When my wife and I split up due to the pressures of early COVID and I entered the dating scene again this was super common. Women straight up having “if you voted for trump/wear a red hat/like maga/etc. fuck off”
Girl I really gelled with and I went on a little date and within 5m of walking down the street she’d confirmed in person I wasn’t some secret maga dickhead and was so relieved she went on a rant about them that ended in her yelling “fuck Donald Trump” at full volume in frustration
I am so not surprised it’s gotten more common
My boomer trait is that I never did online dating and I don’t know which swipe is the good direction.
Maybe trump voters shouldn’t multiply?
Alternative headline: “This Just In: The Youth Swipe (and Skew Politically) Left, But Will They Pokemon-Go To The Polls?”
According to the study in the article, maybe not? While 43% of those surveyed would feel negatively if their potential hookup was voting Trump, 40% wouldn’t care; and 65% don’t even give a shit if their next date plans to sit out the next election.
So the youth still play Pokémon go? That game is almost a decade old at this point.
I was dating hot and heavy in 2020-2023, on several dating sites. Women either said they weren’t political or not interested. That’s a big, fat flag, “If you’re Republican, STFU about it.” Others simply stated that MAGA need not apply.
I was talking to a potential date (who turned out great!) and joked that I was something of a redneck.
“Uh… exactly how redneck?”
“I loathe Trump if that’s what you’re asking.”
“OK. Whew. Thanks, just had to check.”
And this was in NW Florida, about as conservative an area as it gets. There were very few women openly looking for conservative men, and I only remember a single MAGA nut.
Related note; I can’t tell you how many women I met, including my wife, who said they would go on a date and the man would start going off about Trump bullshit. Imagine that. On a first date.
I post on a message board that has absolutely nothing to do with politics. Of course, there are always topics that come up that someone has a political opinion about, so occasionally the board devolves into some political bickering.
However, at some point, I realized every time one of the posts became political it was because a conservative brought politics into it. I thought maybe it was just my bias and overlooked it when it was a leftwing/liberal. . .but nope, every time I noticed it getting political from there on out, it was always, without a doubt, a conservative who had to bring their politics into it.
Better the first date than 6 months in.
Related note; I can’t tell you how many women I met, including my wife, who said they would go on a date and the man would start going off about Trump bullshit. Imagine that. On a first date.
I find that the magabrainz will even start up with that shit on an elevator if they can. If you think of con memes as a brainworm from another planet that is seeking to infect the entire human race, it makes a lot more sense…they seek to spread that shit in nearly every interaction, even with people they have just met. Invasion of the Body Snatchers was supposedly about the red scare, but I find it far more like the way the redcoats behave…
I wish they’d all fucking vote…
You really went turbo mode with that dating, huh
If you aim to catch a fish, it’s best to sink several hooks in the water. Same for job hunting. The neighbors were making fun of me bringing home so many women. I was looking for a solid relationship!
Get past 40-45 with all your hair and teeth, don’t be (too) fat, have a decent personality and interests, can’t beat 'em off with a stick. Problem is, most all of us are damaged by then. :(
I was referring to the alacrity at which you tied the knot.
Had to read the article to find out if the headline was describing a good trend or a bad trend. I’m so old 👴
Right? How am I supposed to know what “left” implies in some random app’s context?
Left and right are a de facto standard in dating apps. It’s a terrible UI but they all do it now.
Smartphones didn’t even exist last time I was dating.
The thing that trips me up, as a dinosaur, is whether “swipe left” refers to the direction your hand moves or the direction that the viewport is traveling. If I scroll by moving my finger to the left, now I’m looking at stuff that was previously on my right.
In tinder when you swipe, the picture itself moves, not the whole screen.
I have this issue with my stove top, which burner goes to with nob/diagram. Does the picture line flat or flip over. I only every end up using the one with both high and low cause it’s easy to tell which it is.
Does the picture line flat or flip over
I’m gonna need a drawing or video to describe this in 3d terms because it makes little sense
The burners should be in a representation that when looking at them dead-on you’re looking at them as you would the burners top-down
So if you squat down and make the burner icon eye-level to you, then stand up and look down at the burners at a 90 degree angle down, that’s how they line up
A | B
C | D
If that’s your image then A is the back-left burner on your stovetop, and D would be the one closest to you on the right
I am a weirdo and always get things backwards that the rest of the population has no trouble with.
