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      Ok, I’ve discussed this in brief before and I’m not going through the entire unfiltered rant today, but I agree with this to an extent for some of them. You see the same things when a certain personality type gets power. They start off proving that they can get away with little things. Eventually they become so enamored with the idea of being “above the law” because they’re so special and righteous that they are out there doing shit like raping kids and eating people. It’s literally just about the power.

      Now there’s a whole lot of steps in between jaywalking and being a cannibal. Lots of sexual stuff (regular shit that they see as taboo like threesomes and sucking dick as well as bad shit like cheating or forcing people to do whatever thing if is you like, you know, rape). Non sexual stuff (light embezzlement, harassment, bullying). That’s where the pure, uncut rant is. One of these days I’m going to ramble across like 6 comments to get the whole rant out.

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    Ehh, I know we’re in the shitpost community, but if I can be serious for a moment, this “Homophobes are actually secretly gay” schtick always rubs me the wrong way.

    It’s not actually that common of a phenomenon, and the idea absolves straight people of their own culpability in the oppression of queer people, by pinning it on an imagined “Gay on Gay violence”, as opposed to actual systemic factors

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      It’s not actually that common of a phenomenon

      I actually thought this was specifically referring to recent data showing that grindr has a huge uptick in activity whenever RNC conventions come to an area.

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        The “Recent Data” in question was largely a piece of satire which claimed that the Grindr CEO called the 2024 RNC, “Grindr’s Super Bowl” this never actually happened.

        There were also claims that Grindr crashed during the 2024 RNC:

        Over 1,000 users reported a Grindr outage in the Milwaukee area around 4 p.m. on Tuesday, according to Downdetector, a website that collects online service status information.

        The Grindr app also allegedly experienced problems in the Cream City on Thursday— the fourth and final day of the RNC — as well as in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York. However, Grindr’s official status updates show there hasn’t been an outage since May.

        According to Newsweek, those appear to be unsubstantiated.

        Further, the majority of the spike in Grindr traffic during the RNC was due to journalists, curious locals, and law enforcement, all of whom got on the app with the intent to monitor the goings on.

        And why would all those people want to do that? Because we’ve created this largely fake “gay on gay violence” trope wherein all of the people most opposed to queer rights are secretly queer themselves.

        People believe this trope, everyone flocks to Grindr during the RNC to watch. Then the inflated Grindr numbers, of people there to see the supposed flood of secret Gay conservatives, are cited as proof that the flood of secret Gay conservatives is real.

        It’s like if I claimed a Rhino was ice skating downtown. The fact that people showed up to see if there was actually an ice skating rhino, is not proof that such a thing ever existed. It’s pointing at shadows cast on the wall, and mistaking them for reality.

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    I am DTF at all times, but before ever getting into politics, I just can’t get past the MAGA aesthetics. Total auto-limper.