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Oh wow that’s quite the username
She isn’t wrong.
Why would anybody use Threads? I made an account on there just to see what it’s about and it was so shitty that I ended up deleting a couple of hours later. Most of the content is just ragebait, political misinformation, and businesses/influencers trying to shill something. For every 10 posts you might get 1 or 2 that doesn’t fall in these categories. It’s just bad, and not in a good way.
So it’s like all of social media since forever? Shocking!
It’s bad even for social media standards.
There was a handful of people I met there that I thought were cool that going back to Mastodon wanted to follow and honestly it’s the only sane way to interact with that platform, it feels like TMZ made a Twitter clone.
Retirement homes
Also Grindr
Oh fa sho.
Fuck you and your liberal homophobia
Here, take my username, it suits you better.
It fills me with joy to see this stupid comment eviscerated.
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. It’s not homophobic to point out a documented fact.
It’s not the homosexuality, it’s the hypocrisy. I’m hypocrisyphobic
Exactly this.
Homocracy
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.
Stats don’t lie and there are a lot of closeted Republicans on Grindr
How does saying conservatives use Grindr make somebody a liberal? I swear, the word has lost all meaning on Lemmy xD
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.
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, if not individually.
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.
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.
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.
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
If it comes down to being a Libtard or MAGA Pedophile worshipper … most of us would rather wear the Libtard T-Shirt.
We gotta take it back, like the N word, the F word or the R word. (lol)
Unironically using that specific word immediately tells me all I need to know about someone.
Go be a fucking idiot somewhere else
Awww, look at the triggered little snowflake! How cute!
Ok, snowflake.
Maybe not the right place to ask this, but why are American conservatives called conservatives? Where I live, in one of the EU countries, they would be considered extremists and the Democrats would be considered right wing.
That is exactly American brainwashing. You are correct.
In my country(that is in the EU), there are people that would call anyone that says anything remotely positive about gay people woke communists trying to bring Nicolae Ceaușescu back from the dead
Hungary?
Romania
Overton window got yeeted so far to the right it ended up in 1930s germany
Man, it hits so hard because it’s true.
The name is inherently nonsense. They aren’t “conserving” anything.
At least in Canada, most people I know think Liberal = anything left, Conservative = anything right. Maybe Americans are the same.
Basically. Our Overton window is fucked thanks to the Nazis in power. Both current and historical.
why are American conservatives called conservatives?
For a full depth, non-lemmy-grade answer, a wikipedia article on US political ideologies explains the history & meanings.
The right and left are subjective terms. It really depends where you live and people will be more or less left/right.
As a Canadian I think the American conservatives are right religious nuts rather than just right extremist.
Well that’s not how that works.
Right wing means you believe that some people are naturally better than others.
Right-wing politics is the range of political ideologies that view certain social orders and hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable,[1][2][3] typically supporting this position in favour of conservatism, natural law, economics, authority, property, religion, or tradition.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Hierarchy and inequality may be seen as natural results of traditional social differences[11][12] or competition in market economies.
I think the American conservatives are right religious nuts rather than just right extremist.
Both are true.
It comes down to how American conservatives are extremely hostile to any kind of change whatsoever. In more extreme cases, like MAGA, QAnon, TeaParty, etc. that hostility towards change can lead to fear, which can lead to things like violence, terrorism, hate groups, etc. In short, they are called conservatives because they wish above all else to “conserve” the status quo (as they see it), that often being racism, sexism, slavery, xenophobia, hate groups, misogyny, white supremacy, Christian fascism, etc.
American “conservatives” are anything but conservative.
They’re hyper liberal. They’re ripping up precedent left and right to institute how the think things “should be” as if it’s 250 years ago. The billionaires want slavery. They want to eradicate all minorities and anybody who isn’t white. They don’t have the support to do all of this all at once, so they’re starting with the people who will never support them first. Take away the support of the opposition and more and more unpopular actions can be taken to push things towards an oligarch controlled white christian nationalist organization.
They’re spending money like crazy but only in ways that support them politically. They’re trying to drive out anything that is remotely left ideologically until the middle is the left, and then they’re next.
Oh yeah, I agree with you. They have driven the Overton window into another dimension.
I’ve been marathoning the old twilight zone episodes and it’s amazing how much today’s reality feels like we’re living in one of those episodes.
Makes me wonder what Rod Serling would say today.
That’s such a great show. I have only seen a few episodes but I really enjoyed everything that I have seen and I’m slowly working my way into it. A friend of mine likes it and she turned me on to it a few months ago. And Serling actually seems like a legitimate bad ass.
Because they want to go back to unchallenged white American male rule? It’s a very selective and niche time period they want to conserve.
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Jesus was definitely a libertarian and definitely not a conservative. Oh, except for inside a temple on markets day.
These people do not care about Jesus lol
Yeah. Jesus would never recognize these people as true Christians. He would be looking for cameras and shit thinking someone was trying to punk him. Lol
