Agreed. Unfortunately, Lemmy also took a step back to 2010s reddit when it comes to tolerance and self-analysis too, apparently. Schumer is terrible but he's terrible in a way that doesn't have to be articulated as a slightly elaborated version of "that's gay"

I agree, but I would much rather have an article stating such from any source that is not Jacobin tbh

If you think conservative anti-LGBT sentiment is a recent phenomenon I'm...almost impressed at the cultural blackhole-ing there, lmao.

This is similar to what I thought. I've seen a lot of people really reluctant to accept dysphoria that's almost always stemmed in like, believing there's a right process to be trans explicitly so they can deny that belief to people they don't want to be trans, so this could be a good first step but that mindset may prove to be toxic down the line; only time can tell.

You can see similar stuff in all the cis people eager to dictate that you should avoid accepting your own transness because, of course, you wouldn't want to be trans if it weren't something dictated to you by someone else who wasn't biased in how you feel and...etc etc. Cis people are weird about that stuff and it's become genuinely more rare that they don't try to find ways to weasel in their discomfort over it in language of care these days, which is a constant difficulty to navigate.

I would say, get care at your own pace, and don't go backwards just to follow the process dictated to you by others if it's not what you want; more often than not whether they accept you is already decided regardless of the avenue you take for it.

Best of luck with everything. It's a rough journey, but one you kinda have to take in the end.

Just say you're fine with bigotry as long as white dudes benefit in the way you want, it's a lot faster and more intellectually honest.

When I lived in rural areas basically the only sign of gay people was the pride merchandise put out by large corporations.

It doesn't matter in cities that are full of open gay people, but the universal application of these initiatives means it ends up normalizing this stuff in areas that might otherwise not experience it, and for that alone it's a problem that these kinds of things are going away.

It's honestly kinda wild to me how many gay folks are so "I hate pride stuff!" these days tbh, but I guess that's differing perspectives for you.

Fuck Tim Apple, but please do not ever utter the phrase "bad gay" again.

Bernie lost the popular vote in the primaries twice. It's mostly white guys that want him, honestly, which isn't a popular sentiment but it's true.

He doesn't speak to the problems of marginalized communities who make up a large portion of the Democratic base.

Yeah, me getting to use the bathroom is just a rhetorical distraction in the end.

Go back to your hole, .ml troll

Trans people voted for Harris, overwhelmingly. The problems were with white guys with a weird stick up their ass trying to convince everyone else not to vote to protect us. Good work I guess, you got what you wanted.

Yeah, it's genuinely a problem when you just want to not see entire instances based on the userbase they culminate. I wish blocking instances would actually block the users associated with it, but alas.

I've taken to blocking everyone @lemmy.ml on sight since every time I see them it's some vitriolic rant about how trans people are class traitors or some other weird shit I don't wanna see, but it is a bit of extra effort and annoyance each time a new one pops up.

...dude you're writing off a genocide against me with "some of you may die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make" shit

You are actively advocating for people to be complicit in not preventing another genocide.

In reality a not insignificant portion of them would probably vote for Trump to "own the libs" honestly.

She has a really checkered record wrt trans stuff altogether. I'm concerned.

She's better than Trump but a significant step down from Biden in terms of most of the things I care about which makes her a concerning pick, combined with the fact that she performs worse in polling (if that was the main concern). I hope I'm wrong but I'm concerned that this basically sealed the Dems' loss.

...you realize MLK was talking about people like you that would rather throw your hands up and do nothing than help, right?

If Trump wins, minorities and LGBT folks are in danger. That's on you. In the same way that white moderates are critiqued for sitting around and doing nothing in the civil rights era, people who are sitting around and doing nothing against the rise of fascism in that way because they don't want to take the time to focus on who's in danger are to blame. You are the modern white moderate.

tbqh I kinda like seeing LGBT iconography in public so I'll take the pandering instead of joining conservatives in dunking on it in these cases

I'll concede that I wish plenty of those companies would do more, though.

Sanders' LGBT policy platform was a joke in 2020 compared to everyone else's, even Bloomberg's. He's moved backwards in that area which is kinda distressing.

On a personal level you can deduct it from your income, but only if it passes a certain threshold...but also, it doesn't really count as income before a certain threshold, so realistically, at that quantity, it doesn't matter.

It starts mattering when you start dealing with donation quantities nearing like, $10000, because then you start to run into the standard deduction (the assumed amount that "well everyone just donates this amount, we don't need to keep track of it all before then, we'll just hand that exemption to everyone"). I forget what the gift threshold is in a similar vein, but it's not as low as $100.

Edit: I went through all that and didn't really address the core of the question. If you get paid a large amount of money, say, $20,000 and then donate all of it, ignoring the standard deduction whackery as discussed above (as a corporation would effectively do), yes, your taxes will have you deduct all of the donation from your income (you will not have to count it as revenue, essentially) if the group is registered properly with the IRS. You do not reduce your tax burden further than you would have if you had not received the donation, you essentially get taxed as though you never got the money at all.

Google isn't their employer, it's the contracting company. The contract not being renewed is inherently a business decision between two busines entities, which is probably going to result in the contracting company laying off the workers but that can't be directly tied to Google because...Google didn't hire these people, they hired a company that happened to employ them.

Is it a loophole? Possibly, depending on the structure of the two businesses in question...but it's very unlikely to be suddenly declared illegal, it's been common practice in sectors for a while for basically that reason. Contractors get the shit end of the deal and that needs to be addressed directly instead of pretending they're already protected by laws.

more concerned with systemic inequality and foreign genocide

...what in this prevents them from doing their job and actually forwarding a pretty objectively good bill?