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MAGA singles are looking for love in Washington. It’s a challenge. (fedia.io)

submitted 1 month ago by Curmuffin@fedia.io to c/leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world

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“I felt like, being in conservative politics, there would be more, like, masculine men in the conservative movement,” Housley says, “and I find that a lot of them aren’t as masculine as I would have hoped.”

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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

It’s also not even in the same galaxy as ‘Leopards Ate My Face’.

I was initially going to write something about that. It's not your bog standard cliché LAMF, that's for sure. It's more complex. And that's a plus in my book.

Whichever way you cut it though, it's definitely in the same galaxy (or neighborhood, to take it down a few notches).

[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 0 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

It's not. At all. This is the sequence of events of a LAMF:

Advocacy for a politician/political entity to do X, by person/group Y
Y's advocacy is based on the expectation that X will be done to/only affect others, incorrectly assumed, because the politician/entity never specified such (it's not called the 'leopards eating [demographic's] faces party', after all)
X indeed affects Y as well
Y is surprised that 3 is true, though they shouldn't be, as they're the ones who made the assumption in 2, without any good reason to (this unjustified reaction is the LAMF moment)

For example, if Y voted to cut funding for public services, then got upset that a public service they use on got its funding cut, that's a textbook LAMF.

"MAGA singles are having trouble finding romantic partners" meets literally none of the above criteria. There isn't even an X (re #1)!