• Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    I don’t mean to laugh, this is genuinely cruel, but it’s also just really funny picard-troll

    “Daddy died because you wanted blueberries and didn’t manage your finances well enough”

    I’m sorry but this is sitcom levels of funny picard-troll

  • LangleyDominos [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    “Sweetie, look at this household discretionary budget for last quarter. Your blueberry requests are creating untenable expenditures for the firm. You need to cut back or we may have to consider a legal intervention to reduce access to spending. As my daughter you are a fiduciary and have an obligation to keep us profitable.”

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    Christians blathering on about the importance and sanctity of the family doing their favorite thing: lying nonstop to their children about literally everything, including the most significant and defining moment of their childhoods. Anyone who thought this kid was better off now that pops is out of the picture hasn’t met the mom.

  • Thorngraff_Ironbeard [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    A very close friend of mine passed with a daughter who was two at the time. Her surviving parent never lied to her when she asked questions, of course she was too young to understand really. I don’t think saying “he’s with Jesus” has anything but negative effects.

  • I want to know something, what’s the deal with westerners being so bad at telling kids a person died? even a religious person like her is bad at this, arguably the easiest ones to explain are religious people “oh sweetie we believe that there’s a life and an afterlife and when we die our spirits leave our bodies here then we end up in the afterlife” just say that, but she won’t do that because even to the standards of the worst christians his ass is likely looking up right now.

    • westerners’ avoid thinking about death as a general rule and far too many have kids as some kind of performance or as a method to fill the hope left by their own unrealized dreams and aspirations.

      basically, they aren’t having kids to build a future so much as having kids to reconcile their past. and death is the ultimate future, so they completely biff it when the kid has questions.

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    It’s lying but I think it’s really just the mom passing on her inability to deal with death. The “he’s with Jesus now” shit is what she’s telling herself to avoid facing any trauma. So it’s what she tells the daughter, and now the daughter will grow up emotionally incapable of dealing with death.

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      Yah this reminds me I lost a grandparent when I was a little kid but not too young to deal with that sort of thing and I feel like the parent whose parent had passed kind of tried to shelter me from it even though I asked to travel with them out of state to the funeral, I wonder if they were having a hard time processing. Kids are able to deal with a lot more than they are given credit for but are infantilized by adults IME.

  • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    This is awful, I normally like to make fun of these people, but it’s hitting me right in the childhood with abusive parents right now. I hope that kid turns out ok and escapes all this without too much trauma. It seems like her mother is going to make literally everything about her dead husband, and use his death as a massive tool of control over her daughter.

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    back in my day, dads would go for cigarettes, smdh, what happened to men, good times, weak classic gits, whatever

    I just saw something in the ABC.net.au about how blueberries contain a whole lot more pesticides than they ought to, because the limits were set at the amount of berries were eating in the 1990s, and people eat a lot more berries than they used to

    food for thought, maybe look into it yourself, I don’t eat a lot of berries (named berries, not the botanical definition)

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    I know nothing about Kirk’s widow, but honestly I too would not be teaching great emotional lessons a week after my husband was assassinated. Not convinced they should be made into a spectacle, even if they’re the one tweeting or whatever.

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      Yes, I have no doubt she’s a terrible person but this is the kind of misstep anyone could make after a traumatic event and hardly indicates anything about her as a person. What will be meaningful will be how she handles it later on, and as she’s the kind of person who would marry Charlie “his neck just did that” Kirk I have no doubt it will be awful.