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TommyT139

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17. It's ambiguous.
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 09:45 PM
10 hrs ago

Speaking as a gay man, I could see it being used as some sort of vague homophobic insult, but I could see it more easily as being sarcastic, like, "haha now you're gay."

Plus there's his pic wearing a cute "be the change..." T-shirt, where the "be" is a bee. Hard to see some early-20's magat wearing that, but who knows.

The MSNBC person who Knows All The Memes seems to agree that the inscriptions are multivalent.

I haven't made a deep study, because once we were certain he's not discernably trans, we've got other things to worry about. The trumpists are still trying to use all this to promote their "trans = mentally ill" BS, to prohibit gun access, and parlay that into denying us adoption and other civil rights along with it. They're teeing up a court case which could go all the way to the SC if their cards go right.

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Okay Torchlight 21 hrs ago #1
LOL LeftInTX 20 hrs ago #13
Or any other leftist boogeyman. Nt BootinUp 21 hrs ago #2
Mace and Loomer needs alerted. Traildogbob 21 hrs ago #3
??? sorry but I find your post confusing. riversedge 21 hrs ago #4
Same. MuseRider 20 hrs ago #6
Mace is on Video Traildogbob 20 hrs ago #7
Targeted groups Keepthesoulalive 20 hrs ago #8
Nancy Mace said the perpetrator probably was a "tranny" - that was yesterday. LeftinOH 20 hrs ago #9
oh ok, thanks. riversedge 20 hrs ago #10
Hmmm TommyT139 20 hrs ago #5
They come from a game called Helldivers 2 where you play as a fascist from super earth Anza404 20 hrs ago #11
Good info. Too bad nobody in the media seems to recognize what you did. Wiz Imp 20 hrs ago #12
"If you read this you are gay lmao" DOES NOT "lean Progressive" Wiz Imp 20 hrs ago #14
It's ambiguous. TommyT139 10 hrs ago #17
Amen JB.....AND he wasn't a Dem democratsruletheday 20 hrs ago #15
Hi ho the dairy-O Loryn 20 hrs ago #16
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