• @meco03211@lemmy.world
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    911 year ago

    So the tape came out after he won the primary but before the election. The GOP tried to push a write in campaign for his primary opponent. Some said they’d vote for the dem candidate. But due to republican gerrymandering, the sucker still won.

    • @njm1314@lemmy.world
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      01 year ago

      Nah that wasn’t due to gerrymandering, or no more than any other election at least. That was due by the fact that Republican voters will vote for the the party no matter what. He could have been having a bukake party at the parking lot and they still would have voted for.

      • @Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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        51 year ago

        that wasn’t due to gerrymandering,

        That was due by the fact that Republican voters will vote for the the party no matter what

        And gerrymandering works by the politicians choosing their voters rather than the other way around.

        In this case by artificially making sure that there’s enough “GOP no matter what” voters in the district to guarantee a Republican victory.

  • @xenoclast@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Lots of bots and stuff in here claiming AI video from 2022.

    I guess this is the new con/fascist/nazi defense reflex. Or… I guess it’s the same fake news defense, just now we’re blaming computers instead of just people

    • @AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Christ did say that or something similar, but Baha’u’llah added that receiving gifts is also important, as everyone needs the opportunity to give, and no matter how little you think of yourself, everyone deserves gifts.

  • tygerprints
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    01 year ago

    Apparently he’s not just a good Christian, but a great one - he sucks AND swallows. A true Christian, a truly valuable person, is one who gives and enjoys physical sexual pleasure. Not someone who disdains human sexuality and disavows any human desires. It’s all just sex - no labels are needed, it doesn’t matter who is giving a blowjob to whom, as long as people are doing it and enjoying it. That’s the only thing that matters.

  • @Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world
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    411 year ago

    You could have a million gotchas. A trillion examples of hypocrisy. They dont care. They care about power.

    Well, they are ready to take it. What are you going to do about it?

    • @aidan@lemmy.world
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      -221 year ago

      I’m a little confused on what the hypocrisy is because we don’t know what he said about homosexuality

      • Enkrod
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        91 year ago

        You do know what the LGB in LGBTQ stands for, right?

        • @aidan@lemmy.world
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          -231 year ago

          The tweet doesn’t say anything about it though. Just “Opposes LGBT rights” which means a lot of different things to different people

          • @KingBoo@lemmy.world
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            That’s fair.

            To explore that, what is the scenario of a person that opposes LGBT rights, participates in LGBT activity, and isn’t a hypocrite?

              • @aidan@lemmy.world
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                -21 year ago

                💀 everyone’s getting on my case about this I was doing some work and watching a YouTube video + its 2:30 AM in my time zone. Give me like 12 hours to reply at least lol

            • @aidan@lemmy.world
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              -21 year ago

              It again depends on what someone considers LGBT rights. I am gay, I oppose a business being prohibited from denying me service based on my sexuality. To a ton of people that is me opposing LGBT rights. A lot of religious (idk how many there are overall though) LGBT people oppose gay marriage. There is the whole “LGB drop the T” movement which are basically gay terfs, and probably to some extent oppose LGBT rights. There are a ton of examples because LGBT people can have any spectrum of beliefs and LGBT rights can mean anything to different people.

  • mechoman444
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    351 year ago

    Omg! Like every time! Every time there’s an anti LGBT politician they’re always caught doing something gay!

    Like it’s some kind of law of the universe!

  • @EatATaco@lemm.ee
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    -141 year ago

    Well if someone says it in a tweet, it must be true! Well, of course, only if it confirms what I already believe to be true!

    • @Conyak@lemmy.tf
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      141 year ago

      You’re right that you can’t believe a screen shot of a tweet but this was all over the news when it happens as well.

      • @NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
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        -161 year ago

        I won’t look up more info (because I really don’t want to), but isn’t this an obvious candidate for AI generated video?

        • GladiusB
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          111 year ago

          I won’t look up actual facts I will just make stuff up to sound plausible in the thinnest margin and that’s all I need to do. Because real life is just like court. Reasonable doubt is all we need!

          • @NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
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            -41 year ago

            well some other comments pointed out that it’s 2 years old so deepfake video is much less likely. But if this was from the last few weeks I’d say this goes beyond reasonable doubt. In politics there’s always going to be people with motives to destroy a politician they think is harmful (which in this case he really is, of course). I think scrutiny is needed in any case. But if there’s no evidence for fakery, I don’t care about “reasonable doubt” either.

