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    9 days ago

    I don’t get it… if he doesn’t like gay sex why doesn’t he just stop having gay sex and call it a day

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    Gay people have always been with us and will continue to be with us. Stay the hell out of peoples bedrooms you damn Nazis.

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      Stay the hell out of peoples bedrooms you damn Nazis.

      Unfortunately, we have a large and wealthy class of people who believe kicking in your bedroom door and arresting you for the crime of fucking is good public policy. And until those people lose power, they will continue to fund the social and literal murder of the LGBTQ community.

      Complicating things further, we have monetized the process of stigmatizing minority groups. So not only do we have a wealthy upper class that believes in sexual prohibition. We have a profit-seeking industrial system that wants to maximize the amount of money generated through surveilling, assaulting, imprisoning, and publicly castigating members of the underclass. Until that engine of profit-seeking is destroyed, we’re going to see poor residents turned against one another in the struggle to access the enormous economic surpluses horded by the upper class.

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        The only way for them to lose power is for them to lose their life. But not enough of you Lefties own guns compared to MAGA, and you continue to vote in favor of restricting ownership in most blue/left-leaning states. So it’s not going to be well for anyone for the next fifty years.

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          not enough of you Lefties own guns

          I think you’d be surprised how many do. But guns aren’t magic. I haven’t seen anyone clearly articulate what we do with our guns that we have.

          Not the least bit because anyone bold enough to try is kicked off the site.

          Curiously enough, the 2nd amendment is less useful than the 1st

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            Curiously enough, the 2nd amendment is less useful than the 1st

            Isn’t the whole point of 2A to empower the whole people to put down a tyrannical government?

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              No. It is to empower local militias to take land from unincorporated native peoples.

              Absent the legal authority to communicate your grieveness, congregate a movement in opposition, and define your ideological tenants free from persecution, how do you build up a militia with which to resist a tyrannical state?

              Unless you’re psychic, there’s no way to mobilize a mass movement. The best you can do as a lone gunman is stocastic violence.

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          They can also lose power by being endlessly ridiculed to the point that people vomit on them the moment they are seen in public.

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            I know you’re joking, but all that will do is get you arrested and put in prison, nor fix the underlying issue that fascism keeps coming back due to pacifist dipshits are afraid to deter them with armed protests and violent rhetoric.

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    Wake up folks and see how religion is a great way for those in power to control you. Stop giving money to religious groups and religion loses all of its power.

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      Religion is a tool used by Fascist. You don’t defeat Fascism by pretending one of its tools is the true problem. Religion can just as easily be a tool of anti fascist resistance movements. Removing that tool from leftist movements has been a vital flaw of many revolutions.

      I am not religious. But saying we should abolish religion will just have the “Ms. Rachel” types of Christians with actual real moral compass (her stance on Gaza obviously being one) caught in crossfire.

      There is no working class movement without embracing religion as a tool to form solidarity. Religion is not just all fundamentalist idiots.

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        embracing religion as a tool to form solidarity.

        I’m sorry you need religion to form solidarity, but that’s on you.

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          It’s amazing how even the cut off quote you used didn’t say that. It’s a tool that can be used mate. Can you read?

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        I don’t see where they said to abolish religion. It was a call to people to stop giving money to religion. You can be religious without donating a single cent to religion.

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          There are a lot of religious groups helping to protect people from ICE right now. Blindly saying to stop giving money to religious groups across the board is either malicious or naive. I assumed naive.

          Why do you think the feds gave the ability for ICE to enter religious buildings that use to be protected?

          Religion is a tool. It’s not good or bad in some fundamental way.

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            This is a common defense of religion, but it naively (or maliciously) ignores that secular groups help to protect people as well. Unlike religions, secular non profits are required to show how they spend their money, so the help is more direct and you can confirm if they are using the money you donate the way you want instead of some of it going to bigotry.

            If it’s a tool it’s a bad one. You can’t even check if it’s working right. It’s like a tool you can’t check and just hopes it works the way you want it to.

