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"The first time I ever really listened to Kyle Kulinski’s show was in the back of a cab last summer. The driver had his phone hooked up through the stereo and was pumping out an episode through the car speakers - loudly, as if looking to convert a captive audience.
“Do you like Kyle Kulinski?”
The driver, Ahmed, was a recent immigrant and apparently a die-hard fan of Secular Talk, the political talk show that Kulinski broadcasts on KZbin. I told him, yes, in fact. I do like Kulinski, had come across his show several years ago, and, all things considered, he seemed pretty good.
“He understands what we’re up against,” Ahmed said. “Like Bernie.”
But I was surprised to hear Kulinski’s name mentioned in the same breath as Bernie Sanders, particularly with such adoration. Because what I did remember about Kulinski’s show struck me as mostly capital-P “progressive” takes on the news - the left wing of the Netroots crowd more than the democratic socialism Sanders has popularized.
It’s an impression that wasn’t entirely incorrect.
“I have no time for philosophical, airy bullshit,” Kulinski tells me from his home in Westchester, New York. “I don’t want to hear about Lenin. I don’t want to hear about Marx. I just want a super plainspoken, straightforward agenda with a straightforward way of selling it.”
With over 800,000 subscribers and nearly 670 million total views on KZbin, selling a progressive agenda is clearly something Kulinski knows how to do - even Democracy Now, the long-standing flagship of progressive media, cannot match his reach on the platform. Chapo Trap House can certainly boast a wildly devoted fan base (and a not insignificant degree of media influence), but their audience is roughly half the size of Kulinski’s.
While Secular Talk might be more likely to be looped in with the progressive networks around Air America and Pacifica alums like Sam Seder than the more resolutely socialist world, Kulinski’s fiery rhetoric, razor-sharp class instincts, and knack for withering takedowns sets him apart from his peers. Judging by his rhetoric alone, he’s closer to a Eugene Debs than a Chris Hayes.
But unlike Hayes, Amy Goodman, or his friend Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks - who began airing Secular Talk on his web network seven years ago - the thirty-two-year-old Kulinski is virtually invisible in the mainstream media. Despite his enormous fan base, his show has never once been mentioned in the obligatory trend pieces on “the Millennial Left” pumped out by the prestige media. Nor has Kulinski’s name ever popped up at all in the New York Times, Vox, the New Yorker, New York Magazine, or the Washington Post, despite his leading role in cofounding Justice Democrats, the organization widely credited with sweeping Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the rest of “the Squad” to power.
Just last week, his Wikipedia page was deleted. The reason? “There is very simply no [reliable source] coverage of this person,” according to one moderator. In new media, he’s king - the Sean Hannity of the Berniecrat left. In old media, he’s nobody.
I suspect there are a few reasons for that. There is nothing “cool” about Kulinski’s show. (As a friend put it, “‘Welcome to Secular Talk’ sounds like something you’d hear on Egyptian radio.”) His no-nonsense social-democratic politics won’t get him much cred with the Full Communism crowd. He records his show not in Brooklyn or Los Angeles, but in a studio he built himself in his modest Westchester home. His hair is too groomed and his taste in clothes too preppy to qualify as “Dirtbag Left.” Nor has he ever attended an n+1 release party. “Not only have I not attended one,” he says, “I have no idea what that means.”
And yet he’s astonishingly plugged-in for a young man in the suburbs. Wondering how Sanders ended up on the Joe Rogan Experience? Kulinski, a frequent guest on Rogan’s wildly popular show, introduced them. “You make the most sense to me,” Rogan told Kulinski on a recent episode. “You’re a normal person.”
Much like Sanders himself, Kulinski’s show has a massive audience that just doesn’t compute with our media’s understanding of “what the kids want” or even “what the left-wing kids want.”
It’s probably for the best - the very woke and very WASP-ish decorum haunting much of the media world is nowhere to be found in Secular Talk. “Corporate Democrats over-focus on identity as a trick to divert you from the issues that unite us all - class issues,” he said on a recent episode.
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[@bitterrootfpv2207]

The worst groomers are the religious zealots.

[@The1886z]

You sound like someone speaking from experience

[@tylertyler82]

Donald Trump was Epstein's bff and why was young "I'd date her if she wasn't my daughter" Ivanka always sitting on Don's lap in sick ways?? 🤔

[@AngelaKSellsHomes]

​@@The1886z idk about them, but I can. Baptist preacher next door wanting to read me the Bible! 😮 I was 9.

[@novuspatriarch]

@@The1886z how is that a gotcha?

[@nathanielmayo9087]

@@novuspatriarchit’s not, it’s pretty much fact. I grew up Mormon, and I knew it when I left, a lot of these Bishops are gonna get fuckin shredded. Nothing happened to me, but I knew at 14 years old, why tf are these 40 year old men asking children if they masturbate? How are non-licensed psychologists a thing? These men who women and children are talking about such vulnerable things about their life, relationship, sexual thoughts and urges? Yeah, a lot of sexual harassment is bound to happen. And it did, and not only were they doing that, they were being protected by the church the entire time with their “hotline” for the bishops, which was just lawyers telling them what to say. So yes, they are the worst of them.

