Zeteo reports from the GOP convention in Dallas, where Trump offered Americans a fake bribe while dismissing the real pain he’s causing them. Some Republicans already have a ‘flight to catch.’

Zeteo reports from the GOP convention in Dallas, where Trump offered Americans a fake bribe while dismissing the real pain he’s causing them. Some Republicans already have a ‘flight to catch.’

  • abbotsbury@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    19 hours ago

    It’s a quote about bad faith actors, you like. Like accusing me of Zionism because I called you out on your homophobic remarks.

        • LuannePlatter@infosec.pub
          71·
          18 hours ago

          I’m not sure if you know this, but Grindr really did crash in that area, in unison with this MAGAthering. I’m not implying that homophobes are all gay, I’m literally pointing out the correlation of Grindr being down and then a large number of them leaving, and you somehow drew homophobic and anti-Semitic remarks from that. You need help when you have that bad of a victim complex

          • abbotsbury@lemmy.worldEnglish
            110·
            18 hours ago

            Grindr really did crash in that area

            Source other than the same website cited every time which is based on user submissions? Because it’s a meme and people are incentivized to file fake ones because it’s funny.

            I’m literally pointing out the correlation of Grindr being down and then a large number of them leaving

            Is the correlation real, or does it just confirm the narrative you already believe because you are homophobic?

            and you somehow drew homophobic and anti-Semitic

            boy you really must have reading comprehension issues if you think that was what the quote meant. Please make sure your source for Grindr outages actually says what you think, you’re priming me to believe that you’re just gonna link the first result that confirms your biases.

            You need help when you have that bad of a victim complex

            Ahh yes, everyone calling out bigotry just has a victim complex, classic. Prove Grindr has actually gone down or be silent, troll.

              • abbotsbury@lemmy.worldEnglish
                13·
                14 hours ago

                One instance from 10 years ago, that is pretty funny though

                At the RNC, Trump vowed to protect the LGBTQ community against “foreign” threats, and billionaire Peter Thiel gave a speech in which he said he was “proud to be gay.” This has led some to call the 2016 Republican National Convention the most “gay friendly” RNC ever; Grindr’s findings show that may have been true in more than one way.

                It also appears to be an outlier as far as Republican conventions go. Remember this is also back when there was the whole “Gays for Trump” thing, so certainly some of those numbers come from publicly gay useful idiots rather than repressed homophobes. Since such conservative LGBTQ groups have fallen in popularity, and the GOP has been much less friendly towards them, I think it’s fair to say “RNC Grindr spikes” are more anomalous than periodic.

                • Lasherz@lemmy.worldM
                  2·
                  13 hours ago

                  Gays for Trump never had much prominence and you speak as if they make up a sizable chunk of a convention of 20k bigoted people. 3.8% percent of adults in 2016 identified as lgbtq and an estimated 14% of those voted for Trump that year. That means statistically there would be 99 lgbtq people there out of 20k, but:

                  On the night of July 17—the Sunday that check-in for the convention began—there was a 120 percent increase in users online in the area, more than all previous evenings in July. As of last Wednesday, a representative from Grindr tells Broadly, “more than a thousand guys have used the app near the Quicken Loans Arena.” The total attendance of the RNC is estimated to have been roughly 20,000 people, so this data suggests about five percent of attendees used Grindr during the convention.

                  If their data is to believed, that means that the stadium had over 10x the predicted amount of conservative lgbtq folks relative to the general population and survey results of preferred parties by noncloseted individuals and, in fact, had not only more gay individuals than the general population by percentage (which seems crazy for 14% support), but that they all used grindr, an app with less than 3 million global daily users at the time. It also doesn’t filter out the few women at that sausage fest.

                  It would appear that grindr has decided in this environment that it’s better to keep their head down. Obviously a typical major service like grindr uses cloudflare. They are not going to “crash” as a result of overusage in an area because any concentrated traffic is easily spread across their network and overloading traffic is handled by cloudflare seamlessly. Unless grindr is actively giving location Hotspot maps for every event I think any dismissal of the article’s evidence is in service of narrative rather than evidence, ironically.

                  • abbotsbury@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    11·
                    13 hours ago

                    Gays for Trump might not have been individually popular, but there was a lot more “just because we’re gay doesn’t mean we’re liberal!” type shit going around at the time. Remember, Trump ran as the first president to support gay marriage, conservative LGBTQ was trying to be a thing. Yeah it might not be responsible for all of them, but it surely contributed. I’m not dismissing evidence, I’m looking at the context of times that would explain why the gayest RNC ever would cause a Grindr spike.