• no bananaOP
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      Yeah it’s a bit old now but is about the latest British elections

  • @Freshparsnip@lemm.ee
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    244 months ago

    Absolutely nobody is against Christmas. Even people who don’t like Christmas are cool with others celebrating it. Like 90% of people who say “Happy Holidays” celebrate Christmas. But the right wing confuses inclusion of others with an attack on the majority.

    • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost
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      I mean I’m more against Christmas for the idea you need to buy gifts, and “you gotta be happy, its the one day a year to be happy!”

      But I dislike that for every holiday, not because it involves Christ or anyone else.

    • @ganbramor@lemmy.world
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      To be fair, there’s are way too many people who freak out if you put your tree up “too soon” or take it down “too late” for their personal taste. These may be the same people who worry about who’s sleeping with who, while none of affects them.

  • @asg101@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    224 months ago

    Class War never went away, but they only call it Class War when the poor fight back. Otherwise it is just “business as usual”.

    • @Freshparsnip@lemm.ee
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      154 months ago

      When you are actively voting against other people having equal rights, you don’t get to hide behind “difference of opinion”

    • @PlaidBaron@lemmy.world
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      The opinion OP is referring to: That LGBT+ people shouldnt exist.

      Your opinion sucks and should be not be treated with respect. If that ‘pushes people away’ then theyre shitty people who can’t accept the rights of others and are beyond reasoning with.

    • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost
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      “I want to be respected for who I am. My identity doesn’t define me, my actions do.”

      “Ew, gross.”

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      The constant preaching of “pride” and “acceptance” pushed more people away than it gained.

      I’m sorry - what strategy finally got us gay marriage?

      In case you didn’t realize, it hasn’t even been legal for 10 years. For real. It will have been legal for 10 years 2 months from now.

      I want you to explain to me how hiding and not talking about it was going to make it happen. Go on. Let’s hear it.

            • @HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
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              Believe it or not, I am with you. It’s so annoying to listen to people’s stories and hear their difficulties in an empathetic way.

              I wish we didn’t need to hear about it every waking second for people to get it through their skulls that people can live different lives and it doesn’t hurt anyone. Talking about it all the time, the pride parades, the talks about acceptance is all transitional. Once there is widespread acceptance in general, there will be no need for that sort of thing, as they would no longer be an oppressed group. Then you will hear about it as often as people bring up Jesus, or sportsball or anything else that people devote their entire personality to in a really annoying way.

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              Where are you that it’s in every conversation?

              Do you object to seeing cishet husbands and wives on the street holding hands? Couples kissing in movies and shows?

              You’re just a bigot. These people aren’t doing anything to you. They’re just living their lives like you and me.

      • @IMALlama@lemmy.world
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        I’m sorry - what strategy finally got us gay marriage?

        Gay marriage is presently legal in the US at a federal level due to a Supreme Court ruling, not a law. It seems inevitable that this will change given the present makeup of the court, similar to abortion.

        I am all for LGBTQ rights, but until something is passed by Congress the current situation seems precarious.

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          Who said it was about a law?

          The whole point was that queer people were out and loud and demanding to be seen.

          You’re talking about a completely different issue.

  • @Rooty@lemmy.world
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    Remove the “don’t” from her statement and it becomes punk battlejacket patch worthy.

  • Altima NEO
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    I swear half the shit trump does is to distract from from the class war. I mean the whole Greenland and Panama canal stuff?

  • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    Me, a liberal: “You need to understand that gender and ethnicity and religious tradition naturally divide us. But we can overcome all that with meritocracy. If we just stack rank everyone, we can skim the cream and anyone who works hard enough can join the professional class.”

    Also me, still a liberal: “Yeah, we’re just firing all the women, the non-Europeans, and any out LGBTQ faculty member from the organization because we need to comply with new Anti-DEI rules. No, I don’t see what that has to do with their economic position or social standing in society. Maybe they all should have just worked harder.”