[@AndrewPagel9628]

And Dave Rubin just sits there wondering why no one likes him or pretends to tolerate him.

[@dustinsindledecker154]

It seems like everybody hates Dave Rubin

[@BlueBeetle1939]

I doubt he wonders he's had it spoken pretty plainly directly to his face

[@Domzdream]

I don’t think even Rave Dubin likes *himself*

[@dustinsindledecker154]

@@Domzdream dave likes being humiliated. He is being humiliated right now because he made a shitty cartoon

[@M.A.C.01]

He’s the definition of delusional

[@topleftfromtime]

I’ll never understand how anybody could give a single fucc about 2 consenting adults wanting to get married

[@bm6110]

It’s when they make it everyone else’s business that pisses people off with pride month, pride march, flags everywhere keep what you do in your privacy of your own home there. I don’t want to know what you prefer.

[@drummer8946]

Republicans: "I'm against things that don't affect my life whatsoever"!

[@nickt2559]

I mean independent approval has also gone down I like how everyone just ignores that 🤦 maybe because it's a fact that they really have been pushing it on kids. If people just lived their lives without having to push their lifestyle on others then people wouldn't care

[@julesdalli9716]

I am surprised there are still right-wingers preoccupied with that issue. Aren't they all busy rallying against trans ideology?

[@nucks2233]

Because they think the gays will turn kids gay

[@sirwill619]

It won't surprise me if SCOTUS overturns gay marriage

[@ajkulac9895]

Also contraceptives and divorce, somehow. Maybe they're saving that for later.

[@bobland5016]

I can only hope you're right!

[@juanwilliams3423]

Can't happen its passed with a supermajority

[@tylertyler82]

And interracial marriage. Love to see the look on Uncle Thomas's face then.

[@novuspatriarch]

@@tylertyler82 laws don't apply to him.

[@tonigonzalez1926]

Three marriages, two divorces…morally objectionable

[@stevebottrell9154]

And cheated on every one of them.

[@ProbablyOnLSD6669]

Living in the US is so exhausting sometimes.

[@user-ml6hf6fp5f]

I don't think that other countries are actually way better on these issues. European countries are rife with racism, sexism, and homophobia even more so than the US because they are more shut-in while the states are a melting pot.

[@chadfredrick1519]

Try Palestine?

[@novuspatriarch]

@@chadfredrick1519 try a heart.

[@MasterofDisaster2795]

my man said "sometimes"

[@Anthonycheesman33]

Try North Korea

[@ADjustinG2013]

How many "moderate" republicans left the party because of Trump? Not many, but could that at all count for some of the Republican support for gay marriage thinning out?

[@yishnir]

Actually, more than 'not many'... and, to answer your question, 'Yes'.

[@Odinsday]

Kinda proves that republicans, even moderate ones are the furthest they have ever been in regards to nationwide opinions on queer people, and it isn't surprising that their electoral viability has diminished considerably ever since 2020.

[@Saliferous]

That makes sense. I was raised a republican, but trump fixed that.

[@TruthAndTattoos]

The number of registered Independents has grown something like 40% each election for the last 14 yrs so it's def a lot more than 'not many' lol

[@anthonytwohill9726]

That's the first thought I had.

[@krowlyy]

"An invisible guy from a 2000 year old book can read my mind. He will torture me if I allow people who I don't know to show each other affection." - Sane and happy Evangelical Christians

[@hugegamer5988]

God. All powerful. All knowing. Just not good with money and needs yours. -George Carlin.

[@nsbd90now]

Probably a good time to remind everyone that while Jesus said absolutely nothing about gays, transgender people, or abortions, he definitely had some choice words about people who divorce and remarry. (Matthew 5:32, Matthew 19:9, Mark 10:2-12, Luke 16:18) But you'll never hear Christians going on and on about that. You'll see no bumper stickers, no protests, no Marches on Washington. And you'll have no difficulty finding a Christian baker to make a cake for your second, third, and fourth wedding. (Unless you're gay, of course.)

[@tylerbailey9329]

It's disheartening to see the propaganda working THIS well

[@BaronBacon]

People are astoundingly gullible and always looking for a boogeyman to blame their problems on.

[@anthonydelfino6171]

really? It's been worse than this for a while now. they've literally been killing us because of this propaganda. think about the bomb threats on children's hospitals, or the shootings at gay bars and clubs all spurred on by this rhetoric. it's not at all surprising that they also have dropped off support for marriage equality.

[@Summalogicae]

It’s working even better for neo-Nazi groups recruiting and going public. Propaganda works

[@gruuvmunky]

as Trump Famously Said..."I LOVE The poorly Educated"

[@KoinoniaTheos]

No he didn’t.

[@brucemiller5381]

@@KoinoniaTheos The hell he didn't.

