126 points

This must be the famous Linux-to-queer pipeline I’ve heard so much about.

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Careful when programming near long, colorful socks.

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Just a couple of bros snuggling while rasing a family together.

No homo tho

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They were roommates.

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28 points

Life long bachelors

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They lived in a one bedroom cottage and kept Jack Russell terriers and were buried next to each other.

Otherwise it was an older billionaire that took in the younger when he was in college and they donned masks and fought crime together.

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9 points

No homo sapiens

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Some people claim homosexuality is as old as humanity. This is clearly wrong. Homosexuality is much older

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Likely as old as sexuality itself.

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So as old as multicellular life. Which I completely agree with.

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Probably not quite that old. Sexuality probably developed in the Proterozoic as a means of diversifying reproductive burden and offsetting parasites.

Multicellular life predates this by quite a bit.

So homosexuality likely dates back to the Proterozoic Era when the sexes where largely dimorphic and prone to shift as needed. Life … uh, finds a way.

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Single cell life doesn’t have sexuality, not even all multicellular organisms do. And there are lifeforms like plants that throw around their pollen and hope that pollen of the opposite sex meet or make insects or alike distribute their pollen to other plants. That’s sexuality in the biological sense, too

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Gay bacteria

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Bacteria don’t have sexuality. They copy themselves if you will and exchange small bits of DNA rings with each other but they don’t have sexes individuals belong to

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Not only are you correct, we will never have any real sense of scale of just how correct you are, since we’ve only been exposed to about less than 0.01% of life that’s ever existed on Earth in the last several billion years.

For all we know there were clans of synapsids that were exclusively homosexual for terms of child-rearing and had complicated social systems with language and structured hierarchy, etc.

The idea that we can even remotely determine what this world’s natural systems have been like from looking at a sliver of a sliver of a sliver of the total picture is once again peak human hubris and self importance.

This planet has been a thriving source of life in the universe, maybe the only one like it for far, far longer than any human alive can comprehend. In the last several billion years nothing complained about homosexuality. Humans will be here for a brief blip on the larger picture, and there will be no record nor impact from anyone’s hate or fear of sex acts. Earth will keep spinning through the void, life will keep evolving. Protest signs and hateful messages will dissolve back to the systems that created them.

All you people screaming and crying about “woke” this and that, and who get confused by terms like LGBTQ+, it doesn’t matter. You will be dust for far, far longer than you will be a human screaming about what’s “natural.”

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oH YeAh WeLL yOu kNoW wHaT eLsE iS NaTuRaL, RaPe aNd cAnNiBaLiSm!!!11!!!1!1one!11!1!!1eleven!!!1

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Great argument against the “bUt iTT”s nAtcHurAAL !!!11!!” for anything really. Natural does not mean good

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Yeah I feel like I used to give the nature argument to support being gay, but in reality, being natural shouldn’t just mean that it’s good. There’s rape, murder, cannibalism, danger, poison, etc. in nature. Nature =/= good.

I’m not saying this because I’m anti-gay. Actually I feel like I’m on a bisexual-asexual spectrum. It’s just not an argument that we should be using I guess unless there’s a better way to spin that particular argument.

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I agree with this. One day I was cursed with seeing a video of a monkey masturbating with a dead frog’s mouth.

Animals are unfiltered horny. Humans are way more complex. It is 100% ok to be gay, just animal comparisons are thin. They are typically not banging for love or adding complex thinking emotions to their actions.

P.S. Don’t look up the monkey thing, I regretted having eyes to watch it.

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  1. It indicates sexuality isn’t a choice of behavior, it’s inborn

  2. If God made everything, he made a lot of gay stuff.

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Morality of nature isn’t the question. This whole issue really clearly demonstrates that morality comes from people, and religions struggle to keep up by decades and centuries. The Catholic Church recently solidified is moral objection to IVF pregnancies. Wrap your head around how absolutely stunted you need to be to think this is a MORAL issue you must oppose. It’s absurd.

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I think the whole nature angle is stupid to begin with. Everything is natural because everything comes from nature. Fire is natural, being gay is natural, plastic is natural.

Binding anything to natural and then saying it is good because of that or it is bad because of that is a complete waste of time and just shows the bias of the person categorizing.

As I often find the right answer to the question is “mu” which means the question is wrong.

Is ist natural? Yes, everything is so fuck that question. The better question would be “does it hurt people?” or something else like that.

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It does indicate people are born with their sexuality from the start and it isn’t a personal choice to engage in criminal or degenerate behavior as Western culture and Christianity has claimed for centuries, and ignorant bigots still claim today.

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What ?

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Alabamans : InC-

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It merely serves to illustrate that traditionalist conservative chudscum will say anything to excuse their disgusting barbaric inhumanity without actually believing it. They will make both of these arguments in the same breath. Then they’ll say their “god” works in “mysterious ways”. Arguing with them is a waste of time except in so far as being able to publicly embarrass them and get them so angry that they discredit themselves in their own irrationally because at least THEN you can convince some bystanders to not be like the waste of skin you just dunked on.

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45 points

Giraffes are shockingly gay too, something like 80% of giraffe sex had is gay.

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I’m 20% better than giraffes 😎

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Eh, not enough for me to choose you over a giraffe. Sorry bro

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8 points

Those are rookie numbers.

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You should see Uncle Paul on the weekends. No man escapes that grizzly!

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