Because LGBTQ people just appeared out of nowhere, willed into corporeal existence one day in the mid-80's by the manifestation of the Woke Mind Virus, and totally haven't existed in every civilization at any given time throughout the entirety of human history.
Really cool how they just casually suggest genocide like this.
I mean, whatever, at this level of homophobia they clearly want to exterminate anyone who isn't a cishet Christian. "Pushing their buttons" is just a shortcut to get them angry enough to admit it.
How do I rebel? By mirroring the exact positions of a 90 year-old who has never left their hometown, except I also throw in the environment because I have to live with the consequences of their positions and they have those positions because they don't have to.
At least in Colorado it just means they want animals to hunt. But they also want to privitise all the land, use it for ranching, defund state efforts to protect natural areas, and expand fracking. They don't hike and they don't believe climate change exists despite it rapidly endangering those alpine animals.
It's the same kind of demonic fuck-fuck game they play with terms like "save the children" or "family values".
edit: Actually, I'm part of a ranger org with some 300~ members. Most of them are boomers and I've spoken with dozens of them. Not a single one has been a right-winger. They try to co-opt conservationism for their ranching and hunting, but even the most basic work of stewardship is so far beyond their capacity.
Pro-environment to them means forcefully depopulating the planet (guess which groups) until the wasteful lifestyles of current imperial core humans is within the earth's carrying capacity.
They might actually be serious. There have been a few right-wing dictators that were completely genocidal but put in legitimate efforts for environmental conservation. Trujillo in particular comes to mind.
Being Pro-environment and Pro-God to these people means praying to God to fix the environment and if nothing happens, then that's just how he wants things to be.
Reactionaries draw a line in history where they want to return to and call that "tradition". For Americans, it's laughably recent. Japanese fascists at least want to go back to before the nuclear family, but their call to "retvrn" is similarly unserious and is reminiscent of the "Greek"-obsessed statue guys. Ignore all the homosexuality, ignore the paganism, ignore the female emperors... We totally want to retvrn guys it's just that 99% of the past did it wrong, too so we gotta correct that. 🙄
A lot of these things are very recent in terms of history unlike porn and lgtbq which has existed since the beginning which is infact very traditional.
The funny thing about the yankee empire is that we don't have a general concept of the empire. So, unlike say the brits' empire where people and the press might talk about what to do in this or that colonial holding, the core here largely only talks about local stuff. It's a weird kinda irony; the most extensive empire in global history is also the most parochial.
I mean, this is just stupid reactionary christian stuff. What's really interesting is that this stupid reactionary christian stuff isn't made different for coming from the core's core of empire. You find identical stuff coming from out of the way countries with little influence over anything. Poland, for example.
"ah shit, these positions are completely identical to dennis prager. better throw in "pro-environment" to act like this is any different than what every other conservative believes"
Maybe not in that way, but I feel like at least on the surface level, they need to at least change up the messaging to engage with the youth so that it doesn't sound like they have the same politics as a 75 year old man, even if the politics are fundamentally identical
The unspoken bit with these reactionaries is that their regressive pseudo-traditional rules they want to impose only apply to the plebs. The god emperors get to do what they want because, hey, underlings don’t get to tell the god emperor they’re wrong.
This is pretty much the blueprint for how to be Guatemala minus the "no porn" and "Pro-environment." The nationalists have been saying that this is our decade and it looks like that's the case with Ukraine and Argentina doing their best to be like us.
I doubt this bozo would ever let an independent investigator check their browser history and hidden files to verify non-deletion publicly. Because we know what we would find.