Quick reminder? the 1864 Arizona abortion ban the state supreme court just revived also bans interracial marriage.
I keep telling you this, and you keep ignoring me. The GOP is not just coming for Obergefell, they are coming for Loving. Meanwhile, every witless brogressive on this damn site who never took a Civics class in their damn life is crowing about throwing the election for Trump to punish “Genocide Joe” and the “shitlibs.”
God I can’t tell you how much it bothers me when other progressives are too lazy to vote or make it into a moral grandstanding issue. I’m especially worried about these coming midterms.
I get it. The Dems fucking suck. But to claim they’re “just as bad” as Republicans is so fucking laughable and outright false. Democrats aren’t trying to criminalize being trans. Democrats aren’t passing laws denying healthcare to women and trans people. Democrats aren’t trying to strip away environmental protection laws (or at the very least not as badly as the GOP is). Democrats aren’t propagating hoaxes and misinformation about things like Covid and climate change. Democrats aren’t calling queer people “groomers” and fear-mongering about BLM and immigration.
God it burns me up so fucking much when I see some white Reddit brogressive brag about how they’re not going to vote in the midterms because “the Dems haven’t earned my vote, maybe this time will convince them to change” when things like women’s reproductive rights are actively under attack right now. Also, I’m convinced there must be some astroturfing going on that’s trying to convince leftists/progressives not to vote. Iirc one of the Bernie subreddits ended up being a right-wing recruiting place (with lots of bot messages like “I used to be Bernie or bust, then Trump won me over and I voted for him”).
Joe Rogan declared that it was a "fact" that Jan6 was a "False Flag" event and just.... whatever fuck him that pumped up hobbit. But I keep thinking about how Bernie turned his WHOLE campaign to focus on Rogan saying something nice about him like it was an endorsement from idk who, God? and then defended the move and Rogan himself when even the most loyal Bernie foot soldiers, who weren't white men, felt uncomfortable with it
Bernie will never say "sorry" even if Rogan goes full Q-anon, and I suspect the warning of that moment, that the Progressive (brogressive) leftist movement is dangerously in love with white male grievance politics, will never be owned by the young people who worshiped Bernie
It’s the coding - all that economic stuff can be cover for “white ‘working-class’ men should be doing better”. It’s the same kind of shit Richard Reeves and ilk pull, except in that latter case it’s glossed up and less populist-sounding. Ish.
whenever brogressives talk about trans men they’re like “cis men are super chill and don’t care about trans men! if people are giving you weird looks or treating you badly, it’s not because you’re trans; you’re probably just not performing masculinity correctly and making them uncomfortable. make sure to study the bro code and learn how to act like a man!”
A progress update to celebrate hitting 200 lbs for the first time in my life. And assuming the (suspiciously linear) trend line from early 2021 holds, I'm looking forward to becoming 300 lbs of pure, unstoppable muscle on January 26th, 2031.