• essell@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    He needs to safeguard the planet for the next generation of his girlfriends

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      14 hours ago

      This is all I can think about every time he’s in the news. Yes fuck trump but this guy is weird.

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        7 hours ago

        Is it weird to be attracted to younger women, know that marriage isn’t for you, and then have different relationships within the type that interests you?

        Idk, I think he’s just marching to his own drummer rather than being an Epstein.

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          It is weird he hasn’t matured in any way since his 20s, yes. Usually humans continue to develop throughout their lives, interest in relationships with people significantly younger than you either shows you haven’t matured since the rough age they are, or you feel people your own age are far too challenging due to their equal footing and prefer manipulating less mature people.

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    15 hours ago

    At first, I was like, “Who cares?”

    But as I think about it, people and especially Conservatives, love to use the Wolf of Wall Street as a source of memes and personal meaning. They imagine their heroes are Jordan Belfort “sticking it to the elites,” and I have to wonder if they won’t feel some kind of cognitive dissonance when they want to use this character in the future, now that DiCaprio has come out against Trump and in support of Harris.

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        6 hours ago

        I know you’re being facetious, but just to be clear for those in the back (since the internet often misunderstands words), you can experience cognitive dissonance and still continue doing the same things afterwards.

        It’s just that uncomfortable feeling when you are presented with an idea that conflicts with your beliefs about reality. I fully expect they’ll figure out how to get past it with some mental gymnastics, a thought-terminating-cliche, or (gasp) accepting reality and recognizing that the character is fictional.