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Fuckers discontinued it once us homos could get married, effing over the unmarried straight folks. I don't think the big bads did that

gross.

how did you get access to ana mardoll’s laundry

cool when they gonna bomb me too? Looking forward to it.

Oh of course. But Bessent is REMARKABLY punchable.

I mean, we live in a world where Peter Thiel, Sam Altman and Mojtaba Khamenei exist, so yeh.

Freedom of speech was a mistake.

Pretty fucking gross

GREAT socks!!

I worked for a “large and bigger competitor of LMT”. Had someone transition on my team. The level of acceptance and support was astonishing and unexpected, from her teammates, to colleagues across sites, to HR and company leadership. Early 2000s.

Genuinely the Lockheed Martin pride socks are incredible and I want a pair. Also, they represent the only stable progressiveness available to the US with the constitution as it is.

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The really gay part is in the shoe though.

literally how on earth do you make this claim? what NATO are you talking about? an alternate reality is the only way this post makes sense.

Funding and arming fascist paramilitaries like Ordine Nuovo and National Vanguard for trans people.

Y'know you say that, but I've seen enough "RAAAH NATO IS NON-NEGOTIABLE" types that I could believe it.

NATO being this force for trans liberation is... certainly something. It's not and many NATO members treat trans people atrociously, but it's certainly "a take"

The swag you can get at the DC Pride Festival is *wild*. And the corner with all the three-letter agencies trying to recruit people? Absolutely hilarious.

What part of "we are everywhere" did you not understand?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDJa...

yassss, let's paint rainbows on the bombs made to kill middle eastern children, slayyyyy

LGBT people should have the option to work at Raytheon, even if I would not do so for moral and political reasons.

It’s such a great format and I will sheepishly admit Gemini is very good at making them

"they're just pretending they care!" you'd rather them not even *pretend*?

Pink capitalism has never benefited anyone. At the end of the day they would throw the entire LGBTQ+ community into the wood chipper if it meant line go up.

For the last ten years, every leftist has talked about the democratic party "bending the knee" to them. Putting aside whether quoting film GOT is cringe, it's probably more useful to have McDonalds, Target, and Disney bending the knee

This kinda gets to something that I've been thinking lately. That we need to stop expecting politicians, or in this case corporations, as moral monoliths, and more as things that can be changed. With effort changed in the way we want them to be. Expectation in a way kills effort.

Corporate capitulation to our values is a good thing and we should keep pushing for more.

Taking the win of corporations feeling the weather and trimming sails to point towards equality is good. Don't trust them! And definitely don't forgive Target. But the more noise we make about them being on our side, the harder for them to back away it is, do celebrate the win.

Glad they did it. But "institutions"?

And then next week they'll donate a few million to some anti-queer rights group. Why the fuck should I pat them on the back for doing half-assed PR trying to market to me while also funding my genocide? I'm sorry but if this impresses you, you'd be impressed by jangling keys.

Back then, Ronald McDonald was played by Willard Scott, and the idea of Willard Scott throwing the first brick at Stonewall tickles me.

It means they have determined there to be a market to sell these items to.

One of the things we "perform" is obligations

It’s much better than the right-wing equivalent, vice signaling.

I sure hope they don't make hormones woke - I can accept gay hamburgers, but gay *testosterone?* Unacceptable. (/s)

A thing I’ve learned in the last 11 years is that virtue signaling is a load bearing pillar for a functioning society

I don't think Dracula or Frankenstein's monster are gaining any sort of legal protections via Halloween merchandise.

bsky.app/profile/ira....

Well of course it's performative; all posting is performative. What did you want them to do with 300 characters? Hamlet? Angels In America?

When I was a kid, someone told me that Grimace was a blob of fat from the all the fatty food. I still kind of believe it.

it also produces big backlash tho. like, obviously it's good when rainbows are everywhere and every tv series has queer characters but it bothers many, many people to such degree that they 'rebel' by being anti-woke and purposefully going the other way. hence, where we are today. rinse and repeat.

"This corporation is just performing a ritual submission to LBGTQ+ people" is actually an argument that this is awesome folks!

People getting mad about "rainbow capitalism" implies that the only acceptable way for corporations to support non-cishet white people is quietly and out of public view. You can't make people feel safe and welcome with your thoughts; it needs to be expressed, "out loud", as it were.

I’d rather work for the soul sucking corporation that at least acknowledges pride or protects LGBTQ workers (not saying McDonald’s does I have zero knowledge of the policies) than the corporations that refuse to.

Not true! Almost all the queens were right up front that night at Stonewall. Ronna McDonald. Maya McCheese. All-Beef Patty. Only Vanilla McFlurry stayed home because her machine was broken.

No one on the LGBT+ side of things thinks that getting a single tweet from McDonald's about NCOD is the be all end all of fighting for our rights. I don't know why anyone pretends that it is. Of course there are more battles to fight! But at least corps think our money is good again. Take the W.

At best we're back to exactly before Trump happened, I'm not sure how that says anything optimistic. At most maybe it means we'll have a few years of peace before they jump right back on the murdering us bandwagon.

We don't need slop.

“I don’t really care what is in people’s hearts. I care about what they say and what they do” This is privileged 🐂💩. Is this working out NOW? CERTAIN people “say and do” things contrary to whats in their “hearts” until their base nature becomes acceptable/profitable AGAIN. Hate has a long memory.

