• Ashe
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    8 months ago

    Onion article or not it’s a 2001 post, which says a lot in it’s own right.

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      8 months ago

      You’re right, we should all stop watching George Carlin b/c he’s been dead since 2008. Nothing he says could be relevant anymore, right?

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        8 months ago

        How was the gay rights movement back then? If memory serves correctly, not great!!

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            8 months ago

            And your opinion is that the best option is to turn tail and sit pretty for the cishets?

            Don’t tell me to wake the fuck up and diminish me, soapboxing about your murdered trans friends. I am trans, I’m close to people who have had to flee their states, fallen victim to (tw: a lot)>!employment discrimination, loss of medical care, reversion of changed ID gender markers, assault, rape, homelessness due to familial rejection.!<

            So while I’m glad you can feel good about yourself wanting to sanitize pride parades and events. I assure you that is not the issue. It’s satanic panic all over again, we’re lucky it’s not the AIDS crisis on top of it. Instead it’s a bunch of puppets who lap up their anti trans propaganda. Go listen to some conservative “talking points” and you’ll quickly realize there is no rationalizing with these people. There is no room for civil discussion.

            Don’t tell me to wake the fuck up, and to “smell the flowers” until you’ve written hundreds of letters to your state house of representatives. Only to be met with a paltry two responses, with only one being a truly heartfelt response.

            There’s one important thing to never forget: Armed queers bash back. Don’t ever forget it. Stay safe out there.

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              8 months ago

              I actually agree with you, pride parades are not the issue. Just one of many.

              The real issue is leftists can’t cooperate with each other these days. We are too busy dividing each other into smaller and smaller “in-groups” and “out-groups” using arbitrary criteria no one can agree on, while conservatives are as loyal and united as ever.

              We are all about to be f*cking steamrolled, especially if a certain orange man wins the next election.

              That’s why I’m urging you to wake up. Not to try to be condescending. But because we have a lot of fucking work to do, and everyone in this thread seems convinced that things are just fine and dandy how they are!