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unclewalk-deactivated20190218

So you paid more than they did?

this whole thread is hilarious. they break down and admit to having daddy buy the house, and then dude admits that he never bought a realty record and that they told on themselves lmfao

i-hate-chick-fil-a

the bar is set very very low

disordered

politijohn

Being shortsighted isn’t a good look.

1972 - Bernie wrote a letter in support of abolishing all laws dealing with abortion, sexual behavior (adultery, homosexuality, etc.), and drugs

1983 - Sanders signed the first proclamation to create the first Gay & Lesbian Pride Day in Burlington, VT

1985 - Burlington passes proclamation protecting LGBTQ people from housing and employment discrimination

1993 - When Congress members attacked non-discrimination in DC, Sanders voted “no”

1993 - Voted “no” on ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

1995 - Sanders rebuked Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham for using the word “homos” when talking about gay people in the military

1996 - Voted against the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)

1999 - When Congress tried to keep domestic partners from adopting children in DC, Sanders voted “no”

2001 - When Congress tried to keep domestic partners from receiving health benefits, Sanders challenged it

2004 - Voted against the constitutional amendment banning gay marriage

2007 - Voted to expand and strengthen penalties for violent crimes committed in the basis of sexual orientation

2009 - Voted to expand federal hate crimes to cover offenses motivated by gender identity and sexual orientation

2009 - Supported Vermont’s first-in-the-country law legalizing gay marriage

2010 - Voted to overturn “don’t ask, don’t tell”

2011 - Called on President Obama to support marriage equality

2013 - Co-sponsored the Employment Non-Discrimination Act

2013 - Co-sponsored the United Families Act to allow LGBTQ Americans to bring their partners to the Us

2014 - Co-sponsored the International Human Rights Defense Act

2015 - Co-sponsored Civil Rights to include sexual orientation and gender identity protected categories

2016 - Co-sponsored Bill to designate June 26, 2016 as LGBTQ Equality Day

2016 - Bernie condemned conversion therapy

2017 - Co-sponsored the Every Child Deserves a Family Act which prohibits foster care entities from receiving federal assistance if they discriminate against prospective LGBTQ parents

2018 - Committed to passing the Equality Act

2019 - Has proposed a comprehensive housing plan that addresses societal homelessness, which disproportionately impacts the LGBTQ community

2019 - Committed to advancing policies that ensure fair treatment for transgender people who are targeted by police unfairly

But yeah, Bernie Sanders “skipping” a forum on LGBTQ rights to host campaign rallies is breaking news

variks-the-warden

This is the exact same propaganda that got spread to get people to not vote for Hillary. Don’t buy into it and start thinking people like Bernie or Warren are bad choices because they’re still the best options for your votes right now

astrodidact

damnukids

one-time-i-dreamt

Out of curiosity, what gen do you belong to?

I am a millennial (born in '94). I assume most people on Tumblr either belong to Gen Z or are millennials.

one-time-i-dreamt

Wait, I see there are a lot of people in the comments saying Gen Z are people born in 2000 and after, but as far as I know, Gen Z refers to everyone born in 1995 and after that? The divide is so confusing! I checked on Wikipedia, which seems to mirror what I learned in school - that Gen Z starts in 1995. Hm.

bearb0i

@one-time-i-dreamt here’s a good graphic I have saved.

one-time-i-dreamt

Yeah, that's how I learned it too and what I was thinking!

did-you-know

“Whataboutism” is a Cold War propaganda tactic that the Soviet Union started using in the 1940s to avoid or shoot down criticism.

Instead of addressing people’s concerns or answering uncomfortable questions, Soviet leaders would respond with, “What about…” and then draw attention to unfavorable events in the U.S. and other parts of the Western world.

