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Wait I have the right emoji for that, lemme just...
There !
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Important note for those who dont want to read the actual article: the ban is essentially saying only some flags can be bought with federal funds and then hung up officially, and the pride flag isn't one of them. It also doesn't prohibit personal displays, so while they can't be on flag poles or bought with federal funds, they can still be displayed. Interestingly, the bill also bans the confederate flag. It's still just bigotry being forced by the GOP but there's always more context than a headline can provide.
And the State Department can do whatever it wants. Why would Congress have oversight of a routine maintenance issue for the Executive Branch? They can fly all the pride flags they want and no one can stop them.
The House's budget power only exists until the item is purchased. It's actually not very strong. Literally how are they going to enforce this? The Justice Department will be defending the State Department. The House will have... who?
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Time to start raising the Wrath flags.
I read that as "Welsh flags" at first and thought "a little unorthodox, but ok.. Let's have some dragons up in this bitch!"
I read it as "Wraith Flags" and wondered how Colonel John Sheppard has been doing.
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It's also giving 1.8 billion dollars in weapons to Israel. Fuck every single dem who voted for genocide, and the few republicans who didn't vote for it because it was insufficiently genocidal.
This was included in a funding bill. If that wouldn't pass the government would shut down. You can blame Republicans for those extra things added.
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Ban the scary rainbows
Republicans. Would. Be. Worse.
Will be, at this rate. Biden seems determined that they should have to really try at it though! Yuck.
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Should note this is not permanent. It's only for the extent of the spending bill, which is until October, and can be easily removed from the spending bills after the election, when hopefully we have a more blue congress that won't need to make these shitty concession just to fund the damn government.
What a waste of time. Sometimes I'm ashamed to even admit that I'm American.
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Maybe the US's adversaries could learn from this and go the opposite way to improve LGBT rights instead. Would decrease western govs' ability to pinkwash imperialism, spread atrocity propaganda etc.
So far, the only governments I can think of that seem to have realized this and vastly improved LGBT rights accordingly have been the GDR (which would've likely spread to the rest of the socialist states) and Cuba.
Maybe the USโs adversaries could learn from this and go the opposite way to improve LGBT rights instead
Nah: right wing extremists are getting more and more power everywhere so looks like it's worse LGBT+ rights for everyone.
The future ain't looking too bright.
we can hope and fucking pray
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