• SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Enjoy what’s left of the rule of law while you can. Soon enough, any lawsuit by a Republican elite will sail to a win.

    • someone@lemmy.today
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      15 hours ago

      In defense of Laura Loomer’s plastic surgery choices, it’s very easy to see plastic surgery that worked well on other people and think that it will translate from one face to another.

      A great example of this is the skeleton look all the Hollywood girls had over the past year or so. It wasn’t just Ozempic. It was Buccal Fat Removal. And it all started because Bella Hadid did it and she looked phenomenal after doing it. Whoever Bella Hadid paid did an incredible job, and Bella Hadid was already stunning, but between her obvious but very well done nose job (that looked tiny and slightly otherworldly) and the weird bony cheeks from the buccal fat removal, she ended up looking so bizarre and fascinating, and she became even more in demand. All the girls in Hollywood copied her, and it looked terrible on all of them because they had less symmetrical cheekbones and didn’t have the face shape for it to work. Miley Cyrus, who is awesome and very cute, got buccal fat removal and it looked terrible because she never had symmetrical cheekbones and the facial length or depth for it to work. (She may have corrected it or her face settled; it looks better now.)

      Laura Loomer just made some plastic surgery mistakes that would be easy for anyone to make. So I get why Laura Loomer got a nose job. Her nose before was slightly off. The problem is that slightly off noses often balance out face with slightly off bone structure, so if you just do a nice looking nose, but it doesn’t match the other geometry, it looks off. Laura Loomer also looks like she got cheekbone implants and it’s very easy to want those because a lot of beautiful people have huge prominent cheekbones. The problem is that if someone has some asymmetry in their face, large cheekbones may draw attention to it. Laura Loomer looked nice before the plastic surgery with some mild symmetry issues that were somewhat normal. The problem is the cheekbones and nose job didn’t fit or blend or balance her face right. Her plastic surgeon should have told her not to do the cheek implants based on her orbital sockets and should have only done the rhinoplasty in a milder way. She looked fine before and this was not her fault; she got bad advice from her plastic surgeon.

      It’s also not her fault for not redoing all of this. Revision rhinoplasties and taking out cheekbones are much more complicated. A lot more can go wrong and many people, after having plastic surgery once and it not going well, are reluctant to get more work done and possibly mess things up even more. Revision surgeries are also notoriously expensive, much more expensive than the initial plastic surgery.

      The point is, this isn’t exactly her fault. She probably was slightly insecure, single at the time and frustrated about it, and decided to have plastic surgery, and saw a doctor who took advantage of her financially and didn’t do a great job. That’s the reality. This likely wasn’t many plastic surgeries over many years. It was really just one thing (or possibly also lip injections later which so many people do), and the cheekbone implants are what messed it up. If she took those out she would likely look like herself again and she’s probably concerned about the expense and real risks and pain of doing it. And major plastic surgery is painful. It’s understandable for her to not want to change it and just decide “well it is how it is.”

      I disagree with many of Laura Loomer’s beliefs, but making fun of someone for looking a certain way, or getting plastic surgery, also makes other people who look slightly different feel more self conscious. Asking is Laura Loomer a transgender person probably makes some trans people feel self conscious. What about criticizing politicians for their horrible beliefs and not how they look? What about taking the higher road?

  • Fmstrat@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I mean, that has nothing to do with why she lost, and wasn’t part of the case, but for those wondering, yes if appears to be true he said that, though the source seems to be a substack author.

    • ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 day ago

      Oh, you don’t remember how she was attacking Charlie Kirk until roughly 30 minutes after he bled out from his “finding out” phase. Then suddenly she was tearfully mourning her lost maga love.

      • NannerBanner@literature.cafe
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        2 days ago

        Ugh, I’ve always hated the two axis alignment system ever since I actually played a real game of tabletop instead of the baldur’s gate / icewind dale stuff. Still, it is humorous how well it matches the lovely repugnants.

