That was an estimate. Around that time only about 2-4% identified as gay but it was estimated the real number was higher because homophobia kept most people in the closet.

It’s called being a disgusting creep.

When will the boomers fucking die already?

I like that her directive to combat leaking was itself leaked.

I’m holding out for the testicle electrodes.

The US has zero say on whether the war on UKRAINE ends. If it was a US-Russia war maybe a US-Russia talk would have literally any meaning.

Honestly, is that a bad thing though?

-whispers into your ear-

You should sell.

No Trump is in bed with Putin. He wanted Ukraine to just roll over and die and Putler to win. This is not in his plans. And no he’s not an expert in manipulation.

Nice to see supportive parents. My dad wanted me to go to gay conversion camp.

Cool.

Idiots.

Regardless what happens we can put up a fight. Arm yourselves. Show them what happens when they pick a fight with us.

I live in one of the bluest cities in one of the bluest states in the US. And even here, the average Lemmy is nowhere near representative of the average person you meet in real life. If you think they are you are either deluding yourself or have an agenda to push.

Reddit is already an echo chamber and Lemmy just turns up the echo chamber dial to 100.

The real answer is that there is no platform that is perfectly representative of real life population. Everyone self-segregates into spaces they fee comfortable in.

The entire world including lots of Europe has been shifting significantly right despite what leftist US haters often say about the US left being a European right. That hasn’t been true for a decade or more.

Apparently they’re so rich that their money keeps coming in without us because…

I mean, this is true. They can do nothing and probably make millions on interest. That said, it doesn’t mean a general strike wouldn’t be effective. While the normal person would be perfectly happy with millions coming in every year for doing literally nothing, these people aren’t satisfied unless they are making billions off the labor of others while they do nothing.

Sounds like the point went completely over your head.

The younger generation has a problem with externalizing their issues to others without feeling responsible for these issues themselves.

There is always some other party with influence and power who is either antagonizing them or should take care of them like a parent and when they don’t, everything is the fault of that “parent”.

For example, it’s the “DNCs fault” we’re in the state we’re in apparently even though a lot of people didn’t vote and encouraged others not to vote. The democrat party is not some nebulous entity or corporation that exists to cater to your whims like you’re some customer it must please to earn your vote. It’s made up of people. People like you who got together with other people to try to enact their political ideals and vision for the country.

If you don’t like that vision, you need to get with other people who share your vision, start from the ground up, win local elections and start changing the party bit by bit. But this is hard work and much more difficult than screaming that the octogenarian politicians are ruining your life when nobody your age is actually doing anything to replace them because you don’t want to become career politicians.

Stop behaving and whining like perpetual petulant children and actually do the hard work to make the change you want to see instead of waiting for someone else to do it for you.

Landlords all the way down.

Any alternative will just be bought up anyway since America decided monopolies are no longer a bad thing.