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[–]reluctant_commenter[S] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

If I were American I would not support the Democrats at all.

I'm not a single-issue voter, and other issues such as policy on the pandemic and climate change are my priorities before gender identity ideology. I may have to change that stance depending on how extreme stuff gets. But there are a lot of reasons why L/G/B people (not the so-called "queer community" which is more focused on alternative lifestyles than LGB rights) might be Democrats, apart from these topics.

Didn’t Nancy Pelosi ban the use of gendered words like mother, father, brother, sister, aunt, uncle and cousin (which is a sex-neutral term by the way)?

Yeah, and I find that ridiculous.

And make no mistake - with the dominance of Hollywood and Silicon Valley, other English-speaking and western countries will follow suit unless people collectivise and rebel against this insanity.

Yes, this is what I am most worried about.

[–]Preachy_Jerk 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

But there are a lot of reasons why L/G/B people (not the so-called "queer community" which is more focused on alternative lifestyles than LGB rights) might be Democrats

You're the reason we can't have nice things. I used to volunteer my precious time for the Democratic Party. Now everybody I thought I agreed with has total amnesia of the Bush years, and has abandoned every moral principle I thought they had in favor of blind allegiance to the Democratic Party.

The sabotage of America is a long story, but the last two decades have been catastrophic. Before Biden worked with Bush to push through the Iraq war, the main economic issues were what to do with the surplus, and whether it would be bad to pay off the national debt too fast. The Democrats could have stopped the war, but they chose to invade Iraq. Nancy Pelosi, and later Barack Obama, protected the Bush administration from investigation or impeachment related to the war lies and torture scandal.

The schemes they used to finance the wars while cutting taxes led to the financial crisis. Millions of families were evicted from their homes while Obama and Biden protected the wealthy people who helped cause the crash. Black household wealth was almost wiped out. They continued the Iraq withdrawal demanded by the Iraqi government, but then overthrew the government of Libya and tried to do the same in Syria. This caused the worst refugee crisis since WWII. And it turns out that when you destabilize a Muslim country, LGBT people get slaughtered en masse. This happened in all of those countries.

If you don't care about the millions of people whose lives were destroyed, then think about the fact we've pissed away $28 trillion since then with fuck all to show for it. For comparison, China spent $350 billion building 14,000 miles of high-speed rail.

And you just voted to reward the people who did all this. Congratulations.

And by the way, I was first in line to see Al Gore's fear porn movie in 2005. I guess I helped him buy that mansion that consumes 21x as much energy as the average American home. Did anyone ever tell you that all these "record" fires in California are bullshit? The natural annual burn area of California's ecosystem, the area that burned in a normal year before large-scale human settlement, was significantly more than the "record" fire years we have now. This isn't even controversial. I have family there and pay close attention to the coverage, but I've never heard any major news network mention that fact while covering the fires. But they can't go five minutes without mentioning "climate change". Wonder why.

[–]reluctant_commenter[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You made an account 2 hours ago just to insult me? This is beyond off topic.

Make your own subreddit or thread if you want to harass people. Thanks.