The Political Satire/Meme Thread
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Give it a few months and conservatives will be complaining about the war on Christmas and how wokists are taking away their right to set off fireworks on Fourth of July. One rule for me but my fellow Americans can go and 🤬 themselves seems to be their position.
[EDIT] Tree'd again by @TexRex
[EDIT] Tree'd again by @TexRex
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There’s actually a logical reasoning behind it. Seasonal items have to get ordered quite far in advance, for instance when I worked at a grocery store at this point of the year Halloween would already be ordered and figuring out the holiday crap would have started. Once the order gets to the distributor they don’t want to sit on it so they just send it to the stores right away. The stores, not usually having room to store it in the back put it on the floor in the spot conveniently left vacant by the previous holiday.
I can tell you as well the stores don’t like it either as that stuff never sells until shortly before the holiday so they are forced to give up floor space that could be much better utilized.
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I don't know if you meant to come out of the closet just then, but you kinda accidentally did.
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I didn't realize that you were gay or that you were open about it on GTP. It does make your position on pride month even more difficult to understand, so I'm glad to know.
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I kind of agree with Chrunch Houston, which is weird. While I support pride events and think people should be able to live how they want, when companies start changing their social media profile pictures to a rainbow, I just roll my eyes. Most of those companies don't give a damn about gay pride.
For example, take American Airlines, who donates to to Rep Sam Graves (R-MO) despite Graves being notoriously anti-gay. However, this doesn't stop AA from changing their profile picture on Twitter to their logo on a rainbow background.
There are more examples of this, but you get the picture and it was something I could find a source on with a quick Google search.
If a company truly supported gay rights, they wouldn't be actively working against it.
Outside companies just pandering, I do think individuals have every right to be proud of who they are. If they want to change their social media photos to represent who they are or attend pride events, that's great. I don't even mind if they attempt to educate people about numerous issues either.
For example, take American Airlines, who donates to to Rep Sam Graves (R-MO) despite Graves being notoriously anti-gay. However, this doesn't stop AA from changing their profile picture on Twitter to their logo on a rainbow background.
There are more examples of this, but you get the picture and it was something I could find a source on with a quick Google search.
If a company truly supported gay rights, they wouldn't be actively working against it.
Outside companies just pandering, I do think individuals have every right to be proud of who they are. If they want to change their social media photos to represent who they are or attend pride events, that's great. I don't even mind if they attempt to educate people about numerous issues either.
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This is me:
I acknowledge (admittedly not in so few words) in the post above that Matt Bomer is sexy. Matt also happens to be gay. I'm not gay. I'm capable of appreciating that Matt is an attractive man even as I'm incapable of being attracted to him.Something that gets me is the popular narrative (it even appears very early in this thread) that gay people are incapable of finding a partner of the opposite sex, for whatever type of relationship, so they "settle" for someone of the same sex.
Nevermind the absolutely staggering degree of settling that that would require if you're not actually attracted to people of the same sex, since you likely wouldn't be if you've sought and failed to find someone of the opposite sex, but it's like these people have never seen Matt Bomer.
Appreciating beauty in whatever form it may take is not a gay thing.
Their assertion that gender nonconformity, genderqueer and transgender realities are "a fad" becomes that much more perplexing. I mean...it's not like these concepts appear in antiquity. Hello, Hermaphroditus? How about Prometheus forming the first humans from clay while in a drunken haze and placing female genitalia on male bodies and male genitalia on female bodies? The concepts were understood in mythology even if they weren't tolerated in reality.
And then there's the now much more absurd...discussion (this isn't the word I'm looking for but it'll have to do)...about kink on display at public Pride festivities in the presence of children, and the bad faith tactics employed therein in an effort to bypass reason.
[Edit] I'd still like a response to this:
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It is. With no other information to act on I made some presumptions, but also made it clear I was doing so.
What do you want, a parade?
(That was a joke. Don't take it to mean any harm!)
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Gay people expressing their pride against persecution =/= Companies riding on coattails to score good guy points
One is fine, one is oversaturated pandering. But hey, a private company is free to pursue business and marketing as it wishes...
One is fine, one is oversaturated pandering. But hey, a private company is free to pursue business and marketing as it wishes...
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If companies truly stood for what they pretend to stand for, they'd not only play make believe in the US and Europe, but the rest of the world also where those rights are most thread upon, and where racism is not just rampant, but government mandated.
Yeah, yeah, except when they say something you don't agree with, then it no longer should be free to pursue marketing as it wishes. Amirite?
A company is a for profit organization. Mixing politics with profit is a recipe for disaster.
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Personally, nah I don't think so. Just showing it's not unheard of.
In the replies there are good comparisons with how we feel pride in being British and show this off on occasions, and is especially relevant considering Murray's writings on patriotism.
There was also a good reply questioning his reasoning that because it is "morally neutral" it cannot be a source of pride.
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Surely the point of "pride" is to show that it's not something for which you should feel shame.
People being out and proud show confused, scared, and ashamed kids that there is a place for them in the world and that their feelings aren't wrong (or "sinful").
People being out and proud show confused, scared, and ashamed kids that there is a place for them in the world and that their feelings aren't wrong (or "sinful").
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Unless it's actually more helpful to stay quiet. What if taking a stand just gets the companies that care kicked out of a certain country? I would imagine that this might be likely in places where there is government mandated discrimination.
Yes, but that doesn't mean that's all they care about.
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