https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/3758652-here-are-the-gop-senators-who-voted-against-the-same-sex-marriage-bill/

https://newrepublic.com/post/169392/full-list-republicans-vote-against-same-sex-marriage

https://www.cpr.org/2020/02/14/why-4-colorado-republicans-tried-and-failed-to-ban-gay-marriage-in-2020/

and here’s some anti LGBT-youth stuff https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb20-1144

You’ll notice that in each and every case, the anti LGBT stuff is all Conservative, because Conservatives have that ‘call to the past’ or whatever; where ‘the way things were’ in the past is always better, and in the past women didn’t have rights, LGBT people couldn’t marry, etc.

Liberals don’t actively fight against rights unless it’s an overall popular voter opinion. Conservatives do regardless.

I say this as someone who’s about as far left as one can go. I think you’re A. grossly underestimating how useful ‘letting change happen’ is when it comes to popular opinion on rights, and grossly underestimating how much damage Conservatives clawing and gnashing at allowing rights for more people is.

Gay marriage was legalized under a majority conservative court system way back in 2003.

Again, under a Liberal government. And I keep saying over and over – I know they phone it in and constantly give bigot ‘swing voters’ things they want. I’ve never said anything against that. It had a 60% approval by the public in 2015 when it was fully legalized. So again, for like the fifth goddamn time – Liberal governments can be forced to do these things by popular will. Conservatives won’t (I’m sure there’s like two examples someone will bring up, again, exception proves the rule.)

To sum: Liberals have to be forced to allow LGBT rights by popular opinion. Conservatives do this.

I’d say it was liberals that made it happen once there was overwhelming public support, which again, is performative, but drastically different from actively suppressing it. Someone has to pass the things into laws, and in the US it’s either Republicans or Democrats, and across the board any services those poor people do have was introduced through Democrats.

Again, under duress, I don’t argue otherwise. Up here in Canada it was the Liberals being forced to put Healthcare as a ‘universal’* right by the NDP (our Left wing party), then the NDP again to force Liberals to put Dental care through. But they actually did it, and the Conservatives don’t.

Liberals never actually fix what conservatives screw up.

They do, it’s just they mostly concern themselves with the economic screw ups, less-so the rights ones.

Think ‘gay people can marry and have kids to give us more economic slaves’ vs. ‘gay people can’t marry, can’t have kids, and we’re going to use them as a scapegoat for our issues.’

I think the storytelling alone it manages to get across makes it top 3.

That said I always liked this one:

Was really weird watching “Breaking Bad” just as I had cancer myself years ago (Cancer-free today 🙂).

Congratulations, friend! 🎊

Swords Bard/Swashbuckler Rogue, I’m finally going to be able to make my favourite swordsman.

I am so psyched for Swashbuckler, oh man.

Woke activists have already said that they are willing to annihilate and scorched-earth and salt-the-fields if DEI ESG woke things arent put front and centre into video games.

What exactly is your problem with ESG, which measures the social and environmental impact of a companies actions? You think we… shouldn’t hold corpos responsible for their actions?

Elon Musk doesn’t want DEI, do you think maybe there might be a good reason the US has it?

So maybe we dont need people who actively hate video games and gamers to be in the video game making industry. The woke can go be part of Hollywood leave the gamers alone.

I’m going to need you to explain how wanting representation of non cishetero characters is proof of ‘people who actively hate video games and gamers…’

You want to know who hate video games and gamers? ‘Anti-woke’ gamers. All this whining and crying over having a character be bi, or someone being (gasp) non-binary is performative and ridiculous. If your entire day and gaming experience can be ruined by someone making a non-binary character in a fucking single player RPG, that’s laughable, and the taunting you’ll receive is justified.

I bought BG3 due to constant negative comments about it. It’s woke, everyone is bi (sign me the fuck up), random misogyny, etc. I figured if they were that mad it had to be good, and 427 hours of gameplay later I am glad I did that.

Man this is, I am pretty sure, the most irony laden post I’ve seen on Lemmy.

Users of Lemmy resort to downvoting when they can’t defend their arguments.

You got absolutely obliterated because you posted two links to ‘articles,’ one of which is just some guys blog, and then refused to defend anything the articles said.

Also you don’t ‘defend’ a counter argument. You started the argument, offered a blog as ‘proof’ of an issue, when pressed on what the blog said you backed down and refused to defend it, and you just accuse everyone around of you of not having independent thought.

It is a fact that humans are more eager to show their disapproval than approval for something, like in restaurant reviews, where the only people who bother to leave a review are those with bad experiences.

YOU LITERALLY DID THIS. A guy said ‘The Godot Engine is getting better every day.’ in a post about Microsoft screwing up an app and you, yes, you started complaining about the team behind the engine! You’re like the living embodiment of irony, hahahahahaha

🤘 666 minutes, that’s metal! 🤘

Kaboom is a regular poster on the conservative community on Lemmy and also an actual fascist. Is it really at all surprising they’re complaining about it?

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To all you bi/gay/etc younglings out there, never get stuck with crazy dick.

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That is until they kicked everyone out for being “nazis”

Point to a comment where I show support for nazis.

You are the one who keep bringing up Nazi’s. You can’t bring it up, have people agree it’s good to remove Nazi’s, and then say “whoa I support the people kicked out, I don’t support nazi’s” after you yourself said they were kicked out for being nazis.

You’re your own unreliable narrator and it is both hilarious and embarrassing.

I didn’t read the articles, and don’t care about how they frame the issue. This is for the guy who asked what I was talking about.

So you… posted articles you didn’t read in support of yourself, but you won’t defend them?

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