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my wife: tonight I am being cruel and capricious and adding a rule that you must eat your dinner without complaints if you want dessert 5yo: can we complain about Vladimir Putin? my wife:...sure 5yo: I wish Vladimir Putin had never been born

7:18 PM · Sep 18, 2025

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Ramez Naam

@ramez

Sep 18

You've raised that kid well.

5yo: Also, Vladimir Putin thinks this meat is overcooked. And he wants ice-cream.

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This is one of my favorite running gags

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Eigil Fjeldgren Rischel - abstr/acc

@Ayegill

Sep 19

The five-year-old in question:

I want to know if there's an obscure metaphor, or if this is straight brown-nosing? *either way seems precocious*

he just really hates vladimir putin

INCREDIBLE

It’s Brendon Carr’s FCC all over again

Vladimir Putin, the infamous inventor of the vegetable

Is your 5yo ok? Might need a hug.

Watch out. That might open the door for them to complain about someone WORSE than Putin too

it sounds like the kid needs more villains. Napoleon sounds like a good bad guy. he doesn't have the same cache now. but before ww2 he was like the go to reference for evil guys

Who the fuck negotiates with five year olds? Three, sure. You haven't learned yet that you're going to lose. By age five you would have learned that negotiation is a fool's game. Hold the line. Do not yield a millimeter. You may not complain about Putin.

In my culture you allow kids to rules lawyer and debate you if they’re sufficiently clever about it. In this manner we raise them to be great posters.