I remember I was at a pride event in a major city. I remember when they excluded trans. Remember rainbow capitalism supports the patriarchy and business as usual. The working class is in danger. Democrats use minorities as human shields. Fascism is a failed liberalism as capitalism is in crisis. Woke is a joke. You were co-opted before you even started.

Maybe this year we post the pride flag upside-down?

Wait, are straight people in charge of pride month this year?

This post reminded me it's been a bit since I've done any volunteering; just emailed a local org that does concealed carry and gun safety courses for LGBT+ folks to see if they could use an extra hand. So, thanks for posting this!

There's only one effective way to handle a confrontation with a Nazi, and that requires you to be armed!

The fascists are just expecting the rainbow to fade away. But in reality, it's gonna be like leprechaun in space

If they believed love is love we wouldn't be here in the first place.

It is rather a problem that pride allows cops, companies and rightwingers (as long as they profess to equally push down people) in their parades .

I will show up once the bricks are back in fashion

That sounds like a threat!

People do not care about other people. People are not empathetic.

All people really want is validation, and for liberal, middle-class straight people, feeling validated means supporting a company that displays a rainbow for a week out of a year so they can say they're not hateful bigots and thus feel validated.

You all need to understand this, not so you can give up and be doomers, but so you can more effectively advocate for human rights. Knowing what dark, selfish dials and levers are set behind the average person's values gives you the opportunity to find ways to get your better results without spinning in circles. Yes, their personal values on equality are selfish and hollow... but so are most values until they become so standard in society that the alternative becomes to shameful to contemplate. We've done this many times in history, but we lose progress the moment we expect people do to the right thing for its own sake.

The right is great at leveraging people's desire to be validated and accepted to further their own goals. Can YOU think of ways to make people feel a desperate, panicked need to support YOUR values? When we all start thinking like villains just a little we will have fewer villains in the world.

ITT: naive children who think someone saying their demonstrably ineffective activism needs reworking, is actually advocating for right-wing ideology. We're so cooked.