Brazil did it. Brazil elected a neo-facist, racist, homophobic asshole to govern our country and the consequences about it it’s already happening.
In less than 24h since he’s been elected it’s been hell of fucking earth in Brazil. Countless people have been reported dead all over the country, mainly LGBTQ+. Countless. People parading around cities with their fucking guns (it’s pretty much illegal in Brazil but this asshole is trying to change our law to allow guns, he’s even encouraging parents to give their kids a gun ????), shooting it into the sky in sign of victory. Did you know that one of those bullets killed a child? Yeah. One killed an old lady too. There’s been report of them invading a indigenous village and attacked them. They’ve been saying they are going to kill every single “slut”, “fag”, “dyke”, poor people, Nordestino (people that lives in Nordeste, a region in Brazil, that is mainly against this government), black and homeless people. Aka in the last 24h Brazil felt what is like to live in the fucking Purge.
There’s already people recruiting “good citizens” to erradicate Brazil of “fags and dykes, because now that their master’s been elected, there’s nothing protecting them, they’re not even people.” I kid you not. They’ve created group chats in popular apps to talk about mass shooting the LGBTQ+ community in Brazil. Yesterday there were people waiting outside a queer club to beat anyone that went outside.
Our police enforcement already started to invade college campuses and schools to destroy history books because they think our teachers are indoctrinating us in favor of communism. These history books tells about our 1964 military dictatorship (something we’re very afraid of happening again and we’re pretty sure is gonna happen with this demon in charge). They are trying to say that we choose to elect a military government back then, when in fact was a fucking coup. They’re also trying to get rid of philosophy classes and social studies because they think it only teach us to become communists as well. Basically, they’re all very ignorant and violents and they’re trying to fuck with the only fucking hope we have to our future: education.
You won’t probably hear many of the things I’m saying because I’ve been reading it on social media, and everything we (the opposition) say on social media is basically reported as “fake news” by his voters. But yeah, I can’t count how many videos I’ve saw today of women getting beaten and threatened. Of how many stories I’ve read of people walking the streets and cars pullover poiting guns at them and threaten them. Of people posting pictures of their “victory bbq” with guns spread in their tables close to their fucking meat. Of how many times I’ve cried since his pronouncement, thinking about how I’ve never felt so unsafe in my entire life. Of how I’ll have to be cautious about everything from now on, if I don’t want to become another casualty.
If you don’t believe what I’m saying, read about what foreign news are talking about us:
I do not care if you give two shits about politics or what’s happening in the world right now, just please take some time out of your day to really look at this.
I am so sorry Brazil.
I haven’t posted about this because it honestly hurts too much. I’m worried about my international community, all my lgbt siblings in Brazil , about this place where my dad grew up, where so many of my family is from where so many of the stories I grew up in are based in, and I’m worried about our planet. We as a world need the Amazon. We need it. So many of us are already dying, from smog from climate change. The Amazon is our best filtration system. We won’t survive if it’s destroyed.
And I’m so worried about my fellow lesbians. This type of mix of misogyny and homophobia is going to lead to very very bad things for gay women in Brazil. Be safe. Survive. The good times will come back, but we need to survive to build them.
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION is considering whether to grant a South Carolina request that would effectively allow faith-based foster care agencies in the state the ability to deny Jewish parents from fostering children in its network. The argument, from the state and from the agency, is that the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act should not force a Protestant group to work with Jewish people if it violates a tenet of their faith.
The case being made by South Carolina is an extension of the debate around RFRA, which is more commonly associated with discrimination against LGBTQ people, but by no means applies exclusively to that group.
If granted, the exemption would allow Miracle Hill Ministries, a Protestant social service agency working in the state’s northwest region, to continue receiving federal dollars while “recruiting Christian foster families,” which it has been doing since 1988, according to its website. That discrimination would apply not just to Jewish parents, but also to parents who are Muslim, Catholic, Unitarian, atheist, agnostic or other some other non-Protestant Christian denomination.
Miracle Hill covers Greenville, Pickens and Spartanburg counties, and its foster care services have becoming increasingly in demand as an opioid epidemic has torn through a generation of young parents. The fight over its policy has been written about in the local press and was first covered nationally by The Nation.
Watch Republicans still try and call this a “Religious Freedom” issue despite the fact that this is literally about them trying to legalise bigotry AGAINST religions
Midterm elections are coming up
REMEMBER THIS GARBAGE
AND VOTE THE FASCIST REPUBLICAN TRASH OUT OF OFFICE
not to like, be dramatic or overescalate meaningless internet discourse but the white gay joke of saying “i don’t like sports cuz i’m gay, i don’t like cars cuz i’m gay, i’m awkward bc i’m gay!” etc. is just an extension of bourgeois distaste for physical activity, complex machinery, and social interaction imo
the proletariat thinks cars are cool, the proletariat enjoys sports, the proletariat enjoys socializing and talking – the bourgeoisie, exemplified by white college kids thinks all of these things are beneath them, and they constantly parrot jokes disparaging people who enjoy these most basic fundamentals of proletarian life, the integration of this type of thinking in to usamerican gay culture is ugly and boring.
gay culture is like this bc gay culture is bourgeois inherently
this is the dumbest post considering gay ppl are more likely to be homeless and in poverty.
literally same argument trannies have lmao just bc you’re personally poor doesn’t mean the culture you express isn’t bourgeois
western gay culture is absolutely based on excesses and on decadence. it’s an ideology of hedonism and nihilistic actions like it’s completely rotten and useless to society at best, actively harmful at worst.
