• p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world
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    Huh. So odd that, given how long ago this started, he just now decides to eliminate the law that this came from. During election year. Soooooo weird.

    Edit: if you guys seriously have no problem with how Biden let the LGBTQ community get screwed over after all this time up until now, during election season of all times, I don’t know what to tell you. The irony. I will die on this hill.

    Edit: so I guess they have been working on this awhile. I still think the timing is incredibly sus, though. However, I am glad that they did at least start on this awhile back.

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      There needs to be something like the narcissists prayer for people who say stuff like this.

      Let’s call it the haters prayer.

      “He didn’t help.”

      “And if he did, it wasn’t even that great.”

      “And if it was, it’s not even really due to him”

      “And if it was, it still doesn’t matter due to $INSERT_WHATABOUTISM_HERE”

      “And if it still matters, he only did it to help himself (get elected).”

      Amen.

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              Fuck if I know, do you know how long the process typically takes? I certainly don’t. I was googling this while walking the dog, I’m no expert.

              I work as a government contractor and from my experience things can be held up by the silliest little things, and processes take a lot of time.

              When the recent XZ security exploit, everyone was all worried about it nearly making it’s way into Debian, a popular flavor of Linux, and at work we just laughed and said that means we’d have to worry about it it in 10 years because we’re that slow.

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                Well then, yeah, I’d say it’d earn them a little grace, and I appreciate you actually talking about it instead of going down the “uR uH rUsSiAn TrOlL111one!” path. I still think it’s convenient timing, but it’s nice to see this was at least set into motion awhile back.

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                  Yeah, an argument could be made that 2022 was a Senate election year, and this was fueled by that, but at that point we’re invalidating 2/4 years a president has to make changes.

                  On top of this, I wouldn’t be surprised by the first year being slow as they get situated, meaning year 3 is the only year that “sincere” change can be expected to be made, which is kind of…harsh. I’d hate for my accomplishments to only count 25% of the time.

                  I also really appreciate the discourse - I hope you have a great day.

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                    Now that I think about it, didn’t Biden come into a locked GOP senate? I suppose it could be possible they were making it difficult as well maybe? Anyhow yeah, same. Thanks for the engaging conversation choom.

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        This bill doesn’t affect me and I still think it’s suspiciously timed. So how is this narcissism? Genocide Joe sucks. Too say otherwise is lying to yourself and others

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          I never said this was narcissistic, I meant that, similar to the moving goalposts of the narcissists prayer being used by a narcissist for justification, some look for more and more reasons to discount good things that others have done.

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        how dare we recognize when we’re being insincerely pandered to

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          This article says the administration announced the intent to do this in 2021, progress was made in 2022. Government things typically just take time.

          As far as I can tell this isn’t a last minute pandering effort, do you agree?

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            strange how after inauguration trans folks were basically told to pipe down and wait our turn, and anything of consequence can somehow only happen during election season, meanwhile the fashier states are turning up the heat to where many of us have had to flee our homes. that’s a terrible look, especially to people who are accustomed to being treated in backhanded ways on the daily, do you agree?

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              Can you provide some links so we can have a shared understanding? The red states bit is pretty clear, but I’d like to learn more about the first part that you’re referring to

              And also, given that there’s evidence that this has been in the works for a while, why do you think it’s pandering? Links for context here would also be great.