It just confirms that conservatives are only afraid of everything. It was race, it was gays, it’s now trans. Their entire platform is fear of everything. I saw a guy with a bumper sticker that said “Fuck Biden” and I assumed he was a scared little boy.
Just double checking your awareness that this article talks about the country, not the state.
I mean your comment is probably correct about both, I’m just saying FYI. 😁👍
Whats funny is… it’s probably true in both places. well, the part about conservatives being scared little pricks.
That is also my general understanding about hatred and neophobia/xenophobia in general. It’s the lack of understanding and fear or the unknown that fuels it.
Pretty much all bigotry, is fueled by fear- fear of the other.
And I’m only saying “pretty much” because it’s not like I’m an expert or anything
It’s only evolutionary, to be afraid of the other. It’s what’s kept us alive for millennia. Thousands of millennia. Our society is evolving faster than our brains, unfortunately. We need to educate better.
Or he closeted and it had another meaning.
I had to open the article to see if this was the country or the US state.
The rest of us can see the flag in the thumbnail 😂
What client do you use?
Sync. Unfortunately I’m on lem.ee which is shit for uploading pics but yes I can see the flag in the background
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You use compact view correct? Large view shows the full photo
Compact view is the correct view to use.
But, what if you wanted to see the Georgian flag without clicking the article?
You can click on the post to comment, at which point the bigger thumbnail with the flag is shown.
Regards, another compact layout enjoyer.
Very preferential, I would say. I use a larger view ever since my app started supporting swipe gestures to vote and reply and such. 👆 Then everything doesn’t need to be so close together and close to my thumb anymore.
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Oh don’t worry I saw the flag and was still like “You can just say ‘Republicans.’”
i like how i had to check to see if i was in us politics or world news because honestly i couldn’t tell from the headline.
Georgia, US, would never make a comment like that, insest is legal there if you marry first and porn search history indicates it’s widely accepted!
Oh this dude is definitely gay.
Can we not do the homophobic trope where everyone who hates gay people must be secretly gay?
I wouldn’t call it a homophobic trope, there’s a lot of truth to it. Closeted gay men in these hardcore homophobic communities tend to have massive self loathing issues, and take it out on everyone else.
https://www.out.com/television/2022/8/11/9-times-tv-movies-used-closeted-bully-trope#rebelltitem1
Most queer fans see this as a problematic trope that doesn’t really reflect reality and gives bigots and bullies excuses
Edit: https://vraikaiser.com/2018/11/21/why-the-closeted-homophobe-trope-needs-to-die/
https://gcn.ie/closeted-bully-trope/
Okay, maybe you wouldn’t call it that. But many people do
Shit being uncomfortable has no relation to whether it’s true or not.
Idk, a 1996 study of 60 men doesn’t sound definitive. That’s their best evidence?
Edit: the study is, as I expected, not great. The homophobic men were far more aroused by the lesbian and straight content. The article is also misleading in saying all of the homophobic men were aroused by gay porn. It was actually around half. So we’re talking roughly 18 men. However, erections can happen for a number of reasons. Fear, for example, can cause erections. These homophobic men had just taken a survey about homophobia. Knowing what the study was about, wouldn’t they be afraid of being labeled as gay? I don’t buy the results.
Homophobia causes (something similar to) gayness. But it’s not gayness as a sexuality, it’s gayness as a fetish. One that degrades and hurts the men they fetishise.
Well that’s actually believable… It still Seems like being gay with a couple extra steps but I understand there is some nuance here.
I tried suggesting this the other day and a bunch of people argued “no, saying all homophobes are queer does not mean queer people are responsible for their own bigotry” despite it meaning exactly that.
My favorites were the ones who thought saying “everyone is queer, it’s on a spectrum” somehow changed that implication.
And their “evidence” was “look at all the homophobes who turned out to be gay” as if that was the vast majority of the bigots.
Also, my saying things like “you could argue that everyone is a little disabled and therefore all ableists are self-hating disabled people” got me told that’s different. Not how it was different though.
All I know is that it’s only ever queer people who get blamed for their own bigotry.
Hey, I think I banned the guy who insulted you in that thread!
Edit: or at least I deleted one of his insults
Thank you!
Man, they’re really trying to copy off of Russia’s homework. Why?
Learning from the Russian law on “propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations” are we?
I mean, they were a Soviet state
So was Estonia.