        • merc@sh.itjust.works
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          1 day ago

          “Evil” is just a shitty term and/or axis.

          Everyone is the hero of their own story. Almost nobody thinks of themselves as evil. Often the most evil acts are the ones done by people who have convinced themselves that what they’re doing is for the best. Take the Great Leap Forward in China or other similar disasters. Tens of millions of people dying because the leader thought they had identified the true problem.

          I’d much prefer a “selfishness” or “size of group that matters” axis. On one side of that axis you’d have tree-hugging environmentalists who think every life matters and are willing to make personal sacrifices to make a better world for people they’ve never met and never will meet. On the other side you’d have selfish people who want what’s best for themselves and are willing to make their close family members suffer if they personally can benefit. Somewhere in the middle are people like NIMBYs who agree access to affordable housing is important, but don’t want a tall building going up in their neighbourhood because it will ruin its character.

          This can also lead to “dark paladins” that make sense. Instead of an evil paladin crusading on behalf of evil, you get a very selfless paladin who is willing to put his life on the line for a cause he believes in. It’s just that that cause conflicts with the belief system of the adventurer’s party.

          • NannerBanner@literature.cafe
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            1 day ago

            I like it, but my personal grudge has always been with the lawful/neutral/chaotic axis. Bloody people playing chaotic characters think that means they can justify doing whatever the player feels like by, quite literally, just saying, “well he’s chaotic!”

            The arguments about whether someone is evil or not are more common, I suppose, when you get to levels where the spells that target alignments come into play.

            • merc@sh.itjust.works
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              1 day ago

              Yeah, chaotic is a bad name for it.

              To be fair, maybe a fae creature is truly chaotic. They might act in ways that seem insane to other people. But, other than fae creatures, it should really be a matter of believing in hierarchies and deferring to people above you in the hierarchy, or having your own moral code that you follow even if it conflicts with the laws or your orders. A paladin should be a rule follower. A rogue should normally be someone who lives by their own rules. But, they’re not really “chaotic”.

  • GreenShimada@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Not that we didn’t know he was nasty, but can you imagine letting that plastic space alien face anywhere near your genitals? Holy shit.

    • new_world_odor@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      She actually looked like a normal, good looking human before the mar-a-lago plastic treatment she got. He likes the alien look, it reflects how inhuman he himself is.

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      For me, it’s the opposite that’s horrific.

      The thought of anyone having their face that close to Donald’s naked 80 year-old body. Barf.

      But he’s a dog and we know he isn’t fucking Melania, so it only makes sense. It’s not like she brings anything else to the Administration other than being a concubine.

    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      I gotta think she’s getting the worse end of the deal here. I can’t imagine the dude who regularly shits himself has a great deal of personal hygiene.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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        16 hours ago

        Yeah this just feels like a really apt metaphor for hell. For both of them. The constant pursuit of power and wealth and what do you get to show for it? A woman who looks way worse and no happier after lots of plastic surgery going down on a man whose mind has been consumed by anger and can’t control his bowels.

      • NannerBanner@literature.cafe
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        2 days ago

        I would wonder… I know plenty of very nasty individuals who were, by all guesstimates, still engaging in sexual activities. There is an incredible ability of humans to do nasty things for later reward.

        Either she made ‘cleaning’ part of the pre-warm up phase, or the whole ‘disgust sense is lowered when sexually aroused’ thing kicked in AND she was just imagining the dollar signs to get her over the hump. Perhaps both. Add in some drugs and I’m sure she could get herself to a place where it was possible.

    • NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 days ago

      That’s the weirdest part of the whole thing. I’m not shocked she was blowing Trump. But Jesus, I hated telling my dad when I was pregnant even though I was married, because it meant admitting to him that I had sex.

      • NannerBanner@literature.cafe
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        2 days ago

        I wonder if it was less ‘bragging’ and more ‘throwing it in his face.’ I can’t imagine most people in those circles having good relationships with family.