Why do they have to be this way? What happened to these Republicans? Are they genuinely held beliefs or is it all just opportunism?
ETA: does it matter? 🙁
I’m not a psychologist but there has to be some deep-seated self-loathing from repressing their true sexuality/identity for decades. Or maybe they subconsciously feel “if I can’t be who I want to be, you can’t either.”
I’ve got a theory on this: They have gay urges and therefor think everyone has them, so they believe that everyone needs to “choose to be straight” and it’s just weak sinners who are giving into their urges.
Also to grandparent: it’s allllllll projection with conservatives.
There is a fair amount of speculation that being bi is actually way more common than is generally thought but because current cultural rules of compulsory heterosexuallity codes being bi as being something you must act on to actually be considered that identity a lot of people believe that they are straight simply because they never acted on the attraction.
For guys the comp-het mindset also tends to discount basically any situation where they feel dominant because “straight” and “masculine” to them basically means that as long as they are the petetrative element in a place of absolute control via power dynamics or violence then it doesn’t count as “gay”. Essentially since as long as it holds no emotional attachment to them it doesn’t count. As long as they can’t code their behaviour as “feminine” it doesn’t count.
Which to the rest of us is fucking bonkers…
Self-contradiction is inherent to fascism and exclusionism. It is a feature, not a problem. It demonstrates that if you are something the fascists hate, you are immune from punishment if you simply support their cause. The more you support them, the more immune you are. Trump is immune from any criticism, whether it be adultery, rape, bigotry, stupidity, etc. The lower you are, the more you have to earn your protection in case they take control. This is their most important tool in recruitment, whether they understand it or not.
This could be a redemption arc. All the Republican party needs are to attend some fabulous LGBTQ+ parties.
Every accusation is a confession.
Yes. Literally every single one.
I wonder who of them eats cats and dogs. Probably RFK
RFK Jr. has had to literally make a public denial that he ate a dog. And yet he seems to have no sympathy for Haitian migrants.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4753486-rfk-jr-vanity-fair-article/
You’re a genius…
Question: why are you still on Lemmy if you hate it so much?
I wanted to see why you’re typing this and saw that your comment history from three day ago is nothing but shitting on this site. Now you’re back with an upturned nose again.
She also questioned how the video of her dancing at a club would be released before videos of Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jeffrey Epstein – both of whom prosecutors allege engaged in sex acts with minors – are released to the public.
Because you were at a public party, you dumb fuck.
Also I don’t want to see those other videos
I want juries to, but I’d really rather not be on those juries. I feel like I’d need therapy after seeing those videos
I think you mean, “Drag queens caught partying with GOP candidate who called them pedophiles.”
Do drag queens know everyone who comes at the club/venue they’re performing?
The point of the comment wasn’t to blame the drag queens. It was to reverse the implicit shame of being, “caught,” that’s in the title, giving the connotation that it’s shameful or embarrassing to associate with the GOP candidate, not the other way around. It was just a little quip that I’m sure I’ve made much funnier with this explanation.
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Well, take that, established rules of comedy!
…The previous sentence was a reference to common idiom, “If you have to explain the joke, then it’s not funny,” while the current sentence is an example of irony. Here, I am not using irony as it’s colloquially used, which could best be described as a funny coincidence, but rather by its literally definition of, “the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention.” While the literal intention of my words is an explanation of my first and second sentences, the non-literal intention is a continuation of the premise that I am over-explaining my own jokes, thereby using irony to create what some would call a, “meta,” joke.
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Likely he believes his open propaganda and was hoping to hangout with pedos.
His?
Her?
?
Valentina Gomez is a woman.
I read her name wrong lol
Imagine being so young and having so much hate in you.
I pity that woman.
Nah, she deserves every single ounce of hate and pain that gets delivered to her.
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Knowing how much the Gaggle Of Pedophiles likes to project, maybe she showed up expecting something at that party.
Interesting that GOP will list things that they are opposed to and then go and do them. We better make sure this dude isn’t a pedo.
Ew, why would they party with him?
It’s a She and her name is Valentina Gomez.
I’mma guess there’s good reason he got…exposed.
Him?
Her?
No one’s bothering to read the article or even the summary before commenting.
So, does that mean she’s a pedophile? At least according to himself?
Edit: didn’t read, assumed it had been a dude
No no no, in their mind her case doesn’t count
Republicans never claimed not to be pedophiles, so I think that’s on us for assuming
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The irony of this.
Nah, Just run of the mill Republican Hypocrisy.
Like the Anti-Gay pastor that was caught taking a rent boy on an all expenses paid european vacation.
or the anti-gay senator caught trying to proposition a guy in an airport bathroom
or any other anti-whatever republican inevitably being involved/doing/being what they are against.
Tbh I never seen a lgbtq person who was a pdf file ever in my life only once
I’m sure someone can send you some gay porn in a PDF if you really want them to.
💀😭
Oh it happens. We as a community aren’t all angels. Some of us get very VERY warped by religious or cultural trauma where because the base assumption is that we are monsters already by virtue of being something shameful there is a lowered boundary to other shamed behaviours…
But what stops that shame spiral is normalizing queer identities and creating good community with good praxis. Consent is king in so many queer spaces where I am because we’ve all basically had to imbibe the lessons of therapy to rescue people out of the dark. We discuss gold standards of sexual health and behaviour and conduct with frankness and lack of shame because generations of us were abandoned to places where we were vulnerable to exploitation. To become a pdf file is to lose your community as nothing is so disgusting to people in queer spaces as someone who would cause that kind of damage as it is expected that you know exactly what the knock on effects of that act are.
