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Conservative parent is sad his daughters aren't coming for thanksgiving after voting for Trump

Originally posted on https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/comments/1h10tef/a_lot_of_lonely_magas_throwing_themselves_a_pity/

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"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
- 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.
  
  Your explanation is accurate, but your undercutting the importance of the statement. If you don't have the power, then you don't "let people" do anything.
  
  Which is to say, he was contemplating being a giant a****** and pressuring them to vote the way he wanted, but he decided to use common sense, to not be a jerk, and now he's asking for a prize for doing what most of us do all the time everyday.
  
  This doesn't make him a horrible human being, but it certainly doesn't make him a good one. In his mind, special rules apply only to him.
- You are contriving crap out of thin air here.
- 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.
  
  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.)
  
  I let you waste my time but somehow I'm implying I own you.
  
  Sure buddy.
  
  You’re welcome for not disallowing you to post this. I will also allow you to reply with something snarky if you like.
  
  Sure buddy

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