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[-] supafuzz@hexbear.net 95 points 11 months ago

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

[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 53 points 11 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 11 months ago

Finance industry, tech industry, arms industry

[-] supafuzz@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago

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

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 94 points 11 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 11 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 11 months ago

Are LGBT rights better protected elsewhere?

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 69 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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 11 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 11 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 10 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 11 months ago

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

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 67 points 11 months ago

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

[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 57 points 11 months ago

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

[-] MayoPete@hexbear.net 54 points 11 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@hexbear.net 51 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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 11 months ago
[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 48 points 11 months ago

off to brunch celebrating this stunning display of harm reduction

[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 months ago

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

[-] JohannaChittarra@hexbear.net 38 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Rx_Hawk@hexbear.net 37 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They want to erase you. Stay strapped.

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 11 months ago

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

[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 31 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Imagine the uproar if an enemy nation did this

[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 23 points 11 months ago

hamas is anti-lgbt

[-] GeorgeZBush@hexbear.net 19 points 11 months ago

Just. Freaking. Vote.

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 12 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 12 points 10 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 10 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.

[-] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 months ago

Neolibs try not to show bloodthirst challenge [impossible]

[-] Yor@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago

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

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