What is your criteria for a “Founding Father?” 7 seems awfully low to me

Remember when you didn’t even need an email address to sign up for reddit?

If I need to look at that site, my LibRedirect extension sends me to a privacy focused mirror

Yeah, this kind of vague, “kill your local pedophile :)” sentiment is often just an anti-LGBT dogwhistle and makes me uneasy.

If someone is going to post shit like this, and not actively tie it to the very obvious class dynamics of wealthy human traffickers, conservative Christians who promote child marriage, and politicians who protect them (without also being Anti-Semitic), then I just kind of assume it’s a thinly veiled call for violence against queer people

A guy shoving a beer bottle up his ass is one of the things that precipitated the collapse of Yugoslavia

Sure, that might be true of individuals but that phrase, or at least variants of it (ie. “The Social Democrats are The Left-Wing of Fascism”), have existed since the rise of the Nazis.

The idea being that liberal institutions will sooner do the work of fascism by punching left, rather than making common cause to fight fascism. And this meme isn’t helping that perception by punching left.

Saying “Dem politicians” are the reason trans rights were encoded into law strips trans people of our political agency. You’re effectively saying the quiet part out loud by denying us political agency, or even a role in our own political history.

Trans rights have been fought and won over decades, long before 1990, by trans people. Often outside of traditional political, not to mention medical, avenues. The Democratic Party, as an institution, only picked up on encoding those rights into law, when there was the pressure and inertia was such that it was beneficial to their coalition to do so.

In 2024, when that coalition was proven to have collapsed, in large part because of the additude you’re taking here, trans people were some of the first to be thrown under the bus and blamed.

This is such a tired narrative. You guys really want to focus on the leftists when half the country voted for an authoritarian?

Scratch a liberal, a fascist bleeds

As a trans person, you can suck my girl dick. I am not a cudgel to be used by shitty libs to sheepdog votes for their nonexistent policy.

Trans rights keep being eroded, regardless of who is in power, because the Democratic Party isn’t doing anything to preserve them.

I’m colorblind, and I hate people asking me what color things are, unprompted. I get that they’re trying to understand, but maybe have a little more tact???

Side note, I never felt like my colorblindness was a disability, until I started going through a gender transition, and it makes me feel so incredibly stuck.

Remember no politics! LGBT people’s lives can be different because the world isn’t LGBT inclusive.

The world not being queer inclusive is political. I might not have legally available HRT by the end of the year :/

Impeachment is how you do that…

The house brings articles of impeachment, and term it’s up to the Senate to decide whether or not the president should be convicted, and thus removed from office

Then people started “well red is this, yellow is that, green is that …”

But the stripes always meant something:

Hot pink = Sex

Red = Life

Orange = Healing

Yellow = Sunlight

Green = Nature

Turquoise = Magic/Art

Indigo = Serenity

Violet = Spirit

Flags being symbolic was never the issue. The progress flag was made in lieu of black, trans, and intersex queer USAmericans being excluded from big, corporate backed, pride events, which brought to the fore, a slew of intra-queer tensions.

By making this new flag, it was a way of symbolically coming together. And it’s stuck around because of, well… Everything going on lately.

Weirdly , I think the chevron works. But instead of adding all of the extra stripes , I think it would have been better to make the chevron a single color.

Gilbert Baker, before he died, added a lavender stripe to the original flag to for ‘diversity’. I say we blend the chevron with Baker’s vision and have it be a singular lavender color

That said, while I think that would be more aesthetically pleasing, I have come around on the progress pride flag in the same way that I like the flag of Maryland. It’s so busy that it’s circled around from being ugly to charming.

I’ve seen TERFs use it less, as they’ve started to win the “trans debate” less of a need to disguise their shit as “protecting lesbians”

Where’s the well regulated militia you Americans scream about

So, one could argue that the well regulated militia in question is constituted by the National Guard, as they nominally are the armed forces of individual States, and can be nationalized under certain circumstances.

Except for the fact that Trump just nationalized the California National Guard when he’s nominally not supposed to…

Lemmy federates with blogs?

Back in my day, we just told Cleverbot to suck our dicks

a side of human rights

You mean like expanding the United States’ illegal drone assassination program?

That status quo comfort you’re yearning for is exactly what lead us here in the first place.

That stays quo was built on incredible amounts of violence inflicted on the global south, and now the imperial boomerang is coming back around.

So no, I don’t wish we had ‘a bit of that status quo’.

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