Righty-tighty, lefty-loosey made no sense when I was a kid because I focused on the bottom of the thing I was spinning instead of the top.
Same with the stove. Wtf is the “front” burner? I mapped the four burners to the four seats of a car in my head, and I thought the front burner would be the ones farther away from me. 🫨
I mapped the four burners to the four seats of a car in my head, and I thought the front burner would be the ones farther away from me
That’s absolutely right, but you forgot to account for the fact that the stove doesn’t face the same way you do, you’re facing it and it is facing you, like a head on car collision
And why are they stealing it? I don’t even know where to start planning a caper involving left theft. Guess I could start from the right…
Yeah, I met my (now) wife over 20 years ago. I blissfully missed app dating and I always make sure she wears her seatbelt and what-not so that never changes.
always make sure she wears her seatbelt and what-not
Got a good brand recommendation for what-nots? My wife’s been asking for one.
I usually check Etsy, but you can often find good ones thrifting too.
“wears her seatbelt”?
So good trend or bad trend?
I can’t read the article, does anyone have an archive link?
Good trend.
Why it matters: The consequences are steeper for those supporting former President Trump.
By the numbers: 43% of people between the ages of 18 and 34 say they’d have a more negative view of a date if told they voted for Trump, according to a new Generation Lab poll.
17% say they’d have a more positive view, and 40% say the information would make no difference.
The 17% is worrying, but that 40% is worse.
The 17% is worrying
Agreed
but that 40% is worse
I’m assuming those 40% just want to get laid and that’s all they care about. Lol, I’m not young, but I remember being young.
Do we know how many of the 40% were dudes?
Keep in mind Trumpers hate birth control and that one night stand might turn to an 18 year marathon with a crazy parent.
What happens when you attempt to read the article? It’s an Axios article. Free with no paywall.
Not OP, but for me a window popped up and asked for my email, without any button or other option to opt out/make it go away. I got around it by using “Reader” Mode.
Hmm. On my phone, the link just opens the article in a browser.
Having experienced an awful divorce from someone not even a Trump voter -
A Trump voter is a good indication that they aren’t very intelligent people, and you’re gonna have a bad time.
I think it’s brilliant that people publicise their political affiliations - it’s like a big red flag to either avoid certain topics… or just avoid them altogether.
It’s like Social Interaction for Dummies.
Last time I was on the dating market some of these people popped up on the dating app. Holy hell and it were always the maniacs that had to make their dumbassery public.
My favourite was that young lady who was extremely anti vax and tried to make it a “my body my choice” kind of thing. Everything read like she died on that hill a couple of times already.
That’s something that often occurred to me when I saw some antima/antiva Karen during Peak Covid - I felt sorry for anyone that was their SO, most especially if they were married to them, assuming they weren’t down for that level of crazy.
It’s not a difficult thing to sniff out. You just have to mention something innocuous like toilet paper and suddenly you’ll know more or less which side of center that person is on.
Good to start with the important questions: Toilet paper! Facing inwards or outwards?
Ever since donnie it became something almost impossible to avoid finding out. Most redhats would out themselves pretty quickly. And then Covid happened, and with things like masks and vaccines, the crazies found it nearly impossible to hide themselves…I’m sure there are still a few being quiet, but I think once the fauxbrain really takes hold, they seem to find it impossible to NOT broadcast their assholery.
It’s kind of like that stupid red hat the gomers like to wear (when they feel they can - I notice a lot of them don’t wear it all the time, though - imagine that. It’s almost like they know what that hat really means to normal Americans.)
When I see someone wearing that, now I know it’s someone I can just skip over. It’s like wearing a “do not talk to me” shirt.
I never swiped right on a lady firing a gun. Or taking a picture in the mirror of a public bathroom. Not the same thing. I just remembered the second one as I mentioned the first.
Yeah well didn’t stop boebert
You’re correct - it was the ushers that stopped boebert.
I should not be browsing lemmy when I’m eating. Thanks bazus. You win this one lol
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