Would like to suggest that you are in fact not okay with LGBTQ+ people. You enjoy the inflated concept of your own tolerance of them - but only when they mince delicately around your sensibilities.
Might as well say " I am tolerant of briefly being in the same space as with queer people but only when they are isolated and never in a situation where their culture, needs or comfort is centered." It's a low bar dude. You don't have to like it It's not for you and nobody is waiting on your blessing.
I'm a dumb person can I can't put most stuff in to words but I can say this is the video that pretty much describes what I don't like about the LGBTQ+ community but I'm fine with LGBTQ+ people like MYSELF and most of my family https://youtu.be/WjKjCqfMrHE
I am sorry that you aren't comfortable with hardcore Prides. There are family friendly ones if you want to go but these are spawned by a history of protests. They remain protests. The community of Prides remain as a core of organization and links of communication that can be mobilized if shit goes really south. Nobody is forcing people to go to them.
Also I will save people some time, using a video of someone who straight up says they have never BEEN to one? Really? If this person hasn't even attended one why are they speaking out about them? They do not actually know about them. If you have fallen for this respectability politic what I say is still relevant.
You may be gay but that doesn't make you tolerant of the community. You don't want to be a part of the wider community or the cutting edge of the cultue that's fine. But there are a lot of people particularly gay and lesbian people who once they "got theirs" peaced out and decided that they could disappear into the mass of the hegemony with barely a whisper. Not everyone wants to do that. Not every one can. Trans advocacy was key to making same sex marriages legal, we have been there since the beginning facing the same persecution... and some people remember and are helping to pay that back.
You want to play house and sneer at the queers great. You became what the people who fought for you fought against. Bigoted people will look to you and use your bigotry to excuse their own. That you echo their fucking talking points like a parrot who takes treats from their hands tells me you enjoy being kept. That you are as incurious about the community as the person in this video and you are using them to soothe your own bigotry just like others will use you. You don't have to like the community but you don't have to fuel some bigots fucking ego for them either. Sometimes it's tactful to keep your opinions to yourself.
OK im fine with heterosexual cis people I just don't like the community around it and stop focusing kids to think there straight your cis when there not let them figure it out later in life not when there 8
Yes I'm fine with LGBTQ+ people but I want people to figure out there gender I just don't think a 8 year old can decide on their gender because I was a shit head when I was 8 like all 8 years olds I just don't like when schools force kids to think there lgbtq+ when there not
No one is forcing any child to think THEY’RE anything other than who they are. And THERE is no proof that exists that you could provide that would argue against this fact.
You’re clearly not “fine” with the LGBTQ+, or you wouldn’t be spreading misinformation about them.
Hypothetical question, are you okay with teaching children about straight relationships? Or is that something they should figure out later in life, not when they're 8?
Removed, transphobia. The whole point isn't making kids think they are non-binary, it's to let kids who already know they are non-binary that they are normal and loved for who they are.
It's amusing to see cis-het extremists try to hold these two competing ideas in their heads:
Sexuality is entirely a choice and you can be tricked or peer pressured into having romantic feelings for another person
There is a CORRECT Sexuality and an INCORRECT Sexuality, written in the firmament of heaven. Any comment or situation that causes you to question your cisgendered or heterosexual nature is an attack on your person.
Like, which is it? Are we all naturally gender-fluid and chasing the latest popular sexual trend? Or is there a rigid biological mandate that's supposed to keep everyone straight?
Also, why are you obsessed with making babies? Just endlessly fixated on having more and more and more kids, as quickly as possible? Everything about human sexuality seems to be rooted in the theory that dudes need to be fucking and ladies need to be getting pregnant constantly.
I'm not being transphobic im fine with teaching kids about LGBTQ+ stuff I just don't like when it's forced on people like in almost all of the schools that I have attended
How it is being forced on you exactly? What precisely have you seen in “almost all of the schools” you attended where anyone was forcing kids or forcing you to be LGBTQ+?
