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[-] supafuzz@hexbear.net 95 points 8 months ago

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

[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 53 points 8 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"

[-] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 39 points 8 months ago

Finance industry, tech industry, arms industry

[-] supafuzz@hexbear.net 13 points 8 months ago

they'd turn on those too if they got a better offer

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 94 points 8 months ago

They want you to vote for the guy who can't even be fucked to virtue signal queer support.

[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 79 points 8 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.

[-] Rx_Hawk@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago

Are LGBT rights better protected elsewhere?

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 69 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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.

[-] da_gay_pussy_eatah@hexbear.net 15 points 8 months ago

Is it just me, or is this a really fucking weird way to refer to trans and queer people?

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 45 points 8 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@hexbear.net 8 points 8 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@hexbear.net 73 points 8 months ago

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

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 67 points 8 months ago

Lmao rainbow imperialism defeated by austerity. I can't find a bigger irony than that.

[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 18 points 8 months ago

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

[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@hexbear.net 58 points 8 months ago

Ugh. How will libs spin this an example of harm reduction?

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 55 points 8 months ago

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

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 41 points 8 months ago

maybe-later-kiddo "something something, Russia Russia Russia, something something" maybe-later-honey

[-] citrussy_capybara@hexbear.net 23 points 8 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@hexbear.net 3 points 8 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.

[-] jack@hexbear.net 28 points 8 months ago

Easy: they will never talk about it

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago

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

[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 8 months ago

Idf are all the support trans people need

That's my guess

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 57 points 8 months ago

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

[-] MayoPete@hexbear.net 54 points 8 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

[-] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 53 points 8 months ago

Eligible flags include the POW/MIA flag

hitler particles detector

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 51 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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?

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 50 points 8 months ago
[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 48 points 8 months ago

off to brunch celebrating this stunning display of harm reduction

[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 8 months ago

Yelling at Russia and China veto so they can say it's not Bidens fault Israel is doing genocide

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 47 points 8 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@hexbear.net 43 points 8 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@hexbear.net 24 points 8 months ago

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

[-] JohannaChittarra@hexbear.net 38 points 8 months ago

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

[-] Rx_Hawk@hexbear.net 37 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

They want to erase you. Stay strapped.

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 8 months ago

Strap up and get comfortable with range time, the contradictions are accelerating

[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 31 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Critical support to ending rainbow imperialism and frying the brainworms that so many of my muslim relatives have about the West and queerness 07.

[-] robinn_IV@hexbear.net 28 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Imagine the uproar if an enemy nation did this

[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 23 points 8 months ago

hamas is anti-lgbt

[-] GeorgeZBush@hexbear.net 19 points 8 months ago

Just. Freaking. Vote.

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago

Is this that "standing up foe the lgbtq community" liberals keep telling me about.

Literally can't even be bothered to make the most basic empty gesture.

Bow dumb do you have to be to believe he would do literally anything on the topic.

[-] someone@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago

Is this that "standing up foe the lgbtq community" liberals keep telling me about.

Maybe they mean it literally. As in all that the Democrats will do is occasionally literally stand up at some LGBT+ related event for a photo op.

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago

The United States is no longer a safe space for LGBTQ+ people. Lavender Scare 2.0 is in season.

[-] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 8 months ago

Neolibs try not to show bloodthirst challenge [impossible]

[-] What_Religion_R_They@hexbear.net 5 points 8 months ago

he's really good at reaching across the aisle and making the deals and concessions where they matter

[-] Yor@hexbear.net 5 points 8 months ago

So much harm reduction!! Biden urged the passing of this ahaha

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