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There's a subset on this site who hate with a white-hot rage anything that might remind them of the bumperstickers on mom's prius

I certainly notice whenever a business I'm visiting has a pride flag on display, or if I'm in a neighborhood where there are a lot of them. It doesn't mean the people there are going to do anything in particular for me, but it means it's pretty unlikely they're going to scream at or hurt me

Another trans lady got a ton of negative responses over what I read as frustration with allyship that starts and ends with a shallow performance.

As a noted shitlib, I fucking love shallow performances of allyship. I’ll eat up that allyslop every day of the week. Om nom nom.

But!

Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

Some of the biggest (mostly white) panic merchants on here strain to compare current events to Nazi Germany, and while there's always something learn from that era, the best comparisons for Trumpism are wholly American: Jim Crow, the Klan's terror, on and on. We beat it before, we must do it again.

personally I really appreciate small gestures of performative support because I know the worst-case scenario for that interaction is cringe allyship, not being harassed

i think jamelle bouie is where i got this point from (though its obviously not unique to him): trump doesnt escape consequences so much as the institutions designed to impose consequences refuse to penalize him. this is absolutely not the same thing. hes not magic, people are just lazy and stupid.

"Don't play games with me, kid, there are at least three genders." ~someone, probably

i would literally die in gladitorial combat defending the honor of someone in a position of powrt talking about "abolishing systemic cisnormativity" or whatever the fuck knowing what the alternative in their seat looks like

imo the point where shit really started going bad was when people stopped caring about bigots and turned their attention to policing imperfect allies.

My mom says “never look a gif horse in the mouth.” I learned this lesson after being assaulted for being gay. There will be plenty of ignorant allies, but you can’t take them for granted. When you directly experience the horrors of hatred, you learn to be grateful for any support you can get.

Now that vice signalling has become so common the goodness of its contrary is a good deal more evident.

virtue signaling good.

having seen the alternative, the signs and the jargon is good and should be encouraged

genuine question

does every civil rights movement have a "people *shouldn't* help us actually" self-sabotage subset as like a universal thing or are we just uniquely stupid

"Oh but the signs are performative, it's just virtue-signalling, it's cringe" maybe, but I'd rather be walking around a neighborhood with In This House signs than trump signs. The jargon doesn't do anything for anyone though

Dommed by a broadway fop who's also an obvious brat.

I know!!!!! donald trump himself would be Intrigued by a masc dom (this is his thing with putin) but he keeps going around knocking over sexual paper tigers.

every single day it's more obvious how sexually loaded all this stuff is. youre getting dommed by a broadway fop.

Yes And: this is to me the canonical post about that specific fallacy (partially memorable because "everyone who <did bad thing> should be lightly dusted in flour and left out in the rain" is an all-time Tumblr threat)

under or over the robes

there will be titles too

dont pretend you dont want to be a Post-Archon of The Veszelyite Gate

itll be fun, we'll wear big stupid robes and cast spells and shit

thinking about starting a cult, who wants to join

There is an obvious compromise here: furry versions of historical figures.

Hegseth drove himself this morning, I see