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This is absolutely on brand. Can't trust these companies to do what's right.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Leave it to Christians to feel victimized and "disrespected" when other people celebrate their own lifestyles. Religious fruitcakes and snowflakes.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Each year, Google sponsors a series of Pride events in San Francisco and other locations for employees and the public. This year, the closing event was a “Pride and Drag Show” featuring popular performer “Peaches Christ,” who was scheduled to perform Tuesday at LGBTQ+ bar Beaux in San Francisco to “wrap up this amazing month,” according to a now-removed internal description of the event viewed by CNBC.

So, during Pride, Google sponsors events held at various locations. And people are upset because someone with a weiner is wearing a dress and a fabulous wig while singing showtunes?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It's at a gay bar, but it's also an official employee event, which is weird. I wonder what the expectations are for employees to attend official events. For me, whether it's a drag show or bowling, I don't attend most after-hours work events.

Google is still sponsoring the event, it's just not an employee event anymore. That's probably how it should have been planned from the beginning.

That said, thin-skinned Christians can not attend if it's an optional event. The bible is silent about drag shows.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Haven’t the poor christians suffered enough???????? 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also, hello! I'm another Reddit user trying to create the internet I wanted back in the 90's. No time like the present!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Dude, it'll be totally radical this time around! No psych!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Welcome to the 90's!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I have a conspiracy theory on potential Google employees meddling with the algorithm on YouTube to push the far-right into mainstream yet again. It seems like there's some basis for it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Well it is their motto right? 'Do No Good'.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Can someone fill me in on wtf is going on with drag in the US?

I'm from the UK, drag is like our longest running joke, and families go to pantomimes all the time. Recently theres been a more direct association with the LGBT community in the popular understanding of it. I'd say that most people's view on drag here is:

  • not necessarily an LGBT thing, though it very often is
  • kinda traditional
  • can be funny, or just a fun performance
  • pretty lighthearted
  • not expected to be overtly sexual by default, depends on context

Some of the stuff I see out of the US is bizzare. I realise that the weirder stuff is always going to be amplified in the news, and people are not necessarily trying to show the full context in photos. But I've seen shit like

  • rightoids getting so worked up that the pickets outside resemble the Gaza Strip or, as I'm reliabily told, the average us abortion clinic
  • performances in weird places like libraries
  • people watching a clearly sexual show in dive bars with their kids in tow that look like they're starting at a painting in a gallery pondering the meaning of nothingness and looking way out of place

Like, wtf? Drag isn't the problem, it's the weird-ass way that people seem to be responding to it. Go to a show if you think you might enjoy it, read up on the performance or use context ques to understand what kind of drag performance it's going to be. Certainly don't go for political reasons and ruin the fun for performers who are just trying to have a good time. But equally, don't plan shows that are meant to provoke a reaction for political reasons, for the same reason.

And why the right wingers care so much if fucking beyond me. Imagine having enough free time to consider that important enough to spend your precious free time protesting it rather than doing literally anything else.

Just chill, it's a fucking stage show. It's like the whole toilet thing again, just hysterics over something inconcequential. I'm trans and fabulous as fuck and don't seem to consider these issues nearly as important than a middle-aged cishet blue collar dude from Texas who may never have met a single trans person or encountered anything like this outside of the Internet.

Is only fun show, why you heff to be mad?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Republicans in the U.S. have decided that drag shows are corrupting the children. But they can't stop with just "they're corrupting the children" now. They're going after drag as a whole. Because it's never just been about drag, it's been about oppressing LGBT+ people. And when they've gotten their way and made them fully second-class citizens, if citizens at all, they'll go after the next group. Maybe it will be Jews. Maybe it will be black people. Maybe it will be something else. But there always has to be a corrupting "them" for Republicans to fight against.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

And why the right wingers care so much if fucking beyond me.

It's modern blood libel. They don't care about drag; they care about libeling their political enemies as pedophiles.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is this a thing at work?

Why not just not waste money on bullshit and pay people better/work them less hours?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's not at work - it's at a gay bar

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what does a drag show have to do with google?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Can't trust these companies

That's all that needs to be said

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Can't trust these companies to do what's right.

This has to be drilled into the collective consciousness as much as possible. There is no such thing as an ethical corporation, or an ethical company that is for-profit -- they simply cannot be ethical, they are amoral by design. If Target or Walmart or Netflix do something that is seen as positive, the only reason is a profit motive, not because they are moving towards being 'good'.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I really, really hate that 98% of our voting population formulates their worldview solely based on the nightly news broadcast that they watch. We'd be in such better shape of we could get either flavor of partisan to care half as much about their own economic power as they do about social issues, and more economic power would translate to more social power.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

where do you live that 98% of people watch the nightly news

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