The Colorado Republican Party wants all Gay Pride rainbow flags to burn to ash, according to a new report. In a mass email titled “God Hates Pride” the state GOP made a call to flames, and castigated LGBTQ community as Pride month began on June 1, according to the local NBC affiliate 9News. “...

The Colorado Republican Party wants all Gay Pride rainbow flags to burn to ash, according to a new report.

  • FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml
    0·
    3 months ago

    Taliban, with all its problems, took arms in hands and fought a foreing invader with a disgracefull disadvantage on their side in order to free their country. And won. I dont think republicans could ever do something remotely similar

          • FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml
            0·
            3 months ago

            Taliban is a very admirable group in their fight against a foreing invader. If you want people there to have a mentality that no longer condems individuals for their sexuality, they need to develop economically first. I think its naive to belive that an agricultural country set back in development many years by a foreing invasion will have any kind of progressive mindset. And no ecomic development will occur under invasion and war. So if theres any chance for a progressive mindset to come for the people there in the future, its path starts with the fight taliban did, even if they are against it themselves.

            • M. Orange@beehaw.org
              0·
              3 months ago

              I get what you’re saying, but commending a group that is currently running fascistic, theocratic, totalitarian government for repelling an invading force isn’t exactly the talking point you want it to be.

              Not to once again prove Godwin’s law, but it’s like saying “Hitler may have nearly eradicated all the Jews, but he brought Germany out of spiraling hyperinflation!” You may have a point, but no one’s going to listen closely enough to prevent them from interpreting your statement as an endorsement of Hitler.

              • FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml
                0·
                3 months ago

                isn’t exactly the talking point you want it to be.

                It is. The history of the country changed because of what they did. It was an historical event

                but it’s like saying

                Absolutely not. Taliban was fighting a foreing invasor, Hitler commited genocide, among many other things. If you grossly look at the casualities there, you could argue that the USA genocided afghan people. Tbh this is stretch you did really looks like bad faith, overlooked reality for the sake of argument

                • M. Orange@beehaw.org
                  0·
                  3 months ago

                  I’m not saying I think you’re endorsing the Taliban; I’m saying that people won’t read that closely into what you’re saying and THINK you are.

                  And even though the Taliban aren’t committing genocide (which I never said they were, I should’ve been clearer that the Hitler example was hyperbole for the sake of making a point), the human rights violations their government is committing are reprehensible. That’s why it’s an issue to say “they were just protecting their homeland”: they kicked foreign invaders off their land to treat their own citizens just as poorly (if in different ways). It looks like you’re taking up for a group that’s pretty worthy of villainization.

  • hydroptic@sopuli.xyz
    0·
    3 months ago

    Conservatives won’t be happy until we’re all in extermination camps. Again.

    Every single conservative is either outright genocidal, or a silent collaborator who doesn’t really care as long as they aren’t personally affected.

      • hydroptic@sopuli.xyz
        0·
        3 months ago

        I really didn’t. Like I keep saying, “moderate” conservatives are mythical creatures, much like unicorns or ethical billionaires. I had a “fiscally conservative” and “moderate” acquaintance flat out tell me to my face that the world would be a better place if gender minorities didn’t exist and that we’re all pretending anyhow