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When i vote R, i didn't think voting for conservatism would conserve to a time before gay marriage (lemmy.world)

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What era in time do these people think R's are trying to conserve to, after or before civil rights?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you can't be half as confused as they must be... 🤣😂 I mean, maybe I'm misremembering things here, but I feel like the GOP-at-large just recently (like within the last decade?) stopped publicly referring to homosexuality/homosexuals as 'an abomination,' which even then kinda felt like a begrudgingly made concession of necessity at best... No?

I'm not gonna lie, I'm more than a little shocked at this point everytime Trump mentions someone being "BL-A-ack." I keep waiting for him to shift into full Dementia Don mode and just drop some hard Rs

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They almost immediately switched to attacking trans people. They must be able to focus on some external group as being The Enemy, but they took a sudden loss on gay rights and they saw how deeply unpopular their position really was. Immediate switch to talking about bathroom bans and women's sports. They even peeled off a section of the gay/lesbian community over this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

And some of these people just completely failed to see the similarities.

Like, some of the transphobic caricatures that have gone around over the years should've rung alarm bells in the minds of even people who don't like us. They look like cartoons by A Wyatt Mann or other openly nazi cartoonists.

I'd like people to like us and believe us to be valuable members of their communities and societies. But I'll settle for an understanding that opposing us hinders everyone's freedoms and that some of those who stand against us wouldn't like the people next to them