I imagine if my life was destroyed cause I like putting it in a particular spot with my partners. I’ve done what this man did a lot of times with no penalty (other than a partner who was mad that I was too quick the first time I got to). Funny, there’s a huge portion of the porn industry that caters to my taste. wtf. This man has been wronged. Give him a pension. He’s fucking earned that and more for his suffering.
I’ve done what this man did a lot of times with no penalty
same here and i would be in his same position if don't ask don't tell hadn't become a very publicized thing; instead i'm only scarred 6x over by the shit they've done to gay people that the lemmyverse likes to ignore for some reason
i wonder how he feels about having to request a pardon from a president that supported fucking him over more than his sex partner did; i avoided the military and took on permanent-for-life student loan debt (also thanks to biden) because of don't ask don't tell and i think i would rather die than ask him for forgiveness.
Trump's base are the cryptofascists who do not hide the fact that they are coming for the gays.
Maybe providence didn't see fit to give you the choice of saving all Palestinian lives, but it certainly seems to be giving you the choice to save your own.
Maybe providence didn’t see fit to give you the choice of saving all Palestinian lives, but it certainly seems to be giving you the choice to save your own.
holy hyperbole batman!!!
biden's past and future actions have and will fuck up my life several times before i die; meanwhile trump has unwittingly helped.
also biden's track record of supporting the status quo no matter what, especially when it comes to lgbt issues and human rights; proves that he would also willingly go along with whatever laws that those cryptofacists successfully sustain through congress and the supreme court. (sometimes there are signs that he may have grown a conscience, so i want to be clear: he won't like it, but he'll go along with it willingly).
can you be specific about what trump action was helpful to you??? Just for fairness biden has directly helped me with no surprise billing, banning con competes, many infrstructure repairs and improvements in my area that got money from the ombudsman bill, and this one is a bit less direct but rejoining the paris accord was huge for me. So anyway im curious of the trump actions that helped you specifically because from my seat its been squat.
trump's asshattery at creating trade wars backfired on american companies and that forced them to hire new people including me; that enabled me to move away from austin texas and i'll be thankful for that for the rest of my life.
biden's the only one to invest in green energy afaik and then he turned around a effectively banned truly affordable electric vehicles for around $10k with 100% tariffs; among other things.
As W.C. Fields said, "I never vote for anybody, I always vote against."
Not being Trump should be enough. Trump literally says he's going to be a dictator. Based on that alone, ignoring every other point about Trump, you should vote for Biden.
i'm expounding upon my difficulty in justifying my vote for biden; before the genocide i was going to hold my nose and do it and now i'm no longer sure i can even do that.
biden is actively enabling a genocide right now and has done something similar for several others in the last few decades as a senator; meanwhile trump has only fantasized about helping a genocide.
it would be an easier choice it he would just stop helping genociders.
Again, Trump will be no different on that front. That is simply a non-issue when it comes to which of them to vote for. And, also again, it's either going to be Trump or Biden.
You're still justifying voting for a dictator over a non-dictator. It should be a simple choice. Either you're for American fascism or against it. It doesn't matter what Biden has done. It matters whether or not you want a dictator.
What a ridiculous thing to say. Biden doesn't have a plan to put all the migrants into concentration camps or to suppress queer people or anything else in Project 2025's list of goals, which Trump will implement.
So either you are not aware of Project 2025 and how it will lead to another genocide, possibly more than one, or you only care about one genocide.
What a ridiculous thing to say. Biden doesn’t have a plan to put all the migrants into concentration camps
he doesn't need a plan; he's currently doubling down on trump's plan.
or to suppress queer people or anything else in Project 2025’s list of goals, which Trump will implement.
biden has advocated for this his entire career and has only made token gestures otherwise to get votes; hyperbolic arguments are moot when you've already survived them.
So either you are not aware of Project 2025 and how it will lead to another genocide, possibly more than one, or you only care about one genocide.
they don't have enough time to catch up to biden's level of enabling genocides before the next election. also most of the other genocides have already been committed so it makes sense to care about the active ones.
Sorry... most of the genocides have already been committed? Migrants have been rounded up and forcibly deported en masse? Trans people have been forced to go underground? Queer people have been erased from history?
sexual liberation and identity has fallen in and out of favor in american hegemony before and it will happen again; go ahead and keep moving that goal post.
I don't have to move a goalpost between 'genocide' and 'not genocide.' All you're saying to me here is that the queer genocide candidate that will also support the Palestinian genocide is fine, but the one not participating in a genocide of queer people is bad.
... All you’re saying to me here is that the queer genocide candidate that will also support the Palestinian genocide is fine, but the one not participating in a genocide of queer people is bad.
I'm not supporting either candidate and there is no queer genocide in the United States nor will there be; speaking in hyperbole makes you seem unhinged and I want to trade ideas w someone who speaks in facts.
Those laws all suck and they're along the same vein as the laws that Biden had voted for and supported in the past (ie doma, 10450, dadt).
The definition of genocide is the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular group with the aim of destroying that group; and nothing you have shared matches that description.
The definition of genocide is not that simple. If it were, you must think Palestinian genocide started in 2023. I hope you don't. That would also suggest that the Trail of Tears was not a genocide. I also hope you are not going to make that argument.
And you already said Biden won't do anything to oppress queer people because the base doesn't want him to. So you are saying that not committing genocide is the same as committing genocide while denying genocide. Excellent job. I'm not sure why you won't admit that queer genocide is just not that big a deal to you because that's what you keep dancing around.
i got so high earlier tonight that it felt like it was the first time for too brief of a moment.
i realized that the shit biden put me through sucked and that i wouldn't wish it on anyone and now i have an infinitesimally small chance of helping make sure that it doesn't happen to anyone else. plus it helps the progress made last a little bit longer this time around the world's historical political pendulum. it's not the right decision, but it's also not the wrong one.. the wrong one will recreate what i had to go through for others.
i think i need to get high more often; it would be a lot easier to do if sugar free and delicious edibles were a thing.
Trump.enabled Russia's action in Ukraine, which some would say aims to be genocide as well, and on a larger scale.
So it's a choice between genocide, or two genocides and fascism in the US. I know it's a shit choice, between bad and worse, but one of those two people is going to be elected. Personally I am going to vote against worse.
I'm genuinely scared Trump will win. I don't even live in USA and I'm scared of it happening. I could totally see Trump pulling out of NATO and then lives being lost because of it.
I'm sorry for what you had to go through, but we've advanced a great deal in the last 30 years with regard to social acceptance of homosexuality. Any time you have rapid progress on any issue, you'll have people whose position changed dramatically in that time period.
Those people should be celebrated. Admitting you've been entirely wrong on a social and moral issue is very difficult. By continuing to villify those who change their position to join you in the fight you make it more difficult to gather support.
Any time you have rapid progress on any issue, you’ll have people whose position changed dramatically in that time period.
By continuing to villify those who change their position to join you in the fight you make it more difficult to gather support.
given his history and his most recent actions: it's clear he hasn't changed and that progress is nothing more than transparent attempts to gain votes; as he has always done.
Politicinaa adapting their positions to be more in-line with the will of the people in order to secure votes is exactly how representative democracy is supposed to work.
Politicinaa adapting their positions to be more in-line with the will of the people in order to secure votes is exactly how representative democracy is supposed to work.
which biden will also do, as he has done, if project 2025 manages to succeed.
