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[–] MHSJenkins 199 points 11 months ago (3 children)

My take: business interests do not in the main care about Pride or DEI. They care about PR.

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 108 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Pride is a resistance not a party! Get back to our roots. We don't need another US Bank float.

[–] DoubleSpace@lemm.ee 35 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I want to see big brick as a sponcer.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 10 points 11 months ago

Their float can just be a lowboy loaded with bricks and someone handing out.

[–] errer@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Or Luigi’s Guillotines LLC

[–] MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 30 points 11 months ago

I get it, but it would be great if we could've kept it as a party. The community has already fought so much. The floats were basically the only way some people understood that LGBT+ was mainstream and accepted now. Rainbow capitalism is bad, obviously, but it's still devastating to see even that get taken away. Our roots should never have had to be resistance and it's sad to see it's come back to that. Same with several other communities. Having struggle be thrust upon you just by virtue of who you are is terrible for mental and physical health. I was looking forward to seeing the next generation thrive. I don't want to see them in the trenches. I want them to party. I want them to celebrate. I want job fairs at pride to be full of the worst Fortune 500 companies desperately trying to recruit from the community. I want them to live normal lives where they're not othered just for being and pride had evolved into a celebration of that.

[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Brother i'm with ya, but I've also met too many right leaning LGBTQ+ and it breaks my fuckin heart

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Fucking cowards and class traitors. Palm Springs gays need to fuck off!

[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

All I want in this life is a working class homo to follow me home and stay.

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hi, I'm a working class homo far leftist.

[–] helovesblink182@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Am i witness to a lemmy match making moment grabs kleenex

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm married though. But I'll see y'all in the LGBTQ+ camps to fight during the revolution.

[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 2 points 11 months ago

Do you think they will make the huge mistake of incarcerating all the letter-people together? What a networking opportunity!

[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

This how it is. It always has been like that. This is one of the things that helped the right gain power.

As someone that is gay, it's been something that pisses me off too. They use LGBT culture. It's like they market the LGBT stereotypes. I think that a lot of the "normal" naive Republicans saw this as well and didn't understand when they voted for anti dei it actually meant this Nazi esque stuff going on now. I think they actually just wanted to stop the marketing and abuse of LGBT culture by shitty businesses.

LGBT culture was basically sold out the same way hip-hop culture was. Once they can make money off it the culture gets raped.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 14 points 11 months ago

It's like people only do things because they get paid, and that's just really sad

But yeah, our corporate oligarchs and the billionaire class are evil manipulative money-grubbing leeches and we've let them run unchecked for way too long.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No, many of them want this stuff. People supporting MAGA at this stage don't care.

[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I see that. I didn't really know how to articulate a percentage or anything. But I do think some people were just really naive.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

I would agree if this was the 2016 election we were talking about. But we saw how his first term went, and this is the same but dialed up to 11.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

its called rainbow capitalism, a form of virtue signalling, and also performative politics.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

which is the current flavor of politics at the moment, one moment things like shows and movies VIRTUE signal minorities, the next they virtue signal for snowflake Christians.