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THE WHAT
im fucking begging you,,,, blease run your product names through a test group,,, pleas e
as IF y'all wouldn't try and somehow suppress your laughter and go "mmmyep that's perfect". None of you can tell me you wouldn't be doing everything in your power to ensure this would roll out
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Everyone should know the international sign for Help Me. Letâs make this famous!!
Interesting; I didnât know this was a thing.
Itâs apparently a thing, but itâs a very new thing, so it may need some help being known.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_for_Help
The Signal for Help (or the Violence at Home Signal for Help) is a single-handed gesture that can be used by an individual to alert others that they feel threatened and need help over a video call, or in-person. It was originally created as a tool to combat the rise in domestic violence cases around the world as a result of the self-isolation measures related to the COVID-19 pandemicâŚ
The Signal for Help was first introduced in Canada by the Canadian Womenâs Foundation on April 14, 2020, and on April 28, 2020 in the United States by the Womenâs Funding Network (WFN). It received widespread praise from local, national, and international news organizations for helping provide a modern solution to the issue of a rise in domestic violence cases.
The signal has been recognized by over 40 organizations across Canada and the United States as a useful tool to help combat domestic violence.
Addressing concerns that abusers may become aware of such a widespread online initiative, the Canadian Womenâs Foundation and other organizations clarified that this signal is not âsomething thatâs going to save the day,â but rather a tool someone could use to get help.
So let's talk about the Lost Generation.
This is the generation that came of age during WWI and the 1918 flu pandemic. They witnessed their world collapse in the first war that spread around the globe, and they -- in retrospect, optimistically -- called it the "war to end all wars". And that war was a quagmire. The trenches on the Western Front were notoriously awful, unsanitary and cold and wet and teeming with sickness, and bloody battles were fought to gain or lose a few feet of territory, and all because a series of alliances caused one assassination in one unstable area to spiral into a brutal large-scale war fought on the ground by people who mostly had no personal stake in the outcomes and gained nothing from winning.
On some of the worst-hit battlefields, the land is still too toxic for plant growth.
And on the heels of this horrific war, a pandemic struck. It's often referred to as "the Spanish flu" because Spain was neutral in the war, and so was the first country to admit that their people were dropping like flies. By the time the warring countries were willing to face the disease, it was far too late to contain it.
Anywhere from 50 to 100 million people worldwide would die from it. 675,000 were in the US.
But once it was finally contained -- anywhere from a year to a year and a half later -- the 20s had begun, and they began roaring.
Hedonism abounded. Alcohol flowed like water in spite of Prohibition. Music and dance and art fluorished. It was the age of Dadaism, an artistic movement of surrealism, absurdism, and abstraction. Women's skirts rose and haircuts shortened in a flamboyant rejection of the social norms of the previous decades. It was a time of glitter and glamour and jazz and flash, and (save for the art that was made) it was mostly skin deep.
Everyone stumbled out of the war and pandemic desperate to forget the horrific things they'd seen and done and all that they'd lost, and lost for nothing.
Reality seemed so pointless. It's not a coincidence that the two codifiers of the fantasy genre -- J.R.R. Tolkein and C.S. Lewis -- both fought in WWI. In fact, they were school friends before the war, and were the only two of their group to return home. Tolkein wanted to rewrite the history of Europe, while Lewis wanted to rebuild faith in the escape from the world.
(There's a reason Frodo goes into the West: physically, he returned to the Shire, but mentally, he never came back from Mordor, and he couldn't live his whole life there. There's a reason three of the Pevensies can never let go of Narnia: in Narnia, unlike reality, the things they did and fought for and believed in actually mattered, were actually worth the price they paid.)
It's also no coincidence that many of the famous artists of the time either killed themselves outright or let their vices do them in. The 20s roared both in spite of and because of the despair of the Lost Generation.
It was also the era of the Harlem Renaissance, which came to the feelings of alienation and disillusionment from a different direction: there was a large migration of Black people from the South, many of whom moved to the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. Obviously, the sense of alienation wasn't new to Black people in America, but the cultural shift allowed for them to publicly express it in the arts and literature in ways that hadn't been open to them before.
There was also horrific -- and state-sanctioned -- violence perpetrated against Black communities in this time, furthering the anger and despair and sense that society had not only failed them but had never even given them a chance. The term at the time was shell-shock, but now we know it as PTSD, and the vast majority of the people who came of age between 1910 and 1920 suffered from it, from one source or another.
