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if you don't believe that US politicians are extremely conservative for the most
part
this will give you something to compare US politicians to Dutch politicians are
using the social media app Grindr
in order to reach out to sum up their constituents now these are
politicians from the democrats 66 party also known as d66
and upgrader is an app for gay men that are looking to hookup
so it is a little questionable the politicians would use such an app to
reach out to their voters but apparently this is working pretty well for them
and it's an interesting strategy that I don't think we'll be seeing in the
United States anytime soon
now what are the politicians actually spoke to bias and explain exactly why he
decided to do this
now clearly he already high profile and they're not allowed to decide on a
parity how the profile which
obviously indicates that he's gay why not use it as a strategic marketing tool
for our party
he says yeah I already had a profile so all I did was change my photo to a big
logo the d66 party and change the headline to
let's have a date on March 19 now they're having an event
to reach out to their constituents so that's what he's referring to right
there but that is amazing
so people start messaging him and much like tinder all these other dating app
you can message back so that's how they communicate
and and he claims that for the most part their messaging about politics of course
there
of course there alright so lenders
there %uh so let's let's talk about how this would never happen in the US
because I i love you so
it would be huge scandal in the US are you kidding me okay
so are there out politicians the US there are right to assign get every gay
politician
you know Barney Frank of course for a long time this and several other people
there
um would be admitted being on Grindr
but Inc pinsky mobile homes would be on Fox News
24 hours a day seven days a week multiple heads would explode
simultaneously bill or other would be like man this is a
ke aces sex asap that the kids are using today
to corrupt bball right yeah
nuno's politician or I didn't know what to
I there he goes and this guy military housing writer for you know why you're
on Grindr
okay is it's not like it just means you're getting to know me as your day
you're going up
right okay which you too I would say god bless her heart that's awesome bouquet
but I'm a heavy homosexual symbolized so my
I it just shows you how
puritanical and how close minded we hope we are in the united states like
why is it a big deal if a particular politician is using social media
for his or her own use like for dating or hooking up whatever I don't care I
don't care you do in your personal life
me realize hey you know what there are other people my constituents are also
using this tool to communicate with one another
what I show that I'm a real person not a robot
and talk to them I freakin love it so crazy would it be if like
Gavin Newsom has on tender and I'm like hey yeah it's a fairly attractive
politician in
california's randomly chosen randomly oh boy 40
I now a I
the other part I like about the story and is that he's like it worked
you know he reached out to his constituents in a manner of speaking
yeah and and they reach back I'll but
know if he communicated with them and he's not embarrassed about now so many
yet so good here's what he says is greater turned out to be a very good
medium to communicate with the general public
and he also says we wanted to show that we understand the gay community and that
where the party
that has a long history of tackling these issues we were the first QWERTY to
work on gay marriage and we've been working on
equal rights for gays over the past 25 to 30 years
so it's freakin awesome so if you are a cig a community grant is a perfectly
rock logical way to do so right
so if he use that its great
the only reason you wouldn't use it is if you're unduly embarrassed
n he saying we're not embarrassed so where the party in favor gay rights
I it's just you guys got understand if you don't live in the US
that honesty is so refreshing lead it's like
it's like a nice breath of fresh air that came in from open window in the
spring
like we're totally unfamiliar with a world what is how can someone actually
be proud and
out in and say they want to reach gay people do what they actually use
how is that possible yeah so look
yeah like we said if for conservative in america I'm sorry for
no politician America tried that here's a
conservative reaction they would receive mmm up
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