Gay men are all pleasure-obsessed death-seekers. What a groundbreaking sentiment. Homophobia dressed up in anti-imperialist language is still homophobia.
the truth remains the truth whether or not you throw tantrums
Imagine getting mad when someone tells you that a culture that ignores
or promotes terminal illnesses and societal decay is actively harmful
and should be opposed.
president reagan is that you?
That’s pretty insulting considering I don’t want people dying from entirely avoidable diseases, but when those same people refuse to police their own circles and even go as far as to uphold such suffering as a part of the identity then really not much can be done about it.
LGBT culture is inherently harmful to those in it and wider society, and creates a very toxic image of all non-hets even if a large portion of them are absolutely opposed to all the ridiculous things going on in it. I’m not a hardliner by any means but if these people refuse to act reasonably then they do not get to be treated reasonably. You reap what you sow.
holy shit reagan i really thought you were dead
“LGBT culture is inherently harmful to those in it and wider society”
The irony of a fucking weeb with an anime girl avatar complaining about degeneracy! But this is exactly what I’m talking about when it comes to the term “Red-Brown Alliance”. And this is exactly how it manifests on Tumblr: a bunch of Stalinist fascists bitching about liberal bourgeois degeneracy while furiously jerking off into each others’ sperm-soaked anime body pillows. These people really are something.
I have to reblog this purely for the educational opportunity here. This is a strain of fascism that I’ve not previously encountered myself.
My personal favorite thing about this argument is the idea that lgbtqia+ people are definitely bourgeois, but sports, the literally useless games we spent a truly ridiculous amount of time and money in, are not.
Like i am a sports fan but i’m also gay and please for the love of god look up how much money pro sports makes, how public schools put more money into sports than they do necessary items for teaching or paying their teachers, how sports can ruin a person’s body physically and mentally.
We spend tax dollars on this shit. People die for this shit.
On an unrelated note, @korrasera, iirc this strain of facism is based a lot on stalinist ideology. It’s been a while but i think while the US was doing the whole red scare/lavender scare thing and accusing gay ppl of being secret comminists, the USSR had criminalized homosexuality and was accusing gay people of being secret westerner fascists. It’s interesting how that works.
Ah yes, the gay affluence myth, plus victorian eugenics. Can we stop recycling classic homophobia now?
… this is literally some 40-year-old cishet propaganda dressed up with pseudo-leftist bullshit. “They deserve it because of their lifestyle” is literally what we were told in the 80s and 90s, over and over, starting with when they blamed THE GAYS for their own infections and then they started blaming THOSE DAMN BISEXUAL MEN for “causing the infection to jump to heterosexuals.” (Yes, that happened, fucking Time Magazine ran an article like that.) Just because you put the words ‘proletariat’ and ‘bourgeois’ in your homophobic bullshit doesn’t mean that it isn’t just homophobic bullshit wearing a hammer and sickle pin on its lapel.
I mean, it could be that HIV infection rates have something to do with the way that the medical industry operates in the US, with the inaccessibility of PrEP if you don’t have insurance ($1300 a month is in the same range as what we pay for our mortgage in suburban Philadelphia), with how stigmatized it still is to get tested… I mean, it could be that a combination of medical homophobia and transphobia, institutionalized serophobia, and capitalist bullshit are the actual causes of continuing HIV infections in extremely-marginalized populations among the LGBTQIPA community, but I guess it’s easier just to say “them gays is the problem, and I’m actually acceptable in saying this because I’ve dressed it up in leftist language.”
Today, January 27, 2017, marks 72 years since the Soviet army liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi occupied Poland. Today we remember the worst of humanity: genocide. Today we remember all the victims and survivors of the Holocaust. We remember the roughly 11 million people (1.1 at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp) who were slaughtered simply for who they were and those who were imprisoned, and sometimes killed, for what they believed.
The Nazi regime murdered an estimated 6 million Jewish people, 2 million Romani people, 250,000 mentally and physically disabled non-Jewish/non-Romani people, and 9,000 non-Jewish/non-Romani gay men all in the furtherance of white supremacy and “racial purity.”
Today we remember them all and continue to fight against fascism, totalitarianism, and white supremacy so that this never again happens.
Today, January 27, 2018, marks 73 years. Never again.
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