MAGA broke Grindr... Again...
MAGA broke Grindr... Again...
Interesting how this seems to happen every single time there's a large gathering of Republicans.
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Make anuses gape again!
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The dog whistles are coming from inside the house.
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This kind of hypocrisy makes the left look so stupid... So it appears lots of grinder users are at a majorly republican get together. So what? Isn't the left for that kind of thing? These guys are much less likely to come out and support your cause if you are degrading and shaming these folks.
We all understand the optics I think. What it looks like. Some of these Republicans are hypocrites as well. They all like dong, but dont sing the same song.
Its crazy and does homos no good by shaming these Republicans.
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The shaming is for the hypocrisy, not for being gay.
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Okok, I mean you aren't wrong I guess. Im sure the DNC convention has the grinder app just as busy, right? And the left shouldn't be criticized right? Because they are the political choice of our homosexual brothers and sisters right?
What about our homosexual family on the right? Do we continue to ostracize and ridicule? Do you assume they are self-hating masochists?
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Whoooosh.
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But these are the people trying to take away the right to be gay. You don't get to hide in the closet, have your secret gay hookups, and then turn around and say gay people don't deserve the right to marry and trans people don't deserve basic human decency and respect. No one is forcing them to be a Republican but themselves. Hell, you still be a Republican and be gay, the log cabin Republicans are a thing. But they alone are not the ones causing this spike in Grindr usage.
The idea that we should just let this kind of shit slide where it's only ok if you do it in secret is beyond idiotic. It's only bad if you are open about your homosexuality apparently.
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Gay Republicans have a high degree of understanding of politics and a certain degree of sacrifice that is admirable and 110% American.
The left panders and patronizes to the gay community. If the left wants to have families and instill positive family values it is going to come from the right, not left.
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Some gay people are welcome, but some gay people are more welcome than others.
I would imagine it would be the ideal situation to talk about differences between US tribals.
But virtue signaling behind a device is much more easy.
To use an metaphore for the tribals who need it:
"Nazi Germany wouldn't have fallen if it were also not because of the many defectors, collaboraters and spies from inside Nazi Germany"
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L take.
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It's a kink they want to make it edgy again..
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To be fair, I also hooked up with gay dudes that same day
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Ok, but does this also happen at other large congregations in that location? Otherwise this is just a population density anomaly map.
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Why is this being downvoted?? This is a valid question.
We know that it surges at Republican conventions.
The post implies but does not actually show us that this is disproportionate to other congregations.
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If the only population change is that MAGA is there, then it's pretty specific.
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Might be a low density neighborhood. Also it's a very high density congregation in a potentially uncommon location as their voters are more rural.
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The hypocrisy is what bothers me. These people scream about hating gays.
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Plenty of closet gay or bi conservative men who hate themselves and other gay men for social/religious/political reasons but plenty of conservative hetero flexible men who find the thrill that comes with doing something "naughty" or the risk of getting caught appealing. If they were in more understanding situations, they probably wouldn't bang other guys cause the thrill would be gone.
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Maybe they are trying something at the one occasion in their lives when they are away from home?
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I think the guys banging them are worse. They're fucking us all in the ass....
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The local gays probably don't know who is who dude.
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You don't understand, they aren't gay, they are just men having sex with other men!
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Don't worry, I brought protection to keep it from being gay.
pulls out a package of new socks
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They’re just making sure they AREN’T gay by having sex with other men.
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"How do you know you don't like fucking men? Have you tried it? I know I'm super duper straight because I fuck a guy every week just to make sure I still don't like it."
Watching them process that is wild.
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"I was only in there to get directions on how to get away from there!"
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In the wisdom of the ancient Greeks, you're only gay if you're a bottom
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And only if you're older than your top. Otherwise, you're simply receiving some masculinity.
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So if you're a switch you're fine? (That's the term for someone who switches between top and bottom right?)
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I'd argue they had it backwards, bottoming isn't gay, it's just having a fun experience. Penetrating another man is super gay though.
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They just like to suck other non-gay men's cocks.
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They're called "brojobs" for a reason.
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Choo choo!!!
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They are imposing their dominance on weaker men. It's not gay, it's purely about dominance
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Your problem, Henry, is that you are hung up on words, on labels: "gay", "homosexual", "lesbian." You think they tell you who a person sleeps with, but they don't tell you that. Like all labels, they refer to one thing and one thing only: Where does a person so identified fit in the food chain? In the pecking order. Not ideology or sexual taste, but something much simpler: clout. Who owes me favors. Not who I fuck or who fucks me, but who will pick up the phone when I call. To someone who doesn't understand this, homosexual is what I am because I sleep with men, but this is wrong. Homosexuals are not men who sleep with other men. Homosexuals are men who, in 15 years of trying, can't get a pissant anti-discrimination bill through City Council. They are men who know nobody, and who nobody knows. Now, Henry, does that sound like me?
