Pointing out potential hypocrisy isn’t homophobic, that you think it is, says a lot more about you than them.
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ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 9 hours agoLiberal, call them what you want. Someone claiming not to be homophobic but still uses gay as an insult about a group they dislike. Are there closeted republicans? Sure. All kinds of closeted people. Are they even close to being a majority in republican party? No, it’s mainly goddamn straight people. Fucking own up to it and stop trying to pin the awful actions of straight people on a few hypocritical fuckwits.
Stop using gay as an insult if you truly don’t think there’s anything wrong with being gay. Challenge level impossible.
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anomnom@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
They aren’t just hypocritical, the Republican platform and Project 2025 are explicitly anti-lgbt and in many cases working to actively injure that group as a whole.
The fact that specifically Grindr has traffic spikes around Republican conventions, rallies or even weird funerals is notable, and the basis for a joke. Which is what this is, not homophobia.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Republicans are very anti-gay and people who are supposedly our allies trying to paint the republicans as gay is a bit tiring. It’s straight people running the anti gay crusade. It’s not self-loathing, just loathing. Heck, most of the time it’s not even loathing, it’s just a convenient out group to rally around. “Who are we? Well, at least we’re not gay”. But if you think misogyny, transphobia, homophobia all those things are fine as long as it’s directed towards people who voted for the wrong party then I am not going to convince you and you are not going to convince me.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Because it’s a meme! Some journalist on Twitter posting about Grindr at the RNC and people running with it. People logging in when the RNC is in town to see if they can spot a closeted politician. It’s titillating, people sign up for Grindr because they’ve seen Hegseth’s tattoo so “they’d definitely recognise him even if he cropped out his head”. Add the trolls who get a kick out of pretending to be a closeted politician.
And I know it’s a meme because people sincerely believe that “so many people logged in that it crashed Grindr!” Like Grindr has a server in every city and you log into the closest server when you turn on Grindr. Complete nonsense.
There’s also bound to be gay staffers for republican politicians. Washington DC is the gayest place in the US. Let the staffers fuck in peace.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
But…the outages actually happened? And they did coincide with locations where conservatives gathered (e.g. during the Charlie Kirk funeral/orgy in Arizona). You can literally look it up. On the outlet Pride, even, among others.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
So you think Grindr can handle Pride all over the world but not Charlie Kirk’s funeral? How do think the internet works?
Is this what you are referring to? TheRealThelmaJohnson is your source? Do you also think everything on the Onion is real?
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