I mean I think trying to say that him saying that is shitty is kinda disingenuous. The guy was born in 1982, grew up in South Bend, Indiana, and probably realized he was gay during the 90s, a time that we, the LGBT community, were still reeling from and dealing with the AIDS crisis. I have no doubt a ton of queer kids back then thought the same as him because they just wanted to be normal and not thought of as monsters.

Plus his parents worked at Notre Dame, a Catholic university. So he was probably around a whole lot of not very accepting Catholics during his childhood.

What the point of that story was at the time was that he had to accept who he was, and that it was okay to be gay. That’s a thing a lot of queer people have to go through.

I’m from Ohio, that sounds immensely better.

Makes me more interested in Portland being a possible city to move to when I get out of my red state. If I can get a job there.

Seems very much like concentrating on voters like those who supported both AOC and Trump. Supposedly fine with progressive policies but just wanting someone “real” who is seemingly willing to fight for them.

Also it’s always so fascinating to see how articles like this frequently talk about these Trump voters who are winnable because they support a ton of progressive policies but many continue to vote for Republicans despite them wanting to work against those very policies they supposedly support. The cognitive dissonance is truly astounding.

He was at the RNC last year and ripped off his shirt to reveal a MAGA or Trump shirt (I think it was one of those but it was definitely pro Trump even if it wasn’t directly MAGA or Trump text). So he was definitely an asshole. Even for more reasons than just being MAGA.

She said she wanted the minimum wage increased to “at least $15”: https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/23/politics/federal-minimum-wage-harris-trump

She talked about how she wanted to invest more in infrastructure in the debate when talking about the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, saying it was a good start but there needs to be more. Here’s a link to details about how that would look (largely investment in new green energy productions and building millions of affordable homes which she talked multiple times): https://www.mintz.com/insights-center/viewpoints/2236/2024-09-11-_024-pre-election-analysis-infrastructure

She talked about raising the top tax rate to 39.6% and introduce a unrealized gains tax on people who have more than 100 million in unrealized gains in the stock market, as well as an increase in the core capital gains tax (while not a “millionaires tax” it’s definitely something more likely to be passed as it impacts the most rich people out there as opposed to some that might have just gotten lucky and saved enough to get a million or two dollars. Could be better but still to say she didn’t support taxing the rich is BS.). Here’s a thing breaking down all her tax policies https://apps.urban.org/features/2024-candidates-tax-policy/

She literally was in the administration that was using the power of medicare to negotiate prices for 10 prescription drugs to be lower. And always framed it as “the first 10” instead of the only 10. Here’s here literally statement last august with that same phrasing: https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/08/15/statement-from-vice-president-kamala-harris-on-lower-prescription-drug-prices/

Here’s an article about how the DNC platform, and thus Harris’ platform, would have pushed for a lot of new investments in public education (including universal Pre-K and being against “school choice” BS) which would have required increased federal funding: https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/where-does-kamala-harris-stand-on-education-inside-the-2024-democratic-platform/2024/08

The Biden Administration that she was apart of was incredibly pro-union and implemented multiple rules in the federal government that made it easier to join a union and there was no reason to think she would be any different especially since she openly talked about how important unions are and was the only candidate to be pro the dock worker strike: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/02/harris-striking-dockworkers-trump-00182203

Now, If I can count correctly, her supporting 6 is a lot more than “not a single one of those things” and is also a majority of the 9 that were listed.

Harris had the majority of that on her platform and no one seemed to even care, acting as if she’s literally just Trump lite despite being incredibly far from that.

What they’re gonna do is redraw all the maps of the states they are in control of, and eliminate ALL Democrat districts. Every single one. They’ll do this and there will be challenges declaring it illegal but by the time it actually comes before a court it’ll be too late to redraw so they’ll just go ahead with the illegal maps and then Democrats won’t just not win the house, they will lose 30+ seats. All because the Republicans are fascists and people refused to vote for democratic candidates last election cycle.

They might, might, leave one or two blue districts per state, but otherwise they will be gone. This is the plan in Ohio and in Florida, it’s happening. It doesn’t matter that it’s BS.

Anyone who helped Trump win, including those who helped Harris lose, will be responsible for the downfall of the American democratic system.

Guess it’s time for some successions.

Unions are absolutely why we have 40 hour work weeks I wasn’t saying otherwise. Just that because of how our day works 8 hours of work was what people fought for. If we had days that were 48 hours things could be different and people could have fought for 10 hours days. Of course this is all hypothetical and we have no idea what people actually would have fought for.

