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someone [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 years ago

White House Agrees To Ban Pride Flags At US Embassies In Spending Bill Deal

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White House Agrees To Ban Pride Flags At US Embassies In Spending Bill Deal

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someone [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 years ago
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  • ashinadash [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    They want you to vote for the guy who can’t even be fucked to virtue signal queer support.

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

    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]@hexbear.net
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      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”

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      Finance industry, tech industry, arms industry

      • supafuzz [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        they’d turn on those too if they got a better offer

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    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 [he/him]@hexbear.netBanned
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      Are LGBT rights better protected elsewhere?

      • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
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        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 [she/her]@hexbear.net
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          Is it just me, or is this a really fucking weird way to refer to trans and queer people?

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            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 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        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.

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

  • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Lmao rainbow imperialism defeated by austerity. I can’t find a bigger irony than that.

    • zed_proclaimer [he/him]@hexbear.netBanned
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      when the empire gets too reactionary to even cynically coopt progressive ideas…

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    deleted by creator

    • plinky [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Supporting military (monetarily) is more important than (rhetorically) supporting lgbtq

      • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        maybe-later-kiddo “something something, Russia Russia Russia, something something” maybe-later-honey

        • citrussy_capybara [ze/hir]@hexbear.net
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          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 [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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            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 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Easy: they will never talk about it

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

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      Idf 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

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    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

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    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?

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    Where the lemmy libs at?

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      off to brunch celebrating this stunning display of harm reduction

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      Yelling 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.

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    Smh you red fash know nothing about compromise and getting things done that’s why you all pretend to care about lgbtq rights stupidpol

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      in 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. meow-knife-trans

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    They want to erase you. Stay strapped.

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

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