Living in Florida I feel it’s more common to see publicly. Recently join a “Walk for Heart Health” type event and it started with the national anthem and pledge. Local army ROTC high schoolers also came by a did… some form of rifle performance. This all was to “kick off” the event and most people had hands on their heart type stuff the whole time. Not to mention the city has “Land of the Free” flags on all the light polls in that plaza and it was interesting just HOW MANY people in florida wear those 1776 shirts or the “F around and find out” shirts still.

I’m pretty sure mine is available but I still opted to use a period and birth year. That said I have/had many fake name google, yahoo, and AOL emails so I’m a mixed bag.

It’s about god dang time, especially with the FPS drops it used to have when it got busy perhaps we can see MGS4 buttery smooth now.

I grew up late to the early internet days as I am just about as old as google itself. However, even in my time I remember light saber mouse cursors, neo colored backgrounds, the stupid but adorable fairy animations all over myspace, and websites auto playing Queen songs. There was character that we put it as a community.

While I may not be the biggest fan of the flat design of the lemmy website and how clinical it all seems, the FOSS nature leads to so much customization with apps and so forth while the content y’all produce is absolutely magical. If I see an ad I know it’s cause one of you have something unique to actually show off and it’s not just bots pushing me to open my wallet. Thank you, you lovely bunch of adorable dufuses.

There is nothing about the core ideology of Marxism Leninism that is opposed to queer rights. Actually there are a lot of queer people in the community at large who are communist and findable on YouTube or Lemmy. I’m one of them.

I’m not here to teach everything and I trust you know enough to be able to look up more as you wish. If you want an example of an ML nation that is pro queer look up the Cuba Family Code changes made recently. They’re among the most progressive in the world and help to guarente rights for trans people, lgbt, and more. Additionally China has a large trans healthcare clinic first of its kind recently opened in Beijing and a well known trans TV host. Vietnam also has a vibrant lgbt community and even in North Korea homosexuality and cross dressing to my research are not criminalized despite lacking public interest/support.

The days of old are over and new communist nations can and are doing better to ditch reactionary tendencies especially around queer rights.

I get you’re trying to make a big point here about China, but within the last 3 years they opened a multidisciplinary trans healthcare clinic in Beijing and additionally a well known TV host in the country is transgender and this is easily findable even within US new sources. It may still not be culturally fully accepted but I don’t see how the government is doing anything against us when they’re literally opening trans healthcare clinics. Hell there were trans expat teachers who used to move to China for teaching before the changes in education laws for expat teacher licensing.

People get mad at “tankies” (communists who aren’t blanketly anti-authoritarian and support AES nations who have Proletarian authoritarianism/DOTP(to a degree at least)) for one of two things, either imagined points they may have based upon either hyperbole, edge cases, or assumptions. Or the other reason is they challenge the world view of “anti-authoritarian” community members who then decry they should be removed… via authoritarianism.

Showing it’s ok when the “leftists/anarchists/liberals” do the authoritarianism for when their feelings are hurt but magically are supposedly anti-authoritarianism elsewhere. It’s all aesthetics and working off of your propagandized experiences and assumptions. You can personally block people/communities you dislike if your worldview is that fragile, or (as you’re advocating for) engage in what you decry and remove every opinion that challenges yours. This isn’t like yelling wolf for seeing nazis, nobody is actively calling for genocide or erasure around here and if they are advocating it then yes that can be problematic. It’s made all the worse by taking lies like (all tankies support putin unconditionally) and running with it till the birds come home to roost.

Interestingly the “Tankies” all haven’t defederated from LGBT or other diverse communities(despite being claimed to be just like the nazis) nor have they actively advocated to silence entire communities based upon differing worldviews. It’s good we’re growing, we can expand the scope of what we see or we can be in denial of anything that changes their worldview like a bunch of children who are being told Santa isn’t real! C’mon people, get real this is FOSS and we can do better than to do a bunch of infighting, this isn’t reddit anymore, we’re supposed to be a community(federation) here.