he's gonna run again
Buttigieg's dad Joseph Buttigieg was a Marxist academic and one of the leading experts on Antonio Gramsci. I think that's proof enough that growing up in a fancy environment has more weight than any informed ideological teachings. Don't know about Buttigieg's mother though.
If I have kids I'm still desperately going to try inoculating them away from liberalism at an early age so they won't become a mayo Pete.
If we can light up a cultural hegemony, we can light up America! :amerikkka: :stalin-gun-1: :pete:
Pretty sure this means his dad was a bad dad. I mean hell if my kid was acting like that it would mean it's time to sit down and learn about empathy, have some more one-on-one time, and if it was truly alarming after that, consider therapy.
I think that's a trend with a lot of Centrist ghouls. Kamala Harris, Pete B., and Liz Truss all had lefty parents.
I dunno, :party-parenti: has a son who turned out alright
When I was 7 or 8, I had to do some school task where I wrote what I would do if I was president. I wrote just one sentence - give houses to the homeless.
How the FUCK do you grow up to be so business-minded at a young age?
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Idk, I get it - I think something like this hits me harder because my mom still has that piece of paper with my writing against homelessness on it, and then argues against me about communism.
I'm just rambling out loud here. I get that some people do grow up this way. I just...wish it wasnt the case.
Glad you're here with us :stalin-heart:
he's gonna run again
My dude, he's 40. If he lives to Biden's age, he'll have like 9 nine election cycles to consider jumping in on. If America lasts that long.
Pete doing the Richard Nixon peace signs as he flies off before the nuke strikes the US
After the US falls, he'll be in the enclave and bandy about his "common sense raiding policy,"
Except for striving for the inevitable victory of Socialism...though that probably comes under both fun shit and being good to people.
The 5 or 6 year old resume thing can't possibly be true. Weird but believable for an 8yo (they have curious enthusiasms), but not 5.
I believe it. Pete was born in the early 80's. Having been born just a few years earlier I can tell you exactly the fucking character he probably grew up worshipping in those years. Alex Fucking Keaton, Michael J. Fox's teenage Reagan worshipper that was plastered all over the fucking place and inspired numerous clones in media and the real world.
thinking about how Wall Street (1987) had a climactic scene where Michael Douglas' character proudly exclaims that "Greed is good."
I believe it. I remember being that age and my cousins would tell me about all the types of businesses they'd run as an adult. They'd talk to me about taxes and loans and I'd always try to change the subject back to Power Rangers.
Don't take this the wrong way, but you had some pretty fucked up cousins.
i have roughly two dozen cousins (big extended family) and I've wanted to make a thread detailing all their little individual ways of being white southern reactionaries but in a way where I can't get doxed. One of them got the modern German tricolor flag tattooed on his back thinking it was related to Nazis, and when I pointed out it's not he now goes around claiming our family is German (we're not).
also don't know if anyone would be interested in a thread like that
I, for one, would be interested in such a thread, just be triple careful not to self-doxx. Also, lmao, the nazis really aren't the brightest.
I'm about the same age and went to school with several people almost like that, except they wanted to be business ghouls instead of president. People reading American Psycho and thinking "wow, this Patrick Bateman is a pretty cool dude."
what i want to know is what happened that made him like this in the face of his father being the preeminent gramsci scholar. like i don't understand what this kid was hearing from whom to make him turn out like this :pete:
Probably just a combination of the "what do you want to be when you grow up? Ok here's a life plan because job is identity" attitude of 80s/90s middle class parenting, living in an upper middle-class circle with political connections, and possibly some mild autistic tendencies to hyperfocus.
Normal families get "Guy who becomes senior signalling engineer at a major railroad". Academic families get Buttigieg, a guy who has attempted to Moneyball the presidency.
It probably didn't help that because his dad was a Gramsci scholar he was certainly unintentionally entwined with the Intelligence community, which made it very easy for PB to get the tap on the shoulder when they realised he hadn't the ideological commitment of his family.
updating his resume over the weekend at 5 years old
Yeah that was definitely him obsessively writing his own Wikipedia page.
wasn't his dad supposed to be a marxist or something? there's no way any responsible marxist parent would have their kid updating their resume at 6 years old.
I believe the Michael Harriot Article referenced in these tweets is this one from The Root.
and I think this NJR piece in Current Affairs, All About Pete is the pan of Pete's autobiography she's talking about. I can't find any others that mention brick
I'm sure he's terrible but a lot of people have changed their name or how it is pronounced I don't think it's that weird
