Apparently Tinder has been fairly interesting for me to use/collect data/observations from in the last few days.
I would like to mention how relatively easy it can be to glean/root up additional information about the various people of Tinder than what they've put in their profiles. If the person has instagram connected, I usually go from there, or sometimes they'll mention their instagram username in their bio. So I take a bit of a look at that, if possible, to see if there are any red(neck) flags that maybe weren't apparent in the profile itself. Sometimes there are. If I'm even more curious for whatever reason (in a good way or a bad way), some people will have their full name on their instagram profile, so off to google that goes and I look at what comes up.
Today I came across two people who were decently good looking, although upon further research, one turned out to be a confirmed raging Trump supporter and conservative, so I ended up swiping left on him. Too bad. For the record, posing with an American flag is a marker of conservatism, for the most part. The second person I have suspicions that they might be a conservative. He doesn't necessarily seem to be a Trump supporter, but he does seem likely to at least be a conservative, and from there, perhaps he indeed is a Trump supporter. Apparently this guy is from Pennsylvania, and not one of the big cities which are probably a bit more liberal. I looked up the demographic information for the particular town/county he's from (yes, I was able to find that out with minimal googling) and it's not a diverse place at all, and 75% of the county voted for Trump. So I guess there's a small chance that he's not conservative, but more likely than not, he probably is. Although now apparently he lives in the liberal enclave that is the county where I live, so maybe he's been somewhat liberalized just by being immersed in the cultural/political demographics and diversity of this area. Who knows. Is that a thing that happens to people? And the big thing about this guy is that he's the closest thing, as far as I can tell from his pictures, to a Peter Sarsgaard lookalike that I've encountered while online dating. That is just something else... Too bad it seems like he's a conservative.
My personal standards regarding good looking conservatives are that I really don't think that I would date one. Maybe if they were otherwise very compatible and only very mildly/slightly conservative I would consider it, but I just don't want to get romantically involved with a conservative, thank you very much. Communists are apparently much more my speed. Eyelashes guy is more or less acceptable to me as a person because he seems decent/intelligent, and all I'm doing is watching his commentary on CNN and reading his columns and appreciating his eyelashes, and there's a big difference between watching someone's political commentary on tv and dating someone.
P.S.: I was pretty proud of the title for this post too and I didn't even realize that it was a combination of the first two lines I put in my profile bio. At first I just wanted to do a little play on the "No conservatives need apply" notice and extend it to even good looking conservatives. Then I realized that my other line was about "Good looking revolutionaries wanted" and the title of this post just happens to be a mix of the two.
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