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Doesn't make them Gay necessarily, but it does make them at least Bi.
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Thank you for acknowledging bi people exist. No sarcasm lol
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They're always complaining about the MSM too!
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"Sitting whilst black was what first drew our suspicion. Then after we were called and we determined it best for him to leave the train, he simply refused to leave, AND asked questions! Judge, as you see, we had no option available other than to arrest and detain. If it wasn't for my colleague being so liberal, we'd have thrown him to the floor too, just like in our training "
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This is part of the reason they are going after transgender people so much. Most Republicans are in the closet and they don't want their past lovers to let the public know what they are doing behind closed doors.
It's also why they choose so many white, blonde women to be their face on the news and in the Whitehouse.
They try so hard to make their voter base think they are " MEN!!" and do "MANLY THINGS!!!" When actually most of them are crybabies and closet bisexuals.
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some of them are into transgender people too, trans people are an easy target, because there is so few of them, and they dont have as much representation as the rest of the queer folks.
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Alex Jones got caught with a tab open on his phone didnt he?
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IIRC transgender porn is by far the most popular in the deep US south.
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in utah, at least for PH statistics.
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When actually most of them are crybabies
To be fair, they all cry on tv about how their feelings are hurt.
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Also why they are convinced sexuality is a choice and they hate the ones who have made the choice they wanted to make but felt they couldn't/can't due to social and religious pressures.
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At the Manly Mens club in Manhatten.
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A Republican manufacturer running for governor in Wisconsin as a conservative supporter of “family values” and President Donald Trump followed numerous sexually explicit accounts online, including a nonbinary pornography performer.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Monday that Bill Berrien, the CEO of Pindel Global Precision and one of two announced 2026 Republican candidates for governor, unfollowed several accounts in recent days after the newspaper asked about the matter.
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The gay Nazis are gonna be hella mad when they find out xstian nazis have been sizing them up for the ovens the whole time.
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there is a major overlap between them
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And they'll gladly throw each other into the ovens to save themselves. Feels like beating a dead horse to bring up the "jews for Hitler" movement but here we are.
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Wouldn't that be an interesting list of names, if it unfortunately ever leaked?
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Leaking it wouldn't really accomplish much because they'd just get replaced by more Republicans. But if they were blackmailed, that could potentially influence policy, or make the thief rich.
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This generates so many questions it could be a study. I do not have any gay friends, or know of people around me who use Grindr so I guess if someone who does could tell me.
Do these people seek "locals" (nonMAGA) of towns/cities they live, or do they seek other MAGA hidden on the platform? If they're looking for a non-MAGA partner, do they hide their leanings? Is it just not something discussed during dms before hooking up? Do they often become toxic and try to bully the partner or do they keep quiet and try to blend in with John Everyman? If they look for each other, do they have like...a tell on their profile to help signal to each other to help get swipes? Are they often top/bottom or is the demographic still case-by-case? Do they attend Grindr and mark "looking for friends" or "looking for hookups"? (Women used to use bumble a lot but like 90% of them were always marked as "just looking for friends" rather than hookups on their profiles)
This is the second time I've seen this phenomena of grindr spiking in a city where lots of MAGA congregates, but I dont think I've ever heard of assaults on homosexuals from maga people specifically after a hookup on grindr, in local/national news
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i would think some people would be embarrassed to tell people they are using grindr to tell friends or family. grindr probably more simple like looking for something more superficial, instead of deep down like political affiliation, like 6-pack, dick size, white or black. in gay porn its mostly these 4 categories, and some categories, includ gay nazis, skinheads,,,etc.(this is also some of the tindr profiles for superficial people to)
of course if one is in a relationship with a white supremecist it can be a huge problem or in just a occasional hookup
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"This is the second time I've seen this phenomena of grindr spiking in a city where lots of MAGA congregates"
This is easily the 6-7th time I've seen this exact thing. It's hilarious every single time.
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It's gay (or bi) MAGA men in the closet seeking hookups with people in other towns so they don't bump into them later at the grocery store with their wife.
These are the same people that will say shit like "faggots make me sick" and some probably even go gay bashing.
Their religion and culture have damaged their brains into rejecting who they are and what they want in life and will violently lash out at others who embrace who they are.
I'd feel pity for them if they weren't such horrible humans.
