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  • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoRisa@startrek.websiteAn important reminder
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    7 months ago

    In the US cops:

    • Take trans kids away from supportive parents in states with laws against that
    • Selectively target LGBT people for unequal enforcement of often unconstitutional laws (ex: obscenity laws)
    • Disproportionately use force against trans people (more than 1/4th according to the ACLU).

    Imagine how much it would fuck you up if a cop kicked you around, threw you in lockup with the wrong gender, and then you see the shit stain getting paid to be at Pride.

    And just being there, getting paid to do nothing is the best you can hope for. Plenty of times they just watch bigots harass or attack the people at Pride and either do nothing or arrest the victims.

    Cops who want to come to Pride out of uniform on their own time because they’re LGBT+ or whatever, most people don’t care about that.




  • No joke, I was walking down the sidewalk the other night and some giant SUV drove by, decided they had to turn around and did a 30 point turn in the middle of the street, and the entire time I can clearly hear Joe Rogan selling some supplement. All the windows of the SUV were closed and I was a good 20 feet away. I assume the driver was half deaf but only through their own actions and also assume this is a representative sample of listeners, based on Joe Rogan fans being how they are.



  • Likely because Jowling Kowling Rowling has a history of sending legal threats to people in the UK who speak out about her bigotry, and most celebrities don’t want to get into a lawyer money pissing match with an unhinged ideologue. In the UK the people criticizing her are much more likely to lose a court case if it came to that; in the US, by comparison, it’s very difficult for public figures to have any speech about them removed or punished unless they can prove it is both false and was knowingly said with malice (very hard to prove).