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the fact that walls get dusty is ridiculous. you’re vertical. act like it.
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I’ll say it again, please just grit your teeth and vote for Biden…
Vote blue.
Are those “Biden protections” in the room with us at the moment? Go eat shit and die.
They are in fact in the room with us right now.
4/26/24 - Biden/Harris administration incorporates latest rule to the ACA that includes protections on the basis of sexual orientation and improves pre-existing protections for gender identity, mandating nondiscrimination in health care and insurance coverage for LGBTQ+ Americans.
4/19/24 - Biden/Harris administration finalized a Title IX rule that clarifies the scope of nondiscrimination protections on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity throughout educational activities and programs.
1/9/24 - Biden/Harris administration reverses Trump/Pence era “License to Discriminate” rules.
6/8/23 - Biden personally announces a series of initiatives that include efforts to protect queer and trans foster youth, improve access to mental health services for LGBTQ+ youth and address the rise in hate-fueled violence.
4/26/23 - Biden/Harris administration files lawsuit against the state of Tennessee, challenging the constitutionality of recently enacted legislation banning age-appropriate, medically necessary gender-affirming care for transgender youth.
2/7/23 - Biden uses his SotU address to encouraged Congress to pass the Equality Act “to ensure LGBTQ Americans, especially transgender young people, can live with safety and dignity.”
12/13/22 - Biden signs the Respect for Marriage Act, one of the biggest legislative wins in the fight for LGBTQ+ equality in over a decade, guaranteeing federal rights, benefits and obligations of marriages in the federal code for same-sex couples. The legislation also repealed the Defense of Marriage Act and affirmed public acts, records and proceedings should be recognized by all states.
8/4/22 - Biden/Harris administration declares Monkeypox a public emergency and wields federal power to ensure equal access in the distribution of vaccines and treatment.
3/21/22 - Biden/Harris administration takes steps on Transgender Day of Visibility to protect trans Americans that includes issuing passports with an “X” gender marker, streamlining identity verification during the travel experience and providing resources to transgender kids and their families.
And that’s just the last two years, without including any educational or research work done towards new policies or educating Americans about LGBTQ identities and politics, like displaying parts of the AIDS quilt in the White House or regularly acknowledging Pride, days of visibility, or other issues within the community.
You may be too young to remember this, but Biden was one of the first major federal-level politicians to support gay marriage, and he dragged Obama along kicking and screaming to the finish line. This administration is one of the strongest allies the LGBTQ community has had. Ever.
For the many many people who do not seem to understand how a government actually works, this doesn’t mean Biden himself came up with these decisions, but they were approved and implemented by Congress because conservatives didn’t have both the presidency and a majority. They desperately want the white house right now because it will allow them to make any policy changes they want uncontested.
Unfortunately, in 2016 many non-Republicans were not thrilled at the idea of voting for Hilary Clinton, and viewed her as an establishment Democrat that was “just as bad” as Trump. This gave rise to “Bernie Bros” who wrote in Bernie on the ballot but, more importantly, also lead to a lot of people staying home as a protest vote of sort to the establishment.
Obviously we know what happened in that election, and are only just now starting to see the full long term effects from that protest vote - the Supreme Court is now firmly politically tilted, millions of people died or suffered severe medical ailments from a global pandemic, net neutrality and the post office were crippled, environmental protections slashed, our national debt exploded due to both the pandemic grifting as well as right-wing tax cuts, etc etc etc.There is no universe where Hilary makes anything close to those decisions, and in the scenario where she was POTUS Biden would have never run for office again, and we’d be having a modern election with a new Democratic candidate and a non-Trump Republican.
A protest vote to put pressure on your party to change to do things the way you want them to a) doesn’t work because that information doesn’t directly convey to party leadership without you directly informing them and b) comes at a cost that is paid by our poorest and most vulnerable populations as they are the targets for conservative pressure. It is a luxury that only well-off white liberals can afford.
I have conflicting feelings about Biden as I applaud a lot of the work his administration is doing to unravel the destruction his predecessor wove but also abhor his lack of action on Israel and continued deportation/border policies and support for media bans/restrictions. He could do more to try and reign in the nonsense that is the Supreme Court today.
None of the things that I am upset with Biden about would be improved under any Republican president - they would in fact be worsened multiple times over. The only way we get meaningful change is through harm reduction in a general election, and then actual sustained pressure on politicians/party leadership leading up to the 2028 election when we have primaries again.
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An embroidery piece of the luggage from the Discworld series, ivory teeth, lolling red tongue and almost two dozen legs included. I somehow also managed to make it seem like it’s grinning. Took me two months with two-thread embroidery. 😂
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Hes the dad that stepped up
they use their little paws instead of picking babby up in the mouth? that’s so cute!
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These photos were taken a few seconds apart.
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hater of socks
what is your problem !!!
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As you can see from this official diploma god gave me, I am a coffee company.
gentle reminder that I am not a human, as per this diploma from god. I am a coffee company that donates its profit to charity.
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This is my favourite interview strategy
You gave all those interviewers a ‘weird interview I conducted once’ story they’ll ride for the rest of their lives
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Dwell in Possibility
All I'm doing here is going where the awesome is. Which is you. Yep. So awesome.