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              It’s not a defense of religion. I don’t know why atheist Andy’s have a hard time understanding that THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT ARE RELIGIOUS.

              So, instantly alienating religion and religious groups is just giving away a huge part of the population away to fascist propaganda. Religion can be used as a tool of anti fascist for leftist propaganda too though.

              If you don’t understand that then you clearly have never spoken with any leftist from the black communities of the South. Religion is a fundamental unifying part of any movement of solidarity there.

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                I literally am a black leftist in GA. I, nor the first person said to alienate nor abolish religion. Op said to stop giving religion money, and I pointed out giving money to religion is better spent giving money to organizations that directly help, and specifically help.

                There are also organizations working towards making communities for black people who aren’t religious, such https://blacknonbelievers.org/

                I welcome religious people and churches helping out, and I’m not going to say anyone should reject such help. I am saying, that as a religious or non religious person, directly giving to organizations that help specifically would help much more than giving to a religion. It’s similar to say the difference between getting ad revenue and Patreon or other direct donations. The latter is more effective.

                Lastly, I will say there definitely is a critique of religion, in that many either way into a global fund/membership that donates to organizations that have contributed to where we are now, or directly do so themselves. Can I gaurantee every single one does? No, mainly because as I pointed out they have special rules where they can hide where their money goes. Some small unaffiliated churches may be completely clean.

                However, those aren’t even the ones you are talking about, since you specified the large populations of religious people in the south. Those standard denominations definitely gave to anti LGBT, anti abortion, and donated to have exceptions in law carved out for themselves, which significantly contributed to GOP effort to stiffle freedoms. That money helped Trump

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    ah yes the party of small government

    definitely not authoritarian

    look, if I want to stick my dick in somebody’s ass and they want me to stick my dick in their ass, what fucking business of the government is it

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    Here’s an unbeatable strategy I learned from my carnist friends. For every gay sex he doesn’t have, I’m going to have two.

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    Conservatives spent at least two decades saying that queer acceptance is a slippery slope would lead to the normalization of incest, then bestiality, then pedophila, in that order. And then it turns out that being conservative was the thing that led to pedophila all along. So I’m left feeling like every accusation is a confession, and that homophobia is their way of covering their tracks.

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    Just can’t stop thinking about gay sex

    No better way to stop gay sex than to talk about gay sex

    Any one want to talk about gay sex?

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    When I was reading The Handmaid’s Tale couple of years ago it felt like borderline fantasy, worst possible scenario kind of thing. Now it feels like it’s maybe 5 years away.

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      Our whole continent collectively stopped analyzing fiction as warnings or analogies for what’s real.

      Or more accurately, the line between absurd fantasy and reality was slowly eroded as politicians and officials continued to push the line into the realm of the unbelievable, that people stopped caring about the line.

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        We’ve done it! At last, we’ve successfully created the torment nexus from the classic novel “Don’t Create the Torment Nexus!”

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        Or more accurately, they dumbed down the educational system so that nobody reads books any more, just whatever propaganda they feed us on our phones.

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          just whatever propaganda they feed us on our phones.

          Not wrong at all, but I encourage everyone to stop using vague language. “They” could mean a thousand different things to a thousand different people.

          Let’s call it what it is. Corporations and oligarchs. Corporations use algorithms to feed you addictive slop to keep you distracted, dumb and ill-informed so they can take over our entire ruling system and deregulate or create whatever laws they want to gain more wealth. We still have a very slim chance of shifting the narrative from a race or ethnicity war to a class war where it belongs but we have to start rallying the victims of this propaganda and we don’t get there with progressive terminology. Focus on the fact that we’re not getting anything in return for our tax money, that we’re all working harder than ever and not getting anything, that people in power are lying for money.

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      Margaret Atwood specifically only included things that have already happened to women at some point in history so nobody could say it was far-fetched or out of the realm of possibility.