[@mytruecrimelibrary]

Yes he did ​@@KoinoniaTheos

[@Mylifestoriesmaybe]

​@@KoinoniaTheos Apparently he really did, 2016 victory speech for Nevada

[@John-gi6yh]

Kamala Harris has also said she loves young voters and also called them stupid

[@trevorgrover5619]

Yeah, they're clearly open fascists at this point.

[@PNHassett]

When I was growing up if you didn't like playing football or baseball you were gay. So I went surfing and became a beach bumm instead. Turns out I don't like dealing with angry antagonizing a holes instead.

[@BlueBeetle1939]

You mean more brazen. This is who they have ALWAYS been

[@onomatopoeia162003]

yup. Give or take the last 6 decades. Just took that long for that water to finally boil over.

[@piku5637]

I hate than they’ve watered down the term grooming so bad as a survívor of sa.

[@warriorwaitress7690]

Same.

[@Cascada2009]

@@warriorwaitress7690 I- um… what’s that pfp?! That looks like the uh… you know… *swaztika*!

[@tylerbailey9329]

Apparently "political grooming" is now a thing where if you tell a kid something they don't agree with then it's grooming 🙄

[@connnnnnor]

@@Cascada2009 it's a medicine wheel. traditional native symbol

[@odstarmor557]

​@@tylerbailey9329which is also funny because that term very much applies to them, given all the bullshit recunticans keep trying to sign into law.

[@robertwhite3457]

Like Thanos said: "As long as there are those that remember what was, there will always be those that are unable to accept what can be."

[@onnol917]

Makes no sense, if he sais 'holds on to what was' he would be right

[@martinaee]

So literally only 40% of Republicans will tolerate Rave Dubin? 😂

[@VitalVampyr]

40% at most.

[@kanders7391]

It doesn’t matter if you think some other adult’s relationship is healthy or morally acceptable to you. That is their relationship. What matters is you accept other American’s rights and freedoms in terms of what they do with themselves.

[@YeraBlizzadHarry]

Preach!

[@kcwicks]

That makes FAR too much sense. It makes it REALLY difficult to hate certain folk with talk like that. Why don't we shift to the much more palatable "we need to protect innocent children from any knowledge of homosexuality because it will confuse and frighten them." You don't want innocent children confused and frightened, do you? Because if you do, you must be one of the "woke groomers" who are part of the problem in the first place

[@dahnavonpippen6547]

People on this channel will see this and tell you hard it is to vote for Biden. It’s not even close to not so so means you’re any progress, plain and simple.

[@lisamac2764]

We’re gonna have to drag this world into the future of humanity to be kind & accepting of each other. Love, mom of 3 young adults who concur.

[@JasperOFlanigan-fb5lv]

Maybe people like Ana Kasparian attacking trans issues that weren’t real wasn’t something we should have brushed off. The Left should have pushed back.

[@imnotmike]

Ana didn't attack any trans people. Ana was just reasonable and logical about the subject.

[@cl8804]

reely??

[@Rowsy91]

they are real and people vote on those issues whether you like it or not

[@matthewmcree1992]

Even as a gay man who knows a lot of trans and non-binary people, I unfortunately gave Ana a pass the first time she showed TERF tendencies with the complaint about supposedly being called “birthing person”, but she has gone down the path of outright TERFdom, pro-police propaganda, and outright hatred of the homeless; and now I have completely abandoned TYT. They don’t even really pretend to be the “progressive network” anymore, and instead they actively do the work of the right-wing by constantly complaining about how the Democrats “ruined” California (which isn’t even untrue but it’s because the party is totally controlled by real estate capital and Silicon Valley), instead advocating for basically making life miserable for the homeless and always giving credit to the right-wing and their bullshit arguments about trans people, “woke” progressives, and telling us how we need to be more tolerant of intolerant MAGA types. Ana Kasparian even basically gave her “why I left the Left” speech a few weeks ago on a right-wing podcast, as she accused the Left of attacking her for talking about her sexual assault experience by a homeless man, when all the evidence shows that people were understandably very supportive of her, and instead she is using her sexual assault as an excuse to make life miserable for the most vulnerable and marginalized group in our society (and she only started accusing the left of attacking her for talking about her sexual assault AFTER she started receiving criticism for using TERF talking points). Just because something bad happens to you doesn’t give you the right to be hateful. There are plenty of people who have experienced crime that still believe in prison abolition and dealing with the root causes of crime. Instead, she has effectively become a Karen yelling about how the disgusting homeless people are ruining the view from her expensive Los Angeles condo (which is perfectly aligned with her class interests). If Michael Brooks (who was friends with Ana and seemed to push her further and further left) were still alive, he would be absolutely disgusted by her rhetoric. Her turn to the right makes me wonder whether she ever believed in the progressive values she once espoused. I’m not even sure it matters whether she believed in the progressive principles that she espoused or whether she was just doing what she had to do to climb the ladder of media, because the fact is that her current rhetoric is deeply harmful to trans people and homeless people and gives progressives the excuse to support hateful policies.

[@richardshunnarah2764]

I'm almost 60 n Palestinian American. The fact that u have a platform, Kyle, to defend the Palestinians blows my mind!! Never thought I'd see it!! So that's tremendous progress!!

