Why do they have to be this way? What happened to these Republicans? Are they genuinely held beliefs or is it all just opportunism?
ETA: does it matter? 🙁
I’m not a psychologist but there has to be some deep-seated self-loathing from repressing their true sexuality/identity for decades. Or maybe they subconsciously feel “if I can’t be who I want to be, you can’t either.”
I am a Psychologist. They gain status from being assholes, because enough people privilege assholes with status. Authoritarianism requires an outgroup to oppress, and people think that hostility and oppression is ‘strength’. The original theory (which is not entirely supported by evidence) of the Authoritarian Personality is based on Freud, and it says that a similar family dynamic of a powerful father who arbitrarily abuses and oppresses others is the basis.
yeah I was talking about the people who also display LGBTQ behavior, not just your run of the mill republican.
I’ve got a theory on this: They have gay urges and therefor think everyone has them, so they believe that everyone needs to “choose to be straight” and it’s just weak sinners who are giving into their urges.
Also to grandparent: it’s allllllll projection with conservatives.
There is a fair amount of speculation that being bi is actually way more common than is generally thought but because current cultural rules of compulsory heterosexuallity codes being bi as being something you must act on to actually be considered that identity a lot of people believe that they are straight simply because they never acted on the attraction.
For guys the comp-het mindset also tends to discount basically any situation where they feel dominant because “straight” and “masculine” to them basically means that as long as they are the petetrative element in a place of absolute control via power dynamics or violence then it doesn’t count as “gay”. Essentially since as long as it holds no emotional attachment to them it doesn’t count. As long as they can’t code their behaviour as “feminine” it doesn’t count.
Which to the rest of us is fucking bonkers…
This could be a redemption arc. All the Republican party needs are to attend some fabulous LGBTQ+ parties.
She also questioned how the video of her dancing at a club would be released before videos of Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jeffrey Epstein – both of whom prosecutors allege engaged in sex acts with minors – are released to the public.
Because you were at a public party, you dumb fuck.
Every accusation is a confession.
Yes. Literally every single one.
You’re a genius…
Question: why are you still on Lemmy if you hate it so much?
I wanted to see why you’re typing this and saw that your comment history from three day ago is nothing but shitting on this site. Now you’re back with an upturned nose again.
I think you mean, “Drag queens caught partying with GOP candidate who called them pedophiles.”
Do drag queens know everyone who comes at the club/venue they’re performing?
The point of the comment wasn’t to blame the drag queens. It was to reverse the implicit shame of being, “caught,” that’s in the title, giving the connotation that it’s shameful or embarrassing to associate with the GOP candidate, not the other way around. It was just a little quip that I’m sure I’ve made much funnier with this explanation.
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Well, take that, established rules of comedy!
…The previous sentence was a reference to common idiom, “If you have to explain the joke, then it’s not funny,” while the current sentence is an example of irony. Here, I am not using irony as it’s colloquially used, which could best be described as a funny coincidence, but rather by its literally definition of, “the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention.” While the literal intention of my words is an explanation of my first and second sentences, the non-literal intention is a continuation of the premise that I am over-explaining my own jokes, thereby using irony to create what some would call a, “meta,” joke.
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Likely he believes his open propaganda and was hoping to hangout with pedos.
His?
Her?
?
Valentina Gomez is a woman.
I read her name wrong lol
I love how she said she gets along with everyone and still went on to say that it’s “impossible to walk around New York City without running into a mentally ill fa***t.” Like, who do you think you’re referring to with that statement? Because it seems to me she’s referring to the drag queen she “gets along with.” At least the hypocrisy remains consistent.
Knowing how much the Gaggle Of Pedophiles likes to project, maybe she showed up expecting something at that party.
Interesting that GOP will list things that they are opposed to and then go and do them. We better make sure this dude isn’t a pedo.
Ew, why would they party with him?
It’s a She and her name is Valentina Gomez.
Him?
Her?
No one’s bothering to read the article or even the summary before commenting.
So, does that mean she’s a pedophile? At least according to himself?
Edit: didn’t read, assumed it had been a dude
No no no, in their mind her case doesn’t count
Republicans never claimed not to be pedophiles, so I think that’s on us for assuming
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The irony of this.
Nah, Just run of the mill Republican Hypocrisy.
Like the Anti-Gay pastor that was caught taking a rent boy on an all expenses paid european vacation.
or the anti-gay senator caught trying to proposition a guy in an airport bathroom
or any other anti-whatever republican inevitably being involved/doing/being what they are against.