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These are the same people that will say shit like "faggots make me sick" and some probably even go gay bashing.
My pet theory is that these bisexual conservatives are the origin of the “it’s a choice” thing. Because they do wake up every morning and choose to act straight in everyday life. And since they do it, they assume every gay person can do it. They’re just bisexual, and constantly deny that they find the same sex attractive.
Their hatred for gay people runs so deep because whenever they see an openly gay person, they see the part of themselves that they constantly deny; The part that they’re only able to deny by constantly telling themselves that it is disgusting. Because if they stop telling themselves that, they’re afraid that they’ll give into it. So whenever they see an openly gay person, the internalized “this part of you is disgusting and you should feel ashamed of it” part of them bubbles up to the surface and manifests as “just choose to be straight” homophobia.
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No I understand the rationale and why this occurs in the way it does, but not the process theyre going about it.
My thought was "surely if there was a larger trend AFTER these hookup patterns there'd be talk of it" but I am not the type of person/near the people who would be affected so I hear nothing and find that...unusual, given how much tea would be spilled back and forth on social media of "paul" recognizing "george" on grindr
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(Women used to use bumble a lot but like 90% of them were always marked as “just looking for friends” rather than hookups on their profiles)
I'd just like to say, as a woman who used dating apps a lot in my young 20s, I didn't put "looking for hookups" even when that's what I wanted. If a woman puts on her profile that she's looking for hookups, some guys become scarily entitled. For some reason some people think "wanting a hookup" means "I will fuck anyone who asks." Which is... quite the bizarre leap. Add in, such profiles get inundated with messages - some guys will react poorly if ignored, while others will react poorly if responded to but then rejected. It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation, with some unhinged folk who have your picture, name, and know what town you live in.
I quickly realized it was a bad idea and never chose that option on a dating profile again.
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dating sites, apps, "pickup games" draws out the creeps around women, aka "nice guys". i happened to overhears a family member who binges on pickup material, and i noticed alot of the "artists" or people become from mildly offended to passive aggressive when they get rejected. its probably the passive aggressive that women should look out for.
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I figured, but also now theres just straight up separate pools I think. When you create an account one of the settings is specifically "looking for friends". Part of "the game" I'm glad I dont have to race around trying to play anymore tbh. (But yeah no I get totally sucks on the women's end too for the opposite reason it sucks for men)
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If they can read this post they are gay.
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これを翻訳したら、あなたはゲイなんだ
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We all pretend that we like to work. Republicans can't stand the double standard and also pretend the rest of their lives.
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Are these correlations actually indicative of mass closeted homosexuality in the maga Christian sect? It’s fun to believe that’s what it is but I have met a LOT of maga/far right homophobe types and it seems like a stretch to believe that a significant number of these people are secretly gay.
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Yes, yes they are. Through a friend I know a few trans and gay sex workers, and they make a killing every year at the RNC.
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They should look into how much they could make through blackmail
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Interesting. I have no context for that, but that doesn’t mean you’re wrong or that I don’t think your claim is credible by any means. It’s entirely possible that I’m wrong and the closeted gay Republican is as large and ridiculous of an issue as it appears to be.
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No, a lot of them really are, it isn't complicated.
Repress sexuality, sexual expression, codify a rigid set of norms around it?
It thus becomes fetishized, and this must also be a secret, because you essentially lose all your face, your social status, respectability, as s conservative, if you are outed.
We think it is ridiculous they are hypocrites.
They all know they are in the company of hypocrites, what they do not like is the tearing of the veil, the decomposition of the masquerade.
If it needs to be stated: I grew up in this culture and had to actively flee from it.
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Also, this is why conservatives associate trans people and homosexuals with pedophilia.
To them, it all falls into one bucket of forbidden faux pas. It is all heresy, it is all sin, all perversion, differentiation is largely unimportant, in fact even attempting to make the differentiation explicit is often viewed as a sin.
Of course, again, this makes all of this into secret fetishes, which the power hierarchy of their culture will nearly always orient itself in such a manner to protect the power structure itself, very often by supressing reporting or punishment for say, being an active pedophile or rapist, be this in the context of a family, or a wholr chuch body, whatever.
Its all there when you look under the curtains, but their whole thing is worshipping the curtains, the conformity.
Psychosexuality is the root of almost all politics, prove me wrong lol.
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I'm sorry to be the one ruining the fun. The graph is from down detector. A website where people "report" than a site or service is down.
I'm pretty sure at this point people just report grindr being down in any republican reunion just for giggles. During Eurovision and other promient gay friendly events that grindr is put under great stress haven't go down in my experience. I doubt a dude funerals is going to make it.
