Never been to any particular ‘Pride’ function but I was quite the slacktivist in the pre-Obergefell days and did my best to live openly and true to myself as I could back then as a queer-adjacent young person. In high school, I got several students on board with me participating in the Day of Silence protests. It really pissed off the admins and I got targeted for in-school suspensions all the time afterward.
And the part that I can't get over is that all that energy put into expanding gay rights and queer acceptance has been for the rich gays to consolidate their assets. At the time I genuinely believed I was part of some rising tide movement that was going to change things. A decade out it seems pretty clear that the entire movement through the ‘00s and ‘10s was a sham so the rich gays could more easily hoard their wealth like straight couples do. The rich gays finally got to have their dream weddings all while the greater movement backslid and violence against trans and queer people has increased. So the rich gays hide away and start television ad campaigns to lie and condescend to the rest of us and say, “It gets better,” because, in their discrete experience, it does.
As it turns out it was always about class politics and there can be no gay/queer liberation without the rest of it.
Too dumb for the Marines.
My first "boyfriend" moved away because his dad got a job as a military pilot.
Oi! Where's your Dunkirk spirit, mate? The bloody mole's gone an' floated awhy!
We should have done something funny to those boomer McDonald's franchisee small business tyrants many years ago when they told us that working there for minimum wage was just a starter job for ‘unskilled’ laborers. The world could have been so much different.
The US uses incarcerated people to fight wildfires. These workers can be paid as little as $2.90 A DAY and experience injuries four times greater than professional firefighters and smoke inhalation injuries at an eight times greater rate. They are also typically ineligible for civilian firefighting jobs when released due to their criminal records.
https://www.vera.org/news/from-fighting-wildfires-to-digging-graves-incarcerated-workers-face-danger-on-the-job
Who are these entitled students to stomp all over the dream that school administrators of every level have been fighting toward for decades? Hold strong administration, your vision of a campus with no students, no teachers, only administrators. The perfect educational institution is just over the horizon!
Nobody[52-year-old conscripts] wants to work[Get blown up in a Slavic mudhole so can delay prison or a firing squad for one more day] anymore.
Ours was sour cream-based. Don't get me wrong, large kid out of southeast Texas, I could eat the fuck out of some red sauce and green sauce, that and a 1lb bag of chips and I'm dying.
We had this in Texas at some of the more inauthentic Tex-Mex establishments like Gringo's or Casa Olé. It's usually called "green sauce" or something vague like that. No one tried to pass it off as guacamole.
"Happy Birthday, Mr. Bloodfeast!"
I Have No Jaw, and I Must Mew
Look out! It’s Oh no she’s wearing AirPods!
Never keep raw garlic in oil at room temperature. It creates an anaerobic environment in which C. Botulinum thrives.
Amerifat brainrotted dem voters when Putin wins an election with 99% of the vote
Genocide-supporting Russiagate facebook minion-posters when Israel intercepts 99% of the Iranian drones
Plan A: The Americans sell us and subsidize a fleet of F-16s, fully equipped with state of the art target-lock AMRAAMS.
Plan B: Charlie’s dad works a lot and probably won’t notice his weekender is missing for quite a while. Load her up, boys!
Seeing these perennial $25000 per plate democratic event attendees posting on shitter how happy and relieved they are that they got to an event and didn't see any protestors because the police had cordoned off so many streets surrounding the event.
No fucking way, dawg. These people don't deserve peace for even a second. Not at their elite get-togethers, not at their homes, not at their workplaces where they do most of the evil. No justice, no peace.