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16 Aug 2024
I’m always asked how I can be a gay republican. A lot of gay republicans get this question and respond with wanting a strong economy, low taxes, or secure border.
But that’s entirely missing the point of their question.
They do not care about our policy positions. When people ask how we can be gay and republican, they’re asking how we can be gay and support a party that still has in its coalition people that openly do not want us and do not think we deserve rights.
My response: that’s exactly why you should want me to be a gay republican!
If you truly believed every election determined if our rights were on the line, that there was a 50/50 chance in any given election that you would be free or not free (newsflash they aren’t, but that’s a different conversation), you are simply not going to solve that by hoping Democrats win every time. America is an evenly split country. The parties will alternate power. There will never be a universe where Democrats or Republicans are in power forever. You should WANT the GOP to change its views. That only happens if gay people start making their presence known INSIDE the party.
And you know what? We are!
60% of republicans support gay marriage and gay adoption. The GOP removed anti-gay language from its platform. The first gay cabinet member was a republican. The Supreme Court decision protecting you from getting fired for being gay was written by a republican-appointed Justice.
That didn’t just happen out of nowhere. There are thousands of gay republicans working in government, the party, media, and social media doing hard work changing the GOP with little recognition and being berated as traitors the entire time.
So if it’s so confusing how I can be gay and republican, it’s not because you’re concerned for gay rights, its because you’re a democrat. And that’s TOTALLY FINE. You’re allowed to be a democrat if you have liberal views. But you do not get to say you’re the only one cares about gay rights.
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I'm not even a fan of Elon Musk, but it's pretty astonishing to me that essentially nobody on the Left can see the plain and simple truth that he crossed the four-comma line by building things many, many, many people benefit from, including lots of jobs and some incredible stuff.
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History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet.
Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years.
And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor.
You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.
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Jun 13
My friends and I are trying to make a genuine worthy English soccer chant about the War of the Triple Alliance set to the tune of I Gotta Feeling…we are not succeeding.
We are instead just chanting “70%”
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Jun 11
Teenage girl was given cigarettes and vodka before being gang raped by four Afghan nationals who then fled UK in back of a lorry to France
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Jun 12
Wow, it’s so crazy that Elon Musk is a trillionaire now, so he can afford to give $100 billion to every person on earth, but he won’t smdh
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Jun 12
The unacceptable amount of wealth is whoever has $1 more than I have
Jun 12
No individual should have this much power.
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The most envious, Marxist, redistributive person in the world isn't the guy busting his hump to frame a house, or the guy grinding out DoorDash...it's the smug guy worth 7 or 8 figures staring at a trillionaire he considers socially beneath him.
Jun 12
Jimmy Kimmel warned against "obscenely wealthy weirdo" Elon Musk becoming the world's first trillionaire.
Watch: rollingstone.com/tv-movies/t…
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Jun 11
A few years ago, two 14 year-old girls tried to carjack a man in DC. In the commotion, someone hit the gas, the car sped off and crashed, the driver of the car is ejected and killed instantly. All caught on video. The girls were crying because they were worried the crash broke their phones.
Jun 10
Karmelo didn't cry when the jury heard the 911 call after Austin Metcalf was stabbed.
He didn't cry when Austin's twin brother, Hunter, could be heard screaming in anguish and praying his brother wouldn't die.
He didn't cry when the jury was shown Austin's autopsy photos.
He didn't cry when they saw the blood-soaked shirt used in a desperate attempt to save Austin's life.
But he cried when he was found guilty.
And he cried again when he was sentenced to 35 years.
The only tears the jury saw were for his own fate, not for the life that was taken.
Austin Metcalf was robbed of his high school graduation, he will never get another birthday, another chance to live the life that was stolen from him.
Thirty-five years may be justice under the law, but for many, it doesn't feel like enough.
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Jun 10
This has been my hobbyhorse for some time. Other countries’ media, and even their leaders, don’t have some special intel based off their roles about the goings-on in the US. 70-90% of all intel is open source, meaning most of it comes from our own media…who actively hates us. It’s a miracle anyone in the world has a good impression of us.
A few Germans like Freddy, went to the United States for the World Cup and have been travelling around the country. They ended up going viral because they were genuinely amazed by America and shared their enthusiasm online.
