• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    It’s because making the world better requires change and conservatives are terrified of everything, especially change.

    Go up to a conservative. Any conservative. And ask them to talk about politics. No other prompt. Just talk about politics. Don’t interrupt them for maybe 5 minutes. They’ll spend at least 95% of their time talking about fear, in some form or another. Conservatism is built upon, and maintained, by fear.

    • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 days ago

      But its always the dumbest fear.

      Its not like “im worried about some idiot POTUS destroying my livelihood through his own ego and a misunderstanding of economic policy” or “im not going to be able to afford health care when i inevitably get sick”.

      Its always “if you let gay people get married then people will marry their pets and that would be an atrocity because reasons”.

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    8 days ago

    They are so far deep into a propaganda bubble that there’s no way for you to understand it. If you could see their social media content you’d be amazed of how many lies they buy without questioning.

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      8 days ago

      This is exactly it. I’ve tried talking to a few of the guys that I work with and they are fully sure that every democrat wants to kill all the babies and turn all of their children trans. I pointed out that abortions should be between a woman and her doctor and that the government shouldn’t be involved at all… I got a sparkle of understanding from one of them but then he doubled down that MOST abortions are purely for convenience. Like first of all, no they are not, but even if they were it’s not anybody’s business. Trying to get him to understand that I’m not pro abortion, I’m pro mind your own fucking business.

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    9 days ago

    They want someone to blame for their perceived misery, and to vent their anger at others having it better than them.

    It’s easier to do that instead of being introspective.

    • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlOP
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      8 days ago

      Honestly don’t see this as gay shaming. Thats just how fascist (and many of the terminally online generally) name themselves on twitter sometimes

    • JesusChristLover420@lemmy.sdf.org
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      8 days ago

      hitlerball_lover1488 may well be a woman who wants to gargle Hitler’s singular testicle. I’d ask you to in the future please be more mindful of when you assume a stranger online to be a man.

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      It doesn’t read like it’s referencing homosexuality to me. Sucking someone’s dick is commonly used to refer to sycophantic behavior. The idea is allowing yourself to be used by a socially dominant figure as a means of currying favor to better your own social position beneath them.

      Like I don’t think kissing ass has anything to do with people actually enjoying anal play.

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      You don’t have to be gay to be an asshole. Plenty of straight people, gay people, cis people, people of color, trans people can be fascists and assholes. It’s not like being LGBTQ gives you some kind of a pass to be a dickhead.

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        Then why the need to insert gay sex into it? The whole “Trump sucks off Putin”, “The billionaires suck off Trump”, like whats the punchline here? “Lol its like they’re being gay with eachother”? “Ewww he’s letting himself get used like some gay”?

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          Sucking someone off is a submissive sex act, thats the point of saying that.

          This “saying trump is sucking someone off is homophobic” thing is just lack of reading comprehension.

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            Characterising gay men who like to suck dick as “submissive” is harmful. And therefore homophobic. Fellating someone is not being submissive, getting fellated is not dominating. It can be, in a dom/sub context, but it is not in itself an act with a dom/sub dynamic and characterizing it as such leads to people seeing gay people as more submissive, effeminate, and, in a patriarchal society, therefore as lesser. This whole “the person getting penetrated is the submissive part” as if they’re “letting it happen” or are doing it for the benefit of the other party needs to die out. It’s sexist and homophobic. I don’t need to dominate my partner when having sex with her, nor do I need to submit or be passive or whatever when fellating her.

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      8 days ago

      The same people who thought a mural of a Soviet leader kissing another man is a definitive condemnation of socialism lol.

      Like, yeah he did that. And?

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    8 days ago

    Billionaires control the media, including millions of social media accounts. Normal people want him.

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      8 days ago

      Not to mention all the people in this thread defending the gay jokes like it’s 2010 and we’re on the r/TumblrInAction subreddit.

      I’m just waiting for someone to get called an SJW for having a problem with Nazis getting lumped in with gay people.

  • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 days ago

    Here we go again: “bad” being transcribed as gay. Why can’t people get past this shit? Why must we still make gay be an analog for bad? As a lifelong gamer, gamer culture is 100% part of the problem and a primary vector for disinformation, puritan culture, sexism, homophobia, and other kinds of hate and ignorance. We have to be fucking better than this.

    It’s so subtle to some, yet so corrosive and insidious.