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Interesting how this seems to happen every single time there's a large gathering of Republicans.

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[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 186 points 1 day ago (10 children)

You don't understand, they aren't gay, they are just men having sex with other men!

[–] RaoulDuke85@lemmy.world 59 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They’re just making sure they AREN’T gay by having sex with other men.

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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ain’t nuffin gay about gettin yer dick sucked! Thems the ones thatter gay for suckin em!

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Its not gay if its a girl's dick.

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[–] Hello_there@fedia.io 30 points 1 day ago (9 children)

In the wisdom of the ancient Greeks, you're only gay if you're a bottom

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[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Choo choo!!!

[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

They are imposing their dominance on weaker men. It's not gay, it's purely about dominance

[–] tmyakal@infosec.pub 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Your problem, Henry, is that you are hung up on words, on labels: "gay", "homosexual", "lesbian." You think they tell you who a person sleeps with, but they don't tell you that. Like all labels, they refer to one thing and one thing only: Where does a person so identified fit in the food chain? In the pecking order. Not ideology or sexual taste, but something much simpler: clout. Who owes me favors. Not who I fuck or who fucks me, but who will pick up the phone when I call. To someone who doesn't understand this, homosexual is what I am because I sleep with men, but this is wrong. Homosexuals are not men who sleep with other men. Homosexuals are men who, in 15 years of trying, can't get a pissant anti-discrimination bill through City Council. They are men who know nobody, and who nobody knows. Now, Henry, does that sound like me?

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Henry, the only label I need is Sexual Libertarian. An omnivore of genitals and hearts. Come as you are... All over the place. And so will I. Does that sound enticing, Henry?"

[–] swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Wtf is this from, it sounds like a fandom I need to join immediately

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 81 points 1 day ago

A Republican manufacturer running for governor in Wisconsin as a conservative supporter of “family values” and President Donald Trump followed numerous sexually explicit accounts online, including a nonbinary pornography performer.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Monday that Bill Berrien, the CEO of Pindel Global Precision and one of two announced 2026 Republican candidates for governor, unfollowed several accounts in recent days after the newspaper asked about the matter.

https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-governor-berrien-sexually-explicit-2f7986f773082d9ebe6974a67fe8a242

[–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 69 points 1 day ago (4 children)

This is part of the reason they are going after transgender people so much. Most Republicans are in the closet and they don't want their past lovers to let the public know what they are doing behind closed doors.

It's also why they choose so many white, blonde women to be their face on the news and in the Whitehouse.

They try so hard to make their voter base think they are " MEN!!" and do "MANLY THINGS!!!" When actually most of them are crybabies and closet bisexuals.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

IIRC transgender porn is by far the most popular in the deep US south.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 11 points 1 day ago

When actually most of them are crybabies

To be fair, they all cry on tv about how their feelings are hurt.

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[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 38 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Are these correlations actually indicative of mass closeted homosexuality in the maga Christian sect? It’s fun to believe that’s what it is but I have met a LOT of maga/far right homophobe types and it seems like a stretch to believe that a significant number of these people are secretly gay.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 83 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Lots of homophobes are closeted, self-loathing gays.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 17 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I mean sure, sometimes I feel like that narrative is blown out of proportion. But maybe I’m wrong. It’s more fun to think that’s how it is though, for sure.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And yet, so often, the loudest anti-LGBTQ voices turn out to be gay, and the loudest protect the children voices turn out to be kiddie diddlers or CSAM producers or hoarders. Often, where there is smoke there is fire and Republicans do a lot of smoking.

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[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If you are confident with your sexuality, why would it bother you what others do? It is not like it can switch who you are attracted to.

The only exception I see are the people who got convinced that gays can influence that their kids will be gays. That's a bit harder to convince it is a bullshit.

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

convinced that gays can influence that their kids will be gays

if that's how it works, then just influence your kid to be straight again, "problem" solved.

[–] tburkhol@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

You don't understand: teh gays are just cooler than straight people, so the kids are powerless against their 'rizz,' and boring straights can't hope to compete.

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[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Self-loathing bisexuals.

"If I can choose not to be gay, so can you."

[–] cowfodder@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yes, yes they are. Through a friend I know a few trans and gay sex workers, and they make a killing every year at the RNC.

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

No, a lot of them really are, it isn't complicated.

Repress sexuality, sexual expression, codify a rigid set of norms around it?

It thus becomes fetishized, and this must also be a secret, because you essentially lose all your face, your social status, respectability, as s conservative, if you are outed.

We think it is ridiculous they are hypocrites.

They all know they are in the company of hypocrites, what they do not like is the tearing of the veil, the decomposition of the masquerade.

If it needs to be stated: I grew up in this culture and had to actively flee from it.

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Also, this is why conservatives associate trans people and homosexuals with pedophilia.

To them, it all falls into one bucket of forbidden faux pas. It is all heresy, it is all sin, all perversion, differentiation is largely unimportant, in fact even attempting to make the differentiation explicit is often viewed as a sin.

Of course, again, this makes all of this into secret fetishes, which the power hierarchy of their culture will nearly always orient itself in such a manner to protect the power structure itself, very often by supressing reporting or punishment for say, being an active pedophile or rapist, be this in the context of a family, or a wholr chuch body, whatever.

Its all there when you look under the curtains, but their whole thing is worshipping the curtains, the conformity.

Psychosexuality is the root of almost all politics, prove me wrong lol.

