I think conservatives freak out any time they learn basically anything.
Bold of you to assume they learn. They just knee-jerk get angry at whatever fox “news” tells them they should be angry about.
Some of them are capable of learning - they’re called 'ex conservatives '.
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Or alternatively, pretend it didn’t happen
A true servative learns everything they will need to know for the duration of their life by the age of 13.
They die basically the same kinds of people they were born as.
And by conservatives you mean two random twitter accounts that, at least in the article screens, do not mention their political view at all, one random youtube commenter with no mention of political views, and one conservative sports website which is kind of a weird crossover.
Let’s keep it real here, that article is trying suuuuper hard to be edgy with nothing much to cling to. Conservatives stopped talking about gay people in the 90’s.
The fuck are you smoking? Thomas talked about overturning Obergefell in his Roe ruling. Fuck off.
Sorry dude. I read the article and see the only cites of conservatives losing it are a couple social media comments from random noname people with no clear political view.
I don’t follow foreign politics so I have no clue what you’re trying to say, but in my country the older thinkers give zero fucks about people being gay.
Either way, do you think this article sincerely found conservatives freaking out about gay animals because I do not see that in this article. It does the world no favours manifesting polarization without substance.
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Thomas is a Supreme Court justice and his legal ruling in a recent case advocated for banning gay marriage. Perhaps the situation is different elsewhere but in the US there is still a lot of prejudice against queer people among conservatives.
That nuts, thanks for the context.
According to Wikipedia the overwhelming majority of Americans support gay marriage. It actually references the 90’s as the turning point which seems to support my original comment.
You: I don’t understand American politics around queer people but I’m gonna tell you that you have nothing to worry about. Fucking idiot.
What the overwhelming majority of Americans believe doesn’t matter, because the US is not a direct democracy; it is a representative republic. The representatives are elected, and are massively corrupt. The corruption comes in many different forms, like gerrymandering, first past the post voting leading to a two party system, private monetary donations to political campaigns leading to representatives doing their donors’ bidding, revolving door politics, the owner class having ownership over the means of production leading to massive consolidation of wealth which then ties back into private money in politics and the revolving door, etc.
When looking at polling data, the American people are pretty solidly social democrats, but US policy does not reflect that at all; instead, it reflects the will of the corporations and wealthy donors, except for very rare situations where there is a form of direct democracy, like direct ballot initiatives, for example. When looking at bills that are signed into law outside of direct ballot initiatives, 99.99% of the time, it reflects the interests of the wealthy or fascists (since the wealthy prefers fascism over any semblence of socialism, since it keeps them in power).
Yeah I think it is more of a loud minority but it is a strongly held belief for a not insignificant portion of the population, and they hold a lot of political power.
I don’t follow foreign politics so I have no clue
Should have stopped there.
“The Dangerous Consequences of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” Bill on LGBTQ+ Youth in Florida” - Yup, not a word since the 90s. https://www.law.georgetown.edu/gender-journal/online/volume-xxiii-online/the-dangerous-consequences-of-floridas-dont-say-gay-bill-on-lgbtq-youth-in-florida/
You had me until the last sentence.
You may now be my favorite parody account on Lemmy.
I guess prepare to be let down?
I don’t think you could let me down if you tried, friend.
Peruse my comments. Huge let down. But thanks for your support.
I’m not talking specifically about this issue or what was said in this article.
What issue or what article?
It was a general statement. Not sure why that’s difficult to discern.
“They’re turning the freaking frogs gay!”
Kind of amazing I didn’t think of that when I read this
I couldn’t help but think it, he lives rent free in my head.
for a positive counterbalance, the “swans can be gay” meme
Honestly, I’m a wonk, listening to an episode of KF right now, and that quote is so foreign to me because there’s so many other clips I’ve heard more often. Does that make me a hipster if “freaking frogs gay” is too mainstream?
Does that make me a hipster if “freaking frogs gay” is too mainstream?
Yes, but the good kind. The knowledgeable kind.
“It’s unclear if there is an official Hierarchy of Victimhood for animals,” Outkick bleats. “There is for humans. Transgender persons sit atop. Straight white Christian men sit at the bottom, almost buried beneath the pyramid.”
Pfffft. What a hypocrite. Whining about trans people’s immense victimhood, while using the exact same metaphor to imply that, in fact, HE is the most victimized of all by not even being allowed to be the victim. By being “buried beneath the pyramid” of victimhood. Bahahahaha. The cognitive dissonance is incredible.
And buddy… That “Christian” part is apparently doing a lot of heavy lifting on your victim complex, my guy. Plenty of us straight white men get by without being under constant attack. If everyone around you seems like an asshole, maybe you’re the asshole. And maybe if you acted a little more Christ-like, you’d give people less reason to attack you and you’d make more friends with different kinds of people.
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Haven’t seen the documentary but would be great to have an annotated list of accounts of gay animals from throughout history to point people towards so they can’t say its chemicals in the water or microplastics turning animals gay in the current era.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals
Various forms of this are found in every major geographic region and every major animal group.
Like, all of them. But for specific examples:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_displaying_homosexual_behavior
It doesn’t mention any historical examples from before 1990 due to cultural prejudice but I’d be shocked if the Greeks and Romans didn’t write on the subject, being such avid observers of the natural world. Sounds like a fun research project for a historian, I’m sure it’s out there.
Conservatives are freaking out because they learned that some animals are gay
Are we seriously doomed to have this stupid ass homophobia shoved down our throats by conservative bigots every 5-10 years because they keep getting mad about the same thing all over again? I’ve been listening to this shit for over 20 years now.
I guess they weren’t fans of Parks and Rec, they covered penguins years age. ☺
They’re just learning it now? Lol, talk about being late to the party. That research has been around for decades.
Learning and incorporating new information aren’t really their strong suits.
Being a conservative requires refusing to learn anything
Wait until they Google “bilateral gynandromorphism”.
Bold of you to assume that they can spell either to a close enough approximation that the Google suggestion is correct…
What’ll really freak them out is learning that people are animals too…
Again?
Shit headline: conservatives don’t learn anything ever
I’ve watched decades of leftist get their heads kicked in by conservative police forces who have learned how to better kick in heads. Mean while leftists are showing up with a playbook that hasn’t been updated in 70 years. If anything the 70s probably had more effective playbook. Point is its fun to say but the left is not making a great case for learning and adapting.
Hell in Canada they have pretty much fucked us for a few decades pretty severely
Who? The left fucked you? The right? You need an editor.
yawn… why do we still sit around and talk in flabbergasted bewilderment about how dumb conservatives are? WE KNOW THEY’RE FUCKING IDIOTS. the question is ‘what are we going to do about it?’ - continue to let them have a say in democracy?
say what you want about them but they’re doing a pretty good job of forcing their agenda on US because most of YOU are too chickenshit to do anything to stop them.
what are we going to do about it? - continue to let them have a say in democracy?
Yes, because without their voice, it’s not democracy anymore. That’s how democracy works. The only thing you really can do is try to educate the ignorant.
yeah, that’s not working, and i’m more interested in avoiding the consequences of their policies than i am protecting their freedom. they’ve been educated for the last 2 decades and they’ve only dug their heels in deeper. there’s only one solution at this point.
