I use Grindr to determine if tbe Republicans are in town. Like a canary in a coal mine.
There’s a hotel room in Dallas where some young Republicans are all chuckling about how funny it would be to download Grindr to troll “the gays,” but they’re all secretly excited to check out the local scene.
And they might do some weird stuff together too. You know… just to troll the libs.
Hook line and sinker. We really have suckers still falling for this stunt?
works everytime
Stunt? This happens every time there’s a big Republican event. It’s been like this for years.
- Republicans closet cases are going out of town and having fun before going home to their beards.
- It’s mostly bots and scammers on grindr anymore which doesn’t bother republicans because they fall for dumb shit constantly.
- This happens almost ritually and it’s funny.
The stunt of gay republicans flooding an app for gay people whenever they meet up?
That’s not happening. At all. It’s a complete fabrication. Shock jock sensationalism to be consumed by morons.
You, specifically, should continue to fall for grocery store tabloid news. I imagine you need that in your life. But reasonable people need to know this is fake.
Here, Daddy made this for you
As much as I think trump is a degenerate prick I bridle at this fake mudslinging. I think we have more than enough shit happening that we don’t have to make up even more shit. Makes the opposition look cheap and tawdry, just like trump and his meme goons.
Ya. This sub is terrible at removing posts like his. It’s just the same kind of strategy the magas use just on the opposite side of the spectrum.
I find it really gross that stuff like this happens.
This isn’t true, it’s never been true, and it’s just homophobia. source
TL;DW: down detector is based on user reports, all of the articles that report on this bullshit rely on down detector for “proof”. It’s just people trolling and we’ve been falling for it for years.
As you can see from grindr’s official status page there have been no outages yesterday (the start of the RNC) or today
Homosexual here: we’re okay with it.
Official status pages hardly tell the true story. They get tied to performance, so they become political to actually update with the real truth.
If you want to see a real example of this, look at the GitHub official status page versus the unofficial ones.
I’m not saying that downdetector is 100% perfect either
You’re trying to get us have the gindr status page in our history aren’t you? 🤣
It’s not homophobia to call out hypocrisy.
There have been plenty of cases where pols voted for anti-LGBTQ+ laws, and then been abrubtly outed.
In June 2007, Larry Craig, a Republican U.S. Senator from Idaho, was arrested at the Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport on suspicion of lewd conduct during an undercover police sting in a men’s restroom
.According to the officer’s report, Craig entered a stall adjacent to the undercover officer, tapped his foot several times, moved it so it touched the officer’s foot, and waved his hand under the stall divider — actions the officer interpreted as a coded invitation for sexual activity
Larry gained fame when he blamed the incident on his ‘wide stance.’
From Wikipedia.
Ok, so a closeted republican was caught cruising in 2007. What does that have to do with the (demonstrably false) claim that “republican events cause grindr outages”? And how does your single example from nearly 20 years ago prove that the claims about grindr aren’t false and homophobic?
Another good one is gayhomophobe.com, but it seems to be inactive for the last five years. In its heyday it was a genuinely good resource for political hypocrisy tracking.
The sad fact is that there’s nothing you can show them that will change their minds.
Donald Trump had 25 years to tell his story about being rescued by firemen. Suddenly he remembers it and none of his people call him on it.
Yes, the prominent association between 'Republican" and “closeted gay man,” is homophobic. No, there does not have to be 0% gay Republicans for it to not be homophobic. You are not pointing out “hypocrisy,” you are reasserting that it is in fact gay people always hurting themselves and hiding amongst us (not even to mention the literal pedophilia and child sexual violence that this admin is obviously participatory in and the association between “stranger danger” and gay men).
Even beyond that, to focus on the “hypocrisy” of gay Republicans for being gay and that being the problem obscures the racialized and class dynamics behind queer political representation, and queer history. These institutions unsurprisingly privilege property-owning, white people who have always been more insulated from the consequences of homophobia. It is not even remotely new or republican for wealthy gay men to be conservative or exhibit zero solidarity with the queer community because, guess what, they understand that they benefit from the subordination of those groups (and make no mistake, Dems who do vote for “pro-LGBT” laws are by no means doing so in solidarity with queer people; we are subjects of another genocidal wave in the US for a reason).
Even beyond that, no, making jokes about how Donald Trump is a bad guy because he sucks Putin’s cock or whatever is not pointing out “hypocrisy,” it’s just calling someone gay because it is synonymous with “weak,” or “submissive.” If the joke is indistinguishable from “real” homophobic jokes, then that’s just what it is. Liberals have had a hayday getting to express their bigotry with perceived righteousness now that they finally have a “deserving” group of people to channel it through.
It’s the same shit with the rampant ableism, fatphobia, queerphobia, and ageism that have become commonplace in liberal discourses that emphasize the “hypocrisy” of these people. What vulnerable group do I get to make fun of instead of you for how hypocritical you are?
You’re so wildly off the mark here that it’s reading as satirical.
Nice internalized queerphobia bud. Super cool how you used that redditor-ass meme to say you don’t read about how your community is subject to genocide. So like, you’re different from these guys?
Read the comment, bigot.
I did, and I think you’re wrong.
Pointing out hypocrisy is always right.
I didn’t put up a picture of Trump and Putin kissing, I put out a list of people who’d throw other gay people under the bus.
Best of both worlds, right? You get to be homophobic and righteous, and you don’t even have to worry about being canceled thanks to these guys.
What exactly is your problem with cons if this is the way you think? What, it’s the dropping the performance you take issue with? What are we meant to do about your hypocrisy then? Make fun of gay people even more? If it’s always right, and you don’t have to think about how it’s right, what’s wrong about me pointing yours out? Is it, perhaps, that you don’t actually subscribe to any of the values you are pretending to care about?
You’re right
lol
If gays cause hurricanes… And republicans cause gays… Do republicans cause hurricanes?
Unironically yes. Simping for big oil has consequences.
logic is sound
Well you can see why those secret conservative gays picked that guy as their bigoted Liberace to lead them into a technocratic feudal hellscape where Christian evangelical shariah law is implemented so they can stay closeted ad infinitum, perhaps get hunted down by gay ICE. He’s stunning. Just a perfect specimen of manly men who totally got carried by beefcake firefighters against his will during 9/11.
I saw a comment somewhere saying that the grindr usage peaks that people associate with republican conventions are actually pretty common in all sorts of events of this scale that involve a large crew of people for organizing and running the event.
Which would indicate even republicans have their share of lgbtq, just hypocritical ones. It’s not like having the circus in town makes people horny, they’re horny for the circus folk in town
I’m sure there’s plenty, but what I meant is that the grindr stuff is not necessarily proof that the politician themselves are gay, it could very well be their staff
Which wouldn’t change the part where they’re helping to advance hypocritical policies
I always read it as people saying the party in general has a big enough gay base and membership in general, including politicians and aids and attendees, that grindr always has issues when they gather in large numbers in one place. Which still seems true this week.
How does grinder go down in a specific location?
I’m sure the service is spatially partitioned, but I’m curious about the technical details
On it’s own it wouldn’t, but Cloudflare/aws/gcp/etc. might try to locally rate-limit if there’s a spike in traffic that could cause other service degradation.
Search, “How to go down on Grindr?”
Hmm… Those results could prove useful.
it’s not, apparently it’s just people trolling and media spreading unverified informations (not that a simple picture should be treated as reliable information)
and never has- Garrison Davis debunked the first “cpac grindr outage” as they were there and able to personally confirm that it didn’t happen.
lol
