Let’s say, you wanted to reward a politician for supporting your political beliefs, you can’t just… give them money now can you?
But, you can help them get a book deal, and then when the book comes out you can buy a bunch to donate to libraries or something. This has the benefit of artificially inflating the sales numbers and getting it on a best sellers list.
You know, it always shocks me that people don’t get this. Like, the 2A people are the definition of single issue voters. Like… they only care about which party will give the less restrictive gun laws. If ether party said they’d make it so people didn’t need a tax stamp for short barreled rifles anymore, they’d win that voting block no question.
Like, they’re not die hard republicans, they literally only care about one thing.
If I recall Massachusetts was also the first state to legalize gay marriage.
Pete, you may think you’re speaking to both sides of the Democratic base, but you’re actually just making the moderates shrug and the left want to throttle you.
I think a lot of the most vocal transphobes are people who have been estranged from their own kids due to their unwillingness to accept them. Like they rationalize it as “gender ideology” stole my kids from me, rather than acknowledge that their kids cut them off because they were being toxic. Having a high profile example of someone “getting their kid back” by dropping the bigotry can help disarm that narrative.
The State of Washington is a land of contradictions.
There are large areas that are very progressive and pro LGBTQ. Huge amounts of community organizing and routine public demonstrations. Genuinely quite strong community.
But the conservatives in the state are some of the furthest right in the country, they’ve been politically marginalized for some time now, but still have influence in a lot of institutions, particularly at the local level in some smaller towns and suburbs.
It gets overlooked because it always votes democrat, but the state has some serious internal political divides.
Third hand bursting from my chest like a xenomorph, “yah but what if my truth does not exist with in the binary and my discomfort from correcting others comes from me not being entirely sure that my assertion of gender identity is accurate”
Fourth hand slapping me across the face “ and what if that feeling is just a result of externalized pressures insisting that I can not fit an idealized notion of the concept I claim to be, or perhaps my uncertainty in what others view that concept as, and if I am improperly conveying that concept I am feeling to them due to our difference in understanding•”
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It really do be like that.
People really out here thinking they have the authority to decide who we are. Like, sometimes it’s just a slip, like, it’s not what they’re expecting and they have to remind them selves, but, like, sometimes, it feels like they’re trying negotiate, walk us back.
“Oh you haven’t earned that. You haven’t put enough effort in to claim that. You’re not really that because I don’t feel like it.”
sometimes it’s absolutely intentional, and it hurts, like, I’m not asking you for anything, I’m telling you who I feel like I am, I’m trying my best to preform with what I have, and you’re rejecting that because apparently my feelings don’t matter, but you hang ups do.
Translation for cowardese “It would be really hard for me to stand up for you and it would be much easier for me if you just let them have this so I didn’t have to talk about it.”
I think it’s more a correlation than a causation. It is not that LGBTQ are better at running companies, but that a company that never promotes or advances them is almost certainly not promoting based on capability and appropriateness for a position.
More likely it’s promoting based on personal relationships and connections, an old boys network. Which leads to people who are less qualified, but better connected, ending up up running things.
Counter to what the anti-DEI people will claim, diversity in a company is the result of hiring the best qualified people, a company that lacks diversity is a sign of poor hiring practices.
Read: pete had a meltdown when popular media depicted the millitary in anyway other than his prescribed image.