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pelletbucket ,

when do we start testing people’s lead levels before letting them in office

EgoNo4 ,

When do we start testing people’s lead levels before letting them vote?

pelletbucket ,

I don’t think it matters how brain damaged you are, you’re still allowed to vote. you do have to be competent to hold office though

dudinax ,

You do?

pelletbucket ,

yeah you’re allowed to expel people from office for gross incompetence

wreckedcarzz ,
@wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world avatar

reproduce*

davidagain ,

I’m not sure that the 64-year-old gay man featured at the end of the article is gonna do a lot of procreation.

wreckedcarzz ,
@wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world avatar

Nah this is a blanket-rule, you get tested and you get tested, everybody gets tested!

iiGxC ,

“When Trump won, my husband was so upset he wanted me out of our apartment. The rage was unexplainable — I mean honest rage. I could not understand this emotion in him and why anyone would let a political vote destroy or nearly destroy a marriage,” he said.

if you vote for someone who’d like to make your marriage illegal, it’s gonna strain the marriage duuude

wreckedcarzz ,
@wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world avatar

“but I just don’t understand that” -that dumbass

Blackmist ,

Reminds me of my sister-in-law’s husband, who fell heavily into Brexit propaganda. Ranting about foreigners coming over, to his wife’s face. She was from Iceland.

They’re divorced now, oddly enough.

NatakuNox , (edited )
@NatakuNox@lemmy.world avatar

It’s just the none white foreigners he was mad about, dude should have clarified his position…

TheRealKuni ,

It’s just the none white foreigners he was mad about, dude should have clarified his position…

I dunno, Brexiters seemed to have a lot of trouble with the Polish.

catloaf ,

“White” has a very flexible definition depending on the racism du jour. In the US, plenty of Europeans, like Irish, Spanish, and Italian people weren’t considered “white” for a long time.

But now we’ve got plenty of brown and black people to be even more racist against, so they get to be “white” these days.

TheRealKuni ,

Well of course. Race is a social construct, how we define races depends entirely on the society and its prejudices.

Blackmist ,

Don’t forget them “Romanian” Gypsies!

It’s a crying shame really, because if they’d sat down and spoke to a Romanian, they’d find that hatred of gypsies is one of the few things they’ve got in common.

eldavi ,

I dunno, Brexiters seemed to have a lot of trouble with the Polish.

there have been many examples and treatises of how the whiteness was/is non-uniform in the united states; is the same true in england?

lolcatnip ,

Option 1: Use coded language that directly attacks your spouse.
Option 2: Openly admit to being a hardcore racist.

Sucks to suck.

ImADifferentBird ,
@ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I’ve had a lot of people pull the “It’s just politics, why are you so mad?” card, especially after Trump won. Just shows this is all a game to them, that they do not give a shit about the consequences of their actions.

Most of the ones who did it to me were straight white people though, so they were insulated by their privilege. It takes a whole other level of delusion to play that game when you’re one of the minorities these assholes target.

eldavi , (edited )

Most of the ones who did it to me were straight white people though, so they were insulated by their privilege. It takes a whole other level of delusion to play that game when you’re one of the minorities these assholes target.

insulated by their privilege is the right phrase; i was fucked over multiple times by biden et al’s banning of gays from marriage & federal service and student loans, but if you mention it now you get labeled as a tankie or russian/chinese shill; only the younger gays and the people who biden et al. hasn’t fucked over get to enjoy this privilege while people in my situation have to forget or white knuckle it.

ImADifferentBird ,
@ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Agreed. A lot of those views seem to have genuinely softened as he aged (after all, he actively championed gay marriage during the Obama admin), but still, there is a lot of unsavory shit from his time as a senator, and it does take a lot of effort to reconcile that.

eldavi ,

A lot of those views seem to have genuinely softened as he aged (after all, he actively championed gay marriage during the Obama admin)

he also actively campaigned on appeasing segregationists in his much more recent campaign until kamala had to embarrass him publicly in a debate; so no, those views haven’t softened as evidenced by both biden’s decades long track record and a painful recent schooling by kamala; among other examples from the recent past.

also, “unsavory” is putting it extremely mildly when people were put in prison; homes permanently broken; and livelihoods were destroyed by biden et al’s actions.

todd_bonzalez ,

Womp womp, thinking about all the women who divorced their husbands because they voted for a pussy grabber. Fuck around and find out.

lolcatnip ,

It takes two people to let a vote ruin a marriage. If you know your spouse has strong feelings about politics but it’s just a game to you, then just maybe you shouldn’t play the game in a way that will make your spouse hate you.

captainlezbian ,

Also politics displays values. I don’t want to date a republican for myriad reasons like valuing low taxes over strong social services or opposing environmental regulation. Caring for those struggling and for the environment are firm moral positions of mine and I would be angry to find my wife disagrees with those.

samus12345 ,
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

Leopard-loving people say their leopard face-eating support is ruining their lives

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

The person I really don’t understand- I mean I know she’s a horrible person, but I still don’t understand it- is Caitlyn Jenner. She’s supporting a party that openly wants to erase her.

norimee ,

She is the typical Republican -“Oh, but I’m the exeption. Thats different.”- type. She also speaks out publicly and loudly against trans women in women’s sports and then turns around and plays a women’s golf tournament.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I guess I can’t fathom the level of cognitive dissonance it takes to vociferously get behind people who want you dead, but I guess these people existed too- en.wikipedia.org/…/Association_of_German_National…

solsangraal ,

level of cognitive dissonance

it’s doublethink. there is no “dissonance.” they literally believe two completely contradictory things simultaneously and have no problem with it

catloaf ,

Yeah. Cognitive dissonance is “the mental disturbance people feel when their beliefs and actions are inconsistent and contradictory”. If you’re happy with holding contradictory beliefs, that’s doublethink.

theangryseal ,

I’m glad you guys always come packing this link. Folks should know about this.

