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[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (12 children)

I live in a swing state, am friendly to LGB rights

Did you support the Equality Act? Trump didn't

Did you support anti LGBT justices? Trump did.

Did you support the legalization of workplace discrimination against gay employees? The Trump administration did

Do you think transgender people should be able to serve in the military? Trump banned them.

Do you support Obama era non-discrimination protections? Trump rolled them back.

Do you think federal contractors should be able to fire people based on their sexual orientation or gender identity? Trump allowed them to do that.

The list goes on and on.

and still voting for Trump.

Clearly not for his policies on LGBTQ matters then. What convinced you to vote for the rapist, who is too old to stay awake in court?

[–]DesertOfMirrors 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

Allow me to clarify. First, I am a gay man, legally married to another man for over a decade.

However, there are many other issues that are more important to me, especially when the major lgbT issues on the table right now concern intrusive demands I don’t believe in. Especially those of trans people.

I am more concerned about the widening economic gap between rich and poor, concentration of wealth and value in fewer hands, the centralization of control of almost everything that matters, unchecked immigration, and the right of the common man or woman to be left alone: whether you’re gay or straight, or even a straight person who doesn’t want to be around gay people.

Yeah, sure, Trump isn’t great. But Biden is a dumpster fire. Either way our country is going to collapse, but it will collapse faster under Biden. Maybe that’s a reason to vote for him, just so we can get it over with more quickly.

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

you’re concerned about income disparity so you’re going to vote REPUBLICAN in an effort to address this concern?

holy shit!!!

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

Allow me to clarify.

Go ahead.

First, I am a gay man, legally married to another man for over a decade.

Great. Is antidiscrimination legislation supporting gay men married to other gay men for over a decade not important to you?

However, there are many other issues that are more important to me, especially when the major lgbT issues on the table right now concern intrusive demands I don’t believe in.

You don't care about being sacked for being gay?

Why not?

I am more concerned about the widening economic gap between rich and poor

Another reason not to vote for Trump.

concentration of wealth and value in fewer hands

A third reason not to vote for Trump.

the centralization of control of almost everything that matters

A fourth reason not to vote for Trump.

unchecked immigration

immigration has been increasing since the 1970s. But certainly Trump has separated parents and children at the border to discourage illegals and asylees.

If you're devoid of empathy, perhaps that some comfort to you. But that doesn't speak very highly of your character.

and the right of the common man or woman to be left alone

Okay, you've lost me here. What are we talking about?

whether you’re gay or straight, or even a straight person who doesn’t want to be around gay people.

Strange view for a gay man. Why don't you say "even a gay person who doesn't want to be around straight people"?

Yeah, sure, Trump isn’t great.

Indeed. As far from it as the US has seen in my lifetime.

But Biden is a dumpster fire.

In what way? Supporting gay rights?

Either way our country is going to collapse, but it will collapse faster under Biden.

That's ridiculous. Trump tried to overthrow the democracy last time. You can't collapse it faster than that.

[–]DesertOfMirrors 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

Yawn

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Have you or your husband ever experienced discrimination at work?

[–]GayFrog 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Well, they don't let us have sex in the Senate hearing room anymore.

You think we have a case for a discrimination lawsuit?

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well, they don't let us have sex in the Senate hearing room anymore.

Surely that depends on who's in the security room.

You think we have a case for a discrimination lawsuit?

I don't know. You'll need information on how much het sex there is going on there.

[–]monkeymagic 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

he doesn’t actually have a husband. he’s a disinformation agent, just like you.

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

he doesn’t actually have a husband. he’s a disinformation agent,

I'm suspecting that.

Do you know for certain?

just like you.

I wonder why you mistake my interest in facts and reality for disinformation.

What topics of my posts and comments do you claim are "disinformation"?

[–]DesertOfMirrors 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Possibly/probably. But I don’t expect the state to step in and defend me because I’m not a little bitch.

Actually, the most harrowing experience I’ve had at work is having one of my black, female direct reports try to get me fired for racism. It had nothing to do with my being gay and everything to do with my being white. I wasn’t racist then (actually, at first, I was enthusiastically supportive of her). But I sure am now.

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Possibly/probably

What do you suspect occurred?

Do you hide your sexuality at work?

But I don’t expect the state to step in and defend me because I’m not a little bitch.

Are laws against behaviour the state stepping in to defend people?

Are there differences in laws against say murder and discrimination in terms of whether they represent the state stepping in to defend people?

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Do you support Trump's tax breaks for the ultra rich?