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Conservative parent is sad his daughters aren't coming for thanksgiving after voting for Trump (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by yogi_pogi@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 67 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

"I let them"

Dudes showing internally he thinks he controls their votes. That he could've not let them had he chosen so.

So his daughters should be thankful for such a benevolent patriarch. /S

[–] Soleos@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

He clearly said in context "I let them vote in peace without objection or argument frome me". Kind of like how I can either let your comment go or choose to respond without claiming to have control over you. The man is still ignorant AF though.

[+] x00z@lemmy.world -9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Well it's kind of semantics. The symbolism behind this is not the hill you'd want to die on. Letting somebody do something can either be allowing it or simply not disallowing it. I hate Trump and his low IQ followers, but that sentence does not imply anything.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 24 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

can either be allowing it or simply not disallowing it

Exactly.

When I go take a shit, did you allow it, or not disallow it? Neither, because you have no agency over me, so it'd be a stupid fucking sentence.

I'm not saying he thinks he owns his daughters like some 16th century inbred minor noble.

But connotations and implications can exist even when they weren't particularly intentional by the writer (or speaker.)