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SnausagesinaBlanket@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 11 months ago

I wonder how many US babies have been named Donald in the last few years and may live to regret it.

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I wonder how many US babies have been named Donald in the last few years and may live to regret it.

SnausagesinaBlanket@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 11 months ago
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  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    My cousin Donald now goes by his middle name.

    His quote: “man, fuck that yankee piece of shit.”

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      Too bad his middle name is Elon. 😒

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        Ima start calling him that lol

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      Sadly, half of voting Americans think you’re a fascist, Chinese bot.
      Or a woke commie queer groomer in drag.

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        half 1/10th of voting Americans.

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          maga is 1/10th of voting Americans?

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          Unfortunately it’s way more than that :(

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        Why not both?

        I mean, I can be a woke queer, fascist, Chinese groomer in drag that’s a bot, can’t I? It’s a free country ;)

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          “Equal in the eyes of the Creator” allows us to be us, without adversely affecting our equals.
          The hypocrites don’t believe in mirrors.

        • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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          You could, but I’d imagine your therapist sending you a fruit cake every year at christmas as a thank you for latest new lambo you funded

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            Well, are you okay? You’re kinda not making much sense in your comments here. Like, the individual sentences make sense, sorta (this one anyway), but they don’t match what you’re responding to very well.

            It makes it seem like you’re responding to the wrong comments. Is that the case? Gods know I fuck that up myself.

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        Woke commie queer is my middle name

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      Trump isn’t a proper representation of a New Yorker. I doubt he even likes baseball.

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        Yankee is a nickname for all Americans in the rest of the world.

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        I still don’t understand how a bunch of Southern, trailer park rednecks who hate new York city rich people, decided that a Manhattan millionaire was the guy to vote for. Why do they think he’s anything like them or has why idea how they live? He’s literally a northern, cartoonish carpet bagger.

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          I’m sure there’s deeper takes on this but from my understanding, it’s a mix of things: 1) he convinced them he’s not like other politicians (which is true, he was not a politician at all) and 2) he convinced them he’s the “pull yourself up by the jockstrap” American dream and everyone can be like him - that’s just the typical American lie they’ve been using for decades if not longer. Then sprinkle a little bit of christofacist fear mongering in there and you got some undereducated folks excited to see someone who’ll “fight” for their American dream.

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      I’m guessing either a brit, an aussie who hates rhyming slang, or a VERY unwilling to adapt southerner.

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        Huh?

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    for some reason Donald Trump doesn’t go in the category of “people named Donald” in my head. like Tom Cruise, he’s not a Tom, or a Thomas, he’s always Tom Cruise.

    when I hear somebody else’s first name is donald, it doesn’t make me think of him

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      Yeah, but it makes me think about Donald Duck

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        I think of a rarely seen side character from a rather obscure British sitcom

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      Not at this time, but if he were to create such damage that it impacts a generation and unanimously agreed as a villain then at that point the name Donald will be associated with him. Ex: the name Adolf is associated with Adolf Hitler.

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        yeah but that happened like once

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      What about Donald Fuck?

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    Donald as a baby name has been steadily dropping in popularity since at least 2000.

    You need to search here (can’t directly link the result):

    https://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/babyname.cgi

    • SnausagesinaBlanket@lemmy.worldOP
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      It got a bump in 2021 because of Trump

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        My link was bad. This should be closer.

        https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/rankchange.html

        It quickly reversed in 2022. More likely a statistical anomaly. Why not go up in 2016 to 2020?

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        Hey, whoa! C’mon now. We don’t know that’s yhe reason. Retro cartoons are on the rise. So much so that MeTV just launched a retro cartoons network called “MeToons”.

        How do we know it’s not because of Donald Duck???

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          #MeToons

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      uh, oh! hugged to death!

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      This website is temporarily unavailable. So I can’t check their source. How do they claim to be representative across the whole of whatever region they’re polling?

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        It’s not from polling. It’s from the Social Security Administration. I gave a better link in a different fork of this comment thread.

        Edit: It’s for USA and anyone who applied for an SSN. So everyone but some off-the-grid nutters.

