• supafuzz [comrade/them]
    hexbear
    95
    3 months ago

    there is no Democratic Party constituency that they won't betray on a dime

    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
      hexbear
      53
      3 months ago

      dem voters love to talk about how much the party cares about women, queers, people of color and workers, and the actual party is constantly like "uh i think you got the wrong number"

  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
    hexbear
    79
    3 months ago

    There's actually a silver lining here. The less that LGBT rights are associated with the US and the collective West, the better.

      • @alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
        hexbear
        69
        edit-2
        3 months ago

        Yes, they're enshrined in the Cuban constitution for example.

        T rights are even protected from capitalism in Iran; free hormones and surgery. LGB and Ts who don't want surgery, not so much.

        Greater protections for trans people and zero protection for gays is pretty common in West Asia.

          • @alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
            hexbear
            45
            3 months ago

            If it was coming from like JK rowling, yes, if it's coming from someone whose included in those groups or in pro-LGBT context, w/e.

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
        hexbear
        8
        3 months ago

        I think what they are referring to is the way reactionaries in some countries (notably the right in Russia and China) consider queerness to be nearly a western invention and queer rights to be some nefarious plot by the west to weaken them. Therefore, one can hope (though it's unclear if this is what would happen) that the US waving fewer rainbow flags abroad would weaken the rhetorical basis for this myth and therefore make things easier for queer movements in Russia, China, etc.

  • blobjim [he/him]
    hexbear
    73
    3 months ago

    Heartbreaking: The worst person you know just stopped pretending to support a minority's human rights.

    • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
      hexbear
      18
      3 months ago

      when the empire gets too reactionary to even cynically coopt progressive ideas...

    • plinky [he/him]
      hexbear
      55
      3 months ago

      Supporting military (monetarily) is more important than (rhetorically) supporting lgbtq

        • citrussy_capybara [ze/hir]
          hexbear
          23
          3 months ago

          yes, russia’s latest anti-lgbtq+ law is gaining them too much popularity, so biden has to move to the right on the issue or else risk alienating allys. he’s still the most socialist president in history and the only hope to bring powerful unions back. it’s almost as if sometimes minorities need to be stabbed in the back in order for the rich to profit. let the adults in the room handle things, you tankies are out of your depth.

          • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
            hexbear
            3
            3 months ago
            1. Puts a timeline on someone else's freedom blue-check

            2. Enemy is both strong and weak blue-check

            3. We'll get back to it at a better time blue-check

            I see it as a likely outcome.

    • SoyViking [he/him]
      hexbear
      9
      3 months ago

      It is your fault for not having voted hard enough for them.

  • Infamousblt [any]
    hexbear
    57
    3 months ago

    Ah I see yet another example of Biden protecting LGBTQ+ rights

  • MayoPete [he/him, comrade/them]
    hexbear
    54
    3 months ago

    It's gonna be funny watching Biden's field campaign crash and burn because the young people those operations rely on stop being gullible enough to give free labor to 99.9999% Hitler

  • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
    hexbear
    51
    edit-2
    3 months ago

    Did they intentionally put that 75% of the $1.2T budget going to the military like 1 sentence before saying l less than 1% less than 0.001% is going to headstart programs and think that out would absolve the previous sentence?

    • Kuori [she/her]
      hexbear
      48
      3 months ago

      off to brunch celebrating this stunning display of harm reduction

  • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
    hexbear
    47
    3 months ago

    Kind of okay with this one. I don't want the Rainbow associated with a genocidal regime. I'm proud to be bi, not proud to be American.

  • heartheartbreak [fae/faer]
    hexbear
    43
    3 months ago

    Smh you red fash know nothing about compromise and getting things done that's why you all pretend to care about lgbtq rights stupidpol

    • ColonelKataffy [he/him]
      hexbear
      24
      3 months ago

      in a show of bipartisanship, they also banned flying the confederate flag

  • @JohannaChittarra
    hexbear
    38
    3 months ago

    I’m done scratching liberals. I want to flay them alive. meow-knife-trans

  • Rx_Hawk [he/him]
    hexbear
    37
    edit-2
    3 months ago

    They want to erase you. Stay strapped.