GlendatheGayWitch

joined 1 year ago
[–] GlendatheGayWitch@lib.lgbt 2 points 1 year ago

This is the anti-sodomy laws wrapped up differently. SCOTUS didn't blink an eye during the Lavender Scare or during the raids on LGBT+ places and arrests of the community until Lawrence v TX overturned those laws in 2003.

Hopefully SCOTUS would strike this down, but I'm very doubtful that they would. A more entrenched R president is better for those currently on the bench.

They have shown through the end of Obama's presidency and during the end of Trump's presidency regarding empty SCOTUS seats, that they are willing to bend the rules in their favor. Don't forget some of these people were cheering at the thought of making Trump a king. These aren't reasonable, upstanding citizens we're talking about.

[–] GlendatheGayWitch@lib.lgbt 1 points 1 year ago

Concrete Genie also had some beautiful moments!

[–] GlendatheGayWitch@lib.lgbt 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Video game

Horizon has some beautiful moments

Back in the day, I thought Oblivion and Skyrim had some beautiful spots although it may not be as impactful now as it was upon release.

Board Game

Sagrada is a game where you are building stained glass windows and I think it's pretty.

[–] GlendatheGayWitch@lib.lgbt 9 points 1 year ago

Have you heard what they preach in church? It's long been a poison from backing slavery using the Bible to more race issues and turning people against their families and pushing people to vote certain ways.

[–] GlendatheGayWitch@lib.lgbt 5 points 1 year ago

I haven't seen a deductible that low in a very long time! As a teacher, I think our lowest deductible offered was 4 or 5K.

[–] GlendatheGayWitch@lib.lgbt 5 points 1 year ago

I'm using Connect and it provides an option to block an instance

[–] GlendatheGayWitch@lib.lgbt 5 points 1 year ago

The right has always been very organized. The church helps keep then organized. Fox News keeps them organized as they are all fed the same crap. Politically, the Tea Party helped organize the neonazis and neoconfederates, giving them a louder voice and recruited more of the like. Then the Tea Party rejoined the Republican party shoving it much further to the right. Around that time, they also figured out social media, which gave them an even louder voice.

When Obama was in office, the news wasn't as focused on them, so people that were living in Blue states weren't as aware. In the south, it was still a battlefield as you lived next to people with these beliefs.

It's their level of organization that has made the Republicans such a force to deal with. Before social media, the fringe groups stayed on the fringe of society and weren't given a voice through various forms of media. Since social media, they have a much stronger voice and we have discovered how easy it is for people to be manipulated, like with the Jade Helm scare in TX. If you don't remember this, there was a social media scare going around that Obama was going to take over TX and imprison those who didn't vote for him. The posts claimed that there were a bunch of Walmarts that had been emptied and were going to be used as makeshift prisons. The posts also claimed that Obama was hiding his plan from the public by claiming it was a training exercise named Jade Helm. So effective was the scare, that Greg Abbot (who still remains governor of TX) ordered the TX National Guard to watch the US army perform its training to prevent the army from arresting civilians. In reality, the US army was just performing practice exercises around Fort Hood, which is a little north of Austin. Years later, it was revealed that the scare was the work of a Russian troll farm experimenting with social media to see how disruptive they could be.

[–] GlendatheGayWitch@lib.lgbt 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's interesting, my labels and inbox, outbox etc are all underneath those

[–] GlendatheGayWitch@lib.lgbt 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Interesting, I've seen that on desktop and mobile app for nearly a decade.

[–] GlendatheGayWitch@lib.lgbt 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Gmail sorts email by tab. Click the triple lines and you'll see Primary, Promotions, and Social. Basically Gmail didn't like the word spam, so they named the folder promotions.

[–] GlendatheGayWitch@lib.lgbt 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I think it's talking about emails in the Promotions tab with the word "ad" in a box at the beginning of the subject line.

[–] GlendatheGayWitch@lib.lgbt 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought that the treaty from the Spanish-American War made the Rio Grande neutral territory. Any land that appears in the middle of the river doesn't belong to either country.

Unless there have been other treaties that I didn't learn about in my history classes, the buoys technically are infringement on neutral territory.

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