It was an entire generation of trauma, and then the stock market crashed in 1929. Helpless, angry, impotent in the face of all that had seemingly destroyed the world for them, on the verge of utter despair, it was also a generation vulnerable to despotism. In the wake of all this chaos -- god, please, someone just take control of all this mess and set it right.
Sometimes the person who took over was decent and played by the rules and at least attempted to do the right thing. Other times, they were self-serving and hateful and committed to subjugating anyone who didn't fit their mold.
There are a lot of parallels to now, but we have something they didn't, and that's the fact that they did it first.
We know what their mistakes and sins were. We have the gift of history to see the whole picture and what worked and what failed. We as a species have walked this road before, and we weren't any happier or stronger or smarter about it the first time.
I think I want to reiterate that point: the Lost Generation were no stronger or weaker than Millennials and Gen Z are today. Plenty of both have risen up and fought back, and plenty have stumbled and been crushed under the weight. Plenty have been horribly abused by the people who were supposed to lead them, and plenty have done the abusing. Plenty of great art has been made by both, and plenty of it is escapist fantasy or scathing criticism or inspiring optimism or despairing pessimism.
We find humor in much the same things, because when reality is a mess, both the absurd and the self-deprecating become hilarious in comparison. There's a reason modern audiences don't find Seinfeld as funny as Gen X does, and many older audiences find modern comedy impenetrable and baffling -- they're different kinds of humor from different realities.
I think my point accumulates into this: in spite of how awful and hopeless and pointless everything feels, we do have a guide. We've been through this before, as a culture, and even though all of them are gone now, we have their words and art and memory to help us. We know now what they didn't then: there is a future.
The path forward is a hard one, and the only thing that makes it easier is human connection. Art -- in the most base sense, anything that is an expression of emotion and thought into a medium that allows it to be shared -- is the best and most enduring vehicle for that connection, to reach not just loved ones but people a thousand miles or a hundred years away.
So don't bottle it up. Don't pretend to be okay when you're not. Paint it, sculpt it, write it, play it, sing it, scream it, hell, you can even meme it out into the void. Whatever it takes to reach someone else -- not just for yourself but for others, both present and future.
Because, to quote the inimitable Terry Pratchett, "in a hundred years we'll all be dead, but here and now, we are alive."
There is a future....
We are responsible for getting each other there. Please keep sharing and connecting.
What's wrong with Gandhi?
Where do I begin?
- Criticized the Jews for defending themselves against the Holocaust because he insisted that they should have committed public mass suicide in order to âshameâ the Germans instead of fighting back. His exact words were, âBut the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcherâs knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from the cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.â
- Wrote an open letter to the British people in 1940 telling them to surrender to the Axis even if it mean accepting genocide.
- Was very anti-black. I hope you can stomach reading how he treated black people in South Africa. Itâs fucking disgusting.
- Refused his wife life-saving medication (for religious reasons), but those religious reasons all of a sudden no longer applied to him when he was in a similar position.
- Refused to have sex with his wife for the last 38 years of their marriage. He felt that in order to test his commitment to celibacy, he would have beautiful young women (including his own great niece) lie next to him naked through the night. His wife, whom he described as looking like a âmeek cowâ was no longer desirable enough to be a solid test.
- Believed that Indian women who were raped lost their value as a human.
- During his time as a dissident in South Africa, he discovered that a young male was harassing two of his female followers. He responded by cutting the girlsâ hair off to ensure the âsinnerâs eyeâ was âsterilized.â He later boasted about the incident in his writings, pushing the message to all Indians that women should carry responsibility for sexual attacks upon them.
- Argued that fathers could be justified in killing daughters who had been sexually assaulted for the sake of family and community honor.
- Believed that menstruation was a manifestation of the distortion of a womanâs soul by her sexuality.
- Waged a war against contraceptives, labeling Indian women who used them as whores.
- Held the attitude that women were simply creatures that could bring either pride or shame to the men who own them.
Sources:
Websites:  Women Suffer From Gandhiâs Legacy,  People who most likely chose Gandhi as a historical figure to do a report on and immediately regretted it, On Mahatma Gandhi, his pathetic racism and advancement of segregation of black people by Sentletse Diakanyo, Not All Peaceful: 13 Racist Quotes Gandhi Said About Black People by Nick  Chiles
Books: Sex and Power by Rita Banerji, On Pacifism by Derrick Jensen, Â The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi was a piece of shit and I hate when people site him as this peaceful angelic type of dude..
