• djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    This is such an incredibly awful take that completely disregards the very obvious problem that’s currently happening; what happens when it isn’t economical for those companies to support us?

    Everything the LGBTQ+ community has gained in the past decades was from our own activism, don’t pretend the capitalists were doing us a fucking favor.

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      2 months ago

      Activism, and as always, the ever-present threat of retaliatory violence that is all the state seems to respect!

      We need to get back to our roots.

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      3 months ago

      Your own activism and allies. I don’t see many LGBTQ+ in other extremely religious countries. I was thinking of Europe mostly and the bad times that are currently happening in the US are in sharp contrast to other countries where it’s still accepted. Countries like Russia and China are notoriously shitty towards LGBTQ+ people. So are extremely religious countries.

      • Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        3 months ago

        ok… but they are capitalist countries using queer people as a scape goat just as the post says??

        sure this isnt inherent to capitalism, it is inherent to power structures as a whole

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          3 months ago

          What I’m saying is, without capitalism to prop up the democracy, you wouldn’t have anywhere to be an activist in. My immigrant boss used to have a plaque on his door that talked about the US being a horrible government, but still one of the best out there. He was from Russia and survived the wall coming down. I no longer think that’s true at the current time, but we’re in the top 30 or so. We’ve also had some really good moments that lasted a year or two.

          There are no permanent solutions, only snapshots in time on an up and down graph. It’s a gray area.

          Where is this non-capitalist utopia you think we should emulate. It can be from anytime in history, when and where is it?