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Leaking it wouldn't really accomplish much because they'd just get replaced by more Republicans. But if they were blackmailed, that could potentially influence policy, or make the thief rich.

there is a major overlap between them

It's gay (or bi) MAGA men in the closet seeking hookups with people in other towns so they don't bump into them later at the grocery store with their wife.

These are the same people that will say shit like "faggots make me sick" and some probably even go gay bashing.

Their religion and culture have damaged their brains into rejecting who they are and what they want in life and will violently lash out at others who embrace who they are.

I'd feel pity for them if they weren't such horrible humans.

(Women used to use bumble a lot but like 90% of them were always marked as “just looking for friends” rather than hookups on their profiles)

I'd just like to say, as a woman who used dating apps a lot in my young 20s, I didn't put "looking for hookups" even when that's what I wanted. If a woman puts on her profile that she's looking for hookups, some guys become scarily entitled. For some reason some people think "wanting a hookup" means "I will fuck anyone who asks." Which is... quite the bizarre leap. Add in, such profiles get inundated with messages - some guys will react poorly if ignored, while others will react poorly if responded to but then rejected. It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation, with some unhinged folk who have your picture, name, and know what town you live in.

I quickly realized it was a bad idea and never chose that option on a dating profile again.

"This is the second time I've seen this phenomena of grindr spiking in a city where lots of MAGA congregates"

This is easily the 6-7th time I've seen this exact thing. It's hilarious every single time.

Yes, yes they are. Through a friend I know a few trans and gay sex workers, and they make a killing every year at the RNC.

No, a lot of them really are, it isn't complicated.

Repress sexuality, sexual expression, codify a rigid set of norms around it?

It thus becomes fetishized, and this must also be a secret, because you essentially lose all your face, your social status, respectability, as s conservative, if you are outed.

We think it is ridiculous they are hypocrites.

They all know they are in the company of hypocrites, what they do not like is the tearing of the veil, the decomposition of the masquerade.

If it needs to be stated: I grew up in this culture and had to actively flee from it.

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Also, this is why conservatives associate trans people and homosexuals with pedophilia.

To them, it all falls into one bucket of forbidden faux pas. It is all heresy, it is all sin, all perversion, differentiation is largely unimportant, in fact even attempting to make the differentiation explicit is often viewed as a sin.

Of course, again, this makes all of this into secret fetishes, which the power hierarchy of their culture will nearly always orient itself in such a manner to protect the power structure itself, very often by supressing reporting or punishment for say, being an active pedophile or rapist, be this in the context of a family, or a wholr chuch body, whatever.

Its all there when you look under the curtains, but their whole thing is worshipping the curtains, the conformity.

Psychosexuality is the root of almost all politics, prove me wrong lol.

I'm sorry to be the one ruining the fun. The graph is from down detector. A website where people "report" than a site or service is down.

I'm pretty sure at this point people just report grindr being down in any republican reunion just for giggles. During Eurovision and other promient gay friendly events that grindr is put under great stress haven't go down in my experience. I doubt a dude funerals is going to make it.

That doesn't take from a lot of republicans being closeted gay. But I'm almost certain on the troll factor being big here.