Fun fact! Water actually turns âblood redâ when it is contaminated by sulfur creating sulfuric acid. And scientists have discovered that around the time of the plagues a volcano went off that disturbed Egyptâs environment. So the plagues are scientifically proven. The other parts of the plagues are explained by the sulfuric acid river making the animals leave the river and escaping into the human population.
WHY DIDNT ANYONE TELL ME THE PLAGUES WERE PROVEN
if anyone wants a full list heres how they happened:
basically they all stem from a massive eruption of a volcano on the island of santorini off the coast of greece. the ash then floated over to egypt which kickstarted the plagues
1) blood: the ash carried the mineral cinnabar, which has the capability of turning water red
2) frogs: the ash also had many toxic and acidic substances so naturally, all the frogs are gonna flee the river
3) lice: given what was going on insects would have burrowed into dead animals/peoples skin and laid eggs, which then hatched
4) beasts: everything is getting poisoned from the ash and toxins, causing animals to freak the fuck out/die
5) pestilence: toxins again
6) boils: the ash would have caused storms that carried acid rain which when it fell, would irritate peoples skin causing boils
7) hail: the storm again
8) locusts: again with the insects and the amount of dead bodies and such which attract more insects. a lotta insects basically.
9) darkness: the ash covered the sky, blocking out the sun
10) slaying of the first born: given that childrenâs bodies were found in higher numbers than others, some archeologists think they may have been sacrificed to stop all the destruction, but they arenât 100% sure about that. this is just me but I would say another possibility is that babies/kids are a lot more susceptible to toxins and shit, so while an adult may have been fine or gotten a bit sick, it might have been very dangerous/deadly for kids or babies
the volcano would also attest for the parting of the sea weirdly enough. the red sea was in fact the âreedâ sea, and was very shallow, probably waist deep or so. given the amount of shit dumped into the ocean from the volcano, this wouldve caused a tsunami to head towards egypt. the water would get sucked out from the reed sea right before the tsunami hit, letting people pass it easily, then the actual tsunami would hit, fuckin up anyone who tried to follow.
another theory is that the red water was caused by algae, which would cause the frogs and stuff to jump out as well. the algae also carried substances toxic to animals so if they ingested any theyâd get sick and die, so more insects. in this theory there was a sand storm coincidentally that caused the rest
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The volcano wasnât ON Santorini - it WAS Santorini, then called Thera. It completely blew away the Minoan settlements on the island and was one of the largest eruptions in human history.Â
The tsunamis from the Theran eruption devastated Crete, weakening the then-powerful Minoan civilization, leaving them open to being invaded by the Mycenaeans.
The volcanic winter it created devastated crops in China leading to the fall of the Xia Dynasty.Â
The abrupt and catastrophic loss of the people of Thera may have also inspired the myths about Atlantis.
this is blowing my fucking mind
I love that if you really boil all this information down, what you get is something approximating âthe sinking of Atlantis caused the 10 Biblical plagues of Egyptâ which is, like, one of the greatest mythological mash-ups I have ever heard of.
instead of Friends they shouldâve called it Friends & Ross
every conflict the Friends had to face was directly the cause of Ross
just saw an episode where chandler was trying to give joey money since he was struggling financially but joey was too proud to take it so chandler made up a gambling game where joey always won so chandler could give him money without him knowing. perfect example of two great Friends. then joey, confident with his skills in the game, goes to ross to play with him and loses it all to ross. joey tells chandler and he goes to ross and explains the situation and how the game was fake and asks for his money back but ross wouldnât give it back. just one of the many examples of ross being a worthless piece of shit
I just watched the episode where Rachel hires a male nanny, Sandy, who is perfectly qualified and experienced. All of the friends love him including Joey who says that he is âlearning so muchâ from him. Except of course Ross who is a dick to Sandy the entire episode just because Ross doesnât think being a nanny is a manâs job. Ross even went as far as to ask if he was gay in the job interview which Iâm pretty sure is a big no-no. Ross eventually ends up firing Sandy purely because heâs a man in a female dominated job and because he thinks is too sensitive which is hilarious because the only sensitive one here is Ross and his fragile masculinity.
What about the one where Ross gets upset because his two year old son wants to play with a Barbie? He spends the entire episode trying to convince him that G.I. Joe is better.