As someone who has been to the U.S. around twenty times and even lived there for a year, I can understand their reaction. In my experience, Americans are generally friendlier, more polite, and warmer than Germans, especially in smaller towns. And once you get away from the main tourist routes, there is an incredible amount of beautiful nature, unique experiences, and fascinating places to discover. If you know where to go, even the food can be outstanding.
I think the reason their videos went viral is that, for the past decade or so, most of the news coming to Europe about America has been negative. As a result, many people have developed a distorted image of the country. If you follow German news and media, you mostly see stories about school shootings, racism, police brutality, political conflicts, and similar issues. I honestly cannot remember the last time I saw a genuinely positive portrayal of America in the German media.
So when people actually visit the United States, they are often surprised by how different the reality feels from the image they had in their minds. In a way, I think America could use a rebranding. Growing up, I remember hearing stories about the "American Dream," and many of us in Germany dreamed of visiting or living in America. That sense of optimism and opportunity seems to have faded from the public conversation.
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Jun 10
I find the 2 most insufferable group of people on the planet are lifetime educators and lifetime politicians. Both live in a fantasy world that lacks common sense and would not survive a day in the real world
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Jun 10
Honestly, all Platner shows is that progressives don’t really care about Donald Trump’s behavior, they’re just jealous he’s not on their side.
Jun 9
This is a big part of the reason I’m so hung up on the Graham Platner case, and why I think it’s a battle for the soul of the American left— and, tangentially, the Western left too, since we unfortunately tend to follow American political trends.
This is a case of white men who seem to believe that running mediocre, pos, white men with progressive politics will help them win votes. If they succeed, it says something very revealing about where the left really is, not where it imagines itself to be.
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I love these two German guys touring the US for the World Cup. They’re like a modern Tocqueville.
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Jun 9
This gimmicky play where they say “it’s not fraud when it’s legal” with only the most mealymouthed complaint about how absurd it is it’s legal is not going to convince anyone it’s not the same as fraud.
Eroding integrity was not an accidental byproduct. It was the point.
Jun 9
This is grotesquely irresponsible.
Why do Republicans think a scandal-ridden reality-TV star was going to perform well in one of the bluest districts in the nation in a likely blue year? They liked his AI videos?
I hate the way California counts ballots, but claims of fraud requires evidence of fraud, not outcomes you don't like.
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Jun 9
Just finished rewatching the sequel trilogy. Last Jedi totally ruined it.
Force Awakens had pretty good setup for a storyline that had some underdeveloped parts, but mostly solid.
Rise of Skywalker was actually pretty good, but was always going to be ridiculous because it had to follow Last Jedi’s canon.
It also makes me irrationally angry that it was titled the Last Jedi when it was the second entry in the trilogy.
By far the dumbest decision in the sequels was to introduce this new big bad guy - Snoke - and then kill him off with absolutely zero explanation of who he is or why he's important.
And then re-introduce the same big bad guy from the original trilogy because they ran out of ideas.
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Jun 7
Wow. Fourth times the charm for Keiko Fujimori.
Peruvian presidential election exit poll from Ipsos
Keiko Fujimori: 50.7% (right-wing)
Roberto Sánchez: 49.3% (left-wing)
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Jun 7
Guys, Scott Pellet is not daft. He doesn’t really believe “idk why people think we’re biased.” He knows exactly what he’s doing.
Scott Pelley says Bari Weiss needs to be removed from CBS News because she, not he and CBS News, are biased: “She brings an ideology into CBS News where that is just anathema.” And he equates running CBS News to flying a 747.
@LuluGNavarro, @NYTimes The Interview podcast host: “Do you think Barry Weiss needs to be removed?”
Pelley: “Oh, gosh, yes. She’s a lovely person. And her Free Press organization that she founded has been very successful. She’s proven that, great for her. But television’s not her thing. She brings an ideology into CBS News where that is just anathema. And so it’s a terrible fit. It’s probably not her fault. But it’s just a terrible fit. She doesn’t know television. She doesn’t understand how it works. She doesn’t have management experience for a large organization like CBS News. So yes, I do think that we would be far better off without her. Maybe she goes back to the Free Press and has a sterling career. But this is like somebody walking up to me and saying, there’s a 747. There are 400 people on it. We need you to fly it to Paris. I’m going to decline because I don’t have a clue.”
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