It means you're about as mainstream and accepted as you can get if massive, highly risk averse corporations are willing to come out in support. Who cares if it's disingenuous? They're corporations. They're inherently amoral. Their whole purpose is to dilute moral and legal culpability of the owners.

At worst, the performance is a barometer for public opinion. They anticipate it being more profitable to put on this costume than the other one. That may not be the same thing as them earnestly throwing their full weight behind the cause, but it still helps to know that they see those signs.

I'm laughing way too hard at "nobody thinks Ronald McDonald threw the first brick at Stonewall"

I know, right

They're going to jump on whatever bandwagon they think will make them look good. But it's a healthy sign about the world when they think being queer friendly will do that

Companies are seeing money in treating LGBTQIA+ people with love or at least respect. That normalises it for other people. Gives people something to aspire for in their workplaces.

If a company is doing pride ads it's likely going to be more receptive to pro-LGBT+ policy bsky.app/profile/cool...

Performative tolerance doesn't matter at all when the same company is in fact financially supporting multitudes of homophobic and transphobic Republican candidates and politicians. At least $100,000 in this year alone. Boycott McD's

This is... sure what I would expect from AI.

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Nah, too brightly lit. You can actually see what's happening. Snyder would never.

And not a single drag queen in sight.

It kinda reminds me of when John Malkovich went inside his own head in Being John Malkovich.

I prefer rainbow capitalism to the realistic alternative on offer

Virtue signalling > Vice signalling. And a a customer, I don't care if you (business) *like* me, but I'm more inclined to shop at your establishment if you have a rainbow (or trans) flag somewhere -if nothing else, because i'm less likely to encounter open bigots while i'm there!

considering the amount of MAGA bootlicking that corporations are thrilled to do for literally no reason at all, I will take this as a win for sure

The thing about windsocks is that they're very good at telling you which way the wind is blowing

“Be Clown, Do Crimes!” “Stonewall Was a Happy Meal!”

Some people just couldn't imagine things could become worse ever again, and that was a tragic failure of their imagination. They started taking everything for granted and always complaining how inadequate it was instead of thinking how to make it last. bsky.app/profile/opin...

It is such a Christian/Western idea to be concerned with the inner beliefs of the actors. I took an eastern religions class in college (Jesuit) and it was a striking realization that a key distinction was about the emphasis on belief (doxis) v. action (praxis).

It’s possible to reconstruct a bigot but it’s intensive, I’d rather just prevent them from retransmitting the disease and set up a social cordon sanitaire. The effort of fixing one person is rarely proportional to the gain.

we knew they were there, under the rocks. if they won't change their point of view, we just want them to go back there.

I affirmatively support people's rights to have shitty opinions that they must shamefully conceal

You mean like the days pre-Trump?

Yes. We can’t control what horrible beliefs people have, but I look forward to not hearing them.

They don't perform it if it isn't worth it for them. It's a social signifier - shit isn't as fucked or as hopeless as the shouters want us to believe. Just as these corps go quiet in other years, them doing it again is a good sign. The boats are rising again.

so many corporate floats at the pride parade we watched, how dare they support LGBTQ people /s

I will never get the image of Ronald McDonald at Stonewall out of my head, thanks

I have a distinct memory of a young queer woman telling me that, silly as it was, "I Kissed A GIrl" was her first exposure to the idea that was something a female person could do, and so she could never bad-mouth it.

Holy shit, Max. This is A BAR. I need to sit down. For real, I’m literally reconsidering how I’ve always thought about this. I’ve always thought that if I couldn’t perfectly represent my beliefs/morals/principles, then I shouldn’t be publicly vocal about them. I don’t want to be a hypocrite.

Signalling virtues is in fact an important social function.

I'd rather have people fail to live up to my principles, which are higher than me, than fail to live up to me. Getting those principles across, Signaling that Virtue, serves that purpose.

If nothing else, it pressures bigots to feel marginalized. Which is good. Half of virtue is signalling. I think if someone signals support for virtue, and at least doesn't actively degrade the virtue they claim to espouse, then yeah, they do 'have' real virtue, it's just not grandiose.

Similarly, performative intolerance also matters. You are who you pretend to be, and should be judged accordingly. Mike Collins deserved the public humiliation Jon Ossoff served up, and I don't care what's in his heart. substack.com/@firetiffany...

The sentence "Ronald McDonald threw the first pie at Stonewall" popped into my head unbidden but it's giving me a heckuva chuckle. Then I realized that in '69 they were probably making those molten hot fried apple pies and that is legit a weapon.

Not only is it a litmus test for public support for LGBT rights in the best of times, it is also an indication that public support is so strong that soulless corps would rather pander to civil rights than pander to Trump and his authoritarian government. That's a big deal.

I see them a lot like oil companies. They engage in a lot of horrific acts but also are integral to the operation of many good things in our society. It's reckless to just want to destroy them. Instead, we need to make something better to fill that space, or at least we need to reduce the harm.

Actual acceptance is being able to commit war crimes like a true American!

The yellow stripe signifies to the sniper that they're one of the good ones who paid the weapon maker their fee.

Why do the socks not match? Why is Lockheed Martin making socks? So many questions I don’t want answers to…