History lesson: Things got out of hand, THEN if was turned into a movement.
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Itâs a shame conservatives got their panties in a bunch over it and made it a wedge voting issue.
I guess that was to distract from all the preachers diddling little kids.
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The LGBTQ community spent decades to centuries quietly doing their thing in private and the government repeatedly went after them anyway.
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This is what is hard for me about this statement.
I think most people in a happy, long term romantic relationship would be unsatisfied if most of the country thought that relationship was akin to an addicts relationship to heroin,
People in interracial relationships werenât happy either, i donât think, when most people said their relationship was unnatural.
The pride movement sometimes also has an element of overt sexual behavior (I thinkâŚ) I understand being put off by that in the same way one might be put off by similar heterosexual displays.
How in your face was it?
I saw a video Kid Rock blow up cases of Bud Light, because AB gave a trans woman influencer a 6-pack with her picture on it for a promotion on her channel. I never came across the original promotion.
I heard people lose their minds because Target sold some merchandise supporting LGBTQ or something, but I never actually noticed anything at Target, granted, I donât go there very often.
I have seen all sorts of people posting things on Twitter about Fox News reports about parades and other in your face things that must be just about everywhere, but I donât think I have ever come across this anywhere.
I saw a few rainbow crosswalks driving through Boystown in Chicago. Couldnât quite understand why this would trigger people like I had seen online.
Other than those sidewalks, every single instance of Pride being throw in my face has been when someone on the right brought it up because they wanted to complain about how Democrats are always throwing Pride in everyoneâs face.
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Iâve used what was effectively a co-ed locker room when I played pick up hockey.The group was primarily male, with 1-4 female players. The females tended to use the same room (2 locker rooms were available for the skate). Basically anyone uncomfortable with getting naked in front of the opposite sex did not get naked in front of the opposite sex.
Part of the point of pride and being openly queer is to make queer teenagers feel safe. My girlfriend is fairly overtly a lesbian (dyed hair, undercut, nose ring, which is still not enough to stop clueless men from hitting on her) and has had teenagers at her synagogue let her know that it makes them feel supported. In a community where kids donât feel respected, suicide rates factually go way up. See e.g., England, which is fairly hostile to significant parts of the LGBTQ community:
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Iâve seen just a couple pride marches. In a liberal town, it was a sort of victory lap where everyone gets to feel good about how accepting and loving they are, like church on Christmas or something. In a less liberal town, it is closer to a war-time maneuver, where allies march together to create a sort of safe perimeter. The numbers make it so nobody can call them names and beat the shit out of them. And yes, I agree it implies a slightly threatening undertone, born of fear. The term pride (when used by any minority) I think tends to come ironically from a place of fear.
Of course, if it makes you uncomfortable, you donât need to be there at all. It is largely a local phenomenon. I actually live next to a theater that runs drag shows, and a queer store, and I still manage to not really ever think about it.
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Gerrymandering is so on! I really figured SCOTUS would find a way to ban CAâs maps.
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Nah, if they permitted TXâs, CAâs motivation was a clear response and had to hold.
Doesnât this just mean that long-term each side is going to double down on gerrymandering as much as they can?
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Pretty much. SCOTUS basically gave the green light for whichever party is in current control in a state to gerrymander all they want to in an effort to retain power.
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Basically, whichever party first locks in a supermajority gets to claim that state? Splitting the nation into Republican and Democratic states? I mean, the opposition minority will of course be allowed to participate in the process, if they can win anything, and agree with the majority.
Yep, as if the US wasnât effed enough already.
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The argument that it was specifically designed to favor :âHispanic votersâ proved too preposterous for even Thomas and Alito.
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The law granting tariff authority to the president is not just âyou can apply tariffs whenever you want as long as you insert a magic phraseâ. There are plenty of other bases to reject Trumpâs tariff actions than just the major question doctrine. As such thereâs no basis for Gorsuch to accuse the liberal justices of hypocrisy because they rejected the doctrine in the past.
On the other hand, anyone who endorsed the major questions doctrine in the past should have only needed just a few seconds rule against Trumpâs tariffs. Which does make the conservative minority in this case a bunch of egregiously hypocritical hacks.
Man this court sucks. The only upside is that theyâve shown such disregard for precedent that future courts will have no hesitation in kicking this courtâs precedents to the curb and pretending like none of this happened.
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I donât disagree, but this court has set the precedent that you can overturn any and every decision based on your personal partisan politics. Or suitcases of cash. If you get a better offer next week, thatâs great.
Meanwhile Trumpâs response, channeling his inner Michael Scott: âYou know what, Iâm gonna tariff even harder!â 
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The fact Iâm not sure whether youâre exaggerating or notâŚ
I know Homan took a literal suitcase of cash, but for SCOTUS Justices Iâm only aware of vacations, RVs, free houses, flights, etc.