Like last year they kept the rainbow flag profile pics up for the entire year. Now they aren’t doing it because they are fearful of some lumpenproletariat boycott. Reactionary workers are worse than pro-lgbt bourgeoisie. I’m gonna side with whoever respects the rights of trans people to literally exist and if neither are gonna do that then fuck both of them!

  • aaro [they/them, she/her]
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    1 year ago

    It’s impact is actually negative, as it rhetorically and symbolically conjoins LGBT+ rights with Corporate Liberalism.

    most people don't know or care what "corporate liberalism" actually is, and if anyone knows what corporate liberalism is and then still turns around and hates gay people, their brain worms belong in a museum

    As another user said, there’s no more surefire way to make the world resent and hate LGBT+ rights than placing it on a warhead.

    right but we're talking about sportsball helmets and t-shirts. This argument seems to willfully ignore 99% of corpo pride's actual proletarian exposure.

    Corporations are scapegoating you, using you as a cynical shield and point of profit extraction.

    better than a bounty head. at least there's a material interest in keeping your shield intact.

    • ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      Once they squeeze you dry of value they will throw you to the dogs to eat the scraps. Stop cheering on the process of capital coopting and destroying a progressive movement that will end in an inevitable end of fascist destruction. This is the cycle of Liberalism

      • englesintheoutfield [they/them]
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        1 year ago

        they already are throwing us to the dogs. this poster (I think) is saying that even though corporations have nothing substantial to offer lgbt people, the fact that they saw queer people as a target market was some level of utterly unfaithful support, but the fact that even that is dissolved is extremely worrying . we hate corporations, but i also hate that I have to think about how clockable I am so I can judge how much danger I could be in outside of a very small set of queer friendly establishments which are now regularly targeted by chuds anyways. I get so exhausted when people talk only in abstract theory terms when we just don't want to potentially get our heads bashed in at the grocery store. corporations giving up fake solidarity is a signpost that even the people who only served to make money off of you don't see that value anymore.

        • ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          It's a canary in the coal mine, a worrying sign for sure. That's a far cry from being so confused like OP that you start calling for the canary to save you and protect you.

      • aaro [they/them, she/her]
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        1 year ago

        literally all i'm saying is i'd like a little more time of being squeezed dry to try to slap together a community defense movement. wanting the corporations to be done with pride ASAP today is wanting the queer community to be thrown to the dogs today. If I could run it all back I'd really prefer the queer community not be commodified at all ever but now that we're in this mess we have to play emergency damage control and it's gonna be sloppy

          • aaro [they/them, she/her]
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            1 year ago

            yeah OP has some whack takes and I do not claim them, this is more directed at a larger pattern that I kind of expected to and sort of has popped up in this thread

            • ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]
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              1 year ago

              The comments that "popped up in this thread" are responding to weird class collaborationist Liberal takes of OP. You can't really separate them and say "Yeah OP's post was bad, but it's problematic to say that it's bad"