Im not sure but both my old highschools completely banned having even a picture of a rainbow and numerous books, so I'd gladly swap with whatever reality this guy's from
That's even more complicated than I thought it was. I'm not happy about it either, but I'm also not a protest voter, so I'd have voted for Biden either way.
Yet other American weapons continue to move through the approval process unabated. That includes a potential $1 billion tranche containing tank ammunition, tactical vehicles and mortar rounds that the administration reported to Congress on Tuesday. Biden also made clear the U.S. will continue to provide defensive weapons, including interceptors for its Iron Dome air defense system.
:-/
Also
Legally, the U.S. can’t cut Israel off completely. Since 2008, the U.S. has had to weigh all arms sales to Israel and other countries in the region against the requirement that Israel maintains a “qualitative military edge” against all enemies, both state and non-state actors.
This is absolutely untrue. As Israel is in violation of international law, they are no longer eligible to receive foreign aid. The US response to the ICJ's findings has been to condemn the court and threaten its members. That's about as legal as Trump threatening the members of the SDNY over his hush money prosecution.
Misinformation or uneducated. Which one is it? I love how you compare Trump, because it gave away that you’re either a boogaloo, a tankie, or just a dumb accelerationist.
There are no universal rules or binding international laws that automatically make a country ineligible for foreign aid if it is found to be in violation of international laws.
Biden tried to stop giving them weapons, but got shut down by congress.
Republican lawmakers, along with some Democrats, have introduced legislation aimed at restricting Biden’s ability to withhold military aid. This legislation states that no federal funds may be used to halt or reverse the delivery of defense articles or services to Israel. The proposed legislation would also require certifications to Congress from the Secretaries of State and Defense to ensure that any withheld defense items are delivered to Israel. This measure reflects bipartisan support in Congress for maintaining robust military assistance to Israel despite the administration’s efforts to impose some restrictions
What you’re doing is spreading misinformation in an attempt to prevent Biden from winning the election, allowing Trump to win the election, and sending the United States into the toilet. All because because you are either brainwashed or being paid. You tell me…
“Biden” doesn’t have a choice. If you knew US foreign policy, you’d know that.
He didn’t just threaten, it got shot down in congress.
You—like many Americans—seem to have this idea that the president is all-powerful. There are checks and balances for a reason. Unfortunately, good policies can also get shot down without enough support.
But by all means, continue to spread misinformation. 🤷♂️
“Biden” doesn’t have a choice. If you knew US foreign policy, you’d know that.
He is compelled by law to halt military aid to Israel and he is refusing to abide by the ICJ.
You—like many Americans—seem to have this idea that the president is all-powerful.
This is the Unitary Executive Theory, and it isn't a problem of me holding it as an idea. The problem is Presidents enacting it unchallenged by either the US legislature or the courts.
Crazy to watch people more desperate for an empty month of rainbow themed trinkets being sold to them over more important shit but hey, you're definitely the sane one.
Look, I want to stop killing innocent civilians in Palestine too, but it doesn't mean we need to forget everything else, especially marginalized people here in the US.
Many of us can think about more than one thing at a time.
Lol fuck yeah let's give him another reason to ignore children being murdered indescriminately from the skies. They can wait a month while Biden hides behind our rainbow flag.
I'm sick of the "we can do multiple things at once" rhetoric when so often we prove no, we fucking can't. We forget the last TikTok we just watched but yeah, don't worry Palestine we just need a month.
Im not exactly excited to watch a man with no red line in sight hide behind the one on our flag.
No apologies needed. You don't mean it anyways. You're just pretending anyone not actively engaged in your focus is against it. It's a gaslighting tactic.
Lol people still not knowing what the fuck gaslighting means. My original comment was that Biden would use this to distract from the shit everyone is mad at and you proved my point by letting him use the rainbow flag as a convenient distraction to hide from his fuck ups.
