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[-] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 hours ago

"We're still going to send them to camps once they have elected us, but I am grateful for their support."

[-] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 8 points 5 hours ago

I do know some gay guys who are Trump supporters but to think gay men are a monolithic group is not surprising from this guy.

[-] Yeller_king@reddthat.com 15 points 7 hours ago

Vance thinks "normal" gay men are like him: closeted and married to women.

[-] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 7 hours ago

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOU VANCE

[-] somtwo@lemmy.world 12 points 15 hours ago

Imo, this belongs in nottheonion. How do you signify a community on Lemmy?

[-] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

!nottheonion@lemmy.world I think

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 73 points 21 hours ago

A lifetime of conservatives calling me the F-word when they find out, yeah, that'll definitely do it.

[-] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 11 points 17 hours ago

I was thinking, have they met any gay men? I know a couple who voted trump in 2016, but never again will.

[-] TunaCowboy@lemmy.world 58 points 21 hours ago

In the republican party a 'normal gay guy' happens to be a closeted homophobe who loves to hate.

[-] FanciestPants@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago

Check out The Bulwark podcast. Tim Miller seems like a pretty normal gay guy, who is a republican, and hates the shit out of Trump. I honestly can't conceive of who Vance is talking about with this.

[-] Sculptor9157@sh.itjust.works 14 points 16 hours ago
[-] TunaCowboy@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago

Anyone who still identifies as a republican is not normal, especially if they're LGBTQ+.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 83 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

“If you are a middle-class or upper-middle class white parent, and the only thing that you care about is whether your child goes into Harvard or Yale, obviously that pathway has become a lot harder for a lot of upper-middle class kids,” said Vance, who has talked about his family's economic struggles growing up and has a degree from Yale Law School. “But the one way that those people can participate in the DEI bureaucracy in this country is to be trans, and is there a dynamic that’s going on where, if you become trans, that is the way to reject your white privilege?”

I don't even know where to begin with this....

[-] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 21 minutes ago)

Sheer factual wrongness aside, most GOP rhetoric around LGBT people is based on not just a complete lack of empathy, but active avoidance of empathy. Not for one moment will they consider what gender dysphoria might feel like to an adolescent child, or how strongly wrong they would have to feel it to actually transition.

They could imagine these things easily but they work extremely hard not to.

[-] RedSeries@lemmy.world 23 points 18 hours ago

According to JD "Couch-Fucker" Vance, I transitioned at 32 years old to... get into Harvard or Yale? Or become a DEI hire? I already have a degree and was already gainfully employed. I actually lost rights and privilege transitioning. I'm just a woman, simple as that. Maybe if he finally comes out of the furniture store and embraces his true self, he could get past this? This man is fucking dangerous and creepy as fuck.

[-] benignintervention@lemmy.world 42 points 21 hours ago

What the fuck does it even mean? It's like buzz word salad

[-] Cort@lemmy.world 16 points 19 hours ago

I think the key is "DEI bureaucracy". He's trying to say they don't let white kids into Yale unless they're trans because being 'just white' isn't enough diversity.

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 14 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Your first time experiencing conservatism?

[-] Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 20 points 22 hours ago

You can tell Trump has his arm so far up Vance’s ass he's speaking for him.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 15 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

No, Trump isn't thinking about it on that level. You think Trump is concerned about kids deciding they're Trans to get into Yale? His only concern is that when he goes to grab a pussy, he doesn't get a handful of dick instead.

(Unless that dick is Rudy in drag, but we all know about that one....)

[-] zephorah@lemm.ee 4 points 20 hours ago

You’re saying Vance is a creepy ventriloquist meat puppet. You know, that does explain a lot.

[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 10 points 16 hours ago

Is that the "closeted gay guy who endlessly votes against his own rights because fuck em?"

[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 18 points 19 hours ago

I have quite a few gay friends that are about as normal as can be (ok maybe slightly nerdy) but not one of them is a Trump supporter. Anecdotal yes but it’s a pretty large sample.

[-] return2ozma@lemmy.world 34 points 22 hours ago

The F they won't!

source: me, a normal gay guy

[-] Carrolade@lemmy.world 18 points 22 hours ago

I think they're just trying to set expectations as high as possible so that if they lose, then their accusations of cheating will sound more plausible, giving them more room to actually try to cheat the election.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago
[-] superkret@feddit.org 11 points 19 hours ago

I'm not even gay but that man is hot.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 26 points 21 hours ago

The fuck does normal gay guy mean? And honestly, the fuck does normal mean?

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 24 points 21 hours ago

To them it probably means "people who don't let anybody else know they're gay or publicly defend the LGBTQ community, so that we can pretend gay people are really rare and don't exist around us"

[-] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 15 hours ago

Lindsey Graham?

[-] meco03211@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago

Reminds me of when Colbert had NPH on the Colbert Report. They are talking about NPHs sexuality and I forget what prompted the quip but it was glorious. Something like "and that's why you're one of the most threatening gays because of how non threatening you are."

That's kinda what I think they mean by "normal" gay.

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Whatever it means, Trump and Vance ain’t it.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago

I have never been prouder to be a not-normal guy.

[-] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 23 points 22 hours ago

Vance seems to be talking a lot about people that are gay or he thinks are gay. Humm.

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 9 points 19 hours ago
[-] greenshirtdenimjeans@sh.itjust.works 13 points 21 hours ago

‘Because if they don’t, we will bump them higher on our enemies list’

[-] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 hours ago

This's my take also. Start laying the scapegoat groundwork early so it won't be such an abrupt pivot for the constituency.

[-] LavenderDay3544@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago

He means the Peter Thiels of the world.

[-] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

Perfectly normal sociopath.

[-] citrusface@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago

Since Vance is clearly a normal gay guy, he would def know.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago
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