[@warriorwaitress7690]

Solidarity from a Cherokee on the west coast! 🍉🗝🫒✌️🪶❤️

[@imnotgodimkidofsoso]

solidarity from an american of jordanian and haitian descent 🇭🇹🇯🇴🇵🇸❤️

[@carter7944]

Blasting biden over palestine will help trump win but palestine first am i rite?

[@grindcoreninja6527]

\m/

[@secretagentcat]

anybody who knows history would agree that israel is a tear roar ist state

[@tylerhackner9731]

Hitching yourself to 45 has bad consequences

[@AgitpropPsyop]

I can’t ever forgive rbg for not giving up her seat. Dems need to grow a backbone, conservatives would have never let that happen

[@AHelmi-gn6kb]

It's getting worse because times are harder for everyone. When people are comfortable, safe, and happy this sort of hatred fades.

[@lukeolson5177]

False. Republicans are mostly old white men with assets and retirement funds. They just hate people because they think that's what Jesus wants.

[@hairywhodini3429]

we have ourselves a winner here!!! you're *exactly* right

[@richardjames6087]

… and because right wing outlets (online, tv, church, etc.) always blame the already marginalized

[@BlackDoveNYC]

@@richardjames6087 Part of the fascist authoritarian playbook.

[@anthonydelfino6171]

people were pretty nasty about this in the Bush years too.... even when things were relatively safe and comfortable conservative politicians always need to have a villian to stoke up the anger of their base and motivate them into voting. they used us as a tool pretty heavily from about 10 years from the early 2000s till the Obergfell decision. then they kinda left us alone for a while, but now that they've gotten what they wanted on Roe, they're returning to the classics of hating brown people and immigrants, and vilifying LBGT folks

[@whymilky8086]

They’re not getting worse. They’ve always been this way. They’re getting louder! End of story

[@htpcnz7378]

American Taliban is embracing their Afghani bros more and more now that USA isn't in war with them...

[@aaron-n]

Byproduct of the trans hysteria.

[@420Satan69]

Can’t make people play pretend with you.

[@belladonna5012]

The "hysteria" is coming entirely from the right. They're deliberately designating a cultural enemy and _pretending_ it poses some kind of threat in order to distract from their desire to do _actually_ bad things, like strip reproductive liberties, abolish protections for labor and the environment, abolish Social Security and Medicare and all social services and funding in general, eliminate taxes on the rich but not on workers, etc.

[@belladonna5012]

The "hysteria" is coming entirely from the right as an attempt to distract from their disastrous economic and social policies.

[@benjamindavis2475]

I do agree that trans philosophy is much harder to swallow than just homosexuality. Pun intended?

[@samwindmill8264]

The anti trans obsession is also rotting the UK's political system in its own way

[@docholiday8029]

The GOP is dead. The party of my youth died when it hitched itself to 45.

[@Chevalier1632]

The sake GOP that you acted like they were Satan until Trump came along, then you switched your delusion. Funny how you guys understand how bad neocons and rinos are until it comes time to actually replace them.

[@BlueBeetle1939]

You must not be from the south

[@doughughes5732]

It really started to lose it's decency and credibility with Newt Gingrich's constant attacks on Old Wild Bill. It's a full blown dumpster fire now tho.

[@nogoodusernames100]

Cry more boomer

[@John-PaulHunt-pv6ol]

adios daily wire and Micheal Knowles as you self-owned.

[@Vode1234]

It would be good to know if people are leaving the republican party. It could be that the more extreme people are chasing the majority out making the average republican to poll more extreme even if peoples views haven't changed.

[@imnotmike]

Yeah, but if you looked at it, the acceptance numbers also went down among democrats and independents, so that doesn't really track.

[@antenna_prolly]

The lifestyle *is* "abnormal," but A) weird is not a crime B) "normal" doesn't always mean "good"

[@bobbun4369]

Where is anyone trying to make homosexuality a crime?

[@SevenDayGaming]

​@@bobbun4369 Ever heard a single word out of Matt Walsh's mouth?

[@sylvesteruchia5263]

​@@bobbun4369 Clarence Thomas said he wants the suppreme court to reconsider gay marraige.

[@areconstructionstory4770]

It’s the death throes of a class of people losing power.

[@anthonydelfino6171]

kind of? the republicans for as far back as I can remember have been a party that thrives on whipping up their base with anger and fear. they always need a villian to attack to get their base motivated and angry so they come out and vote, and they tend to go back to the same enemies. immigrants, socialists, the urban poor, and LGBT folks. they've been following this same pattern for my whole life (over 40 years now) and they keep doing it because it works. just now the right has become far more dangerous when it comes to whatever group is getting their attention as more and more right wing shooters come into our spaces and literally kill us

[@sbtraining1769]

Also, more of gen z identifies as lgbtq+ than republican haha

[@StrykezMan09]

Trumpism allowed them to go full mask-off 😂... What are they gonna do when Donny boy passes away?

