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      Pretty funny though imagine your dumb ex gets a tattoo of your equally dumb face. You split. And they cover it up with Vegeta.

      Actually that sounds pretty cool… I’d love to be Vegeta

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            If only it was the second iteration, which was a glorified MLM to bilk those bargain nazis out of their money in exchange for fucking klan memorabilia.

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              “the least problematic klan was the second klan, and other confusing things you don’t want anyone to say to you”

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                  the worst thing about the second klan was it gave the founders of the third klan an opportunity to meet each other and go “oh! you’re a HUGE bigot, too?”

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                I’ve recently been reading about them, and this is honestly pretty accurate. (Keeping in mind, of course, that even the least problematic klan was still extremely problematic on an objective level. It’s just relative in this particular statement.)

                They were super anti-Catholic, which feels almost quaint now. But they were their own worst enemies and eventually the greed and excess at the top caused the collapse of their entire pyramid scheme.

                Strangely, that gives me hope for the US right now. History could repeat itself with our far-right techno-oligarchs.

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                  just be ready for what rises from the ashes. because it was from that collapse that the Indiana Klan reorganized into the group we know today

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            Yep, I’m gonna let you have that one. Roger wouldn’t eat a hotdog in Provincetown and was meticulous about bug spray in Key West. Both of those are bad, but not klan bad.

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              my great grandad was though. from the side of the family i never really much talked to because my dad wanted nothing to do with them after what they did to him in his upbringing

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    I’m pretty sure this is photoshopped, unless they got some ink removed around her eyeliner/shadow.

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    I appreciate the joke, but damn, that’s an ugly Vegeta. Looks more like Channing Tatum.

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    Honest question as someone who has no tattoos: why do people get cover ups instead of getting the tattoo removed? Is it a price issue? It often looks like a deliberate choice. But I cannot imagine that having a funny cover up of a tattoo you regret and still end up being reminded of is better than having it gone altogether.

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      Laser removal cost 10-100x more than a cover up tattoo. Hurts even more and you need do multiple sessions. There is no guarantee that the removal works and sometimes you get a worse result.

      I don’t recommend searching for unsuccessful tattoo removal pictures. You will see some bad removal attempts and also some medical gore.

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      a coverup is considerably cheaper and less painful than a removal. also, a removal often comes with a lot of visible scarring so a coverup can end up being less noticable

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      Why do people take the time to cut exes out of photos instead of just throwing the photos away? Sometimes it’s about the pleasure of forcibly removing every trace of them from your life. It can be cathartic.

      But I also acknowledge that it could also be about the cost and/or difficulty of removal. Not all removal procedures are 100% effective. If you’re not entirely sure it will work, a cover-up could be a more effective choice.

      As with all things, I’m sure the association fades over time. Sure, the new tattoo might remind you that the other one is there for a while. But then it becomes its own thing and you think about the old one less until one day you just don’t think of it at all.