The point isn’t about how our work week works though, it’s about how dumb it is to assume that other planets wouldn’t have possibly longer work weeks.

Welllll the 40 hr work week is based off our 24 hour days and some planets have much longer than 24 hours in their day. So realistically some planets could have 60 hr work weeks. Plus we have no idea the governmental structure and ideology of other worlds and if they even allow you to stop working at all/you’re worked to death or if they have such an advanced society that you don’t even really have to work much at all.

Basically, this is kinda dumb.

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I mean thanks for the information that I already knew. I don’t quite understand the point of your comment though cause we agree on this, that it’s a concentration camp.

Edit: I was talking about using aerial photos for the comparison being bad not comparing the current concentration camp that was just built in Florida to other concentration camps being bad. In case that’s your misunderstanding of what I was talking about.

Yeah I saw the video and pictures a little bit after I commented and I think taking that kind of thing and putting it side by side with Auschwitz is a much better side by side.

Also it’s cots of 2, just normal bunk beds, not 3. 3 was what it was like down in El Salvador. Not that that matters much but yeah.

They’re definitely concentration camps but I don’t think this is a good way to draw the comparison, you could easily do the same side by side with FEMA camps (temporary housing) after a natural disaster. Something that the conspiracy oriented people have been doing for a long while.

Let’s have a close up of it as a comparison, not just one of the roofs. There’s just better ways to do this.

“let’s divide the LGBTQ community by making the T kill themselves or be forcefully detransitioned so then we can go after the ones that are left afterwards”

They want people like me and those I love to kill ourselves because it’s cheaper for them than sticking us in camps then they can get to going after the gays. The depressing reality is that there is going to be a sharp rise in trans suicides soon, especially if the ban on Medicaid hrt coverage goes through. Many say death before detransition and they fucking mean it.

And it’s hard to exist in this country as a trans person right now and not just be terrified and feel like taking the easy way out. Even if it’s what they want.

I think the biggest problem with your point is that these specific religions have core tenants that center around converting people and “saving” them. Because of that people will always be able to use whatever rationale they want to justify how they’re trying to save people when they’re bigoted towards them.

You might say that religion and faith isn’t the problem, and you’re right that it shouldn’t be the problem. But right now, it is the problem. Right now religion is used around the world to purely spread bigotry under the guise of “saving” the people they’re being bigoted towards.

In order for religion to not be used this way they would require massive reforms that would help push them towards a more genuinely accepting existence. But that won’t happen. At least not in any of our lifetimes. These religions are so old that they get to move as slow as they fucking want to when it comes to modernization.

Religion is being used constantly as justification for being horrible people and allows followers to think they have the literal creator of the Universe behind them. There is no world that exists in the next hundred or several hundred years that does not continue to have religion be used for horrible horrible things.

So fuck it. Are there some good people in there who just happen to believe in God? Absolutely. But religion as an organized structure is really fucking over modern society.

I think his campaign succeeding would more be a way to show his kind of message and campaign tactics are actually viable both in general and against establishment Dems as opposed to it somehow making a big difference in the country. If he succeeds he’s laying the track for others to follow.

But there were queer voices speaking for the campaign. There weren’t really trans people, even though there should have been. But there were definitely queer voices being out there. Also many many progessives campaigned for her as well. Fuckin hell Tim Waltz is an incredibly progressive governor and he was on the ticket.

As for Palestinian voices, sure. Those should have been there absolutely. But them not being there doesn’t somehow invalidate that there still was a coalition of people trying to join together to fight against Fascists.

That’s fair. People were definitely looking for any excuse.

This is something that really bothered me about the recent election. It was clear that Cheney was only campaigning with Harris because she wanted to stop Trump not because she agreed with the policies of Harris. She was still a believer in “Republican” policies but understood the danger of Trump winning and did what she could to make him lose.

The left then said that because she was being put out there by the Harris campaign as someone who would help get people to vote for her that must have meant she agreed with all of Harris’s policies. Which means Harris must have been a Republican and had all Republican policies despite her having multiple rather progressive policies that the majority of people support.

Instead of having the completely rational thought that if a shitty Republican like Cheney refuses to vote for Trump and says we should all vote against him then that’s a positive and should help convince independents and non voters that this was such an important election, they ignored that and made BS assumptions and accusations about the entire Harris campaign. It fucking sucked.