Interesting how this seems to happen every single time there's a large gathering of Republicans.

An outage report graph and US map showing outage reports for Grindr concentrated on Glendale, AZ.

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[–] 205 points 1 year ago (32 children)

You don't understand, they aren't gay, they are just men 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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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    In the wisdom of the ancient Greeks, you're only gay if you're a bottom

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    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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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That would be vers or versatile.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Love that the two of you answered this at the same exact minute

    What's a switch then, or am i just hallucinating new terms here?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Vers is someone who both tops and bottoms.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    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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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    "Henry, the only label I need is Sexual Libertarian. An omnivore of genitals and hearts. Come as you are... All over the place. And so will I. Does that sound enticing, Henry?"

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Wtf is this from, it sounds like a fandom I need to join immediately

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Roy Cohn https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Angels_in_America and there's more context to the quotes, generally the context is realpolitik, power for power's sake. A real asshole you wouldn't want to play Diplomacy with. Someone with no ethics but winning. The subject of a run the jewels song. Family Famously Donnie T's never admit you lost coach. The message is alluring if taken at face value, and seems like wisdom, but if you get taken advantage of was it really you who was weak?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I had no idea - my add-on comment was just what came to mind as would fit in well. Not shocked to learn it's about Roy Cohn, though, the "I'm gay, but I exist in a plane of wealthy predator above normies that worry about their sexuality as a label because I'm allowed to participate in society however I want" vibe was strong. I figured it was Peter Thiel, so not far off.

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  • [–] 87 points 1 year ago

    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.

    https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-governor-berrien-sexually-explicit-2f7986f773082d9ebe6974a67fe8a242

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The hypocrisy is what bothers me. These people scream about hating gays.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If they can read this post they are gay.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Wouldn't that be an interesting list of names, if it unfortunately ever leaked?

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  • [–] 80 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    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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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    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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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I agree with this. Believing this also makes me comfortable in my straightness. I love the gay community, gay bars make the strongest drinks, and they are fun as hell to be with. They can grab my ass all they want, but I'll always reject them. My fellow gay humans, keep being fabulous baby!

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    100%. They feel gay, but they deny it, and live a straight life, so they thing EVERYBODY thinks like that, and gay people are just those who are too weak to resist it.

    They don't understand that MOST people don't struggle with it because they aren't gay. I never made the "choice" to be straight, I just am. Gay people don't make the choice to be gay, they just are. If you are making a choice, it's because you are denying who you really are.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    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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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    (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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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    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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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    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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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    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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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    "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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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    Part of the Grindset.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This just gives me more anxiety that there really are homophobes on the app tryna murder gay dudes.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Long tradition of two fisted gay men on the Right.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_R%C3%B6hm

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    It's a kink they want to make it edgy again..

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Imagine the utopia we could have if these cowards just came out as themselves instead of becoming psychotic self-hating fascists.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I know a guy who became viciously anti-trans. Like, you can't have ANY political conversation without him getting upset and demanding "define a woman!". And you can see the dude coming a mile a way, he's huge but has the most feminine walk I've ever seen. More feminine than most women. LIke, transition and be happy bud.

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