            Forgive me for not looking for a video of a man sucking another man’s dick, that’s not my kink. I don’t want to read articles describing the act either, with the risk of embedding a still. I don’t even live in the same country as this so I couldn’t care less if he actually did it, I just thought it was weird this wasn’t mentioned in the preceding comments.

            • GladiusB
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              21 year ago

              I’m not asking you to do anything that has anything to do with anything sexual. I am asking you to simply provide any sort of credible evidence towards your accusations of it being a deep fake. If you have knowledge of deep fakes you surely know where to find evidence to back up your claims. Or show me how you think it’s something other than the rape victims say it is.

              Like I’m all for proving that an innocent person is innocent. But at least have something besides just yelling random crap that it could be. “It’s a fake video” with no evidence is not productive nor is it accurate. It’s the blatant attempts from a party that does not understand what logical thinking means.

              • @NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
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                -31 year ago
                1. I didn’t declare or yell anything, I asked a question.
                2. What “rape victims” are you talking about? Seriously, what the actual fuck are you talking about? This post is about an anti-LGBT guy getting caught being gay. You’re the one yelling baseless nonsense.
                • GladiusB
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                  21 year ago

                  You haven’t even read the claims! Shut the fuck up.

      • @EatATaco@lemm.ee
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        01 year ago

        The only thing I can come up with about his anti LGBTQ positions is that he checked a box that says he believes businesses have the right decline to work with things that conflict with their religious beliefs and they trans girls shouldn’t compete in women’s sports.

        Now dont get me wrong, I strongly oppose one of these (denial of service) and the other im still on the fence about. But you really have to work to make this some hypocritical positions because you had sex with a man.

        I’ve seen nothing that indicates hes very vocal on anti LGBTQ issues, let alone, as this tweet implies, one of the loudest.

        So I’ll go ahead and say the tweet is false, and if not, grossly misleading.

        • @Conyak@lemmy.tf
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          “He who shouts the loudest” is a common phrase used to indicate someone who is acting like a hypocrite. It does not mean they are literally the loudest anti LGBTQ representative out there. He is a member of the GOP which opposes rights for the LGBTQ community. That is what makes him a hypocrite.

          Nothing in this tweet is misleading. I don’t expect you to agree with that though since your comment implies you don’t support trans rights (how the fuck is someone on the fence about another human having rights) and are likely a GOP voter anyway.

          • @EatATaco@lemm.ee
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            01 year ago

            It does not mean they are literally the loudest anti LGBTQ representative out there.

            Agreed. But it implies a lot more than simply “acting like a hypocrite.” It implies the person is constantly or vociferously condemning something. Not just one time checking a box.

            I don’t expect you to agree with that though since your comment implies you don’t support trans rights

            The fact that you are turning to a baseless ad hominem and misrepresenting my position in order to claim that is why I won’t agree just exposes how little faith you have in your position.

            • @Conyak@lemmy.tf
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              LOL! I love that you are in here acting like you are just being reasonable. If you are a member of the GOP, and gay, then you are a hypocrite.

              Everyone can see your BS for what it is. I’ll bet you go around saying you are fiscally conservative but socially liberal too. Get out of here with your garbage.

              • @EatATaco@lemm.ee
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                -11 year ago

                If you are a member of the GOP, and gay, then you are a fucking hypocrite.

                I’m not sure I agree, but you are welcome to that opinion and it’s besides the point. The point being that using the phrase “he who shouts loudest” for this guy is, at best, grossly misleading. The only positions I know about him are pretty mildly “anti gay” if you can even call them that at all… additionally, it doesn’t even appear to be a big issue for him because I don’t see him pushing it constantly.

                Attacking me and making shit up about me because you need me to fit in some little box doesn’t change this reality. Sorry.

                • @Conyak@lemmy.tf
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                  01 year ago

                  You are fitting nicely into my “little box” all on your own. Anyway, I don’t really see any merit to this conversation anymore. Bye.

  • vortic
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    1 year ago

    I wonder how many conservatives would be liveral if they received some good therapy.

    • @melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee
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      51 year ago

      Yes. But here he’s clearly ingesting it, rather than the transdermal application you would expect to see recommended with a gel.