I will be charging RUP $50 for this ad, thank you. :)

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those sure as hell aren’t the same picture 🤭😤

RUP loses either way here. if this stays up, they're hypocrites. if they remove it, it's still not right. And hey they created that scenario so don't really feel bad for them.

Not necessarily. There is — or could be — an important difference between OP’s comment (which was modded) and my meme (which wasn’t), which at first glance appear to depict roughly the same thing.

Do you know?

Be careful! This is graduate-level modding!

*right

RUP's logo in the bottom left corner lol?

That’s one difference — that one is a pro-RUP message and one isn’t isn’t.

But if RUP was as homophobic as everyone says they are, then it stands to reason they wouldn’t want their logo displayed next to an image of two gay men kissing and would have also modded it for being “inappropriate.”

I’m not the mod who modded that, so I can’t tell you their exact thought process, but there’s a couple other differences that come to mind. Hint: It’s not in the image itself, it’s in the context.

idk. guess wait for RUP's statement. either way, they don't look good here doe.

I don’t speak for RUP. That said — Without having seen the full conversation, it looks to me like this is a snippet of OP in a heated discussion with a RUP person (likely IG), because he always gets in such heated conversations when he comes around here.

In that context, he posted the cartoon of two gay guys kissing along with the statement “problem?” in an effort to provoke whomever he was talking with. Modbait! Or in plain terms, harassment.

The second time OP posted the same image could be considered spam and is certainly re-posting content that was already modded, which is a no-no.

Seems to me that this can be offered as evidence of personal bias against OP (when he’s done his best to bring that bias upon himself), but it’s *not* strong evidence of homophobia because they’ve previously allowed very similar content and pro-LGBTQ messages.

well, the second time he was showing me what image was deleted. was certainly not to provoke IG.

As for charging RUP $50, that’s a joke, obviously I need permission to do that.

But for this 💯 investigative journalism, someone should really pay me $50! Just sayin’. :)

RUP’s PAC has $50 in it now, shall I run the transaction?

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RUP (who was in charge during the last campaign) featured my “Make Love Not War” meme last time, and they featured OP’s meme above which also contains two men kissing.

And what about this meme now?

We’ll see! :)