How about the part where Rachel got a dream job in Paris, and fuckboy Ross who had treated Rachel like shit in the past, decided to try and win her back at the airport when he should have just let her go to her dream job.Â
I watched an episode where Ross and Rachel got trashed in Vegas and then went to the chapel and got married. When they came to Ross wouldnât get an annulment because he didnât want to be known as the guy who gets divorced. He is kind of awful.
KEEP THIS THREAD GOIN KIDS DRAG THAT FUCKER
Or the one where Ross yells at Rachel for dating Elizabethâs dad because itâs âweirdâ for him but had no problem going out with Rachelâs sister, Jill, when Rachel had an issue with it.
Or how about the one where Rachel is having the time of her life at a job she loves, but insecure douche canoe Ross has a problem that sheâs working with another man, and gives Rachel such a hard time about it, she decides she needs a break from their relationship
The show Friends actually invented the term âfriendzoneâ to describe Rossâ inability to show Rachel that he wanted to be with her (back at the start).
Or when Rachel and Joey get together and Ross freaks out about it even though he was currently dating Joeyâs ex-girlfriend Charlie.
He told Rachel that he read the letter she wrote him so that they would get back together.
He got jealous that Rachel was living with Joey while she was pregnant with Emma.
Speaking of Emma he kept telling Rachel at the beginning of her pregnancy that there was no possible way she could do this alone and that they should get married cause it was the right thing to do
The amount of times he has made small comments about the influence Carol and Susan have on Ben.
He dated one of his students and didnât seem to understand why her father was uncomfortable with their relationship.Â
He is constantly correcting people and treating others like they arenât as intelligent as he is because he has a Ph.D. And he thinks since he is âsensitiveâ and âniceâ that women should want to be with him.
Ross is the epitome of âbut Iâm a nice guy.â
There was also the episode where Phoebe didnât believe in evolution and he spent the entire episode obsessed with proving to her that his belief was the only true belief. He wouldnât let it go until Phoebe finally stood up for herself in the end and made him cave.Â
I am on record as being absolutely ride-or-die anti-Ross Geller. He is one of televisionâs all-time worst human men.
#1: Ross never saw Rachel as a friend. He ONLY saw her as a romantic prospect and never got over his crush on her. Heâs had a crush on her since high school so in his mind he âclaimedâ her first and long after they broke up he resented and deliberately tried sabotaging every male relationship in her life.
#2 Ross literally could not accept that Mark (or any man) could be friends with Rachel because HE couldnât be âjust friendsâ with Rachel. Throughout the series itâs often Joey that tells Ross that he doesnât OWN Rachel while Chandler and Monica (OH DONâT LET ME GO OFF ABOUT MONICA) enable him.
#3 âWE WERE ON A BREAKâ is NEVER an excuse.
#4 I am STILL pissed that Rachel got off that damn plane! Ross sabotaged her career at EVERY. SINGLE. TURN. He was âtired of having a relationship with her answering machineâ. He was constantly jealous of all her male colleagues. He WALTZ INTO HER WORKPLACE TO ARGUE ABOTU THEIR RELATIONSHIP PROBLEMS!
#5 AND HE HAD THE AUDACITY TO FALL ASLEEP at a work event that he DEMANDED she take him to.
#6 I DARE YOU to name ONE THING that Ross EVER did to unselfishly help Rachelâs career.
#7 LITERALLY EVERYONE WANTED Rachel to get on that plane. There was nothing left for her professionally in New York. The Paris job was her DREAM. But GUESS WHO DIDNâT. FUCKING ROSS BECAUSE IT ALWAYS HAS TO BE ABOUT HIM AND WHAT HE WANTS.
#8 I HATED (HATED) the running gag that Rossâs first wife being gay was the reason they divorced. MAYBE IT WAS BECAUSE YOU WERE A TERRIBLE HUMAN BEING.
#9 Rossâs need to win EVERY SINGLE TIME
#10 Ross ALWAYS treats everyone (ESPECIALLY RACHEL) like theyâre intellectually beneath him.
In addition to all of this:
HE SAID THE WRONG NAME AT HIS OWN WEDDING TO EMILY
He doesnât annul his and Rachelâs wedding AND LIES ABOUT IT
he made a move on his COUSIN, and RATIONALIZED THAT IT WAS FINE BASED ON HER ACTIONS
He didnât read the letter
AGAIN âWE WERE ON A BREAKâ (if Ross thought he and Rachel were on a break and he did nothing wrong, why did he hide the girl from the copy place behind the door?)
