The Colorado Republican Party wants all Gay Pride rainbow flags to burn to ash, according to a new report.
- hydroptic ( @hydroptic@sopuli.xyz ) 54•4 months ago
Conservatives won’t be happy until we’re all in extermination camps. Again.
Every single conservative is either outright genocidal, or a silent collaborator who doesn’t really care as long as they aren’t personally affected.
- ellynelly ( @Joltey@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 11•4 months ago
So long they can do it on the basis of God, I’m sure that’s what the all-loving God wants /s
- Uriel238 [all pronouns] ( @uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English20•4 months ago
Godless Groomers
Um, we totally have way more gods than they do, from My orgies are purely chaste Artemis, to Anything that moves, NO EXCEPTIONS Zeus.
- FreudianCafe ( @FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml ) 18•4 months ago
Taliban, with all its problems, took arms in hands and fought a foreing invader with a disgracefull disadvantage on their side in order to free their country. And won. I dont think republicans could ever do something remotely similar
I’m not sure I’d count their country as free…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Afghanistan
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treatment_of_women_by_the_Taliban
And I think persecuting minorities and women in a theocracy is exactly the kind of thing the GOP is successfully doing.
- FreudianCafe ( @FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml ) 2•4 months ago
Are you suggesting they had more freedom under american invasion?
- lolcatnip ( @lolcatnip@reddthat.com ) English19•4 months ago
Women certainly did. Or do they not count?
Not sure if you’re just looking for a fight, but I’m not comparing. I’m pointing out that the Taliban is not an admirable group. I think praising a group that persecutes lgbtq+ people in an lgbtq+ community is really fucking tacky.
- FreudianCafe ( @FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml ) 2•4 months ago
Taliban is a very admirable group in their fight against a foreing invader. If you want people there to have a mentality that no longer condems individuals for their sexuality, they need to develop economically first. I think its naive to belive that an agricultural country set back in development many years by a foreing invasion will have any kind of progressive mindset. And no ecomic development will occur under invasion and war. So if theres any chance for a progressive mindset to come for the people there in the future, its path starts with the fight taliban did, even if they are against it themselves.
- M. Orange ( @miracleorange@beehaw.org ) 16•4 months ago
I get what you’re saying, but commending a group that is currently running fascistic, theocratic, totalitarian government for repelling an invading force isn’t exactly the talking point you want it to be.
Not to once again prove Godwin’s law, but it’s like saying “Hitler may have nearly eradicated all the Jews, but he brought Germany out of spiraling hyperinflation!” You may have a point, but no one’s going to listen closely enough to prevent them from interpreting your statement as an endorsement of Hitler.
- FreudianCafe ( @FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml ) 2•4 months ago
isn’t exactly the talking point you want it to be.
It is. The history of the country changed because of what they did. It was an historical event
but it’s like saying
Absolutely not. Taliban was fighting a foreing invasor, Hitler commited genocide, among many other things. If you grossly look at the casualities there, you could argue that the USA genocided afghan people. Tbh this is stretch you did really looks like bad faith, overlooked reality for the sake of argument
- M. Orange ( @miracleorange@beehaw.org ) 8•4 months ago
I’m not saying I think you’re endorsing the Taliban; I’m saying that people won’t read that closely into what you’re saying and THINK you are.
And even though the Taliban aren’t committing genocide (which I never said they were, I should’ve been clearer that the Hitler example was hyperbole for the sake of making a point), the human rights violations their government is committing are reprehensible. That’s why it’s an issue to say “they were just protecting their homeland”: they kicked foreign invaders off their land to treat their own citizens just as poorly (if in different ways). It looks like you’re taking up for a group that’s pretty worthy of villainization.
- livus ( @livus@mander.xyz ) 6•4 months ago
It’s a mistake to write them off as unable to achieve their political goals through force. That’s not something I’d want to test.
- livus ( @livus@mander.xyz ) 14•4 months ago
titled “God Hates Pride”
Wtf is going on over there? This sounds like Westboro Baptists have gone mainstream.
When I first read The Handmaid’s Tale in the 1990s it read like an interesting thought experiment, not a prophecy.
- Honytawk ( @Honytawk@lemmy.zip ) 5•4 months ago
The White Taliban: Ya’ll Qaida,
- Honytawk ( @Honytawk@lemmy.zip ) 3•4 months ago
If God hated pride, then why did they invent gay people?