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Kineth posted...

Yeah @gunplagirl, I think you're reading way further into the political comic than is intended or necessary. I mean, did you have the same line of thinking when people were making those memes about how Joe Biden looked at Barack Obama?

I think you're missing the point of the comic if you think it's using homosexuality as the punchline. I agree with you a vast majority of the time, but this ain't one of those times.

The Obama Biden jokes (the "we wouldn't even be allowed to buy pizza in Indiana" joke in particular) were ones done tongue in cheek, they were self deprecating of their friendship, acknowledged the homophobic boundaries that many Americans have regarding how close two men can be as friends, and was done with a sense of inclusion because they actually support LGBT people and LGBT rights.

There's a distinct difference between "we're good friends and bigots might think we're gay and neither Biden nor I (Obama) will let that interfere with our friendship" and "these two extremely homophobic and evil leaders are working together towards the same goal, clearly they are repressed homosexual lovers"
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