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  • These charades will be consistently overturned because they are obviously unconstitutional, but passing these broken laws isn't their point - they just want the LGBTQIA+ community to live in constant fear.

    People are also simple though, so the longer they can repeat the lie, the more people start to accept it as the status quo. They make a lot of noise in "passing" initially and then the reality follow-up (like this) gets a fraction of the attention typically - that makes it a "win" for the bad guys overall.

  • The American Bar Association has no integrity. The people in trump's orbit who are allowed to practice law (heavy emphasis on the practice part) in obvious bad faith is a joke. Obvious grounds for these people to be disbarred left and right and nothing meaningful happens.

    It's a sham org.

  • People are generally pretty lazy, uncreative and easily influenced - you show more of the exaggerated ideal on screen because society lacks imagination. They can handle little to no nuance.

    So while I understand your frustration, there is also the reality that if you show that all people get disowned by their family, then you normalize/perpetuate that behavior even further (especially in less experientially diverse areas). It becomes and remains "one of the steps" of the process of coming out our meeting outed.

    Basically, if someone comes out on a generic, middle of the road CBS TV show like the big bang theory or something... and the out character is building up fear about a pending negative interaction with the parent character, and the parent ends up saying, "we knew all along... And we just love you as long as your safe and happy" - well then that interaction actually imprints something on real life grandma in Missouri. She sits with that for a bit and processes, discusses a bit with friends at the salon maybe, and when her granddaughter, who she loves, tells her that she likes girls one day, grandma (who is caught off guard and doesn't have much imagination) reaches and finds that big bang theory moment as an example of what a "good grandma would do" and she repeats a version of it.

    So again, I understand your frustration, but the above is (a portion) of the motivation to show those influencing "examples" in media.

  • A solicitation for tip BEFORE any service is rendered is essentially blackmail.

    "Hey, not for nothing, but sometimes pancakes can fall on the floor before they get into your to-go bag... I'm just saying... Anyways, here's this tip screen, no pressure [holds eye contact]"

  • Great view in, appreciate your service to the community

  • Crazy that it took this much scrolling for me to find someone mentioning "Now for Reddit".

    It was the same for me - I've tried all the apps mentioned here, but Now was just coded for exactly what I needed functionally and aesthetically. Everything else felt less. I think it speaks so clearly to the importance of 3rd party devs and app choice, we all have a different definition of perfect.

    All that said, I haven't even opened the app since the blackout started. I hope the dev ports over to Lemmy/beehaw/etc.

  • What an embarrassing day for this twice impeached, insurrectionist traitor and convicted rapist with two active indictments and more on the horizon.

  • UPS strike at the same time right? Solidarity!

  • Not for nothing, but a key feature of fascism is that you're "enemy" is both weak and strong at the same time.

    So the blackout is not a big deal AND the mods coordinating the blackout are too powerful...

    ACAB - All CEOs Are Bastards

  • Over/under on how many years out we are from the hunger games?

  • EA

  • These definitely sound like the actions of a company that is in no way threatened at all not even a little bit.

    /s

  • REDRUM!

  • Slammed gate syndrome

  • Blood!!! 💉