• themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    “Messages of hate, bigotry, and government control over people’s lives are not Republican or Christian,” Republican Douglas County Commissioner Abe Laydon said with a straight face.

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      6 months ago

      To give this dude credit, from the rest of the quote in the article it sounds like he’s genuinely standing up against this sort of hate, and I expect it’s at a very tangible personal cost. I find it almost unbelievable that anyone who genuinely opposes hate of a sort that’s become a part of the absolute fabric of modern conservatism could still be a Republican, but apparently this dude is the exception. I hope he has the sense to get out now, but I’ll take what genuine progress I can get given I’ve largely written off most conservatives as a lost cause.

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    6 months ago

    Ahh log cabin republicans, too republican for the gays, too gay for the republicans.

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      6 months ago

      Part of the effectiveness of the Republican Party as an institution is creating these little hot-house varieties of conservative that get to pretend they’re secretly running things while everyone else is being made a useful idiot.

      The billionaire plutocrats think they’re outwitting the evangelicals. The evangelicals think they’ve corralled the neocons. The neocons are convinced they’ve duped the suburanites. The suburbanites are convinced they’ve carved out a Lebensraum that’s safe from the ravages of corporate capitalism. Everyone is selling one another a bill of goods and hoping to get their slice before the pie is handed back to the Democrats.

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    6 months ago

    Archuleta himself, though, has a history of anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric. He previously blamed LGBTQ+ individuals for the Club Q shooting and said that queer people are “groomers” – or child sex abusers – a negative stereotype that has been used to justify hatred and discrimination.

    Bruh.

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      6 months ago

      Something to think about is that there are men who see a benefit to gayness being something you can be social ostracized for, because it enables them to have gay sex freely with the knowledge that if there partners ever tell anyone about it they’ll suffer repercussions.

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        6 months ago

        Sounds deranged. If it was NOT socially ostracized they would NOT need to rely on the partner being ostracized.

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    6 months ago

    I’m baffled how anyone that isn’t a straight white male with money convinces themselves they’re part of the Republican Club.

    All these people grasping at party acceptance are doing is screaming “hey I’m a piece of shit too!”

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      6 months ago

      I’m a school bus driver and I work with a few Trump-supporting lesbians. It’s no mystery why: they really, really hate black people and that hatred blinds them to any possible conception of their own self-interest. For good measure they’re also staunchly pro-union.

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        6 months ago

        Bruh, same team, same fight.

        How could they not see how hypocritical that is?

        • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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          6 months ago

          Ask yourself the same question. Not trying to pick on you but think of all the people on your side that are only on your side because of they agree with you on like 25% of the issues or because or some quality.

          Just an example of something people are relatively calm about: I can be pro-union for lumberjacks but not want the Pacific Northwest to become a dead parking lot and the spotted owl to be extinct. I agree with them on one issue and not others.