• Ex Nummis
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    He looks like what Andrew Tate is trying to go for (but failing miserably at).

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      This guy didn’t have to rape or traffic to get laid.

    • Chill Dude 69@lemmynsfw.comBanneddeleted by creatorOP
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      I actually started to say THIS EXACT SAME SENTENCE, in the meme. I’m not shitting you.

      I typed it and deleted it twice, eventually deciding “ehhh, maybe not everyone will see that, and I kinda don’t even want to type their names in the same paragraph.”

      But yeah, it’s absolutely the truth. Silverstein had real masculinity, in a way that the current “alpha male” crowd could never hold the slightest hope of attaining.

      But, ya know, they’d probably call him gay, the second they found out he wrote poetry. As if there’s anything wrong with being gay, goddamn. Society is backsliding at warp fucking speed.

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        You made the right call. Someone else needed to say it.

      • Tja@programming.dev
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        Society has never been so tolerant before. More countries are legalising Gay Marriage and giving LGBT equal rights. Yes, there are steps back like Uganda, but not even a decade ago Gay Marriage was unheard of in most western countries. Less than a century ago we were demonizing war heros because of their sexuality, see Turing.

        Don’t confuse noise by a few extremists online with “society”.

        • Chill Dude 69@lemmynsfw.comBanneddeleted by creatorOP
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          Don’t confuse noise by a few extremists online with “society”.

          Let’s all pray you’re right, come November.

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    Also, he wrote the lyrics to Johnny Cash’s hit song, A Boy Named Sue.

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      Living at the playboy mansion for long stretches probably helps

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    X is for xylophone. Because X is always for xylophone.

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    This is Pablo Neruda, one of the greatest romantic poets of all time. Women fell all over him.

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      I had never looked up a picture of him but idk why I expected any better.

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      Have you read his poetry? There’s a reason he got hella laid. I’ve gotten laid off his poetry.

      But also he has some accusations of sexual impropriety against him to a degree that there have been feminist pushes to rename stuff that was named after him.

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    I knew he got drafted but I didn’t know Silverstein made it to Colonel!

    CPT Willard: They told me that you had gone totally insane, and that your methods were unsound.

    COL Kurtz: Are my methods unsound?

    CPT Willard: I don’t see any method at all, sir.

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    The same picture is used on the inside/outside of some of his books for children. It’s a jump scare every so often where one gets left open or with the back pointing up.