[@YeraBlizzadHarry]

Don Jr. shall lead them to the promised land

[@juanluisgalvezghiggo6618]

Nick Fuentes will take over the GOP

[@SevenDayGaming]

Find an even crazier successor.

[@Scar-jg4bn]

And this is why we still don't hold hands in public in most places in America.

[@GlutenEruption]

The quote about the path of history being long but always bending towards justice does NOT mean there are never reversals or backtracking at times and in certain places, or that it it can ONLY ever go forward. MLK was around to see rights for many groups in Europe, for Japanese people in America, etc get stripped away temporarily in wwii, he saw up close the south regressing, etc. he OBVIOUSLY intended for that quote to mean that even though there WILL be times like this where things move backwards, eventually the forward steps will win out, and over the course of history, even though the path has ups and down, things are overall trending towards justice. It's an optimistic statement that even though we took 2 steps back, we will inevitably take 3 more steps forward.

[@YeraBlizzadHarry]

Good point.

[@Danielle-zq7kb]

2:00 I think some people are leaving the Republican Party and they are calling themselves Independent and a few might now be Dems.

[@belladonna5012]

This is actually a really good alternative explanation.

[@imnotmike]

@@belladonna5012 It doesn't explain it, though. Because gay acceptance went down in all three demographics. If gay acceptance only went down in the republicans because the more moderate accepting republicans were leaving and becoming democrats or independents, than the groups they were joining would see a corresponding uptick in acceptance rates.

[@belladonna5012]

@@imnotmike The fluctuations in Democrats and independents are consistent with the back-and-forth fluctuations observed elsewhere throughout the trend lines. It's probably margin of error, not an actual change. That said, you are possibly right that acceptance among independents should have seen an uptick if it the change in Republican numbers was due to people leaving the party.

[@metranomic]

​@@belladonna5012 the 2016 acceptance rate for the Dems was higher than it is now - after a whole Trump presidency. At best, it has flat lined after two decades of gains.

[@Danielle-zq7kb]

@@imnotmike I am still accepting of gay people, but I know some people (even a few gay people) who aren’t very accepting of trans people. If the question was phrased to emphasize trans people, maybe that is the change. I am not sure I would include myself in any of those categories because they don’t list any other parties. Do I have to call myself independent?

[@leparfumdugrosboss4216]

It's not even "gay marriage", it's "relationships". 😳

[@SevenDayGaming]

Not even "relationships", it was "relations".

[@leparfumdugrosboss4216]

@@SevenDayGaming correct. Having gay relations sounds like "saying hello to you gay neighbour" or "having a gay colleague" 😅

[@lexaproqueen9681]

A couple of years ago I watched an interview of RuPaul and when asked what he thought about drag being so mainstream now and what that said about society he said he definitely didn’t think it would be forever. He’s in his 60s and explained that, throughout the decades, he’s seen windows of time where society becomes more open/accepting but that those windows inevitably close again, eventually. A great example of this (which I think Ru might have used himself) was the social liberalization of the 1970s and how it was followed by a period of reactionary conservatism, which rolled back a lot of those social changes, in the 80s.

[@benjamindavis2475]

Except gen z is a bunch of freaks 😂 once they come into power things will be much much less conservative

[@jeffbo8748]

Not much different to Weimar Germany. Societies can turn cruel on a dime and backsliding like this is a red warning light.

[@libertyblueskyes2564]

I just re read The Celestine Prophesies again for the third time. And the end of the novel, the protaganist is released in the world to carry out the information that love is the leading force despite the horror of governmental and religious oppression.

[@kingbeef66]

All they do is get worse and worse.

[@bigemoney31]

We’re living in the Idiocracy prequel.

[@plp666]

There’s nothing moral or immoral about sexual preference. It just is. It seemed pretty obvious to me that we have regressed as far as gay rights but it’s still sad to see the proof.

[@piku5637]

Normalize worker co-ops and strong unions.🇵🇸Ⓐ🏳️‍⚧️☭🏳️‍🌈

[@jimmyfaulkner1855]

Social Democracy > communism

[@thegethconsensus393]

Amen. We need democracy in the workplace and the government.

[@ashelfishisttortle]

This!! This is why I started Midnight Scout. I’m still a broke mf packing orders out of my house. I don’t have the funds to grow to a massive scale. But my goal is to push for more Unionization in workplaces and normalizing using union labor as well as other ethical business practices

[@Uhnonimaus]

​@@jimmyfaulkner1855 Why?

[@vietimports]

nah, im too busy throwing away elections because of palestine

[@christopherrhorer5192]

As a republican my biggest LGBwhatever issue is men who simply declare they identify as women are allowed to participate in things that are female such as sports. And democrats in power will NOT deny those claims as wrong or unacceptable. The act may not be happening everywhere right now, but with progressives there is no gray area so I guess you can say this is our gray area we won’t stand for. We accepted gay marriage and this is what that inch we gave turned into. We realized it goes against our beliefs for a better society and therefore are reversing course.

