I grew up with Christian nationalists, and I can assure you, MAGA always has their eye on gay marriage.

They just know they don’t have the power at the moment, as their voter base has significantly eroded and some of the more normie republicans in the federal government can see that the Trump regime isn’t quite as inevitable as they thought it was almost two years ago.

I’m visibly queer & live in the SF Bay Area, and while I feel relatively safe, I’ve also encountered far more homophobia/lesbophobia/transphobia than I would have expected

Finally, a seasonal beverage I can actually enjoy

I agree, and I personally swear all the time. But I grew up in a family and culture that believed swear words were morally wrong, and had to deconstruct that (among many other things) on my own, so when I see other people expressing beliefs that I used to believe, I like to try to engage with them :)

Don’t worry, I got there eventually, lol

Yeah, I should have also asked in my first response to you. I instead focused on your assertion as to how Palestinians should or should not proceed currently. But it’s important to define our terms.

I’d like to start with your understanding of Zionism and how it relates to this post, to make sure I’m not misunderstanding you further.

Yes, and Europeans fairly acquired the Americas in the late 1400’s and defended it via war multiple times. They were repeatedly attacked for the next couple hundred years.

/s

No, lol. But I am going to ask you to explain why you think swearing should delegitimize a person’s opinion? What is the logical reason behind your stance?

I bet regardless of what political/religious/ethical philosophies you adhere to, I can find prominent people who represent that philosophy well, who swear.

You don’t think you listen to people who swear, but you do. You just may not have directly heard/seen them swear.

What established definition of Zionism are you operating off of, and how do you think that this post contradicts that definition?

Yeah, I exclusively watch the PWHL, so I was initially very confused by this post, lol

Your words betray the fact that you have done no research on the subject before deciding to speak on it.

This isn’t merely about reclaiming land that was stolen (though what the fuck is wrong with that). Israel is an apartheid state. Palestinians are treated as subhumans, on their own land.

Even if we ignore the genocide that is currently in motion, the conditions of Palestinian treatment under Israeli rule is not tenable in the least, and has never been tenable.

Ladies, if they wanted to, THEY 👏 WOULD 👏

Yup! I intentionally go shopping looking like absolute trash, because almost every time I go shopping, someone assumes I work there, and I’m way too nice and often end up helping them anyway.

I’ll wear sweats, an oversized hoodie, a backwards baseball cap, and earbuds, someone will still stop me and ask me a question obviously meant for a store employee.

As a butch myself, this made me laugh so hard

It was so unbelievably steamy. She had pulled me onto the dance floor at the lesbian bar we were at, and she asked me to try to maintain eye contact with her without looking away until she broke the eye contact herself (I’m autistic and generally intimidated by beautiful women, so I guess she had noticed that I struggle to look her in the eyes for very long), and she held my gaze for what felt like forever before she pulled me in close to praise me for my eye contact and then she just fully started making out with me, so much so that she pulled me into a corner of the club to get out of everyone’s way 🫠

Good thing it was yours then

This is beautiful, thank you so much 😂

Class reductionism is largely unhelpful. Class war requires a genuinely united working class, and racism is one of the primary weapons of capitalism used to keep the working class weak. Dismissing racism instead of directly working to dismantle it hurts the cause.

Race, Class, and Marxism — SocialistWorker.org

goddess, actually! Kissing her turned me into a frog, but what are you going to do 🤷🏻