[–] kingofthezyx@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's like the old joke - what does one Mormon say to the other in the liquor store? Absolutely NOTHING.

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[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm sorry to be the one ruining the fun. The graph is from down detector. A website where people "report" than a site or service is down.

I'm pretty sure at this point people just report grindr being down in any republican reunion just for giggles. During Eurovision and other promient gay friendly events that grindr is put under great stress haven't go down in my experience. I doubt a dude funerals is going to make it.

That doesn't take from a lot of republicans being closeted gay. But I'm almost certain on the troll factor being big here.

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[–] Cassanderer@thelemmy.club 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If they can read this post they are gay.

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[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 27 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The hypocrisy is what bothers me. These people scream about hating gays.

[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 9 points 18 hours ago

I think the guys banging them are worse. They're fucking us all in the ass....

[–] renrenPDX@lemmy.world 26 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Wouldn't that be an interesting list of names, if it unfortunately ever leaked?

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 17 points 22 hours ago

Leaking it wouldn't really accomplish much because they'd just get replaced by more Republicans. But if they were blackmailed, that could potentially influence policy, or make the thief rich.

[–] Exusia@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This generates so many questions it could be a study. I do not have any gay friends, or know of people around me who use Grindr so I guess if someone who does could tell me.

Do these people seek "locals" (nonMAGA) of towns/cities they live, or do they seek other MAGA hidden on the platform? If they're looking for a non-MAGA partner, do they hide their leanings? Is it just not something discussed during dms before hooking up? Do they often become toxic and try to bully the partner or do they keep quiet and try to blend in with John Everyman? If they look for each other, do they have like...a tell on their profile to help signal to each other to help get swipes? Are they often top/bottom or is the demographic still case-by-case? Do they attend Grindr and mark "looking for friends" or "looking for hookups"? (Women used to use bumble a lot but like 90% of them were always marked as "just looking for friends" rather than hookups on their profiles)

This is the second time I've seen this phenomena of grindr spiking in a city where lots of MAGA congregates, but I dont think I've ever heard of assaults on homosexuals from maga people specifically after a hookup on grindr, in local/national news

[–] IndridCold@lemmy.ca 24 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

It's gay (or bi) MAGA men in the closet seeking hookups with people in other towns so they don't bump into them later at the grocery store with their wife.

These are the same people that will say shit like "faggots make me sick" and some probably even go gay bashing.

Their religion and culture have damaged their brains into rejecting who they are and what they want in life and will violently lash out at others who embrace who they are.

I'd feel pity for them if they weren't such horrible humans.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

These are the same people that will say shit like "faggots make me sick" and some probably even go gay bashing.

My pet theory is that these bisexual conservatives are the origin of the “it’s a choice” thing. Because they do wake up every morning and choose to act straight in everyday life. And since they do it, they assume every gay person can do it. They’re just bisexual, and constantly deny that they find the same sex attractive.

Their hatred for gay people runs so deep because whenever they see an openly gay person, they see the part of themselves that they constantly deny; The part that they’re only able to deny by constantly telling themselves that it is disgusting. Because if they stop telling themselves that, they’re afraid that they’ll give into it. So whenever they see an openly gay person, the internalized “this part of you is disgusting and you should feel ashamed of it” part of them bubbles up to the surface and manifests as “just choose to be straight” homophobia.

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago

I agree with this. Believing this also makes me comfortable in my straightness. I love the gay community, gay bars make the strongest drinks, and they are fun as hell to be with. They can grab my ass all they want, but I'll always reject them. My fellow gay humans, keep being fabulous baby!

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[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 16 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

(Women used to use bumble a lot but like 90% of them were always marked as “just looking for friends” rather than hookups on their profiles)

I'd just like to say, as a woman who used dating apps a lot in my young 20s, I didn't put "looking for hookups" even when that's what I wanted. If a woman puts on her profile that she's looking for hookups, some guys become scarily entitled. For some reason some people think "wanting a hookup" means "I will fuck anyone who asks." Which is... quite the bizarre leap. Add in, such profiles get inundated with messages - some guys will react poorly if ignored, while others will react poorly if responded to but then rejected. It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation, with some unhinged folk who have your picture, name, and know what town you live in.

I quickly realized it was a bad idea and never chose that option on a dating profile again.

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[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

"This is the second time I've seen this phenomena of grindr spiking in a city where lots of MAGA congregates"

This is easily the 6-7th time I've seen this exact thing. It's hilarious every single time.

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[–] Beero@lemmy.world 16 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The gay Nazis are gonna be hella mad when they find out xstian nazis have been sizing them up for the ovens the whole time.

[–] ghosthacked@lemmy.wtf 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

there is a major overlap between them

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago

And they'll gladly throw each other into the ovens to save themselves. Feels like beating a dead horse to bring up the "jews for Hitler" movement but here we are.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Part of the Grindset.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 11 points 1 day ago

Long tradition of two fisted gay men on the Right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_R%C3%B6hm

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

you see, it's actually just a conspiracy by the gays, they all agreed to use the app nonstop at these times and ensure they submit issue reports, all to frame republicans

clearly the more likely scenario

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This just gives me more anxiety that there really are homophobes on the app tryna murder gay dudes.

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[–] plyth@feddit.org 8 points 18 hours ago

We all pretend that we like to work. Republicans can't stand the double standard and also pretend the rest of their lives.

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