[@bobbun4369]

We need to control the narrative. Democrats have controlled it for far too long claiming homosexuality as a category of human rather than a human behavior

[@thesuperostrich]

I am a leftist and as far as the sports criticism I agree the democrats and the left have lost their minds on that issue

[@christopherrhorer5192]

@@thesuperostrich plus democrats in office can’t even define the word “woman”. It proves they are politically motivated and not morally or factually motivated. I understand abortion differences and climate change differences exist and that’s fine, but in the end Democrats have no balls. They never tell it like it is.

[@ArchlordZer0]

The bar for Republicans is so low that's it's in a perpetual freefall into the abyss.

[@person909]

If they are this easily swayed to be hateful, then they never were good people to begin with.

[@eyezerocool]

There in a bubble and in a nonillness related delusion.

[@joshuahall1581]

pretty much.

[@eyezerocool]

I am glad i escaped. Thank athios

[@eyezerocool]

Lol.

[@vietimports]

hey, kyle, guess what your hero joe rogan's opinion on LGBT people are now

[@JosePerez-zr4sp]

He is one of the biggest figures who create anti gay and trans hysteria

[@truthseeker-nv6ny]

​@JosePerez-zr4sp that's Kyle's friend

[@cl8804]

"joe's my friend"

[@alicesinger2902]

Joe’s strategy is to have these Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson guys on so he can sound like the reasonable one when he doesn’t agree with them. Really he’s just trying to move the goal post on what “centerist” is because if he had a transwoman or a John Oliver type on his show he’d absolutely melt.

[@thomasjames7568]

Kyle, why would you think that MLK, a preacher, would be right about literally everything?

[@MasterofDisaster2795]

Within just 3 years, their stance on the issue dropped to what it was a decade ago 😅

[@metranomic]

And levels for the Dems are now below the 2016 number, which is almost a decade as well.

[@elizabethfranklin7788]

As a queer lady, this shit is fucking wack man. I hate that we are going back much, but it makes me appreciate our allies even more. Thank you to people who are supportive

[@SkyeSage17]

The Worst is yet to come.🤯 The fix is in.

[@severalchickens3360]

Nefarious Forces of Regression would be a cool name for a metal band.

[@user-ci6bb1vp7g]

Too long a name

[@thealgorithmluvsu3788]

​@@user-ci6bb1vp7glook up the band "Xavleg"

[@nathanjones5457]

You'd struggle to fit it on the merch.

[@jakenavatka9431]

This is a key reason why voting for Democrats is still an option for me.

[@ericajackson1451]

This is what happens when we never amend our constitution!

[@Henbot]

Why are you saying we when it clearly the GOP that are heading in the wrong direction and it isn’t anything special it what they thought likely already but now they just embolden to utter it

Could be that this a function of fewer people identifying as Republican.

[@SevenDayGaming]

Not with the other two numbers going down too.

@@SevenDayGaming Yea good point, however the other two numbers haven't gone down at the same rate.

[@russcontact]

They’re just terrible people. I wish that wasn’t true but they just keep proving it

[@marioantoniocrespoMexican92]

I’m proud to not have kids & I’m 31 years old I love having no responsibilities

[@Vontux]

Kyle might be naive but at least he doesn't have a "taxes" folder filled with images of "short stacks with goblin proportions"

[@Mae_Dastardly]

Hors

[@Vontux]

@@Mae_Dastardly little more bothered by the children if you were only into weird horse pornography I don't really care the horse meme unfortunately kind of acts like a shield imo.

[@Mae_Dastardly]

@@Vontux shit good point lmao, personally i dont really care about what kind of degen shit vowsh is into as long as he stays away from the kids, his Condition is between him and his therapist until it affects an actual person. Yeah hes a freak but that aint my problem until he hurts someone which... yeah lets hope that dont happen and if it does lets hope he gets a friendly visit from the vic's dad lmfao

[@Vontux]

@Mae_Dastardly if I had to guess I doubt he would actually harm a child so therefore my bigger issue is anyone who associates with him can much more easily be labeled pedophile if he actually cared about the things he claims to care about he would have handled things much differently. Instead this guy is a gigantic burden for anyone that gets associated with him honestly the fact that Bowman lost surprises me less because he was stupid enough to associate himself with an organization associating itself so openly with a guy that can easily be called a pedophile with proof, it kind of makes me suspect that AIPAC wasn't the only reason he lost, even if their money did the knock out blow. I don't see AOC losing her district for example.

[@Mae_Dastardly]

@@Vontux t r u e, hitching yourself to a nonce, even a non-acting one is political and social suicide for anyone of relevence lmao

[@LDRINCAL]

How low can they go? I thought they were at the bottom already. When you find yourself in a hole…stop digging.

[@ArundelBorealis]

i have a feeling they are just more ok now coming out and saying its not morally acceptable

[@BoojieD]

I’d blame it a lot on DailyWire. They really rewound their rhetoric to the 90’s over the past couple of years. And a certain portion of their audience just went with it

[@mdkram]

Handmaid's Tale is coming.

