LGBTQ Republicans say they feel misled by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) after the GOP presidential hopeful’s “war room” shared a bizarre video widely seen as inflammatory. The video bashed former P…
    • overlordror@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Any LGBTQ person marching to the goose step of the Nazis that is surprised the Nazis turn on them is repeating the same mistake Jewish kapos made in the concentration camps. “Surely the Germans will see my value, keeping the other Jews in line,” says the Jewish kapo every day until he is burned up in the gas chamber—replaced by another kapo who thinks the same. Educate yourself on history so you don’t end up doomed to repeat it.

  • prole@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    “LGBTQ conservatives.” How fucking stupid and self-loathing do you need to be, Jesus Christ.

  • Neotecha (She/her)@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    “‘I never thought leopards would eat MY face,’ sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party.”

  • Corvus Nyx@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You can’t be misled when his hatred for LGBTQ+ folks has been front and centre for his entire campaign.

    • Cybrpwca@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      “I really thought that the leopards would eat other people’s faces, not mine.”

  • davehtaylor@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    1. “LGBTQ conservatives” is a descriptor for selfish, willfully ignorant people who are happy to burn their own community to the ground if it means they have a chance at being the bully that GOP ideals promise they can be

    2. Assimilationism never fucking works. People who want people like you dead will never see you as “one of the good ones.” You will never be anything more than a tool for them to wield against others

    3. If you feel like you were mislead by DeSantis, then you weren’t paying attention. He’s been extremely explicit about his stances

    4. Leopards, faces, etc.

  • Roland@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I give little to no shit about collaborators’ feelings. They want to make things good for themselves and throw everyone else under the bus. Their politics have no place in our collective liberation

    • TQuid@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Thank you! “Collaborator” is exactly the right word. The judges would also have accepted “Quisling”

  • DiachronicShear@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    the anti-LGBTQ agenda was pretty overt, what did they think they were getting? do they know who DeSantis is? I’m convinced these people either don’t exist or are some of the dumbest people on the planet.

    • marco@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Have you heard of the Ash conformity experiments? About 75% of the test subjects gave incorrect answers knowingly, because the rest of the group disagreed. 3 people were enough to trigger such a response…

        • marco@beehaw.orgEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Agreed, it says a lot about the current political climate.

          I recently read a letter by Dietrich Bonnhoefer, who was a German Lutheran pastor and anti-Nazi dissident, who was imprisoned in 1943, hanged by Hitler’s personal directive in April 1945.

          His letter is titled “On Stupidity” and it explains A LOT about the same phenomenon.

        • PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.comEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Conversely, being a lone beacon of truth and rationality has gotten people killed before, like Socrates. Or like how the few who opposed the Iraq war before we knew it was based on lies were branded as cowards and traitors.

          There is value in conforming.

    • TommySalami@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Happens a lot. Just like for women or PoC, the idea is if you can fully integrate and be a loyal party member, you can reap the benefits as “one of the good ones.” FD Signifier has a great video about black conservatives in US politics. Problem is, conservatives look for enemies inward once the exterior ones are eliminated.

      • TechyDad@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Same thing happens in the Jewish community. My father is a Republican and believes that Republicans support Jews because “they support Israel.” He doesn’t see that the only reasons that Republicans support Israel are because:

        1. The evangelicals want Israel to exist and be run by Jews so it can be attacked and Jesus can return.

        And

        1. So the right has a place to say Jews really belong (not in America).

        They’ll “support Israel” all day and night while actively pushing for a Christian Theocracy in America where Jews are (at best) second class citizens.

    • prole@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      AKA, “my tax rate is more important to me than the survival of myself and my immediate family.”

      And even then, 9 times out of 10, it’s not even their tax rate that is being lowered (or if it is, marginally, it’s set to sunset in a few years while the cuts for corporations and the uber wealthy are permanent).

  • lagomorphlecture@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Nothing he has done should come as a surprise to anyone, and anyone who voted for him is going to have to live with the consequences or move. I can’t understand how anyone could think he wasn’t being totally honest about what his intentions were.

    • liminis@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      They seem to have believed he was just attempting to win over Trump supporters for the nomination; but trying to outdo someone who, to a large degree, sets the agenda for what their base supports and cares about seems blatantly fruitless and silly, to phrase it kindly.

      (Now he’s failed to secure that support and alienated the people who liked him for not being Trump, lol. Poetic in a way.)