In his first interview with an LGBTQ publication, Pastor Doug Wilson reveals that as many as 20 people in the Trump administration align with his church’s ideology.
  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
    29·
    3 days ago

    Okay, so we know what this guy is fixated on.

    Time to start a betting pool. I’m taking “Caught in a seedy motel room, smoking meth with 3 male naked underage MAGA Pentagon interns.”

  • crandlecan@mander.xyz
    991·
    4 days ago

    And so fascism continues its rise… Ya’ll ready, artists and intellectuals? Because you’ll be next, if memory serves me right 👍

      • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        7·
        3 days ago

        I’m currently reading the book Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari (the same dude that wrote Sapiens). It’s got an interesting chapter about how outgroups have been defined in fascist societies. Things like being a scientist, or just being thought of as smart, can easily be enough to get you labeled as an “other” and persecuted.

        I pretty much assume everyone on Lemmy is fucked.

  • WesternInfidels@feddit.onlineEnglish
    32·
    3 days ago

    When I was young I worked a grunt-work job with some repulsive people, people I never would have associated with otherwise. Once I was doing some grunt-work with a guy I’ll call Tony. (His real name is also Tony. Fuck you, Tony.)

    Tony was a legal adult. Tony had graduated from high school and had a full time job, a car, a place to live, etc. Tony was the sort of performatively super-hetero guy we used to call “macho.” Always making comments about women’s bodies, taking every opportunity to suggest a level of sexual experience he surely did not actually possess, etc. I was very young, I was very naive, and even I thought Tony was full of shit.

    On one particular day, Tony was cheerfully and self-righteously showing how macho he was by ranting about “the f*ggots,” how much he hated them, how despicable they were. As if this was just a totally normal topic of conversation among young blue-collar men-of-the-world such as ourselves.

    I told Tony that I was actually in favor of encouraging as many men to “turn gay” (I never imagined that was a real thing, I was just trying to express this in a way he’d hear) as possible.

    Tony’s demeanor changed. His face darkened. He looked at me and said something like “What the FUCK did you just say?” He was genuinely upset.

    I told Tony that if more men were gay, that could mean more unattached women in the dating pool for me. If more men were gay, it would mean more unmatched ladies out there for him.

    I wouldn’t say it took him a long time to work through this, exactly, but the contortions of his face made it clear there was some working-through involved. He was sort of floored. Derailed. Off-balance. He tried to recover: “Oh yeah, that would work out that way,” with a weak smile and not much conviction. It was pretty obvious that this had never occurred to him, not for one second.

    I’ve wondered sometimes, in the years since, if he was closeted himself. But how could I know, really?

    Closeted or not, I think he was into homophobia for the permission it gave him to hate An Other without reservation or regret. He thought of homosexual people as exotic and far-away, a phenomenon with no actual relevance to his daily life. And of course, that very attitude, that culture, that environment, made it next to impossible for him to meet any real person who would openly identify as homosexual. His hate made homosexuality exotic in his environment, and that exoticism gave him permission to indulge his hateful impulses, a vicious cycle.

    • Malyca@lemmy.zip
      12·
      3 days ago

      Interesting insight. I hope Tony didn’t end up predictably, beating on some poor woman in a trailer park.

      • WesternInfidels@feddit.onlineEnglish
        12·
        3 days ago

        Mercifully, I got an opportunity to leave that job, and instead work at a public library.

        As a result, I never saw Tony again.

        So that’s funny.

    • oceancloud@discuss.online
      4·
      3 days ago

      Queer men are sometimes more masculine-looking than straight men, both in appearance and in interests, if I can for a second stereotype a group of people I know fairly well.

  • kreskin@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 day ago

    So it appears that this is Hegseth’s boyfriend. We all knew he had one somewhere. I see where Pete got the “no beards will be permitted in the military because that means you’re super gay” rule from. And his pastor has an “absolutely no anal sex” policy. mmhmm. I wonder where he got that from, eh Pete?

    They arent fooling anyone.