[@geoffwilliams4478]

Not if we who vote have anything to do with it. Much as the lot of us don't want Biden, sending tRump to prison or, at the very least, keeping him out of the WH has to be the main goal. Much as we have problems with Biden, at least he let's us protest. Could you say that under tRumps 4 years?

[@damon6086]

Kyle is underestimating the power of stupidity.

[@JonMac-gt1ow]

Ya. I’d never thought people would be arguing men could get pregnant

[@damon6086]

@@JonMac-gt1ow Love to see this because I don't it's real. I think you made it up.

[@JonMac-gt1ow]

@@damon6086that why the Biden administration says “pregnant people” instead of mother?

[@imnotmike]

Show me someone who thinks the republican party can't get any worse and I'll show you a naive fool who is going to be greatly disappointed in the near future.

[@bp1991able]

According to Pepperdine University, 143 % of the population will be LGBT+ by 2035.

[@fashioncitymetaverse]

I VOTE for JILL STEIN as President of America 💯 she is for peace ✌️

[@Darkstarr-ud2go]

Wasted vote …. Don’t do it ..

[@haroutunsarkisyan8050]

@@Darkstarr-ud2go wasted sperm, your parents shouldnt have done it...

[@SatoshiMatrix1]

This is a result of Trump's administration making it more acceptable for conservatives to be outwardly hateful. Consider prior fringe viewpoints, even on the right, such as out-in-broad-daylight support fro Nazis, women _should_ be paid less than men, or black and brown people are "dirty". Since Trump, these and many other vile views have seen massive increases in public support amongst the right, and it's also had a spill-over effect to conservatives in other countries including Canada, Mexico, the UK, France and many others. _Trump_ did this.

[@JonnyBoy07a]

There is no bottom with them. You think they've hit the bottom and they keep finding ways to be even worse.

[@MrOneanddone91]

So what you’re saying is republicans prefer to be on top?

[@comiccid1]

They are not just slaps in the face, they are punches in the gut.

[@bludragon34]

I’m tired boss

[@SevenDayGaming]

We're all tired, and I think that's part of the problem.

[@TheCanuckCanadain]

im not looking forward to millions of americans fleeing up here to canada. like sweet i get a front row seat to a the fall of rome, but we also will get massively affected by this. dont bring your politics here!

[@YeraBlizzadHarry]

Don’t worry, the people staying are the crazy ones we see defending trump no matter what lol. Not to mention how much they hate your healthcare

[@BeverlyBurnette-ll2gl]

Back to the 50s.

[@jrconcerned6064]

I believe they want to go farther back😢

[@Darkstarr-ud2go]

The 1850’s …

[@jayumble8390]

Yeah, this is incredible Kyle. A real head shaker. You've said it best....'the fight is never over'. Man, we in the west like to...whoa, whoa, whoa...I should say us reasonable and thinking people here in the west like to keep things simple. You know, we did that fight and it's settled for all time right?! But no, we have to fight the fight again and again. Damn, why does life have to be so difficult??? We are moving backwards folks. This backwards trend is happening world wide and the US is not immune to this trend. We are on the edge here in the US. Our election is so far beyond Republicans vs Democrats. Do we want to remain a democracy or are we simply that apathetic and therefore willing to head down the road of fascism (demise). We are about to find out which path it will be.

[@appalachiansufi5649]

The poll asked if gay relationships were morally right. It didn’t ask people’s opinion on gay marriage. People can have the opinion that homosexuality is wrong but they still support gay marriage rights. Those people exist. This is somewhat misleading.

[@belladonna5012]

Even if that's the case, this is still a remarkable change in a very short time, and reveals that a whole lot of Republicans will just sort of believe whatever they're told.

[@RickyAceRozay]

If they didn’t push the trans shit on kids in school, I’m pretty sure that Number would be higher

[@javiervega1065]

No it wouldn't

[@John-PaulHunt-pv6ol]

Han Solo meets Admiral Ozzel

[@dustinsindledecker154]

Who is pushing trans shit? You right wingers were just born to be hateful

[@RickyAceRozay]

@@dustinsindledecker154 they got pride parades during school, you’d be pissed if it was a catholic parade , why not just not talk about religion or sexuality in school and stick to English math and science, crazy idea I know

[@danpham333]

Age old rhetoric. So much propaganda that gays recruit or groom just now placed on trans people. FYI, teaching acceptance of minority groups is not pushing them to be gay or trans. Many studies show you can't influence people into being gay or trans. Idk about you, but the lgbt don't mandate anything in school. Recently however, we have schools being forced to display the 10 commandments. I do agree we should focus on stem. Forcing religious text instead of making the curriculum better doesn't do that.

[@timothylopez8572]

🐘"I was only diet evil" 👿"You better be PURE EVIL you RINO".

[@aaronhawkins6938]

The right wing propaganda machine is sooo strong. Not sure exactly what we can do about it.

[@gregpresley1466]

Approval is declining in the Democratic party as well. Keep pushing this stuff on kids, and it will be 20% approval next year.

[@StarFighters76]

Pushing what stuff on kids?

