This is such a weird stance for American companies and politicians. It truly blows my mind. You can say whatever you want about Americans or anything here. You can even say the president is a pedophile and it’s fine (even if it wasn’t true) but the second you say something bad about Israel because they suck everyone starts flipping their shit.
It’s like our whole country is secretly run by Israel or something.
How is nobody calling out the fact that millions of Americans think that creating the State of Israel is supposed to fulfill their sadistic, hateful, apocolyptic prophecy fantasy of eternal punishment for people that dare to test their fickle faith. This is a large part of why this world sucks right now. Other than this simple quagmire, world control is about the almighty profit, but this is where these Americans will act counter to profit.
Its like the ruling class of our country is being blackmailed by Israel.
FTFY
No. Well, maybe, but also much worse.
You think its weird America is fascist? Have you been paying attention to anything the past forever?
It’s like our whole country is secretly run by Israel or something.
Careful buddy. This is an antisemitic trope. The real reason is much simpler. America is just a really evil imperialist entity that will back a fascist settler colonial state in the middle east for geopolitical/oil reasons rather than it being controlled by Israel.
Israel has no ability to control America. Its population is too small and it is almost entirely dependent on US support. If America says jump Israel says how high. America is weird about Israel because it desperately wants to be and it desperately wants to be because the countries voiced ideals do not match is actual reality.
I didn’t say it’s run by Jews I said Israel. If you haven’t noticed Israel is a country that is separate from ours and has been acting horribly. I am allowed to call that out. Don’t start that bullshit. Not all Jewish people agree with Israel they use that as an excuse to cover their atrocities and you are only helping them.
If Israel has no control here why does our president do everything their president asks him to? Seems like they have some form of control even if its not stated explicitly
Except talk bad about Israel and get blackballed or fired. Talk bad about Palestine and nothing.
If America says jump Israel says how high.
Man if only Israel got punished by the US for doing that and continued to act like a rabid dog proving your point rather than getting a free pass proving my point that Israel is they way that it is because America wants it to be that way.
This is such a weird stance for American companies and politicians. It truly blows my mind. You can say whatever you want about Americans or anything here. You can even say the president is a pedophile and it’s fine (even if it wasn’t true) but the second you say something bad about Israel because they suck everyone starts flipping their shit.
With you so far.
It’s like our whole country is secretly run by Israel or something.
DANGER WILL ROBINSON: That’s cutting it pretty darn close to the whole Jewish cabal bullshit. Your country is not secretly run by Israel. It’s run by reactionary old farts, who’s more afraid of being called antisemitic, than they value human rights.
No it’s not. You are equating Israel to all Jewish people. That’s offensive!
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Uh, mods? The comment that I’m replying to was very obviously not antisemitic.
Yeah pretending that the state of Israel represents all Jewish people seems kinda antisemitic to me. [You’re] Just eras[ing] Jewish people all over the world.
Is the obvious intended parsing of it.
You are equating Israel to all Jewish people.
No I’m not. I’m saying it’s close to the rhetoric from 100 years ago, not the same.
That’s offensive!
To whom? I personally find it offensive, that you would try such a cheap trick to end this argument. Purposefully misinterpreting my comment in an attempt to get me to look antisemitic? Seriously?
Alternative phrases to use:
- No reactionaries
- No genocide supporters
- No apartheid supprters
- No IOZ/GDF supporters
- Class conscious workers only
Exactly. Censorship, ultimately, doesn’t work.
Remember, “the net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” While we’re talking about just one website, the above quote really speaks to online culture and, perhaps, humanity in general.
I assume GDF means Genocide Defense Force, but what do you mean by IOZ?
Israeli Occupation Zone
Looks like the community needs a foss alternative
I think it could happen, but it would have to be a foss app and a paid service or funded by ads, because you need paid people to moderate services like that, moderation on lemmy is about civility and people being mean to eachother, but moderation on a dating app might involve dealing with sexual assault and other illegal things in a much more prominent way. Or it would have to be funded by a government or charity which is not very likely in the present.
Could probably crowd fund professional mods and infrastructure. Was always confused that the counter culture types don’t do more underground things like that over using rainbow capitalism. But I’m not part of that world so I have no real idea
Tbh it’s been terrible lately. Free services increasingly go behind a paywall, they’ve limited how many convos you can have (invisibly, they just fall off), they show you fewer and fewer people.
The fediverse could be really useful in the dating space - capitalism means they never really want you to find The One, because then you might delete the app.
