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Considering Trump wants to define trans people out of existence and make our care illegal, outlaw gay marriage, and classify any queer person in public as a sex offender and put them in prison, yeah I'd think queer people are better under biden than they would be under trump.

While accurate that pay needs to rise too, some people would kill (not literally) for just a 5% increase. A lot of people have 10-15% increases so it just being 5 percent would be huge for millions of renters. And it's not like landlords aren't already increasing rent every year.

It's so nice having my rights be shat on on such a high profile stage. They really can't handle that trans people exist and have always existed, and they might even find some of us attractive.

I also really appreciate the article talking about the bullshit myth that trans athletes have some kind of advantage in sports. I don't usually see that.

Anyone who says to not let politics affect your relationships is incredibly privileged and thinks that politics is just about taxes and different spending habits.

Carlson "proof" was that a producer of his show who is also gay said so. Saying about his producer, "Gays all keep close track of that stuff.” I didn't know that gay folk all knew each other. I'm sure Tucker Carlsons producer is a well-connected gay person, totally not just a self-hating gay person who hates their community and anyone who is a part of their community who is well known.

Jack Smith is a special counsel. He was appointed by the Attorney General. That's how those appointments work. Was Robert Hurr being appointed to investigate biden classified documents illegal? Was John Durham's appointment for investigating the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation illegal? None of the special counsels in recent history have been appointed by the president or approved by the senate because that's not what a special counsel is. It is a DoJ job appointed by the Attoryney general or, if the attorney general has recused himself, the assistant attorney general.

Their last statement was very poorly worded but did seem to be just a continuation of the policy that had already existed. This is actually the right, or at least better, way to phrase things. I knew people who thought they were saying all gender affirming care should be left to adults with their prior statement, so I'm glad we got this clarification. That said, that's all it is, a clarification. This was only a story because of their poor phrasing. Hopefully, now my fellow trans folk can relax a little until the election in November decides whether or not we get made illegal.

Do you have a specific candidate that most fits with your ideals?

Ozma, I've got an actual question for you. For months you've been posting that you think biden will be replaced as the nominee at the convention. Before now you thought it was gonna be Newsom. My question is, if Newsom did replace biden, would that change your vote in november from third party to democrat? I'm not trying to be shitty here, I'm just genuinely curious.

I wonder if he'll feel that way when he's put on trial on live television and sentenced to death. Or, if that doesn't happen, if he'll feel that way when millions of minorities are killed by trumps brown shirt equivalents or sent to camps to die. Course, he'll probably be dead by the time everything comes to fruition even if he doesn't get sentenced to death cause he's so old.

She has 0 experience winning elections. She has 0 experience passing progressive policy. She has 0 experience debating and communicating progressive ideals. She has 0 experience in politics in general. And she has 0 interest in being a politician.

This is just like people wanting Oprah to run. She's a popular black woman so obviously she should run? That's stupid reasoning. Being a mom doesn't give you any experience for running a fucking country. Same shit as thinking we should run the country like we run our households.

Michelle will never run and she shouldn't because she's just a partner of past politician.

While there's a lot of fine print reasons, I'd imagine it all goes back to 1 thing. Bigotry.

I think something interesting about this, besides how bullshit the immunity claim is, is that trump doesn't have immunity for private actions. So in New York, he wouldn't be immune and will still face repercussions. Meanwhile, kicking the decision on what constitutes an official act back to the lower courts is a bullshit delay tactic. It's still a bad decision all around that definitely puts presidents above the law. But there's still more to it than that.

Breaking: Rich tech guy thinks that the energy draw from rich tech projects is nothing to worry about.

Silver's model will only actually matter once voting starts. Until then he may as well be a poll aggregator. Which, if the polls are flawed, then his aggregation and model will be flawed.

Fantastic article. Reminds me of a letter that Gandhi wrote to German jews, saying that if they simply were respectable to their oppressors, if they simply were always kind, that the Germans would naturally feel bad for them and stop being so antisemitic. It's all bullshit. My family insists on respectability politics, and a lot of people in my area do too, although that's not surprising since I live in a red state. Even have had people at pride say that we shouldn't pay attention or counterprotest the bigots that yell slurs at us and call us pedophiles. I've done away with respectability politics in my own life but I hate having to have family lecture me on why me being disrespectful will simply make the Nazis stick around longer, that really all we need to do is ignore them and they'll go away or stop being so Nazi. It didn't work for Jews in the 20s and 30s in Germany, and it won't work now. Again, great article, I'm gonna share it with my family even if they end up still disagreeing.

There's a great documentary about something similar to this, the pray away the gay movement which is essentially this same thing. It's Pray Away and it's on Netflix. It's fantastic and goes into how many people who are in this super anti-LGBT sphere are in fact members of the community just in deep repression.

Conversion Therapy is torture. And there's different intensities of it. I once had a super catholic girlfriend, literally majored in theology at a catholic school in Virginia. The entire time we were together she refused to go to communion or engage in church rituals. Not because she thought the church was shit to queer folk, but because she personally believed that being queer was a sin and that if you are gay you have to be celibate. She genuinely believed that our relationship was inherently sinful, she was constantly trying to "save me" the entire relationship too. Now, she never went to a place to be "converted", but she was home schooled and was almost always around bigoted Catholics, she believed in the church and what priests and her parents told her so much that she literally majored in it. Just being in a religious community that is bigoted is conversion therapy. It makes you believe the things others say, makes you hate yourself because you're queer, makes you desperately pray to god to fix you. That is just as much a conversion therapy as being forced to go to a place to "convert you" is.

Fuck this guy and what he's done, I hope he knows the harm he's caused the community and that he knows some of us will not forgive him.

He's been fake crying a lot. Again, last weekend he was fake crying about "being shutdown" and about how "amazing the crew is" and how he loves the crew so much that he views the crew as himself. "I literally think of you all as me" was what he was repeating. His fake tears are the most stereotypical fake tears that you can imagine. Think of what you think of as the worst possible fake tears, and that's what he was doing.

People in the news give Alex way too much credit, he's as terrible as he's always been and he ALWAYS has ulterior motives. The more people pretend that he's genuine in any way, the bigger the platform he has to spew his trash.

Well, this past weekend, he talked as if it was his last show, that they were "gonna put the padlocks on the building and close us down" and that he knew they were going to do that because his powers told him so, powers from God. They even did a greatest hits with guests like Roger stone, Steve bannon, and Nick Fuentes and best of all, Flat Earth Dave (not really best of all but it was a hell of a segment). They also had actual clips of past times Alex has been, well, Alex. He also pretty clearly got drunk during the show. But this isn't the end for him. He'll just go work for his dad doing the exact same thing. As Alex has frequently said, his dad is basically his only sponsor now. So whatever happens to infowars, this isn't the end of Alex Jones. Even if it should be.

I wish more Americans were actually aware of why there's a lot of people at our southern border. How it's almost entirely our fault that people are having to flee their homes. Biden doing this is simply trying to cover his ass but it's still fucking stupid. We should be welcoming basically everyone in. Refusing to is just white replacement theory. But I guess I'm a "globalist" for thinking so.