• Nomorereddit@lemmy.today
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    7 hours ago

    I hate trump. I dont like the right. Im a registered dem.

    But this “im innocent and perfect” shit is why we keep loosing elections.

    And these talking points are as bland as our last presidential candidates platform.

    Can we get serious, raise a platform for some wins, stop identity politics and actually win elections before we loose more?!

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    9 hours 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.

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      7 hours 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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      10 hours 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

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    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.

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    12 hours ago

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

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    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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      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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      10 hours 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?

  • Wilco@lemmy.zip
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    That’s about right. Its sports team political party mentality.

    “I say socialist you say where”

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      19 hours ago

      You misunderstand, they usually make their usernames stuff like this because it’s edgy or crude. This wasn’t done to call them gay or anything. This is what they already do.

      Just Google “DOGE BigBalls” to see an example

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      20 hours ago

      It seems gay fascists, open or otherwise, is a level of idiocy even above that of non gay ones, judging by the outcome of the dude in the Wikipedia article you linked to

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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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          21 hours ago

          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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            Tell that to my partner when he’s tied to the bed and I’m sucking him off after a month of being locked in chastity, with the threat of being locked up for another month if he cums without permission.

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              Im just saying thats how it is commonly characterised and understood in this context.

              I have given my fair share of dominant blowjobs.

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            Hmm, I’ve never seen performing oral sex as being submissive, necessarily. It can be a quite active act; aggressive even.

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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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      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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        21 hours ago

        Calling someone a

        slur

        cocks*cker

        is widely accepted as a homophobic slur, and imo is rather obviously the root of the idea that a person sucking cock is “allowing themself to be used by a dominant figure” as you so neatly put it. The whole idea that the person getting their cock sucked is dominating the person sucking their cock is homophobic. It treats the person sucking cock as lesser. It’s how you got the societal taboo of giving a woman oral sex, which admittedly is almost unheard of nowadays, but it used to be that going down on a woman was seeing as feminizing (since you’re getting dominated by a woman) and therefore gay.

        Asskissing has a completely different origin going back to a poem by Götz von Berlichingen. It comes from a completely different context even though they both are used as largely replaceable idioms.

        I should come up with a copy-pasteable answer at some point.

    • JesusChristLover420@lemmy.sdf.org
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      24 hours 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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          I’m just having a bit of fun with you, no hard feelings. I know most Nazis are men. It’s just, I don’t think most Nazis who want to have sex with Hitler are gay. I think Nazi fetishism transcends sexuality. For Nazis, sex isn’t about attraction or love or anything like that, it’s about power. Nazis will fuck anyone: their wives, their superiors, their inferiors, even children, and it’s not motivated by sexual attraction. It’s motivated by sex as a display of dominance and submission. Sex is a means of reinforcing social hierarchy to Nazis. It’s not about love.

          For gay people, sex is about love.

    • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 day 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

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        Idk where you got it from but Im not gonna give the libs on here the benefit of the doubt that they will read this and think its an epic own that calls fascists slur