just a straight up lie, then I get it. But that isn’t so.

        Like I mentioned in the post, considering his brothers it’s not likely he will make a change, any way. However, he does have a different mom than the others, and growing up with a much different type of publicity. I have two half-siblings (we share a mom, diff dads). Just because we’re related doesn’t mean we have the exact same beliefs, or comprehend our parents’ words in the same way. My siblings live for money, I live in a forest and don’t talk to them at all.

        • nesc@lemmy.cafeEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          Lemmy is worse when it comes to opinions that challenge the general consensus, that’s for sure. It comes from being really small even in absolute numbers, and community being separated at least between two big-ish camps, and people from both of these camps holding more or less homogenous views.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      2 days ago

      I think a child, who is not a child, he’s an adult, who has already been accused of sexual and animal abuse, is likely to be even worse than his father.