He KEPT TRACK of how many times he and Rachel had sex
He is whiney weak bitch
He CONSTANTLY belittles the accomplishments of others
He has anger management issues
He suffers from the Nice Guy Syndrome (NGS); fun fact, Friends coined the term the friendzone, this is no coincidence
The whole turkey sandwich thing
Heâs a shitty parent
An even shittier sibling
Sexist
Homophobic
Has never been in a relationship where he HASNâT cheated
When he got caught getting high in highschool, he throws his oldest friend under the bus
UnagiÂ
He dates a student (A STUDENT)
Heâs never been in a relationship where he hasnât lied
The âWe Hate Rachel Clubâ and the rumor that he and Will started in high school
I could go on about how Rachel SHOULD have ended up with Joey, but thatâs a whole other Ted Talk.
also, ross made a pro/con list because he couldnât decide if he wanted to date julie or rachel. in it, he described rachel as âspoiled, ditzy, too into her looks, and just a waitressâ.
I hate Ross with a passion and his role has poisoned David Schwimmer for me. Especially after Six Days, Seven Nights in which he pretty much has the same role
This post makes me literally giddy so Iâm gonna keep adding to it every single time I see it:
âI could go on about how Rachel SHOULD have ended up with Joey, but thatâs a whole other Ted Talk.â
When Rachel and Ross first got together in season 2, there was a scene where they were going to have sex for the first time. They were making out and Ross squeezed her ass and Rachel kinda started giggling a bit because she was really nervous about moving their relationship from friends to lovers. She tells him that itâs a really big deal to her and he says âI knew it was big, just not HA-HA bigâ. Heâs completely missing the point that sheâs massively uncomfortable and he just thinks shes laughing at him. She tried to shake it off and continue, but she felt really uncomfortable and embarrassed about it and couldnât stop giggling. She apologizes over and over again and tells him sheâs going to try not to laugh anymore and then tries to initiate another kiss. Ross tells her he refuses to touch her anymore because heâs too self conscious now and the moment is gone, making her feel like shit for being nervous.
THE EXACT SAME THING HAPPENS WHEN RACHEL STARTS DATING JOEY!
Rachel and Joey are kissing on his couch and Joey starts moving his hand up her leg. She breaks the kiss and literally slaps his hand and immediately apologizes for the knee-jerk reaction. Joey just shrugs and they start kissing again. He tries touching her leg again and she slaps him a second time. She apologizes and he just makes a joke: âI donât get it, Chandler loved itâ. So they try kissing for a third time and he tries the leg trick again and this time, Rachel slaps his hand AND both sides of his face. Joey AGAIN just makes another joke: âUh⌠Was that good for you?â
He, unlike Fucktard McGee, actually senses that maybe Rachel isnât ready to sleep with him just yet, so he tries to comfort her by asking if sheâs sure she wants to do this with him. She replies that she IS sure, itâs just going to take some getting used to switching from friends to lovers. THEN HE ACTUALLY TRIES TO OFFER SOLUTIONS and he asks her what they can do to make it easier for her. She suggests maybe not touching her legs right off the bat and he complies without complaint. They still canât seem to get in the same groove with each other despite trying a few more times, so they mutually agree that maybe its not the best to be together. She leans on his shoulder and he kisses her head and he says that he loves her no matter what.
LIKE. I DONâT GET IT. JOEY IS SO GOD DAMN SWEET AND PURE HE MAKES ME WANNA CRY. HE IS LITERALLY THE BEST CHARACTER ON THE FUCKING SHOW AND THE FACT THAT HE ENDS UP ALONE IS THE WORST DECISION THAT SHOW HAS EVER MADE. FUCK ROSS AND HE WILL ALWAYS BE AN EVIL PERSON.
REBLOGGING AGAIN AND IâM NOT SORRY!
#5 AND HE HAD THE AUDACITY TO FALL ASLEEP at a work event that he DEMANDED she take him to.
THIS EVENT WAS A 45 MINUTE LECTURE, PEOPLE!!! FORTY!!! FIVE!!! MINUTES!!!!!!! HE COULDNâT SUPPORT HIS GIRLFRIEND FOR 45 GOD DAMN FUCKING MINUTES I CANâT EVEN DEAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i hated ros in the 90â˛s and i still hate the git now..rachel should have ended up with joey..fuck ross..actually donât fuck the insecure little man baby
This could be the most important post Iâve ever shared. Please Share it with anyone who is or might be going through this terrible disease.
https://twitter.com/ItsMa____/status/1345432772538724355?s=19
My mom has fairly severe respiratory issues and is recovering from joint replacement; her PT told her the same info about sleeping/sitting positions and how they impact the lungs. Fascinating.