I’m thinking this could be a fedi instance a front-end app and a small subscription donation for paid moderation. Now if only I wasn’t a brain damaged vibe coder with no idea where to start building out that idea
There’s Alovoa. Unfortunately, last time I checked, there were not many people on there
Clearly, other ideologies are also blocked then correct? Like, you can’t say, “no Christian nationalists” or “no white nationalists” or “no fascists” or “no Neo-Nazis” or “no MAGA”. Right? Right?? You have to accept and expose yourself to all dangerous ideologies equally.
from the article:
Several users received an error message that says “The following are not allowed: no zionist, no zionists,” when they tried to add the phrases to their bios on Thursday. I tested this myself on a new Grindr account, and received the same error message. I was able to add “Zionist” to my profile (without “no”), however, and could also add any phrase I could think of: “no Arabs,” “no Blacks,” “no Palestinians,” “no Muslims,” “no Christians,” “no Jews,” “no trans,” “no Republicans,” “no Democrats,” and so on. “No Zionist[s]” was the only phrase that was blocked in my testing.
Did Grindr get paid by the ADL or something? Either way it could be bypassed by just saying “no genocide apologists” lol
“No ethnic nationalists”
The RNC is in town but our sever isn’t crashing; why’s that?
That’s weird. Does that mean they can’t say “no rice or spice” anymore too?
Ah, so, no. Racism is fine still.
Or maybe the rampant drug use and sales?
Ah, time for new lingo to pop up.
I propose we go with “no zucchinis”
It’s both innuendo, and can convey the word for Zionist
In the Matrix the last human city was called Zion. they lived under the ground where it was still warm. Essentially Cave Dwellers. So just call them dwellers. “No Dwellers”
Someone unalived all these zucchinis
Not sure if you intended this double entendre but https://lgbtqia.wiki/wiki/Zucchini is already associated with platonic relationships in a queer context. Which I could see as being useful cover for a hookup app, but just making sure.
Are there platonic hookups on grindr??
What if we really don’t like actual zucchinis? “No green summer squash” doesn’t have the same ring.
Also, how are we supposed to exclude Zion Williamson fans?
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Zionism is gay
That makes it sound appealing though
Let’s take these serious for a moment and pretend that anti zionist = nazi
and zionist = jew
Does grindr really want that Jews meet up with nazis unexpectedly in a private place?
Nazis on Grindr? You must be kidding. No self respecting nazi would ever choose to be gay…
/s just in case that needed to be stated…
some of the cutest furry art works were made by gay nazis
The nazi presence in the furry movement is really under estimated by people who’re outside the subculture. There’s, like… there’s a lot of them in there, guys. Recruiting from persecuted groups is already standard operating procedure for fascists, and the furry community notoriously has both money, a great deal of practice at forming groups that insulate their members from criticism, and a real serious problem with sexism. Unfortunately, it makes for the ideal environment to grow far-right movements.
That’s… informative.
Oh please, it’s always the bible thumping hellfire preaching black man lynching baptist pastor/senator that is caught with three underage dicks in his mouth in an airport men’s room. ALL nazis are gay.
Damned Bible humpers.
They’re not gay! They just happen to have SSA (Same sex attraction)
/s
People don’t seem to grasp what “Nazi” actually means anymore. That these people literally want to murder others on a large scale.
“no zyonists”
“no zi onists”
“no z10n15t5”
That’s something that every company can easily detect.
And yet Grindr never manages to filter out all the bots with “0NLYFANS” in their bios
There is definitely not any sort of quid pro quo between those entities.
Yeah, but then they need to hire a guy to maintain the regex. And you could do something like “read every 3rd letter” and make that guy cry.
Not difficult to realize why when you realize who owns it along with many of the other dating apps.
Don’t be antisymptomatic
All of them are owned by the same group of christofascists aren’t they?
I bet they are fine if you say you support “settlers” though.
That term pisses me off so much. What human scum those people must be
I better go check for myself…
And?
Grindr police gottem ☹️
What is Grindr?
It’s an app that republican politicians use to get dates while on the road campaigning or at conventions.
Cmon, no need to associate a popular gay dating app with republicans like it’s a bad thing. Enough to criticize the party for without bringing sexuality into it.
It’s referencing the spikes the app sees whenever there’s a republican event around.
“On the night of July 17—the Sunday that check-in for the [Republican National] 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.”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/cleveland-was-bombarded-with-white-dudes-on-grindr-during-the-rnc/Imagine making an arena sport out of quicken loans
No.
Too late, I already did, now speedbanking is in the olympics
Still better than Raygun
Honestly, if these republican leaders were honest and open about their homosexuality, I’d respect that. But they push strong anti-gay policies, gussied up as “family values,” and then when they’re out in the road away from their families they hit up Grindr. That I can’t respect. Gotta call out that hypocrisy.
I am sorry if that bothers you.
Fair enough, thanks for explaining!
They bring sexuality into it with their policies. This is criticizing their hypocrisy about sexuality.
Gay hook-up/dating app that pre-dates Tinder. In fact, it inspired Tinder.
I always thought it was the other way around, TIL!
a dating/hookup app for LGBT+ people
i thought it was just for Gay people.
It started as that, but when you have an app designed for hookups and sex, turns out what type of a person you are in bed and what’s between your legs are actually very relevant information, so they just opened it up.
oh, makes sense
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‘No bigots’ should cover it, shouldn’t it?
