• @[email protected]
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    Yep. You can see the arch of his foot going up at like a30 degree slope and his toes are where the ball of his foot should be in the boot.

  • @[email protected]
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    I can’t imagine giving a fuck, let alone wearing corrective shoes.

    Hell I’m balding, so I must shave my head. I like it, other than the possible implications of my support for shitbsgs

    • @[email protected]
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      As a woman with a high hairline, I embraced having nice hats … seriously, I love my hats and there’s no reason dudes can’t as well :-)

      I also rock lots of headscarves, but that’s a bit more gendered :-/

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          Fair point, they’re somewhat limited in patterns though aren’t they? (I don’t know, I’m in Europe and about the only time I’ve seen someone wearing a bandana they were cosplaying American bikers)

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            Depends on where you get them. If in the rural areas of the country, they tend to be found in just about any gas station, but as you stated the patterns tend to be the same ones in most if them. Those patterns being the American flag, the confederate flag, the jolly roger, and the old standby red and blue ones with a, I believe, fleur de lis pattern.

            But, elsewhere you can find them at gift shops, theme parks, theme restaurants, etc. With all sorts of licensed patterns, such as animated shows, video games, and licensed properties such as Star Wars, Disney, etc.

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      I think the insecurity is what is being made fun of here. Bald people shaving their head generally don’t get made fun of but, weird comb overs do because one is clearly insecure about it while the other is confidently bald.

      In this case he is clearly insecure about his height and is wearing silly shoes to hide it. Or rather his reptilian handlers told him that being taller would improve his approval rating slightly.

      Just be bald, just be short, just be fat, have a weak chin or a weird nose. Do things to complement your appearance but be confident about it.

      I also think it’s fine to make fun of a fascist torturer for things that it would be wrong to make fun of normal people for.

    • @[email protected]
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      Bruh! Same boat. In 2019 I had a receding hairline and the same cut as that Charlottesville douchebag that was plastered everywhere.

      Now I just gotta shave it. Pretty pissed at the alt-right for ruining the one of the very few haircuts I could pull off (amongst MANY other things).

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        We gotta take it back! Just like the phrase “porch monkey!” Take it all back from the racists and haters! Be like Randall!

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    You’re short. Nobody cares. You’re making it a big deal with these silly shoes.

    • ivanafterall
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      Would it be okay if we put your hands on top of mine? Like they’re my hands? Yes, that looks like my hands. For the website! We’re lawyers!

  • @[email protected]
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    Disclaimer: I’m not a fan of Ron DeSantis.

    This is stupid. Those are black cowboy boots. I work near a lot of construction guys (in the Midwest especially) and a lot of them wear very similar boots.

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      Yea, they are, but where they’re bending seems to indicate that either his feet curl upward like crazy, or that his heel is higher than the rest of his foot by a pretty big margin.

      I’ve never seen boots curl up at the toe like that…

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        True… And also, in general, I don’t care what a politician looks like. But I do care that he cares this much.

        Just like how I don’t care if a politician wears bronzer, but I do care if he’s the president and he defied expert recommendations and stopped wearing masks during a pandemic because they got his bronzer on them.

        These are evidence of politicians making poor decisions due to their vanity, and that worries me.

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    is there supposed to be a lift inside the shoe? because the height of the visible heel just looks normal to me. dressy boots often have a pretty noticeable stacked heel.

    disclaimer - i’m no fan of DeSantis

    edit - okay, video at the link has made it all abundantly clear!

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      The taller candidate wins most presidential elections…

      Uneducated people that don’t know that whole causation/correlation thing thinks that means using tricks to look taller helps their chances.

      It probably has more to do with being taller as a kid too where other kids looked to you as a leader and you dominated sports/games. That stuff snowballs into lifelong confidence and advantages in k-12 means advantages in college, and a springboard into a career.

      DeSantis thinks it’s the same as wearing high heels in public without practicing first.

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        Explore the birthdates of professional athletes, and you’ll notice a significant cluster in January and February. It often begins with kids playing sports together in school. As slightly older children tend to have a size advantage, parents and coaches start to take notice, focusing more attention on these “promising” young athletes.

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          Huh?

          Maybe we’re from different countries. In America it’s not about calendar year, it’s about school year. So if you’re 6 years old in August (or whenever school starts) you start 1st grade. Some kids are 6 years 0 months, and some are 6 years and 11 months. They all go to the same class.

          Close to the cutoff and some parents will hold back or get them in early.

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            That’s exactly why this happens. At young ages, even an extra six months can give you a huge leg up in sports. So coaches see a first grader performing really well – because they have that six month advantage – and hype them up, which ends up snow balling.

            I love when someone is belligerently wrong and down votes people that are correct. Go back to Reddit. I need to log off

            https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-athletes-birthdays-affect-who-goes-pro-and-who-becomes-a-star/

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              I love when someone is belligerently wrong and down votes people that are correct. Go back to Reddit

              Are you complaining about me?

              Your comment already has a down vote, and you’re agreeing what I first said… And I don’t see anything belligerent in my comment.

              But I dont know who else you’d be complaining about, I honestly don’t know what you’re talking about.

              Quick edit:

              Did you reply to the wrong person? You’re not even the person I replied to

  • @[email protected]
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    Maybe that’s why he always looks like he’s about to cry. That’s gotta hurt after a while.

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      The anal fissure is what causes that pain. The lifts are merely just an inconvenience.

  • @[email protected]
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    What an odd little man. Democrats should hire Oompa Loompas to follow him around and sing songs about this sad clown.

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        What’s Johnny Depp doing these days? I’m certain he could effectively channel H.S.T., Willy Wonka, and maybe a splash of Jack Sparrow and Guy Lapoint, while portraying the tallest oompa loompa ever.