• Fubarberry
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    612 months ago

    Came across a truck in a southern town covered in stickers of anime traps (some were borderline hentai), gay pride stickers, and a whole lot of gun stickers. They had a bumper sticker that said something like “the only thing straight about me is my shooting”.

    • @Infynis@midwest.social
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      262 months ago

      If anyone deserves the right to bare arms, it’s femboys. Not everyone looks good in dresses with sleeves!

    • @FinishingDutch@lemmy.world
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      12 months ago

      Back in the Trump days I saw a documentary on YouTube about the rise in LGBTQ+ gun culture.

      Basically, most of the interviewed folks reasoned: I’d rather not need or use a gun, but the people who want me dead all have them, so I want to protect myself. Obviously, there’s also just people in that community who enjoy guns regardless. Both are perfectly valid reasons.

    • @andros_rex@lemmy.world
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      We have ample evidence of the sexual abuse of enslaved women - you can see that in the skin color of most black folks who live in the US.

      We know they raped their male slaves too, but it doesn’t produce physical evidence. But a lot of the obsession with the size of black men’s penises starts in the mid 1800s.

      The Delectable Negro is a fascinating read about disturbingly erotic cannibalism of enslaved folks. They ate Nat Turner after they put his rebellion down, and the descriptions are just weird.

      • @zbyte64
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        112 months ago

        Read Wikipedia

        Holy fuck they made purses out of the guy and they’re still figuring out which skull is his. What. The. Fuck.

        • @andros_rex@lemmy.world
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          (Good thing we’d never do something as awful as mutilate the corpses of black rebels as prizes/lose track of them in the enlightened 20th century.)[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/22/move-bombing-black-children-bones-philadelphia-princeton-pennsylvania]

          The bones of Black children who died in 1985 after their home was bombed by Philadelphia police in a confrontation with the Black liberation group which was raising them are being used as a “case study” in an online forensic anthropology course presented by an Ivy League professor.

          It has emerged that the physical remains of one, or possibly two, of the children who were killed in the aerial bombing of the Move organization in May 1985 have been guarded over the past 36 years in the anthropological collections of the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton.

          • @zbyte64
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            How we view that past is how we treat the present. The fact Nat Turner’s family has not gotten closure is reflected in our more modern acts of racism.

  • @Godric@lemmy.world
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    I have someone near my home who flies those exact same flags, so it made me think. My state bled for the Union, so it’s not a “southern pride” flag.

    I came to the conclusion American Pride, Gay Pride, And White Pride aren’t exclusive XD

    You can be love America, be gay, and hate minorities all at the same time, what a country

  • Mark
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    332 months ago

    If you use Tumblr to get pictures of handsome working men / military men / etc, you see a lot of this crap coming from the same accounts sharing hot dudes. Gay men decrying “wokeism” and hating on trans people and immigrants.

    Being gay unfortunately does not correllate with intelligence.

    • @Psythik@lemmy.world
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      Yeah no kidding, otherwise Log Cabin Republicans wouldn’t exist. I mean why else would an LGBT+ person vote Republican unless they’re just plain stupid?

    • Flying SquidOPM
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      I know, but it’s like… how do you hold those three things as values dear enough to you to wave flags from the back of your truck and not see the dissonance.

      It’s like there’s a town near me and there’s one house that has a big Trump/Vance flag and two Trump/Vance banners on the fence in front of their porch.

      And a “proud union member” sign in their yard.

      Makes no fucking sense.

      • @WaxiestSteam69@lemmy.world
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        112 months ago

        Very few people can recognize that level of dissonance. They have twisted stuff in their minds so long it’s impossible to see it.

      • KillingTimeItself
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        22 months ago

        i still think we should start satirizing flags, and making nonsense flags that don’t actually exist, but appear to exist, not unlike e pluribus anus, although that applies to the show community, so it doesn’t count.

        There’s got to be all kinds of stupid shit we can think up.

      • @Chapelgentry@lemmynsfw.com
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        12 months ago

        That’s Indiana for you. NWI is littered with that and some of the people I work with are in a union and parrot Fox News. Wildest shit I’ve ever seen.

        • Flying SquidOPM
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          22 months ago

          This was Illinois, actually. Marshall, IL. Sort of east-central IL.

          • @Chapelgentry@lemmynsfw.com
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            22 months ago

            Oh that’s way down by Terre Haute. Makes slightly more sense but still baffles me that someone can simultaneously be proud of being in a union while supporting the guy that wants to dismantle them.

  • @steeznson@lemmy.world
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    142 months ago

    I think this would be less surprising if we didn’t imagine LGBTQ people were one homogeneous block of political beliefs and opinions. Some of my most right-wing friends are gay.