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    • Prinz1989 [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      But how to teach anger management without making angry first? Checkmate leftist! With a father like that she will be angy a lot.

    • QuillQuote [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      This guy is a fuck and this was the worst execution imaginable, but there's actually something valid to teaching your kid, not how to use this can opener device, but how to figure out how something they've never seen before works. It's a valuable thing to teach, and to practice. Of course, you don't do this with hunger as an incentive.

  • Wertheimer [any]
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    4 years ago

    We've been trying to have a struggle session over beans for months and he just . . . tweeted it out.

  • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    the tool is meant to be pleasing but it doesnt have any superfluous qualities.

    when you are a tool thats trying to be pleasing but you cant stop the thunderous clapping of your superfluous qualities.

    take can opener. put can opener on can. tell daughter to hold can opener firmly while turning the bit on the side. done. lesson achieved in under ten seconds, you pseudo intellectual knob

  • GilbertOTine [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    I realized that I'd never taught her to use it. I felt like a dope.

    He then goes on to waste six hours of her life.

    • HarryLime [any]
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      4 years ago

      Apocalypse Dad was overjoyed: a Teaching Moment just dropped in my lap!

      proceeds not to teach her anything

      • crime [she/her, any]
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        4 years ago

        Hey now he taught her that he's a narcissist that won't help her when she needs it

  • Norm_Chumpsky [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    This was brought up in the replies, but this is basically the “teach a man to fish” allegory minus the teaching part. Just throw someone a fishing rod and say “there’s the water, figure it out.”

  • D61 [any]
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    4 years ago

    "Its just a can of beans Michael! How long can it take to open, six hours?"

    • mutantIke [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      this guy also did the theme song for everyone's favorite lib comedy podcast, MBMBAM (although they found out and are quickly getting a new one)

            • Cromalin [she/her]
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              4 years ago

              They're pretty funny, though it feels like they're massive libs. They don't talk about politics, but that's the vibe I get.

              • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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                4 years ago

                Justin's wife, Dr. Sydnee McElroy, hosts a different podcast with him on the same network called Sawbones. She's been dipping her toes into politics ever since COVID-19 became A Thing, and did a really great episode a few months ago about how the Black Panthers were fucking rad. I wouldn't say that they're necessarily radicalizing, but they're definitely travelling down the lib-to-leftist pipeline.

              • Kissmydadonthelips [any,undecided]
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                4 years ago

                From one of the episodes around the election they mentioned voting several times in that special little way only RGB portrait carrying libs do. At least they usually don't mention politics any other time but that episode had big :vote: vibes

            • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Fwiw, I think they’re hilarious. I agree with the other comments that whenever politics do come up they seem super-lib. Maybe not ideologically committed to liberalism but more people who have been born into it and never looked for an alternative. Strikes me as getting most of their political opinions from some combo of MSM and Twitter. Low-information libs-by-default (this is about 100% projection, btw. When I first started listening to MBMBAM about six years ago all those things described me and so now I assume it of them. Maybe they’re actually psychos grounded in political theory who read The Economist and agree with it, I don’t know. I get all my political opinions from my ongoing study of history, political theory, and current events violent leftist memes nowadays)

              Anyway, they’re just a goofy comedy podcast. It’s just three brothers goofing around and laughing at each other for an hour. As someone who tends to like dark and cynical entertainment, I will occasionally follow something that is just fundamentally nice and MBMBAM is one of the most genuinely wholesome things I’ve come across.

        • mutantIke [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          man likes band --> man needs song for podcast --> man asks band if he can have song for podcast --> 10 years later, band is now bean dad

  • WIIHAPPYFEW [he/him, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    My child: “Father, I’m nearly starving to death, just tell me how to open this food can”

    Me, an extremely responsible parent: “Aha! A teaching moment;”

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Having a boomer for a parent is literally like having a child for a parent. I don't know a single boomer that isn't a childish brat that treats their kids like some kind of unwanted pet.

    • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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      4 years ago

      She didnt even want beans is the fucking cherry on top of this, and he doesnt even like baked beans either, neither of them wanted baked beans but his apocalypse dad ego shit made him force his kid to work on a can for 6 hours so that both of them could eat a meal they dont like.

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    4 years ago

    I don't know if I'd call it abuse exactly, but this kid is going to hate her dad when she's older and he will have nobody to blame for it but himself lol, though he will probably try to blame "SJW feminist propaganda"

    • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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      Its debatable up until "Neither of us eat until you get that can of beans open", thats when its flat out abusive, not just forcing your 9 year old to struggle with something on the threat of withholding food, but also putting the guilt of withholding food from others if she doesnt do that task that she literally doesnt even wanna do.

    • KimJongChill [undecided]
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      4 years ago

      This dude is pretty left-liberal and co-hosts a podcast with Ken Jennings