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I was able to add “Zionist” to my profile (without “no”), however, and could also add any phrase I could think of: “no Arabs,” “no Blacks,” “no Palestinians,” “no Muslims,” “no Christians,” “no Jews,” “no trans,” “no Republicans,” “no Democrats,” and so on. “No Zionist[s]” was the only phrase that was blocked in my testing.
damn, that's pretty explicit. I guess the logic is that if the zionazis feel unblowable, it might undermine the entire project.
Can use 'No Jews' but not 'No Zionists', christ
Absolute garbage fire
Zionism: Everything is antisemitism, except actual antisemitism which is fine.
Adolf Hitler rises from the dead
Commits a second holocaust, targeting antizionist Jews
The second holocaust is deemed not to have happened because the Jews in question were antizionist
Risen Adolf Hitler is deemed not an antisemite
SHORT OF RISING FROM DEATH, TELL ME THIS SOUNDS IMPOSSIBLE!
you can still put "no jews" tho
ffs
edit: the article is wrong about who owns Grindr. sold to Beijing Tech group in from 2016-2018, but the USA forced them to sell it back to the USA in 2020. it's now owned by a US investment group.
What was the argument? "Chyna is trying to control our fruitcakes!"
We need good old American men getting railed by good old American dick through good old American ingenuity.
If the communists know where our precious bodily fluids are being spilled then they can easily harvest them, undermine the entire nation.
Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great 🎵
the lengths we go through to protect our hegemony; in this case, republican closet cases.
"No rice, no spice" I sleep
"I don't like people cheering a genocide" real shit
Maybe "no stolen-and-rebranded ME food"
"No rice, no spice"
is this just white people racism in the way i imagine it is?
Yes.
It's funny, I've gotten accusations of bigotry in my grindr profile for saying "No-one DL". I intended it solely as a way to avoid men who cheat on their spouses, I don't want any part of that. But I've been accused of being bigoted towards people in cultures where being openly queer is uncommon or even dangerous.
yeah I’ve seen that argument but it’s dumb because it boils down to “not sleeping with me means you hate me”
No dude I just don’t want to be involved in your secret gay bullshit. Not only am I almost certainly being complicit in cheating (most of these guys are married with children too) but you’re guaranteed emotional unavailability with higher chances of domestic violence.
I will always fight to improve cultural outlook and I do empathize and feel bad for those guys who feel like they need to live a double life; that sounds exhausting. It doesn’t mean I need to entertain their “forbidden” lust.
What does no-one DL mean?
DL is "down low". They intend to be secretive, usually extremely so, and some men can be dangerously (violently) paranoid v
I thought it meant Double Life
That's not an unreasonable guess, frankly.
I saw "download" which means you will not watch my multiple terabytes of legally acquires media (I don't go on grindr)
DL = down low, essentially people still in the closet
Hey, Dr. Umar, king of Pan-Africanism, uses the same terminology!
(Yes, just racism)
if you support the zionist entity
you won’t get any head from me
Poetry.
Try it with "zionazi"
Have you tried "death to israel"?
"no nazis" would seem to cover this just fine but still revolting
"Zionists get lost"
Could you put in "Death to Israel"?
The Entity has intruded itself into the people's dick sucking space
does "🚫🇮🇱" work?
nah, zionist
|\|o zionists!
enn ohh zionists
so easy to get around
Or even substitute in identically-shaped Cyrillic letters. Ziоnist looks like Zionist but probably won't trigger the censor because Cyrillic о is not the same character as the Latin o.
Check it out, try to ctrl f any of these letters: АВСЕНКМОРТХУ асеорху
Some filters nowadays utilise smaller ai models (see Roblox chat) instead of checking for a dictionary
I was able to get the word 'dick'^[not in a sexual way, it was "don't be a dick"] past the censor on OKCupid recently, so I can report it still works on at least one dating/hookup site.
How about No Piss Reels?
'No, Zionists!'