• Acamon@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Is everyone too distracted by the cringe to be infuriated at the punctuation? Wtf is happening with those quotation marks?

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        2 months ago

        I read it 3 times trying to figure out where the quote was supposed to be before I gave up and came to the comments.

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      2 months ago

      Welcome to the 1950s. They used quotes to make it clear it was the pictured character saying that. They also standardized using quotes to identify the motto on businesses and trucks. The SomeECards meme format is a caricature of that.

      Bill’s Burgers “We serve pleasure”

      Jack’s towing “Reliable hookers”

      Manny’s Milk “We’ll deliver that white cream that puts a smile on your wife’s face”

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        2 months ago

        The use of a pretend quote is one thing, but what is the middle quotation mark doing?

        Manny’s Milk “We’ll deliver that white cream” that puts a smile on your wife’s face"

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    2 months ago

    At some point every person who enters a relationship in this way realises that they have generated absolute proof that their committed partner is utterly open to infidelity to the point of separation.

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    “It’s funny she called ME a thief, but now SHE doesn’t have a car and I do. Maybe I should have been called the ‘owner’ all along.”

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    2 months ago

    Besides the “meme” being cringe inducing garbage at a similar level to ‘live, laugh, love’. Just seems like copium or self aggrandising.

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      2 months ago

      Most home wreckers are self aggrandizing hypocritical narcissists, so… yeah.

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      This is a great slogan but it’s not an absolute. It’s definitively based on an emotional response to a feeling of betrayal, and while I can agree that it’s likely in most scenarios, I really do wish people wouldn’t just spout it as if it is a defining characteristic of every cheating party in history.

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          Do you want a solutions based conversation or an emotionally supportive one. Because my point isn’t about the recidivism rates of cheaters but about the fact that labels hurt any and all conversations involving them by smothering the flow of conversation. Meaning someone who is in a situation that might lead to cheating will not seek or is not likely to get advice that would mitigate such behavior.

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              2 months ago

              At the risk of sounding like i must be a cheater myself, are you suggesting that once someone cheats they are no longer a human worthy of empathy and nuanced consideration of circumstances?

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        2 months ago

        Certainly not true 100% of the time, but absolutely worth keeping in mind, especially if one is naive or emotionally immature.

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          People who go to prison are more likely to re-offend by an exorbitant rate in America. This is because the system is set up to make them fail. Do you want to be the change in the world you want to see or do you want to set people up to fail by making the entire topic completely one-sided and vilifying everyone involved.

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        It’s pretty damn close to being an absolute. As someone who has never been involved in an adulterous relationship in any form, I would never get with someone who has cheated. They have shown they are absolutely willing to violate an intimate partners trust, lie about it, and leave them (likely with little to no guilt). If they can do it once, they can, and likely will, do it again.

        Passionate love and Companionate love are two different things. And passionate love never lasts forever. If you’re with someone who is willing to cheat to find that passionate love, then when it dies with you, they are likely to go on to the next short term passionate love.

        If you want to make the argument that someone cheated in a relationship with an abusive partner, there are still substantial red flags there. Without showing how they’ve made great strides to be a different person (therapy, self improvement, etc) I can’t see them being a trustworthy long term partner. And there is no way someone could have made those improvements if they went from one partner immediately to the next.

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        eh, it is a sign of character, I think it’s safe to assume. it’s on them to prove otherwise to be honest.

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    Pretty sure memes like that are always intended to be taken as satire. They used to be a quite popular format.

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      I mean it doesn’t seem like his sister thinks it’s satire. Poes law etc

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          The word itself is actually a pretty good slang to describe the common act that human beings do known as coping, which can also paired with the funny meme of someone actually huffing a substance called copium like it was a potent drug. Let’s be real, some people have the bliners on so thick and do mental gymnastics so hard to maintain their lah-lah land mindset that they may as well be high on something fierce. I’m usually the one criticizing new unnecessary words I think are stupid but I like this one better than most others.

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            Notice how toward the beginning of your comment you said in a non-cringey way? I prefer that.