I mean, you've only mentioned Palestine. You're being indifferent to Russia's attempted genocide of Ukraine, the genocide in Darfur, and the Uighur Genocide.
Are you truly indifferent to them? Or are they just among the global issues you're worried about?
If you can only focus on one thing at once, how are you deciding on which genocide to focus on?
Yeah it's almost like my original comment was about how Biden was going to use pride month to hide from bad PR and he's not getting bad PR from helping Ukraine is he? I know it's hard to focus on the entire conversation, you keep getting distracted by the most recent post. Hence my point.
The funny thing is this is not a new situation this has been happening continuously over all our lifespans not only in Palestine. And now it's not even done directly by the US military which has been the case the last decades. Activism on all fronts always has to be the way to go.
They're making a joke on the word high, there's really not much else to read into it. It's a joke. Wave their flags high can mean holding them high up or waving their flags while under the influence.
In many ways, it’s as bad for lgbtq+ people as it was in the 90s, especially trans kids. Suicide rates are sky high for these folks, and the bigotry is everywhere. It’s disgusting.
I’ll second this question. I’ve seen a bunch of “hasn’t done enough” but it hasn’t been followed up with what that is. OP could you please share the solutions Biden has at his disposal that aren’t being executed?
I ask this as someone who is ignorant of those, not trying to argue.
The few times these fuckers bother to answer it's always some vague "pressure the legislature" or "make a speech" or some other shit he's already doing.
"If he just says mean words about them they'll come around! So will Republicans! He just needs to loudly criticize him!"
"But he's done that"
"HE'S NOT SAYING THE RIGHT MAGIC WORDS"
It's quite interesting how it always comes down to this argument, that Biden just needs to be mean to Manchin and Sinema and then they'll do everything that Biden says. Some extend the same logic to Republicans, which is just hilariously laughable.
Sorry I was out late last night got the start of Pride month.
Employment protections, housing protections, parental protections for adoption, enhance the hate crime bills, mental health access. Those are a start. Also needs universal healthcare, guaranteed housing, and other basic human rights.
Biden could have put massive pressure on his party to pass the Equality Act to safeguard the rights of people of any sexuality or gender. He could have done so fiercely and publicly, and campaigned in the home states of those like Manchin and Sinema to threaten their seats if they did not comply.
Dems, who just love their identity politics, could have been actual allies during the first 2 years of Biden’s presidency while they held the supermajority and passed this, but chose not to. Are you really surprised? For the second time in as many decades, they also chose not to codify Roe v Wade, and this time it cost us women’s bodily autonomy.
Biden could have put massive pressure on his party to pass the Equality Act to safeguard the rights of people of any sexuality or gender. He could have done so fiercely and publicly, and campaigned in the home states of those like Manchin and Sinema to threaten their seats if they did not comply.
Somehow I don't think "be mean to them!" would've made them suddenly fall in line. I find so often that arguments get distilled down to this, that Biden just needs to say the right words and then everyone will agree with him.
That's not how it works. If it was, Sanders would be president with a House and Senate that were 100% progressive. The uncomfortable fact is that there is no malicious self sabotage here -- it just wasn't possible.
Regarding Roe, there have never been 60 Democrat senators in favor of codifying Roe, or 50 Democrat senators willing to overturn the filibuster to codify it. Progressive senators needed to be elected, and weren't. If everyone who wanted abortion to be an unalienable right went out and voted for a progressive senator in 2016, 2020, or 2022, it could've easily been passed. But people didn't bother.
Perhaps those Senate candidates should've fiercely campaigned and denigrated pro abortion voters who refused to come out and vote? After all, you claim it's a magic cure all strategy to get people to do what you want.
I honestly could not disagree with your assessment more.
There’s literally a term for this “being mean to them” - it’s called using the bully pulpit, and in our finest moments of federal progressive activism it has proven incredibly effective. Read into how FDR managed to deal with the obstructionist Dixiecrats to learn more about this tactic.
