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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

The same Trump that groped and motorboated Rudy Giuliani dressed in drag?

What a weird thing for him to say.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Republicans are heavy into the couch fucking thing

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

"Mind your own business, creep"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

I'm also heavy into the transgender world. So is Trump actually. It's this world. I usually just call it "the world" though.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Even if it was true (it's not, the right wing seems heavily obsessed with lgbtiq people) why the f**k should we care? Lol

I have some trans and many gay friends. It doesn't even get mentioned. They're just people lol. I believe people living on the street or are terminally ill probably have bigger priorities than peoples sexual orientation and preferences

I'm fairly sure kids getting shot at school regularly might be a bit of a bigger issue to most

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

It's pretty telling that regressives think accusing someone of being humane to be some kind of mic drop moment...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Republicans need something to talk about.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Without a collective target to hate, they start hating each other.

Evil feeds upon itself, just look how hard they are transvestigating their own now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I guess. I have plenty of single gay and trans friends if they're interested though (they seem to be, and that's ok because my mates are legends).. Strangely enough, they don't seem to discuss this stuff at all unlike the right wing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

"... at unhinged press conference"

Yea, I know how this works, don't condescend to me.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Trump seems confused again, must have missed nap time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

He‘s just weird like that

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I want to ask one of the dumbest redhats near me to try to explain, in full, just what the hell low-t means by this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Allow me to role play a southern traitor-flag waving sisterfucker for a few moments:

Yew jes' don' get it. Thas why we'r gunna win in 2024 whoo! Drumpf rules!

He's jes' too real fer yew, he speaks what we'r all thinkin' and we ar so gosh darn' tir'd of yew high falutin' city edumacated tranny chil' traffikr's tellin' us to make cakes for y'all and forcin' us all decent folk to be aware of yer very existunc in public like it's normal!! Trannies belon' hidden in our incawgneato mode private browsin' sessions, nawy livin' normal like regyewlar peopal!

Now Ah am DEATHLY afraid of nawt appearin' 'normal', so much that Ah will accep' blindly any ~~demon~~ demuhnstration (haha Satan almost caught me there an made me type 'demon'! Nawt Today Satan!) that some there authority figure performs, without, an Ah stress this as importan', evahluating thee moral value or danger that authority man's (because, nawt like they'd be a WOMAN right!? Haw! Puncin' down is thee most powherful punchin'!) achtions acthchually involve.

So wen mah leedurship picks a target, I durn better make noise loud and clear that I Hatemucate That Target Too Gosh Darn It! I hate it even more than you and that makes me righter and better! I hatemajigger them/it/us twice as loud cause I don' want my righteous brothers findin' out my daughter was born a son and is staying a daughter no matter how many times I beat or humiliate 'em.

Ah don' know the first thing about bayologee or chemistree or fisicks, but Ah DO know that some goatherder 3000 years ago thought gay people icky ahn I don' want Mah communitee thinkin' mah family icky so I'm gonna ignore 80 years of science an' just keep beatin 'em till they're norhmul again.

Man, what would ah do if they tought mah family icky? They'd cast us out! Then what wuld we do? Go to the dirty commie tranny bleedy edumacated people? Heck no, those babykiller/eaters/diddlers would reject US Jus' Leik' We Been Rejectin' Them for all mah laife.

Oh what wer we talkin' about? Yeah Trannies wanna indoctruhnate yer chillren to be enviruhnmentally cohnscious an' respectin' worl' cultchure an' treatin' brown peopul laik nohrmul peopul. We can't be havin' that so that's why Drumpf is right!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I respect the effort, I do, but I think this is pushing it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I was pretty confused by redhats at first. I was like "Hey man, I thought people liked Linux around here"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Even among linux enjoyers redhat has stigma now. Iirc they went closed source a bit ago

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Rhel is not closed source just letting you know

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