âMa'am, I understand you need to empty out your desk, butââ
It has just occurred to me that OP was talking about a breakup.
No wait yours is so much more powerful
u guys are going to be NICE to Hayden Christensen this time
Just overheard two teenaged boys at the front door of their friendâs house. One was on the phone and gently said, âOh, did you just wake up?â And the other one yelled âOPEN UP, FUCKNUGGET!â while slamming his hand on the door. I gotta say I love the friendship dynamic
I canât believe I forgot to mention that the guy who lived there answered the door while wrapped up in his blanket, and it was way past noon at the time, which really sold the entire interaction as a whole
im screaming
there's no fucking way this man is real.
a god among men
So he is actually just Bruce wayne then
He is definitely a robot thereâs no way heâs real. Cmon just switch his batteries and he could play Edward Cullen again.
no he wonât
really cool of his social media manager to post this âĽď¸ I wonder what joe biden thinks about gay people though
https://joebiden.com/lgbtq-policy/Â
I mean, you can argue that politicians can SAY whatever they want on their official campaign policy page, but Bidenâs shift on LGBT policy is pretty well documented.Â
Yeah, maybe donât shit on someoneâs political stances WHEN YOU HAVENâT BOTHERED TO READ WHAT THEY CURRENTLY ARE? Also. Raw bones here. If heâs actively pushing for laws that keep LGBATIQ folk from being discriminated against, laws protecting gay marriage and the right of same-sex couples to adopt, laws that make conversion therapy illegal and champion trans rights, do you truly care about what he might âreallyâ think more than you care about all that? If heâs not letting any personal biases he MIGHT have impact the policies heâs encouraging congress to write and then agreeably signing into law? Youâre just going to look at all the bullshit Trump has pulled and say, âWell Iâm not willing to risk that Biden doesnât mean it what he says when he says heâs going to try to enact laws that will protect queer folk, so Iâm fine sticking with a president who is actively out to destroy as many legal protections they have as possibleâ ???
âHeâs taking a risk by publicly supporting a marginalized group, but he couldnât possibly be serious. No, heâs just harming his chances for no reason, obviously! Now, time to throw away my vote and let the fascist guy turn the country into a dictatorshipâŚâ
yes hello hi! this is Joe Biden officiating a gay marriage. Joe Mahshie and Brian Mosteller, long time White House Staffers asked the then Vice President (this is 2016) to marry them. It was the first wedding (and only as far as I know) Biden had ever officiated, he had to get a special temporary certification to do it in DC. This picture (and the Wedding) is at the Naval Observatory in DC, the official home of the Vice President, to date thereâs not be a gay wedding at the White House.Â
Besides being a nice personal story thereâs a reason Mahshie and Mosteller asked Biden to marry them. Joe Biden came out for gay marriage before Obama. In May 2012 Biden went on meet the Press and voiced support for gay marriage. It was the middle of an Election year, at that point NO! candidate for President or VP had ever supported full marriage. Obergefell v. Hodges which would legalize gay marriage nation wide was still 3 years away. Many in the Obama White House were enraged at Biden for âjumping the gunâ and âforcing Obamaâs handâ With his Vice President and running mate on the record as for gay marriage Obama had to also come out for gay marriage latter that same week. I donât know what would have happened had Joe not told the truth on Meet the Press, but I think many Obama aids wanted to wait till after the election to say it publicly.Â
I remember when that happened in 2012, too, it was a HUGE fucking deal at the time. The zeitgeist changed SO FAST on gay marriage that I genuinely donât think people under the age of 25 or so really understand what it was like.Â
After years of democrat leaders going âwell I suppose the gays could have some form of domestic partnerships maybe but definitely not real marriage because⌠because [insert tepid homophobia]â seeing Vice President Joe Biden tilt his head in 2012 and publicly go against the party line and say âOh, yes I support gay marriage. Why shouldnât all of us have the same rights?â was a big deal. It made a difference. This is the first President who could say something like this and I would find it credible.
Skepticism and cynicism are reasonable to a point but letting them lead you blindly into ignorance is just as bad as blind faith.
If anyone deserves a raise itâs the employee from four seasons total landscaping who answered the phone and went âyup, we can set up a podium and everythingâ and just acted like nothing was out of the ordinary.