Quite conversely, Senator Sanders is widely regarded as too nice. He wasn’t willing to fully commit to attacking establishment democrats for their corrupt ways, and many consider this to be the real reason he didn’t capture the nomination.
Speaking of establishment corruption - Dems had the 60 seats during Obama’s first term and chose not to pursue Roe codification. They had months to do so before Kennedy died, and I assure you that legislation has been drafted and ready to go for decades. They just needed to vote on it, but chose not to in order to continue fear mongering and fund raising over abortion rights. More recently during Biden’s first term, they could have abolished the filibuster to pass it once the Supreme Court’s motivations became clear via the leaked memo, but again chose to do nothing. That’s the establishment DNC for you.
Lastly, bullying voters is a losing strategy Dems have employed since at least 2016.it didn’t work then, and it isn’t working now. Consider demanding leadership with conviction instead.
I think you mean to direct this comment to republican lawmakers who are ACTIVELY making lives worse for LGBTQ+ people. The president does not have legislative powers in this country. What do you expect the president to be able to do when the republican-run legislatures and courts have gone rogue? A proclamation here and there (literally he just did this), or an executive order (which he has signed multiple over the course of the administration). These however are easily undone by the other branches or government or by former president shitbag if he retakes the throne. I’m not sure how you can claim silence from the administration. Frustration with the whole situation, sure, but you can’t pin this on Biden.
Although downvotes are not everything and maybe Lemmy skews one way.
I do have to ask, looking back now considering you got ratio’d. Do you take a look at your argument and see if perhaps you’re incorrect or just double down?
Not trying to call you out here. Just wondering how people with completely differing thoughts on a topic look back at them.
Clearly here it isn’t up for debate that Reps control the legislation and not the Democratic president, so your last comment is wild to me.
No. “But it could be worse” is a stupid argument that glosses over a president that’s been pretty shitty in response to a tidal wave of hate towards the lgbtq community during his administration. And I’m not going to sit here and pretend otherwise.
And for anyone else who wants to pretend, that’s all you’re doing. Pretending
You’re missing the point. They’re pointing out that Biden, as shit as he is and genocide supporting, is literally powerless to pass laws with a Republican legislature. Like it is literally impossible, you see that right.
I’m not missing anything and this has nothing to do with genocide. He did more as VP by just standing up and speaking out. Now, he’s been practically silent.
And I don’t need apologists like you lecturing me on how the government works.
I’m not a centrist. I just don’t believe Biden should get credit where it’s not due. As vice president he engaged in plenty of LGBTQ advocacy. Not so much as president.
I apologize. I’ve been getting nothing but pushback here (as you see), and I confused your reply for that.
Look, we have VP Biden to thank for Obama going full-in on LGBTQ policy support. But where is that same gusto, that fervor with President Biden?
Nowhere.
The best he’s done is to reinstate or reconstruct Obama-era policies that MAGAts tore up, but only barely, and he’s done absolutely nothing to push things further. Worse, in the face of the worst onslaught against LGBTQ rights in decades, he’s all but silent.
I understand that the president isn’t an emperor and cannot simply dictate laws, but he can stand up and speak out. Obama did. Once, even Biden did. He did that a lot as vice president. Yet, as president, he has done absolutely none of that for the last four years, and it’s a sickening disappointment.
What’s proven to impossible? Do new laws never get passed.
The lives of the LGBTQ+ community is infinitely better than it was when I was growing up in the 90’s, that’s called progress and I for one am supportive of those changes. Sure we can do more, but pretending things have not improved is just crazy.
The dissonance here is pretty staggering don’t you think?
the only dissonance here is refusing to accept the that he was instrumental in putting us in this situation in the first place and believing that the token gestures he's given makes up for all of it.
Dude you’re pulling up voting records from a decade ago and one in the 1970’’s. Sure it’s wild, but how about this executive order From two years ago
Way to cherry pick your sources, ignoring the one that supersedes the others ones.