        Data Source

        All names are from Social Security card applications for births that occurred in the United States after 1879. Note that many people born before 1937 never applied for a Social Security card, so their names are not included in our data. For others who did apply, our records may not show the place of birth, and again their names are not included in our data. All data are from a 100% sample of our records on Social Security card applications as of March 2024.

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    I don’t think people 20+ years from now will instantly jump to Trump when they hear Donald. Just like how if you meet George you don’t think of Bush.

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      Yeah, Adolf really doesn’t bring anyone notable to mind.

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        Trump may be a very poor candidate, but he didn’t kill 13 million people.

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          Let him have another term and we’ll see how he measure up. And he’s up to a few 100k so far in my books.

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          Yeah, he only killed about 1.4 million.

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            Actually curious, what is that figure?

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              Number of excess deaths from COVID.

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                What counts as excess?

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                  https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

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            Dammit, Donnie! These are rookie numbers! You gotta get those numbers up!

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          Not yet. He’s certainly working on it.

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          Estimates are between 50 and a 100 million people.For example USSR is said to lose around 18 million people in that war.

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      I would suspect that people can do basic math and realize why someone was named Donald if they’re born near today. It might not immediately jump to mind, but it also wouldn’t be subtle. I would bet no one else is naming their child Donald unless it’s a family name.

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    Reminds me of that other name that kind of just withered away. What was it?

    Oh yeah…

    Adolf.

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      I’m sure it’ll be making a comeback soon…

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        Heil Trump 🙋‍♂️, amirite?

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      Which I never understood. Khaleesi was her title, not her name.
      It´s equivalent-ish to naming a kid King or Czar or something.

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        Like Cesar, or Roy, or Regis, etc.

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          hm, good point.

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        It’s even worse, because my understanding is that “Khaleesi” doesn’t actually mean “queen”, but would more accurately mean “concubine/wife of the king/khal”. I believe the queenship is only implied after the death of the khal.

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          Not really implied by the term itself, since after the death of the khal the khaleesi are basically exiled to the capital. Daenerys only brought greater meaning to the title when she used it in her conquests.

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            Thanks for that clarification!

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        Donald means something like “ruler of the world,” so not far off.

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      My niece named her daughter after Bella from Twilight. At least her full name is Isabella, but the inspiration is there.

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        Tell her to tell people she’s named after the Phineas and Ferb character. There’s zero down side.

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      A lot of us jumped on the fad of naming our daughters after Game of Thrones characters, especially the ones popular in the earlier seasons. And then D and D came along as show runners, and fucking wrecked everything for our baby girls. So Hodor, I regret getting sucked into that show and hope you’ll forgive me one day.

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        My son Ghsrrfgff really hates me 😢

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    It was a perfectly good name until that no-talent ass-clown ran for president.

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      Why should I change my name, he’s the one who sucks

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      Nice. Office Space reference.

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    They’ll make lovely couples with the girls named Khaleesi

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    Why though? Glover is cool.

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      He’s not too happy that his parents named him “Don Glover” (dong lover) though.

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        One man’s dong lover is another man’s Don G. Lover…

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    There were a lot of German boys called Adolf back then…

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    I feel bad saying it but a lot of them probably aren’t vaccinated, so

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    • SnausagesinaBlanket@lemmy.worldOP
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      https://archive.ph/wDE4r

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    All of them.

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    Depends on how far y’all’s Trump derangement syndrome goes. Don’t tell me you’re actually considering taking it out on kids named Donald

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      I wouldn’t say anyone would take it out on them. But I can imagine growing up and hating your own name. I sympathize because I hate my first and middle name equally.

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        I can understand Nuke, but what do you have against The?

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          It’s got no Russian translation

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        Why do you hate your first name?

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          It’s just an ugly name, too ethnic for my liking too. Nobody ever pronounces it properly, or I’m constantly correcting or spelling out my name. It’s a pain in the ass. My middle name has the exact same issue.

          I just wish I had a neutral and easy name if not a cool one. I made it a point to give my kid a good name because of it. I was named after parent’s relatives who I never knew. I just hate my name.

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        Well, we found the Donald Hitler.

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