Naming your kid Donald now a days is like naming your kid Adolf in the 1940s.
Of course he’s a cop
Nominative determinism
Of course he’s a cop in the state that’s pretty much where “coronelismo” still reigns
One of the funniest videos of politicians that I’ve seen recently was a casual meetup of Poland’s PM Donald Tusk and the then incoming Hungarian PM Magyar. He had just defeated Viktor Orban, Putin’s fifth column in the EU and authoritarian asshole of the year. Magyar introduces one of his ministers to Tusk. I don’t remember which ministry but her name is also Orban. Tusk is ever so briefly taken aback by the mention of that name, which Magyar realizes and quickly adds: “No relation.” They giggle at the mixup and Tusk just fires off nonchalantly something like: “Well, my name is Donald.” They laugh and move on.
#WholesomePolitics
President of Africa.
The country of africa?
I had a black student named Adolf, in the US. He’d be mid 30s by now. I wonder if his mom was African instead of the more common African American who’s grsndparents were part of the migration from the aouth to upper midwest.
Naming your kid Judas or lucifer has been pretty taboo for the past 2000 years.
I wanted to name my son Lucian and my wife was vehemently opposed to it because it sounded too much like Lucifer to her…
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All hail the age of Doug!
Dog bless his soul
Yeah, I fuckin hate Bezos. /anti-joke
Hillary. No one names their daughter Hillary and haven’t for a while now.
Grover, Kermit. These were also common names. There was president Grover Cleveland. Teddy Roosevelt named one of his sons Kermit. Sesame Street had such a strong cultural impact that these names also fell out of use.
I wouldn’t say Hilary’s poisoned. Matter of fact, I can’t remember the last time I saw a Clinton headline much less scandal. Also, my definitive Hilary will always be Hilary Banks lol
Taboos can be positive, negative, or just reserved. For example in Judaism writing “God” is taboo, and Jews will frequently write “G-d”. Same with YHWH. They will not say the tetragrammaton. Instead many will substitute the word Adonai.
Of course there are diverse groups of people. So for Hillary, depending on someone’s political persuasion could be a positive name, a negative name, or just so synonymous with her it’s reserved.
Kermit Roosevelt. I’m sure with a name like that, he definitely didn’t do anything of consequence that ripples through geopolitics to this day.
His great grandson Kermit Roosevelt III is alive today, and writes law novels
I’m sure, like most Kennedies, he Kermitted his fair share of crimes
I dated a girl named Hilary once. She was okay.
Must have been hilarious.
If she didn’t commit war crimes in Libya, she’s alright by me.
Elmo too certainly
Not yet, there are people who have, and will, name their kids Donald. They might actually give him the “t” middle initial too.
It is also just…an old person’s name right now.
I’ve heard a fun fact about this! Nowadays, at least in North America, they make great effort to always use the full names of people that become infamous to reduce the poisoning of names like that, as well as to minimize the incidence of living people with the same name.
In Germany I usually see either both or just the last name.
I think the name Donald has been out of style since before Trump was born.
Imagine spending your whole life being compared to Donald Duck.
The most recent famous Donald I can think of is Glover, who was born in '83.
Yeah I was just thinking that, all the others I could think of were at least 60.
Being compared to a cult figure is why exactly bad?
Donald Duck is awesome. Not so boring like the Mouse. Litigious little shit.Well, there’s Donald Knuth
Who?
The author of the most boring software development book in history.
Just make their middle name Duck and you are golden.
My grandpa’s name is Donald. I was gonna name my kid after him.
Sorry, grandpa.
The solution is obvious: name your kid Grandpa.
Name your kitten/puppy grandpa. Then you can tell everyone that you had to have grandpa put to sleep
Middle name, maybe?
Nobody names kids “Adolf” here, even today. That name is thoroughly burned.
I am German and have an uncle whose name is Adolf. His dad/my grandpa also had the name Adolf, but he got the name before WWII.
My parents told me that my uncle has this name because my grandpa misunderstood the nurse when my uncle was born. He supposedly understood “What’s your name?”, while she asked “How should he be named?”. He then said “Adolf” obviously, because that’s his name. And it’s said that once they figured out the error, it was too late to be undone.
There’s a certain scepticism about this story being real. But for sure my grandpa didn’t do it to honor Adolf Hitler (aka being a Nazi. I don’t know about his doings during WWII tbh, but at least how I perceived him, he didn’t have any sympathy for Nazis), maybe he did it because he wanted to name a son after himself while the name was burnt…
Just a tidbit from my life :D
your uncle prob thought “if I dealt with it my whole life someone else will now, too”
Grandpa*
My uncle was the “victim” :D
Is Adolf a safe name yet? How long needs to pass?
Why would you want to?
I wouldn’t, im not German it would be silly, but for other Germans. Edit : Austrians and Belgians abd etceteras.
Also the moustache AND hair have been absolutely banned for many a young gentleman since then
tangent: do you think names only fit a particular nationality?
Sort of? Like calling a native Scandinavian Jerwayne or Tâo isnt going to go down great.
Of course someone is free to do that, you can call them X Æ A-Xii if you want. But still. Not really ideal.
The stache for sure, but the hair?
Karen is similarly poisonous
I love the line “The last Karen…”
That one at least is a shortened form of Katherine, which people won’t associate with Karen.
I have never once seen Katherine shortened to Karen. I’ve only ever seen it shortened to Katie or Kat. Any Karens I’ve seen, it’s always been a standalone name.
…it is?
God I fucking hate how people use this to vilify women. It’s currently being used to imply that any woman who stands up for herself is a bitch. Just more misogyny
Nobody shied away from Joseph after Stalin.
There is a very famous Joseph in a old fairy tale book which most people associate with that name.
But Donald or Adolph?
I mean at least Donald has a Duck, Knuth and Glover.
But Adolf, yeah you named your kid after him…
Its literally just a name and was a very popular name before Hitler. I don’t see why you would have to be named after him. Are all Josephs, peter, Paul’s,Mathews marks named after the bible. No they are just names.
Sure. Go ahead. Name your kid Adolf.
No one is going to think you’re a Nazi…
If you allow Don as a shortened version of Donald there are a bunch. Don Juan, Don Quixote, etc.
Don in Spanish literature is not short for Donald…
Don here is a title, not a given name, but your point stands.
