Pride BEGAN during a time of anti-sodomy laws. The first Pride was a riot against those laws. Pride is celebrated around the world in places where it is much more dangerous to be queer than here. Pride is not dependent on being ALLOWED to be who we are, it’s a promise that we WILL be no matter what
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Hi, to be clear: cis straight men CAN be totally normal and empathetic about lesbians and trans people without "secretly" being closeted or an egg or whatever the hell.
The hyper parasocial way some folks go "oh estrogen would fix him" or ascribe identities to actually real people is kinda weird!!
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As long as Trump is alive and eligible, he’s going to run for president every four years. I don’t know why everyone was running polls in 2022 without him on the list, or why the Justice Department didn’t have him in cuffs by late January 2020, but these are part of why we’re in the situation now
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“You should be calling for TRUMP to drop out!” I would love if Trump dropped out of the race but he’s not going to do it, because he’s a cartoonishly evil man. Also everyone with the power to block him from running because of his many many crimes has sat on their hands for four years
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I remember speculation they were gonna shuffle him out in 2020 at the convention for Cuomo, and all his boosters (but never Biden himself) saying he was going to be a one-term caretaker Prez. I think their gerontocracy and party machinations have backed them in the corner it was always going to
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But I am constantly wrong about these things so who knows
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I would be very surprised if Biden stepped down from running, primarily because I can't imagine a justifiable way for them to sidestep Harris leading the ticket, which nobody wants. Shuffling in Gavin Newsom or someone just feels too farfetched to me
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I knew my brother was right on the money about this but the speed with which it's beginning to happen is still pretty wild to me www.ft.com/content/a881...
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