Pulptastic ,

Yeah but golf isn’t a sport.

todd_bonzalez ,

It’s Wealth.

If you have more money than most people, you convince yourself that you are different and more important than other people. The way you are treated validates that notion.

So politically, you’ll vote for people who protect your wealth rather than people who will protect your identity, because your wealth already protects you better than any anti-discrimination law could.

RustyShackleford ,
@RustyShackleford@programming.dev avatar

Money talks.

Fuckfuckmyfuckingass ,
@Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world avatar

And bullshit walks.

Fuzzy_Red_Panda ,

I never thought about it that way but that makes perfect sense.

LaunchesKayaks ,
@LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world avatar

She has money. It’s a total “rules for thee but not for me” situation

WindyRebel ,

They’re going to find out, too late, that they’re not immune to bullets, windows, or poison and that their money can be seized by the ones who disappear them.

LaunchesKayaks ,
@LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world avatar

Yep. I’m absolutely terrified that I’ll have to go into the closet again. I’m afraid my one homophobic and transphobic coworker would report me if being gay becomes straight up illegal. Only person I know personally who isn’t cool with it.

AA5B ,

It’s both better and worse than that. It’s extremely unlikely that being gay could become straight up illegal, but is it really any different if discrimination is ok, gay marriage and family benefits are outlawed, being gay is again a “security concern”, police harassment is ok, and people again become hostile?

mydude ,

Back in the day, if you were gay, ignorant people thought their lifestyle had bad influece on others. They were afraid of the consequences of having gay people living close to them. The gays were ostracized, persecuted, ridiculed, excluded from bars/communities/etc. I just post this comment as a reminder. Please be nice to others. You don’t know where they come from. Try to be including, start dialogues, build bridges.

eldavi ,

i was alive back in that day and having to vote for someone that actively ostracized, persecuted and ridiculed my life until he opportunistically switched sides very recently hurts my soul.

Blackmist ,

A hundred years on, and lessons are still not being learned.

en.wikipedia.org/…/Association_of_German_National…

necromancyr ,

“I don’t understand why other people at the synagogue treat me this way,” says member of Jews for Hitler.

Snapz ,

“OWWW! MY OWN FOOT THAT I SHOT!!!”

tigeruppercut ,

I never thought leopards would shoot MY foot!

Crackhappy ,
@Crackhappy@lemmy.world avatar

Reminds me of Uncle Ruckus.

intensely_human ,

I’d bet money that it isn’t their MAGA support that’s ruining their lives, but rather everyone else’s ostracizing them that’s doing it.

Juice , (edited )

More victims of wokeness, smh /s

Treczoks ,

I mean, you’ve got to be stupid to be a MAGA head. But being gay and a MAGA head you need to be terminally dumb. Amazing that such people can breathe without intellectual assistance.

MumboJumbo ,

Dumb or horribly self-loathing. Unfortunately, there are plenty parts of America that help instill that feeling.

Red_October ,

They just think he’ll surely only go after Other people, that they’ll be safe, part of the “In” group.

figjam ,

Upper middle class white folks

NatakuNox ,
@NatakuNox@lemmy.world avatar

Yup, every Republican woman is deeply into self loathing. I can’t tell you how many Republican woman I’ve heard say women can’t be leaders or it takes a man to do what’s right.

Freefall ,

Just look at all the rightwingers that head anti-pedo movements that get busted for having CP or being actual groomers. (The list is LONG)

NatakuNox ,
@NatakuNox@lemmy.world avatar

That’s just another tactic of projection. Republican woman are just mad that they aren’t men and need to justify their own subjugation by ensuring they get second place in the social hierarchy instead of questioning why there’s a hierarchy in the first place. Thinking for yourself is difficult, so being told what to do is easy. Even if that means being told to hate yourself. Hell Christianity’s first chronological story boils down to “women are the reason life sucks.”

captainlezbian ,

I have no sympathy. I’ve dealt with a lot of difficulties being gay, and yes in some ways the fact that I get less real political options sucks, but the solution isn’t to decide that it’s ok with fascists when they’re gay.

Confused_Emus ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2c526c2f-5317-4e75-8226-dd4e3df4b914.jpeg

prole ,

Give it a few months after Trump wins and it will literally ruin their lives.

intensely_human ,

All that anti-gay legislation Trump signed last time? It’s gonna be double this time!

frezik ,

“I’m almost anti-gay,” Dorman told The Post. “It’s an embarrassment to see this kind of behavior… I’d really invite them to go to Iran or Gaza. See what that does for you. See how fast they throw you in prison or kill you.”

“And that’s why I’m supporting a party that wants to do the same thing.”

some_guy ,

So you’re super fucking racist? (Not you, the person quoted from the article.) Ok, got it. Just wait until they do away with all the people who don’t look like you and then find out how that goes.

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