To be clear Biden is a cunt, but even a cunt appears to have grown over time.
You guys love your constitution so much but forget it was written by racist slave owning bigots.
You’ve actually helped to prove my point that things now are better for us in the LGBTQ+ community than it ever has been, had you had Trump in office right now you think it would be better. The Republicans don’t even agree with women having control over their reproductive rights for fucks same.
Democrats are shit, republicans are worse. That’s your choice. Pick one. If you can’t then don’t blame me that you have a two party system.
Only addressing your point on what downvotes mean as a reflection of understanding:
Idk about you, but I have had posts/ comments in the past that have had massive downvotes, but I also am confident in those takes because I've either studied them for my degree or I'm a professional in the field and have first hand experience. Sometimes the mob is wrong.
For instance, I am a music teacher, and understand how difficult it can be when two kids come to you crying after some incident, and while trying to manage a whole classroom I have to make a judgement call on who and how to discipline within 30 seconds. When I've said "hey I'm sorry your teacher punished you when you were the one bullied, but they also didn't have the resources and frankly we're not omnipotent, this is more of an issue administration has power over" I got down voted to hell.
That said, when my takes have consistently been downvoted to hell over a period of months, I would likely take a deeper dive. My degree was political science, and I had a harsh take on FDR, and while I still feel he's a bit overrated, I recognize I was leaning into him deeper than needed.
I can't pin it on Biden, but Democrats had the majority in the House and Senate for the first 2 years of his presidency. They had the opportunity to protect LGBTQ+ people. The catch is that they would have had to end the filibuster forever. They chose to protect the filibuster.
There was a majority in the House, and it was 50-50 in the Senate. With Harris being the tiebreaker, that's a majority.
I also remember the line from 2022 being "If you want to pass things progressives are clamoring for, we need more Democrats." So we elected an additional Democrat. Then Sinema left the party. Then Fetterman was like "Sucker!" and sprinted toward the center. And now Manchin has left the party.
So we need MORE Democrats. That's the point. If you only give us a slim majority we're beholden to the 2 or 3 blue dog conservative Dems. 2 additional progressives and we could have told Manchin and Sinema to pound sand.
2 additional progressives and we could have told Manchin and Sinema to pound sand.
Please. We elected an additional progressive in '22 and wound up with two fewer Democrats and the progressive we picked up turned out to be a centrist.
It doesn't matter how big a majority we give Democrats. There are always just enough Manchins.
That's absolutely not true. That one time you fickle fuckers gave us enough Democrats for like 4 months, we got Obamacare. Imagine what we could get with 4 years or so.
We gave Democrats a supermajority. They killed the public option with it. They made damned sure to bail out their owners in the banking industry and make sure the only one of them who saw any consequences was the guy who scammed rich people. And had no interest whatsoever in codifying Roe.
And just like Biden's first two years, they could have ended the filibuster forever with a simple majority, so your "four months" argument is just another pro-failure excuse.
Well, yes, but there are a lot more people who support them. I feel like you can’t have a conversation without failed attempts at making me feel bad as a person.
My kid and a bunch their friends deal with it, and I and many others are there to help them. And it sucks for them BIG TIME. It's hard, even with supportive family and friend groups. My kid had two classmates just this year lose their lives to suicide due to LGBTQ hate.
The 90s were worse.
I really think you have no idea what you're saying.
(this reads like a rant but it's a message of remembrance and reflection)
Rose-colored glasses? I remember my realization in the 90s and being in the closet for the entire 00s. Me and other queer peers were terrified of our own family, openly being mocked in school by students and faculty, I have friends that have attempted suicide more times than I have fingers per person. You should not know the ER staff on a first-name basis. Friends who didn't reveal they were trans until they were in their 30s and separated from anyone but their closest, most trusted friends. Friends who still, after years of therapy, are still suffering from depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts. And this spreads wide with the people I grew up with. It'd actually genuinely be difficult to think of someone in my extended social circle that didn't have the view that school was literal hell because of the constant belittling, insulting, second-class treatment from everyone from the students to the principal (I can think of literally just one individual). We had at least one person I know of who viewed the Columbine shooters as someone they looked up to, because of how badly they were treated at a place where you are supposed to be safe.
