How does saying conservatives use Grindr make somebody a liberal? I swear, the word has lost all meaning on Lemmy xD
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ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 9 months agoFuck you and your liberal homophobia
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The word has lost all meaning to conservatives. It’s like the word “commie” in the 50s. Don’t like your neighbor? Commie! Or today, the conservatives would say “Libtard”. Without any actual care for where the root word of their little insult comes from.
MTZ@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I can not even begin to tell you how many times I have had the word Libtard directed at me since January when DJT began his second term. Lol
Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 months ago
Unironically using that word immediately tells me all I need to know about someone.
Wilco@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
If it comes down to being a Libtard or MAGA Pedophile worshipper … most of us would rather wear the Libtard T-Shirt.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Liberal, 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.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 9 months 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 9 months 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 9 months 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.
Senal@programming.dev 9 months ago
Pointing out potential hypocrisy isn’t homophobic, that you think it is, says a lot more about you than them.
blackbelt352@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Stats don’t lie and there are a lot of closeted Republicans on Grindr
dumbass@piefed.social 9 months ago
Here, take my username, it suits you better.
Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Go be a fucking idiot somewhere else
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Awww, look at the triggered little snowflake! How cute!
jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It fills me with joy to see this stupid comment eviscerated.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 9 months ago
What? I’m gay and I say this. Republicans are on Grindr, and it’s fucking gross. Ew, Republicans.
MTZ@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Ok, snowflake.
FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus 9 months ago
Happy cake day, and agreed
MTZ@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I mean, there have been at least three documented instances where their little “gatherings” have put extreme strain on Grindr servers, one time knocking the server offline completely.
psivchaz@reddthat.com 9 months ago
It’s not the homosexuality, it’s the hypocrisy. I’m hypocrisyphobic
MTZ@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Exactly this.
Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Homocracy
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I wouldn’t even call that homophobic to say that even if there hadn’t been evidence. Nobody is saying there’s anything wrong with being on grindr. Well, nobody except the actual conservatives who are on grindr. They really hate their own kind.
Which is strange, because for all the things people hate conservatives for, being gay isn’t really one of them.