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As a bisexual you’re welcome I guess

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We’re doing our part!

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Both your parts.

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Oh I’m.sure there are plenty of us. Still hiding. Sadly

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Are we still considered “greedy” by both straight and gay people?

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I swear, not all of us are sluts. I am, but not all of us.

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Thank you for your service 🫡

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Thank you for your service 🫡

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I brought balance

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Huh, what app is it that shoves adverts into browsing Lemmy?

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And how many americans now identify as nazis? Asking for the entire world…

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~10% of Americans are LGBTQ+. ~22.6% of the US population voted for Trump in the most recent election.

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Is voting participation that low?!

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Well, you gotta consider everyone under 17yo can’t vote, and then, there’s all the people in prison and all the other disenfranchised citizens who have had their voting rights stripped by conservatives.

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that figure must be of the overall population.

63.7% overall voter turnout nationwide in 2024.

five states with the highest turnout were:

Minnesota (76.4%), Wisconsin (76.40%), Michigan (74.7%), New Hampshire (74.4%), and Colorado (73.1%).

2020 was the highest nationwide at 66.6%.

more numbers at ballotpedia

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And tens of millions of americans just didn’t care enough to vote. That was basically saying they are fine with a pedo-rapist who previously attack the captitol win the election. Nazi-enablers.

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Or maybe they didn’t want to vote for someone they didn’t like.

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I could have sworn I read somewhere that it’s likely 10% anyway, like 20 years ago. That was the scientific estimate of the time, although I don’t though it included the same definition.

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That was an estimate. Around that time only about 2-4% identified as gay but it was estimated the real number was higher because homophobia kept most people in the closet.

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Yes that’s what I meant by likely. I think it was slightly more than a guess, though. Something about a percentage of people not having kids being good for evolution or something. Not sure how that works, though, so don’t that my word on that.

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i vaguely remember a health teacher in jr or sr high saying something like that (this would be back in the '80s)… “about 10 percent, that’s the same as at least three of your classmates…” (in that class)…

and then the students kinda all looked around, eyeballin’ everybody… as if they were counting… yup. checks out. one of them blurted out “that’s kinda low, don’cha think?” --this bit is why i remember the class. and she was right. it was low.

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I agree. It’s really hard to count since so many people love in denial. Bisexual is particularly hard to count, and there’s plenty of women who fancy the idea given just how awful men are sometimes.

Edit but not really, but I like “love in denial”. Happy typo I’m keeping.

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Thanks for saying this. There’s literally a gay sex shop called One in Ten in my city, for this reason, that’s been around forever.

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There was a radio show in Boston for the gay and lesbian community 30 years ago called 1 in 10.

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1-in-10 has been the stat for decades.

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Right? I remember a couple decades ago when things just started opening up for lgbtq people that scientists studying sexuality gave estimates that 1:10 people were likely not going to fit the hetero “norm”.

Looks like they nailed it.

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Who could have guessed a significant portion of the population wouldn’t magically find their attraction to people exclusively split along a very specific line of biological and social characteristics in over 99% of cases? What a shocking revelation that maybe a lot of people just like who they like regardless of gender or sex.

Personally, I expect to see this number of people outwardly identifying as bi significantly rise as time goes on.

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