there is no Democratic Party constituency that they won't betray on a dime
95 0 Replydem 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"
53 0 ReplyFinance industry, tech industry, arms industry
39 0 Replythey'd turn on those too if they got a better offer
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They want you to vote for the guy who can't even be fucked to virtue signal queer support.
94 0 ReplyThere's actually a silver lining here. The less that LGBT rights are associated with the US and the collective West, the better.
79 0 ReplyAre LGBT rights better protected elsewhere?
9 0 ReplyYes, 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.
69 0 ReplyI 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.
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Heartbreaking: The worst person you know just stopped pretending to support a minority's human rights.
73 0 ReplyLmao rainbow imperialism defeated by austerity. I can't find a bigger irony than that.
67 0 Replywhen the empire gets too reactionary to even cynically coopt progressive ideas...
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Ugh. How will libs spin this an example of harm reduction?
58 0 ReplySupporting military (monetarily) is more important than (rhetorically) supporting lgbtq
55 0 Reply"something something, Russia Russia Russia, something something"
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Easy: they will never talk about it
28 0 ReplyIt is your fault for not having d hard enough for them.
9 0 ReplyIdf are all the support trans people need
That's my guess
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Ah I see yet another example of Biden protecting LGBTQ+ rights
57 0 ReplyIt'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
54 0 ReplyEligible flags include the POW/MIA flag
53 0 ReplyDid 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?51 0 ReplyWhere the lemmy libs at?
50 0 Replyoff to brunch celebrating this stunning display of harm reduction
48 0 ReplyYelling at Russia and China veto so they can say it's not Bidens fault Israel is doing genocide
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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.
47 0 ReplySmh you red fash know nothing about compromise and getting things done that's why you all pretend to care about lgbtq rights
43 0 Replyin a show of bipartisanship, they also banned flying the confederate flag
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I’m done scratching liberals. I want to flay them alive.
38 0 ReplyThey want to erase you. Stay strapped.
37 0 ReplyStrap up and get comfortable with range time, the contradictions are accelerating
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Critical support to ending rainbow imperialism and frying the brainworms that so many of my muslim relatives have about the West and queerness .
31 0 ReplyImagine the uproar if an enemy nation did this
28 0 Replyhamas is anti-lgbt
23 0 ReplyJust. Freaking. Vote.
19 0 ReplyThe United States is no longer a safe space for LGBTQ+ people. Lavender Scare 2.0 is in season.
12 0 ReplyIs 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.
12 0 ReplyIs 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.
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Neolibs try not to show bloodthirst challenge [impossible]
9 0 Replyhe's really good at reaching across the aisle and making the deals and concessions where they matter
5 0 ReplySo much harm reduction!! Biden urged the passing of this ahaha
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