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[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 32 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Being gay and Republican makes you an idiot. Republicans fought tooth and nail to oppose gay marriage and used all sorts of awful dog whistles around the gay community - there's still a large contingent of Republicans that are fighting against gay marriage and, of course, they openly demonize another LGBT+ group every fucking day.

I know gay Republicans exist but it's fucking baffling.

[–] Kage520@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Like the anti vaccine movement, many have forgotten the horrors of the past and feel like they can just discard the things that got us to where we are.

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Just like how fascism is back. Generations die off, and (particularly if we don't educate), people forget.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Bad times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men, etc etc etc....

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah that's just bullshit platitudes

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago

Nah. The generations that live through such trauma (such as the horrors of nazi Germany just as an example) and witness it first hand are the ones who work the hardest to make sure it doesn't happen again. But once you're a couple generations removed from it, that memory fades, and the ones in power stop caring as much about preventing it because they just never lived it. History always "repeats itself" for a reason.

[–] mellowheat@suppo.fi 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, it seems pretty a bit off. Perhaps those people have lots of old money or something, enabling them to just completely ignore haters?

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

That'd be the Peter Thiel approach... you know, the famous scumbag gay man who famously lobbied against gay marriage.