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[–] FlyingSquid 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)

God damn it, when am I going to get a taxpayer-funded man's ass to fuck already?

[–] thesporkeffect 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Take it up with your local municipal board members at the next meeting

[–] FlyingSquid 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

DO YOU THINK I HAVEN'T DONE THAT ALREADY?!

[–] SgtAStrawberry 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And we said we would get back to you, but you need to fill out forms 32, 78a, 78b, 12, 19a, 19c and 69.

[–] Daft_ish 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The deadline for Form 69 was January 1st, they are going to have to fill out a supplemental 420 and get it signed by the state secretary.

[–] SgtAStrawberry 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, you are completely correct. I had forgotten about that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe they just have to get permit A38

[–] SgtAStrawberry 2 points 1 year ago

That was before the equality act of 2022.

[–] GladiusB 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thursday is your night in the barrel

[–] ikidd 2 points 1 year ago

I get this reference

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Considering he's such an old fogey, Biden did a remarkable amount to advance LGBTQ rights since he's been in office.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's what happens when someone is able to admit they're not an expert at everything and they surround themselves with people who are.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's really cool to see. I did not have high hopes for Biden for a lot of his older policy decisions I didn't agree with, but I'm extremely impressed with what he's managed to do for civil rights and social awareness in his first term.

[–] Daft_ish 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not doubting just could you maybe elaborate?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Here's a couple pretty good lists of all the executive orders and legislation Biden has passed during his first term that has explicitly strengthened anti-discrimination laws against LGBTQ, provided funding, initiated lawsuits against anti-LGBTQ laws and initiatives, reversed the ban on transgender military, and other stuff:

https://www.hrc.org/resources/president-bidens-pro-lgbtq-timeline

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/timeline-biden-administrations-efforts-support-lgbtq-equality-first-100-days/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The risk in that is that those "experts" might have their own interests. For compamies usually

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And the alternative is having people who don't know shit about fuck making decisions potentially based on their own interests.

What's better?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Independent experts that at least somehow try to be neutral. And politicians who have to reason their decisions.

[–] Railing5132 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A couple off the top of my head:

  • Chemical Safety Board (check out their YouTube channel)
  • National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
  • National Fire Protection Association

All are subject matter experts that contribute to laws and policy decisions to varying degrees.

Edit: National Institute of Health, CDC,

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So exactly what I said from the get go.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here's a couple pretty good lists of all the executive orders and legislation Biden has passed during his first term that has explicitly strengthened anti-discrimination laws against LGBTQ, provided funding, initiated lawsuits against anti-LGBTQ laws and initiatives, reversed the ban on transgender military, and other stuff:

https://www.hrc.org/resources/president-bidens-pro-lgbtq-timeline

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/timeline-biden-administrations-efforts-support-lgbtq-equality-first-100-days/

Oh Kamala Harris marched at a pride recent in 2021, I didn't know that.

[–] Iron_Lynx 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Let's face it, state-mandated & enforced heterosexuality and cisgenderness hasn't stopped people from being gay and/or trans, so I'm pretty sure state mandated homosexuality will be purely symbolic.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i mean the romans were reasonably successful, granted that was mostly just for rich politicians which isn't much different from the modern republican party except without the denial

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't that a complete myth? As far as I know there has never been a society more gay than today's. Rome was not accepting of gays.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

afaik the deal with rome is that it was really specifically that powerful men were expected to have twinks to "mentor", sexually dominating another man showed that you were powerful, and being dominated did much the opposite. Being a lesbian seems to have just been strange to them although i don't recall hearing of it being illegal or anything.

in general a lot of our ideas of identity and sexuality are quite modern and in the past it depended WAY more on where specifically you were and what social class you belonged to. Like why would anyone give a shit what some rural people do in their bedroom? the only ones who are likely to give even the slightest shit about that are their fellow villagers and they're probably gonna actually care about them being happy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

As far as I'm aware there were only a few instances mentioned of older men having sexual relationships with young boys and they were looked on with disgust from the population and even other elites.

As for villagers being gay I think they were treated really badly because religion and having children was really important back then.

[–] kofe 4 points 1 year ago

I unironically want to see this just as much as I want to see all women running government and on the supreme court. Just for like one presidential cycle.

[–] Agent641 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do I at least get to choose top or bottom?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I am position-fluid.

!Whatever position I am in, there will always be fluids.!<

[–] Agent641 11 points 1 year ago

Gross yet hot

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What’s the motive for turning everybody gay though?

[–] BloodSlut 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] nifty 11 points 1 year ago

I haven’t kept up with the new releases, the last agenda newsletter just had this

[–] afraid_of_zombies 6 points 1 year ago

Symmetrical with the frogs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

no child slaves, truly the republican nightmare scenario

[–] Jomega 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope that our few remaining friends

give up on trying to save us

I hope we come up with a failsafe plot

to piss off the dumb few who forgave us

[–] yuriy 1 points 1 year ago

I hope the fences we mended

fall down beneath their own weight

and I hope we hang on past the last exit

I hope it’s already too late

[–] Donjuanme 14 points 1 year ago

State enforcement of sexuality, that would be one of the two parties platforms, if they cared to have a platform to run on any more, if they made a platform now it would just be saying the quiet part out loud.