It's not all rainbows and unicorns now, but it's a stark contrast to what it was 20+ years ago. Children shouldn't have to wonder if they are going to be stabbed or shot or beaten by so-called 'adults' and 'caregivers' for who they like. They shouldn't be scared of being put out on the fucking street for taking their partner to prom. They shouldn't have to create a second life of lies and then mirror that data around so if anyone questions anyone in the friend circle, the stories match up.
A child/teenager should be happy and joyous, not like a fucking prison sentence. 20 years ago, it was. I lived that hell, many of us did. Abuse everywhere you turned, even if you were still in the closet (to everyone but us). People were absolute terrible bastards, but the victims are changing that, because we are the people those fucks who call themselves adults should have been. Everyone I've spoken about is in a better place now - scarred physically, suffering from mental trauma, often still questioning why they don't make today their last, every single day. But we are still here, we have always supported each other, and we want this hellhole to never be experienced by others ever again. A tall order, but we are trying.
I'm sure there's thousands, shit, millions of others just like us. We are the shy, timid ones, boiling in our memories of bullshit, our permanent rage. Suffering one last time in the hopes that others don't have to. Out in the world, some of us just want peace and quiet, to be left alone and forgotten, as their defense. Some carry weapons, due to their location and popular opinion against them. Some relocated to more accepting parts of the world, many right out of high school. But we all want all of us to live safer, happier, better lives. Together, we make progress, bit by bit.
My siblings and their friends, I hear them talk about things now and then. A few years makes a huge difference in tolerance - two decades might as well be completely different planets.
Just don't pretend or romanticize years past, is all I'm saying. Progress is forward, not backward.
One that struck me is how Biden handled monkeypox. Under Trump, monkeypox would have been a "gay disease" that would have not been taken seriously at all. The Biden administration took it seriously and now I've completely forgotten it was a thing.
I posted an entire fucking list. The letters in blue will send you to another website with that list if you click it. It's amazing what they've done for internet formatting these days.
your list only goes back 2.5 years; here's a tip of the iceberg of a list that goes back MUCH longer with the first including a reference to a pro-gay politician in 1984:
thirsty is the right word; biden has spent all except the last 2.5 years as an influential anti-gay politician and hearing him called the most pro-gay president ever is heart breaking as someone who has had to live with his anti-gay policies and votes.
Aww man, wish I caught that. Why didn't the Biden administration help the LGBT community 40 years ago!? He really wasn't a great president in 1984. /S
Look, his recent record shows the kind of administration he's running, and what we could expect in the next 4 years. You may remember he (and Obama) said he believed marriage was between a man and a woman during the 2008 debates. Then, you may remember under the same administration, Gay marriage was federally legalized. It's not like he's going to go back to his pre-2008 stance in November.
Aww man, wish I caught that. Why didn’t the Biden administration help the LGBT community 40 years ago!? He really wasn’t a great president in 1984. /S
there were plenty of pro-gay politicians in 1984 and biden's track record of actively making it worse is a 30 second google search away.
... You may remember he (and Obama) said he believed marriage was between a man and a woman during the 2008 debates. Then, you may remember under the same administration, Gay marriage was federally legalized...
gay marriage was made legal through the courts so it became legalized in spite of that administration; not because of it.
Wtf are you talking about? Do you not remember DOMA being repealed which was crucial for gay marriage to pass? Here is a quick list for you to use as evidence that the Obama administration was hostile to LGBTQ people.
