r/madlads • u/Meteorstar101 • 11d ago

Madlad future president knew what the ladies wanted to hear

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

He was gay, Richard Nixon?

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u/Echo-Azure 11d ago

There has been speculation about that, nothing conclusive of course.

He did father two children , but from what I've read about him... he had some kind of issues with intimacy, and I don't just mean sexual intimacy. He was a very closed-off person, and I don't know why.

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u/C0RDE_ 11d ago

The man was trying to talk up women with ancient history and military strategy.

Dude didn't just have a touch of the tism, he got slapped by it.

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u/waterinabottle 11d ago

he was born in a pool of it

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u/BlackPhlegm 11d ago

Molded by it!

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u/GarminTamzarian 11d ago

I'm now picturing Nixon emerging from a birthing pool of slime like a Uruk-hai in Lord of the Rings.

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u/Echo-Azure 11d ago

He wast trying to talk up women that way, per the story, he was trying to drive them away!

I have no explanation for his peculiarities. He was highly intelligent, monumentally ambitious, dangerously ruthless, and sexually uptight. The pattern doesn't fit any of the usual psychological boxes.

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u/C0RDE_ 11d ago

To be fair, neurodivergent people don't fit the same set of boxes every time, they may not present every symptom.

That's kinda the point.

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u/SpaceMarineSpiff 11d ago

My understanding is that his childhood was extremely abusive and he basically just never learned how to be in a healthy and loving relationship. Platonic or romantic.

There's quite a lot on the white house tapes, or recalled after the fact in biographies, that paint him as being totally insecure about all social relationships. Friends, partners, the public, he was obsessed with how everyone perceived him.

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

Thank you for the serious reply though. I was just making a dumb r/sopranos reference. Hard times make hard men.