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Use the ol' timey word for it and call them queer. Start referring to conservatives as "the queers" just to troll them
The actual queers are gonna hate that. Maybe they can call another queervention (or was it queervalcade?) and get back to us on using it for trolling.
Hopefully one of their ambassadors will swing by and share an opinion. My Gay Agenda says, "In usage of the word "queer," stay where you are and wait for help."
As a bisexual British person I absolutely support the idea of returning queer to it's classic meaning. There's also the option of just using both meanings. Context will establish which one you mean.
The Republicans are a right queer bunch, unlike my fellow queers in the LGBTQ+ community.
Capitalizing Queers to mean our friends and lowercase queers as the descriptor for these weirdos might be a simple distinction as well.
Could also refer to the way Republicans do things as queerly, as in "why is this dumb cunt queerly burning books?"
Stop using queer as a bad word. The word you are looking for to describe Trump and the other magas is "pedophile".
I don't like that either. There are receipts for Trump, so that can stick, but using "pedophile" as a broad pejorative against people I disagree with politically (no matter how severely) requires me to separate that word from what it actually means (people who are sexually attracted to children), and as someone who actually gives a shit about harm reduction and justice for victims of sexual abuse, I'm not willing to stoop to the level of obfuscating the language we use to talk about those things.
This is no different than the right wing adopting "groomer" to mean "anyone who I think intrinsically harms children" (usually queer people working in education or childcare), actively destroying the very valuable vocabulary we have for describing the criminal social manipulation sexually abusive adults can use on children to get them to do what they are told.
Just because "pedo" is the nastiest thing you can call someone doesn't make it acceptable to cry wolf about such a profoundly serious thing, no matter how much you hate the person you're insulting.