[@jj947]

@@StarFighters76it’s always euphemisms, isn’t it? They never speak concretely

[@gregpresley1466]

@@jj947 I didn't use any euphemisms. It's obvious that you don't know what a euphemism is. Doesn't really matter, because you know exactly what I'm talking about. You're simply ashamed and scared to admit I'm right. Like I said, keep pushing.

[@jj947]

@@gregpresley1466wow, it somehow got more vague

[@gregpresley1466]

@@jj947 Sure! 🤣🤣🤣

[@doctorcatnip2551]

By "worse" he means they disagree with him ...

[@thesensiblesocialist]

I'm surprised independents are less accepting than Dems. I assumed that was mostly people who're too left for them.

[@TheJadeJester]

As if it'd get any better 😂 Edit - and always remember that a return to the Stone Age is but a button push away.

[@xanderlander8989]

It's also possible that people who approve of gay marriage are leaving the Republican party.

[@SevenDayGaming]

No it's not, or the other numbers would have gone up, not down.

[@heather8374]

This poll doesnt say anything about marriage. It says relations.

[@janissary101]

That's the Supreme Court signalling to the Religious Right that they're going to win.

[@heathercerridwen7194]

It's just sad that we didn't get a Democratic Primary. At least it would feel like we have a voice.

[@kamaur01]

I don't get why this is even an issue to talk about. The questions should be is it morally acceptable for venture capitalists to take all the profit with non of the risks? Is it morally acceptable to have no ethics oversight for every judge except for the supreme court? Is it morally acceptable to have a lobbyist write the laws for you? Is it morally acceptable for you to buy/sell stocks in the company that the lobbyist represents? Those are more pressing than private family make up.

[@JonMac-gt1ow]

Nothing is more important than family. A society that doesn’t care about family will never succeed

[@user-rq1mk9hi4x]

It’s most important !

[@Recolatt]

It's 5.15 a gallon today my monthly grocery bill has almost doubled in 3 years rent has skyrocketed buying a home fantasy 🇺🇸

[@whiteraven886]

I'm queer, and I am scared. Homophobia is here to stay unfortunately. I accept it. Hiding is my best strategy.

[@SnarkyMcCarthy]

For every revolution, there’s a counter-revolution.

[@vanish23-or5fz]

My humble tribute to the algorithm.

[@52flyingbicycles]

Over-under on when the Republican Party officially calls for a monarchy? Because we’re a republic not a… wait a minute 😂

[@Finkeren]

I disagree. This is not the Republican voters or the party getting worse - they were never good on this issue. This is Republican voters falling in line with their party on the latest wedge issue. For some reason, the Republican party has decided, that going back to hating on LGBTQ+ people is a winning strategy (I am absolutely certain, that they are mistaken) and since they have the most bigoted, most loyal and least critically thinking voters, it's not surprising, that we see a massive shift. The amount of Republicans accepting gay rights before was not really an indication, that they were particularly strong advocates for gay rights, just that it wasn't as heavily politicized an issue. Now that it's a weaponized issue once again, most of them just fall in line - but importantly not all of them. Those numbers are still a lot better than they were, back when they last tried to weaponize bigotry against queer people, some Republicans have actually shifted on the issue and are not shifting back so easily. All-in-all I think the heavy focus on these issues is a massive miscalculation by the Republicans. It works, sadly, on a local and state level - much to the detriment of queer people - but as a general election issue it's dead in the water.

[@ThomasGeist]

Tell me ONE SINGLE ISSUE that got worse, which is not tied to someone trying to make more money.

[@JonMac-gt1ow]

Well, since our society doesn’t care about heterosexuality any more and have acted like heterosexuality is equivalent. Society has lost the family. We have lost the understanding that men and women are different. It’s been catastrophic to our society. We currently are reproducing under what we need to sustain population. That means when as time passes by, there will be more old people in the country that there are young who’s is completely catastrophic

[@JonMac-gt1ow]

I’m glad we stopped being violent to people that partake in homosexuality but to treat homosexuality the same as heterosexual has been a disaster

[@user-rq1mk9hi4x]

In What way ?

[@cindyhansen939]

This discussion in the body politic is not abstract. These things have actual effects on real peoples lives, in my life. It is tearing apart our society.

[@Riverfox2012]

I'm a 64-year-old White woman Lefty who's also a Lefty. When I was 6, my 1st grade teacher kept smacking my left hand with a ruler when she saw me using it for writing. Told my mom, who raised hell with the school. In Texas. (1966) Point: Not just Republicans are going backward but the state of Texas is mired in gerrymandered (aka, rigged) Republicans who seem to want to go back to the 1950s. I think. Not quite sure which century they'd like to return to.

[@JonMac-gt1ow]

Craving a dik up your butt is the same as being left handed? What???

[@benjamindavis2475]

They don't know either. I think they want to be like the western Taliban

[@GOPSlayer]

I agree with Kyle on this. Chaos theory.

[@Ian_L1994]

*American politicians/politics are getting worse. FIFY