(Source, Source 2, Source 3)

politijohn

dad4god

Where does it say in the constitution or any of the amendments that eating is a human right?

seelcudoom

it also doesn’t say you have a right to not be murdered, its a piece of paper dipshit not some holy manuscript passed down by god all mighty to be the sum total of human morality

inadvisablyappliedmagic

Also literally it says “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”. Guess what you need for life dipshit

eroticcannibal

Wait, there are people who think human rights are decided by whats written in the constitution? The american constitution?

snommelp

Friendly reminder that when the UN voted to declare food a human right, there was exactly one country that voted “no”

captainsblogsupplemental

sadakotetsuwan

Y’all, this is a line spoken in self-defense by Soren (the alien). Her species rejects gender, does not reproduce via sexual intercourse, etc. When Soren says ‘the idea of gender is offensive to my people’, calls gender ‘primitive’, etc, she is performing compulsory agenderism, her society’s equivalent of heteronormativity. She was ‘assigned agender at birth’ but identifies as female–she is trans. If her gender identity is discovered, she will be tortured with conversion therapy (’psychotectic treatments’ in futurespeak). She doesn’t know, at this point in the episode, if it is safe to come out to Riker yet.

Later in the episode, Riker shows up at her trial and accuses himself of sexually harassing Soren to try to take the blame and save her from being tortured. He knows what awaits her because it happened in human history, and he tries to use his privilege to protect her, but she refuses to back his lie.

Jonathan Frakes, the actor playing Riker, criticized the showrunners for casting all women in the roles of the agender J’naii, and said Soren should have been played by a man, that the message of the episode would have been much stronger if Soren had been played by a male actor. The casting directors and production thought audiences–and Jonathan–would be uncomfortable with him having to portray a love story opposite a male actor, even though the episode was supposed to be an allegory for homosexuality (too heavy on the “allegory”, given that Soren identifies as female and Riker identifies as male–it’s still a queer relationship, though!).

I’m the first to say that allegories don’t have to be exact 1:1 comparisons to the real world to be valid, but the farther from there that they drift, the more impact is potentially lost. This episode would have been very impactful if a male actor had played Soren and she still identified as female, or if either a male or female actor had played Soren and instead he identified as male and Riker still found him attractive…but it was 1992 and airing on regular cable package channels so the production staff wimped out.

Is there confusion in the episode between sex, gender, gender identity and sexual orientation? Yes. That’s because it wasn’t written by experts on LGBTQIA+ issues or Queer Studies professors who were helping to carve out those definitions at that time. The episode was trying its best when it didn’t have the words to express itself perfectly (and was trying to address the issue in a “Star Trek” way, rather than the A Very Special After School Episode way.)

Soren still expresses herself quite well, in spite of that.

logicheartsoul

Benjamin Sisko & Julian Bashir Talk About The Political Climate of the Early 2020′s in Past Tense, Part I

Original Dialogue:

SISKO: Don’t be so sure. One of the main complaints against the Sanctuary Districts was overcrowding. It got to the point where they didn’t care how many people were in here. They just wanted to keep them out of sight. BASHIR: And once they were out of sight, what then? I mean, look at this man. There’s no need for that man to live like that. With the right medication, he could lead a full and normal life. SISKO: Maybe in our time. BASHIR: Not just in our time. There are any number of effective treatments for schizophrenia, even in this day and age. They could cure that man now, today, if they gave a damn. SISKO: It’s not that they don’t give a damn, Doctor. It’s that they’ve given up. The social problems they face seem too enormous to deal with. BASHIR: That only makes things worse. Causing people to suffer because you hate them is terrible, but causing people to suffer because you have forgotten how to care? That’s really hard to understand. SISKO: They’ll remember. It’ll take some time and it won’t be easy, but eventually people in this century will remember how to care.

miggylol

For further context: through another character, we saw that tech millionaires/billionaires were living wonderfully comfortable lives elsewhere in the city. Meanwhile, Sanctuary Districts had been set up to keep homeless and mentally ill individuals contained, so those millionaires (and wealthier people in other cities, as well) would never have to think about them.

The episode first aired in 1995. They’re walking through San Francisco, 2024.

beckettmariner-deactivated20200

You ever invite your coworker to watch you give birth just to spite a racist

doomtribble73

katthekonqueror

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