• vivavideri@lemmy.world
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    I’m sorry, but after all these articles on lemmy about this bozo, I’m realizing he has a seemingly slappable face

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      I was just thinking how fast his face has aged in just the last ~6 years. He doesn’t look healthy to me. Something is going on.

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        If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.

        A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

        Roald Dahl, The Twits

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            The cited part of the book says even in an ugly face you can see some sort of beauty shining through if the person is good inside. It doesn’t say ugly people are evil.

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            Congratulations on completely missing the point.

            In a children’s book.

            That literally completely explains itself in the absolute simplest of terms.

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                In hind sight, I should have just ignored them and moved on.

                At the time I justified it as warrented when responding to a hostile straw man attack.

                The parent comment is in no way a reasonable response to merely quoting from a popular children’s book, and actually shows a failure to comprehend the statement quoted.

                Having failed to comprehend the text, the commenter then builds a straw man argument, and gets righteously indignant. They then doubled down on the straw man which is why they’re now blocked: I’ve no interest in engaging with a disingenuous commenter.

                If the comment had engaged in a reasoned discussion then my response would not have reciprocated the hostility.

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              You know, maybe not everyone that disagrees with you is missing the point, although I suppose I should expect someone posting that to think they are always the smartest person in the room.

              You’re right, ugly people have done something wrong, my bad.

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                That’s not what he was trying to tell you. The book doesn’t teach you to assume ugly people are evil. Surely you’ve seen someone with a beautiful face in which you could read hate and it kind of undermined the original beauty. And then there are people born with faces that are very far from standard beauty, but they are so friendly and kind that over many years their grimaces transform their faces into something that becomes a certain type of unconventional beauty. There’s ugly and ugly.

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          This book terrified me as a child and likely shaped my existence more than I realize. Thank you for reminding me about it, I should read soon.

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        Bear in mind that his public perception has gone from lovable billionaire selling flamethrowers because it’s cool, to right wing douchebag supporting putin. News outlets tend to pick nice photos of the “good guy” and find something awful for the bad.

        Though I do agree, he’s not aged well. But our perception is probably skewed by cherry picked photos for news articles through the years.