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LGBTQ conservatives say they feel misled by DeSantis (thehill.com)

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[-] [email protected] 82 points 1 year ago

Conservative LGBTQ+ people make the mistake of thinking their richness or whiteness outweighs their LGBTQ+-ness in the eyes of their fellow conservatives.

It does not. You are being kept around as a trophy. You are who they are referring to in "Some of my best friends are gay!"

The instant it's no longer expedient to have a gay friend nearby, you'll be dumped.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Wealth does matter more; they just have less than the bigots.

[-] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago

I never expected the leopard to eat MY face

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Is that community over here yet?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Be the change you want to see! Start it up!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's wild how much this happens, isn't it?

[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The fact that some in the LGBTQ community would support modern conservative values is kind of mind blowing

LGBTQ conservatives, reacting to the video, said DeSantis had shown his true colors as an “anti-LGBT champion,” undermining his arguments that his support for the policies were about protecting children and parents’ rights.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

You will be surprised (or not) at how many LGBTQ people are just straight up racists that love the right wing policies. They just don’t realize (or care) that they are targets by those same groups too.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Conservative LGBTQ+ : The wrong people are being hurt.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Everytime I hear of an LGBTQ conservative I remember the words of Treebeard.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

LGBT people are people... and people are fucking shitheads. Yet another entry in the Leopard's Eating People's Faces Party...

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

How exactly were they misled? He's been pretty upfront about being a monster.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mariam-Webster definition of mislead:

to lead in a wrong direction or into a mistaken action or belief often by deliberate deceit

or;

to lead astray : give a wrong impression

Every single modern republican has been mislead.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

He wasn't hardcore anti-queer until the last few years.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

He's a Republican, did they think he was their friend?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yep. He probably couldn't care about that community until he realized that hating it got ratings up with hateful conservatives.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The whole GOP used hate-based politics for decades. Absolutely none of this is shiny and new!

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

When will conservatives from marginalised groups realise that the moment they are no longer useful or can be used as a wedge issue they will be thrown onto the pyre to burn?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Always too late.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

LGBTQ conservatives continue to be the dumbest people I can imagine.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Let me introduce to the "Jews for Hitler"

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

They were in the same place then as conservative LGBT+ people are now. There was no Final Solution yet. They didn't think they were those kind of Jews. And if the GOP gets their way and queer people start getting rounded up, they will realize they were those kind of queer people.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

The difference is that there Jews for Hitler didn't have the benefit of history being written already. So they were actually less stupid.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It’s not the only genocide in history, and it’s not the only one that had quislings either.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

But surely the Leopards Eating Faces Party would never eat MY face!

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of that Trump supporter who whined that "He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting."

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Oh that's simple. Let me help you with that. If you're LGBTQ then DeSantis wants you dead. Full stop. There are no "good ones" here, he'll gleefully order you all shot if he can.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

A bunch of lunatics willing to die for their cause vs a bunch of rich people. Michael Corleone was right.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

"'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party."

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

These people are the fffn stupidest people alive. How have they been mislead?? They literally vote for a party that...used hate-based politics against LGBT+ people for decades already???

🤷

🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Gotta love the "Well, they wouldn't do that to me, I'm one of the good ones!" attitude these people take. Like, you weren't 'mislead' by DeathSentence, he told you exactly what he was going to do. Just because you thought you were safe because of the hat you wear doesn't mean you didn't know this was coming...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Conservative LGBTQ+ : The wrong people are being hurt.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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[+] [email protected] -20 points 1 year ago

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

there is no lgbtq agenda, but there is a desantis agenda. You can feel however you want just know that not all feelings are valid.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Did you not get your assignment at the Agenda Meetup & Orgy last month? Contact your nearest Gay Representative -- usually a local TV news weather person or overly flamboyant dental assistant -- and get a copy.

Those straight marriages aren't going to break themselves up.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Do please explain how the gays mislead you.

[+] [email protected] -13 points 1 year ago

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

If you can't outright say what part of the lgbtq offends you, and can only vaguely explain "the other stuff"

You probably know the reaction you're going to get for saying it. So stop beating around the bush.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That's not explaining at all what they're doing that's so offensive to you. What, specifically, is it that you have a problem with?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ah so you're falsely associating homosexuals with this vague "other stuff" that you hate. I'm not seeing any logic here, just you putting all the people you don't understand under a big blanket and calling them crazy.

I get it I guess. Probably way easier to go through life if you never put in the emotional energy to understanding humans different from you. The problem with that is, you spiral into disdain&judgement for whoever you decide is crazy today, and that feeling of bitterness poisons your psyche. Just a warning.

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