https://nitter.net/LogCabinGOP/status/1540764821104119808?t=U3VWQTzxy_Uk7eU2HqY-9Q&s=19

  • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    If anybody missed it, this is from the org for gay Republicans that just last week wasn't allowed to have a booth at their own party's convention in Texas.

  • panopticon [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Wait aren't they pretty much saying their side is happy to strip women of their right to bodily autonomy but don't touch our right to marry? Wow, fuck them dude, damn

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Imagine being a gay Republican, in a gay Republican organization, in 2022. I can't. It's too far. I can't stretch my mind like that.

      • invo_rt [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I felt that way when I first discovered them in 2004. The GOP was specifically going around the county and getting anti-marriage equality legislation going in several states to boost GOP voter turnout.

        • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          lmao, it existed back then? I thought it was a more recent grift; the absolute idiocy to try and rationalize that they were fine with gay people in the early-mid 2000's when they were explicitly trying to ban them everywhere

          • invo_rt [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            Apparently it was founded in 1977 which means they existed throughout Reagan's handling of the AIDS crisis.

            :agony-shivering:

              • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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                2 years ago

                Why? Almost all conservatives exist well within the purview of 'acceptable' political discourse in the US

                They're just that fucking dumb lmao

                • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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                  2 years ago

                  I just don't see how any legitimate group would survive that level of being betrayed by the thing they promote.

          • DrPulaskiAdmirer [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            i learned about them from the American Dad episode 'Lincoln Lover' in 2006. i thought it was a joke at first

    • FirstToServe [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      "Oh, well. I don't really approve of that and hope to change the party from within. Now let me tell you about my property taxes"

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    They literally fucking said they were going to attack them in a supplement to the fucking ruling! What the actual fuck?!

  • Multihedra [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Wtf is based-politics dot com that “log cabin republicans” would link to :kombucha-disgust:

    • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      It's hilarious and it will keep being hilarious until they defect from :porky-happy:

  • Runcible [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    These would be the same Log Cabin Republicans that were denied entry to the last GOP event, right?

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    A 2016 article...

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    Caption: "Matthew Shuman, a leader of the Arizona chapter of the Log Cabin Republicans, said it “felt horrible” to watch his party adopt a platform that was strongly anti-LGBT. But he said his affiliation to the GOP goes deeper than any one issue."

    For Log Cabin Republicans, 'gay conservative' is not a contradiction - Arizona PBS

    Matthew Shuman looks forward to voting for Donald Trump this fall and said he agrees with the Republican Party on most everything, including its policies on national security, gun rights and economic liberalism.

    Most everything.

    Shuman, who shuttles between Scottsdale and Washington, D.C, where he works on veterans’ issues, is an openly gay member of a GOP that recently adopted “the most anti-LGBT platform the Republican Party has ever had.”

    “I’m not a single-issue voter,” said Shuman, a vocal supporter of LGBT rights explaining his party membership. “If I wanted to vote on one issue, I would probably be a Democratic voter. But for me, it’s beyond that.”

    His stance echoes that of the Log Cabin Republicans, a group whose message is that you can be a member of the LGBT community and still be a conservative.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      But he said his affiliation to the GOP goes deeper than any one issue.

      :brrrrrrrrrrrr:

    • ides_of_Merch [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Based is a popular internet slang word that is mostly used in political contexts to say that something is upfront, on point, or especially true.

      *black American slang word, used in contexts such as how it's more virtuous to sell crack that serve the satanic empire...this is why the soulless white wendigos had to rip it off, they have no virtue except being a kulak demon