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At what point does anyone start to connect the dot that this seems to happen every time a bunch of republican men get together in a city?

Grindr isn't a space designed for straight men, so you really have to wonder what these gentlemen are doing to crash a multinational company's services when they visit a city.

Gays are like 3-6% of the population. Why do people imagine 20000 people in a room doesn't have 1000 gays.

Why do liberals imagine gays must be left? This is the exact same logic which imagines all blacks must be democrats. This is a stupid thought to have.

Liberals I know are very aware that political affiliation doesn’t change your sexual preferences. We are just amused and saddened that the side that is continuously attempting to overturn gay marriage and openly believes that anything other than heterosexual relationships are immoral and an affront to god has so many practitioners of beautiful, homosexual love.

Charlie Kirk was certainly a proponent of heterosexual-only marriages: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/e9HCz5wkDiY

For years and years, I've seen Democrats wonder and/or speculate about how gay Republicans can be okay with all the people in the Republican camp expressing the views they do about homosexuality.

But I can't recall ever seeing anything like an attempt to ask them.

I've asked. The answers always seem to come down to "I'll be fine".

Gotta make the case to me why they're directly related ...

A service I work on also had a short outage yesterday, because outages happen.

Grindr Dating App Crashes in Milwaukee During Republican National Convention: Everything We Know

https://www.newsweek.com/grindr-app-crashes-milwaukee-rnc-19...

JUL 19, 2024 AT 03:27 PM EDT

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Grindr CEO confirms ‘significant’ user spike during Republican National Convention

https://unherd.com/newsroom/grindr-ceo-confirms-significant-...

July 7, 2025

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Things get VERY awkward after antigay congressman is asked about his alleged Grindr profile

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/things-get-very-awkwa...

6 months ago

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But by all means, Claude going down for 15 minutes yesterday explains this all away.

Seems like conspiracy theory thinking tying 3 events to ... what exactly?

I'm guessing there were many events where there were no outages.

You didn't pay for the premium research package, which gets you more than 3 results.

I notice you have provided zero context/info/links, but thanks for your "I guess" post and complaint. You added a lot to the conversation and I'm sure your next reply will really take the cake!

I don't understand your response.

Your words: "Gotta make the case to me why they're directly related ..."

My response: Here are 3 more examples, in addition to the article we're commenting on here

You then say: "Seems like conspiracy theory thinking tying 3 events to ... what exactly?"

My response: Expecting someone to provide more than 3 links when you've done nothing except say "nuh-uh!" in the thread is silly and your next response will likely be less helpful.

You: huhcat.gif

The idea here is that there's some connection right?

I'm saying show that.

I bet given enough time you can show 3 occurrences occurring of just about anything.

> I bet given enough time you can show 3 occurrences occurring of just about anything.

A nice way of saying you'll ignore any evidence you're presented.

> I'm saying show that.

You already told me you don't care, why would I waste my time - especially when you continue to add nothing to the conversation.

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