Wtactualf are you talking about? Yes there were a handful, but being gay was ESPECIALLY a political death sentence then. Saying this just erases the fraught past we've had, and doesn't recognize the INSANE amount of progress we've made.
Also if you read my comment you'd recognize that argument is moot, as his current administration is what is important.
You gotta go and audit your history YouTube channels. You're getting some wacked info.
the obergefell v. hodges supreme court case made doma invalid. you're thinking of the respect for marriage act which not only had no impact but allowed for people to legally protected if they rejected gay marriage.
hollywood and political agitators made that progress happen; while those people you're supporting remained neutral at best and voted against it at the worst.
It’s a good thing he’s not going to be running for president 40 years ago, isn’t it? Unless you’re willing to make a blanket generalization that no one can change, maybe back way from the microphone.
it speaks to the heart of biden's character; he literally singled out and made the lives of a vulnerable group of people miserable for decades because it got him votes. he didn't change; he just switched faces to get votes and blue maga is giving him a pass despite him being an instrumental figure that created the the political reality we have in this country today.
he'd still be voting against gay people too if it weren't for younger voters making that a problem for him and he's still exactly the same he was on every single other issue; ask the railroad strikers; or people crippled by student loan debt; or refugees imprisoned for fleeing from persecution; or the palestinians in gaza if you doubt that much.
The problem with getting all your news from social media is that when you surround yourself with people who only share the one kind of news, you don’t get all of the other news that is very important.
As other people are saying to you, all you have to do is look for it and you will find a list of the pro-lgbt actions this administration has done.
The problem with getting all your news from social media is that when you surround yourself with people who only share the one kind of news, you don’t get all of the other news that is very important.
As other people are saying to you, all you have to do is look for it and you will find a list of the pro-lgbt actions this administration has done.
likewise, all you have to do is look for it and you'll find a much longer list of biden's anti-lgbt actions.
Also, most of what you said is either untrue or opinion.
If you’re going to throw shit, don’t manipulate the truth. December 2022, he signed legislation that imposed a labor agreement to avert a national railroad strike. This action effectively prevented the strike but did not force workers back to work, as the strike had not yet begun.
Weren't you just criticizing someone for invalidating your experiences? That's exactly what you're doing right now to the person above.
If they say shit is much better for them and their loved ones right now, don't say they're just pretending that's the case. If you want to be respected for saying things are personally no better for you, don't tell someone else they're just pretending if they say things are better for them now.
Otherwise you just come off as an incredibly disingenuous asshole.
Weren't you just criticizing someone for invalidating your experiences?
No, that’s what you’re doing. Hypocrite.
What I was doing is calling out obvious, self-serving bullshit that has no evidentiary basis. I am not to blame if you are in capable of differentiating those two things. The pain you feel from such mental gymnastics? That’s an indication that you’re doing something unfit and wrong.
Take your irrational anger out on someone else. Start with those who are the blame, not just who is in front of you. That’s what children do.
You should take your own advice instead of screeching at everyone. I must admit though, you're quite right, my head does hurt from reading your awful mental gymnastics.
Don't you think your constant rage at everyone is a sign here that you're doing something hypocritical and wrong?
I'm guessing probably not, but people have come to epiphanies of self growth from even less likely situations.
You’re the one who came here, with your crybaby tantrums, and spread your dirty diaper mess all over a rational conversation. Don’t blame me for your actions.
I am not to blame for your mental illness. If you cannot exercise enough self-control to keep your mouth shut, I am not responsible for that.
But I will forever be here to dish out the consequences.
You’re the one who came here, with your crybaby tantrums, and spread your dirty diaper mess all over a rational conversation. Don’t blame me for your actions.
I am not to blame for your mental illness. If you cannot exercise enough self-control to keep your mouth shut, I am not responsible for that.
As such, it is your choice to reply with whatever delusional hallucinations you can muster, and I’ll respond by reminding you as such.
You started this thinking you could “win “some thing. I will end this, ensuring that you will learn a new definition of losing.
