If I have to explain to my kid why this is necessary in school, then I don’t care that you have to explain to your kid why Target has a Pride section. Seriously, not one bit.
If you're a corporate marketing officer concerned over what's happening with Target, let me make something abundantly clear: you will never appease anti-LGBTQ extremists. They don't want *some* concessions. They want all of them. But there's a colder truth at play here.
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@JoyceCarolOates Ah yes, 100 years ago when shell-shocked World War I combat vets were famously perky and unbothered, and Freud was inventing psychoanalysis with sunshine and rainbows
If you find yourself treating "woke bank" claims as anything but the ludicrous wails of a political buffoon, you probably need to find a new line of work.
@mtgreenee You do realize you will no longer have access to that sweet, sweet cash that all the Blue States provide the Red States.
You’d have to set up all your own support systems.
You know the ones that Red States use disproportionately.
@baseballcrank “Never Trump” is not merely non-support for a candidate, but a rejection of all those things that made him unfit for public office: ignorance, dishonesty, malice, demagoguery, abuse, dereliction, impunity. His party acts like those are desirable traits in its next candidate.
Conventional wisdom treated abortion as an issue akin to the price of groceries. There was a failure to grasp it’s so much deeper. It’s about an extreme minority eliminating the power of half or more of the population to control their own personal lives, without their consent.