That doesn't take from a lot of republicans being closeted gay. But I'm almost certain on the troll factor being big here.
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Yeah. It’s honestly probably a little bit of that, a little bit that the closeted gay Republican theory holds water, and a little bit of the loghouse republicans in there.
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It's literally just a massive event causing infrastructure problems. You'd see the same downtime for other similar services at the same time. I don't know why this meme keeps coming up.
It's like saying I couldn't charge my vibrating anal sex toy because my power went out. The Republicans at the convention must be all charging their own vibrating anal sex toys and taking all the power.
Its also kinda homophobic in the "the gays are self hating" kind of way. Yes. There are closeted gay Republicans. But it's not a meaningful number to matter.
These memes just make liberals look dumb for not understanding how infrastructure works. Fuck Charlie Kirk and the Republicans. But this shit is just dumb.
Servers are not some independent resource. Heavy pressure on internet infrastructure will cause downtime or latency issues on servers even if they aren't the ones being used directly.
Some services will work better than others as they are designed to handle spikes. Grindr likely doesn't invest in that as it doesn't profit them to do so. The opportunity cost aren't worth it. Uber on the other hand would as spike pricing benefits them heavily. So they likely have server allocation to handle high demand (which takes resources from other services even more).
TLDR: Internet infrastructure is complicated and it's not some directly allocated resource. Grindr having outages does not directly mean that Grindr is the application with high demand.
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You went on a very long and winding road to defend your assumption that republicans don't have a significant closeted bi component, which is the obvious and correct conclusion from the data. Why wouldn't Republicans be closeted bi people? Is being a nasty hater really specifically a straight thing? Are all bi people sweetness and light?
Imagine you were brought up to hate yourself for wanting sex with men and learned that the "right" thing to do is "choose" to suppress it? Wouldn't you be jealous of or angry with men who broke the rules and were out and facing no consequences, when you've had to deal with so much shit?
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Yeah that’s part of what bothers me about this rhetoric. It does seem vaguely homophobic.
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this is one of those things that when we're old and trying to tell our grandkids about what it was like to live in this era, nobody is going to believe. "Grandpa said Republican conventions and events used to bring gay hookup sites offline, as if hookup web sites were city-specific domains, each with their own separate database and each running on a potato, as late as 2025"
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To be fair, this is not actually a graph of outages - it's a graph of the number of users reporting outages. What's more likely happening is that the service itself is working fine, but there is an outsized number of people having problems reaching the service, due to any number of unrelated factors (network congestion, individual device issues, temporary ISP outages or other internet hiccups)
This could happen to any service if the number of people trying to access it multiplies. If 1% of the time someone tries to access a service, there is an issue (even temporary), and the number of people trying to access that service goes from 1000 people (10 issues) to 10,000 people (100 issues) then it looks like there is a huge jump in problems accessing a service, when really the service is working just as well as it was before.
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Part of the Grindset.
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This just gives me more anxiety that there really are homophobes on the app tryna murder gay dudes.
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If the algorithm is any good, it'll match them with each other.
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you see, it's actually just a conspiracy by the gays, they all agreed to use the app nonstop at these times and ensure they submit issue reports, all to frame republicans
clearly the more likely scenario
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Some people unironically in this thread suggesting exactly that! Occam's razor, folks!
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Long tradition of two fisted gay men on the Right.
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There are a lot of out gay Republicans.
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Name five.
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Mike, John, Dave, Bob, and Andy.
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i used to work at a gay bar. i can guarantee you that there are a lot of gay Republicans, enough that theres even a name for them: log cabin republicans.
being gay doesnt stop you from being an idiot.
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Obviously not going to name people, but I have it on good (gay) authority that not all gays (speaking for men here) are on board with the whole LGBT agenda, and don't like them all being lumped together. It's not some foregone conclusion that if you are gay you are liberal. There's plenty of rich gays.
And the former head of the RNC, Ken Mehlman, is gay. So that's one name off the top of my head. I haven't thought of his name in many years and have no idea where he stands or if what I said about gays not being LGBT applies to him, not trying to spread rumors or anything.
Kinda makes this whole map feel a little gross. I know everyone wants to believe it's just monsters at the service here, but I'm sure it encompasses a large and semidiverse community. Probably mainly white though, I'm sure.
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It's a pain only gay sex can numb 😔
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I'm just curious -- where did the heatmap come from? Just some random twitter user?
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Looks like the graphs/heatmaps that are shown on Down Detector. Here's one for Google as an example.
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Imagine the utopia we could have if these cowards just came out as themselves instead of becoming psychotic self-hating fascists.