If you cannot exercise enough self-control to keep your mouth shut, I am not responsible for that.
You're the one who's posted two replies within a few minutes lmao
Regardless though, I thank you for your response. It isn't often that someone proves of their own accord that they're completely unhinged.
Feel free to keep responding though. You're just proving the point further and further, and I doubt that's going to end. Go ahead, keep projecting. I'm enjoying the free entertainment.
Your obsessive compulsion to keep digging in to an argument you lost hours ago is your fault, not mine
And I will continue pointing out this absurd, childish mistake, every time you stupidly reply.
You lost this argument, the moment you commented. Every comment you make henceforth is just a piteous plea for both attention, and your own redemption, neither of which will ever come
i was there too, like you and you're forgetting that biden actively actively made the situation back in the 90's and 00's worse by voting against gay marriage; against gays in the military; and advocating against gays in federal service.
things got better in spite of biden et al. efforts; not because of them.
less than not much; he literally voted against gay marriage; gays in the military; and publicly supported banning gays from federal service.
then again he did sit and do nothing for decades to opportunistically switch sides to cash in on votes after we & hollywood worked our entire lives to change american hearts and minds on gay people.
Oof I pressed a nerve, okay, let me rephrase. What you said doesn't make sense because to anyone with half a brain at the time, being gay in the 90s was fucking awful. And that's not a personal attack, a personal attack would be you sound like either a troll or delusional, and in either case you clearly have a poor grasp on your emotions judging from how defensive you got.
I don’t care if it makes sense to you, and honestly, that doesn’t matter. You came in hot, invalidating my experiences, and the things I have seen with my own eyes, basically calling me a liar. and unless you were there, by my side at that moment, you cannot fucking say that. Because you don’t fucking know.
I think you're projecting, i came in with a mildly pointed response saying my opinion differed, you immediately became hostile, and judging from the rest of this thread it's probably due to how much you've been arguing with people here about this. Honestly I think you should take a break from this thread, sleep on it, and come back tomorrow
Would you be willing to tell us about it? Why is life so much worse now than the period of stuff like the AIDS crisis, Section 28 and Romer v Evans... Before the widespread recognition and legalization of same sex marriage and the lowered barriers for trans people to change their identification documents that resulted.
I think you have people legitimately confused for your reasons because a lot of that history is painted as essentially a war and mass genocide by inaction primarily of lesbian, gay and bisexual people. While I know of a few of my trans elders have said that there was less individual heat on trans identities as there are now, it still doesn't seem like on the whole it was a great time. People were still murdered for being trans and a lot of the fight for non-binary trans people were struggling with much deeper form of erasure.
I think people are concerned that what you are putting forward is your personal experience which may be narrower than the full encompassing experience of the entire LGBTQIA which it is assumed the question is being asked about. The birds eye veiw, of all the identities and the culture of the movement from that full ten year span. It's generally assumed by younger people that most things are better now because at least we aren't dropping like flies so it's natural that the reaction to your opinion is disbelief.
*Edit, Removed an example event that was in the eighties.
I’m not interested in indulging your hallucinations or drug induced hypotheticals. I Live it here, today. And if you’re not willing (or capable of) to deal with reality, then you clearly are not capable of having a rational conversation.
I’m sorry this may be the first time that someone finally stood up to you and told you that you’re bat shit fucking insane, but this is actually quite a normal reaction to the type of person you are, and the things you said.
If you wish to continue your behavior, expect more of this. I certainly am not going to stop calling you out.
Lmao at you blaming me for your actions. Wow
YOU choose to stop with your lies and hallucinations. YOU choose to stop replying with your mentally-ill suppositions. YOU alone are responsible for you actions.
And I will continue to hold you to account until you stop. Don’t like it?
The only incivility is your blaming victims for defending themselves. And for that, your hypocrisy is glaringly, obvious, you massive piece of fucking shit.