"The Grindr Super Bowl": Gay dating app saw influx of users during Republican National Convention | Salon.com

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ah, so, apparently, fascism is caused by decades of sexual oppression, denial, and self-hatred erupting and being directed outward at others.

this would be far more interesting if it didn't also mean the downfall of democracy.

I just listened to a Behind the Bastards episode where basically....yeah, that's been the prevailing theory.

Obviously, I’m both being sarcastic and massively oversimplifying things. This is just one tiny splinter of the cause of fascism, not the entirety of it.

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That's a part of it for sure but there's a lot more going on also:

how fascism works

Wait hold on

Why would cucks bother them? Isn't that like a conservative thing?

Am I seriously missing something here?

Honestly, I'm even more confused now. White supremacists were using it against "RINOs"

The original insult makes sense in that context (man who's spouse is unfaithful), but in this diagram it was listed with oppression of identity and sexuality. The only way my brain seems to interpret that is by assuming the word is used in its fetish form which makes even less sense to me

In the diagram you can substitute that word for any non-mainstream sexual or gender thing. It really doesn't matter what - they'll scapegoat anything as long as it's a minority, elicits disgust from the in-crowd and reinforces any of the things it connects to with dashed lines.

Pedophilia is a good one because it relates to 'defending women & children', makes the enemy look weak, causes sexual anxiety and elicits [disgust](https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=conservatives disgust morality&addon=firefox&addonversion=4.1.2&method=topbar). Hence '[Save the children](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=qanon %27save the children%27&t=h_&ia=web)' and all that.

The diagram maps the *conceptual* framework behind it all - it's best not to get too literal about any of the individual words.

Genuinely wonder if there's some correlation in there. It'd be fascinating if global acceptance of homosexuality would eliminate fascist tendencies. I'd watch that movie.

And coke and meth.

Mostly meth. Have you seen these people?

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I’ll never understand it. Just put on sunglasses and a hat and go check out Pride once. Watch gay people be out and proud and happy and accepting.

"But I'm not gay! I'm straight! ... I just sometimes like sucking cock is all. That's not gay!"

Literally what most people on Grindr are like in my area.

Literally what most people on Grindr are like in my area.

We're thankful for your research.

You’d think that being bi would fix this but they might actually hate being bi more.

If you're a Republican politician and you admit you're queer, that huge, reliable network of evangelicals you built up will drop you.

You cannot do that if being closeted and shamed is your kink.

What if they have? I think it’s more about how deep their belief is that they must be accepted by their community. So them going to pride might actually make them mad and fuel their hate.

“Why do these people get to be accepted by their peers and I’m not, well let me fix that”

"I convinced myself I was gay when I was a kid".

Well congrats, bud: you also convinced me you were gay when you were an adult.

Ya know, that kinda better explains the Theil connection. They have that in common?

I've speculated (and I don't believe I'm alone) that the reason Peter Theil was so supportive of Elon Musk is that he either really wanted to fuck him or did.

Nah, they're just people who made a pile of money together. Theil was one of the people who stopped Elon from trying to turn PayPal into a complete financial services solution, and instead just focus on paying for eBay purchases. They all take a big payday because of it, but Elon was still upset he wasn't allowed to "disrupt" the banking industry.

Love this!!! Perhaps I should post this in conservative Reddit. 🧐

Enjoy your immediate ban

yes only bots are allowed on reddit

So you're saying program a bot network to keep posting this article on r/conservative?

Don't limit yourself to just this article. There's a whole fact based world out there that doesn't confirm their beliefs

Agreed, but if I knew anything about programming botnets, I would absolutely program bots to just one by one post this specific thread for weeks. Just get banned and post again a couple of hours later with a new bot.

Good luck doing anything about it with the API being free so you can use mod tools.

not really but you took it to an interesting direction

Where are all the democrats haters? Claiming this as fake news? Those god believing Christians are those that are watching gay and trans porn