• Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 days ago

    In 2008 during the California Proposition 8 controversy, there were was a clever ad suggesting You want to stop gay sex? Let them get married. It showed a gay couple transitioning from honeymooning to blasé cohabitation and even bickering as old spouses are wont to do.

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    Bert and Ernie appeared in the pilot episode of Sesame Street in July of 1969. They will enter the public domain on January 1, 2065. In approximately 40 years, it will then be legal for anyone to create and publish hardcore gay pornos featuring the Bert and Ernie characters.

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      In approximately 40 years, it will then be legal for anyone to create and publish hardcore gay pornos featuring the Bert and Ernie characters.

      • limit of 95 years of copyright
      • legality of porn
      • legality of homosexuality
      • legality of self publishing
      • existance of humanity

      So many things can change

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        Sure. But if civilization collapses in the meantime, then there won’t be anyone enforcing copyright laws. Or copyright could be abolished entirely. IDK what the future holds. Obviously things can radically change between now and then. The best predictions we can make of the future are just extrapolating the present forward.

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    9 days ago

    To bigots, seeing other people’s happiness is like swallowing a knife. Miserable creatures.

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    You can tell Ernie had a supportive family growing up but Bert was forced live in the closet. I’m glad they found each other though.

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    My dads not only had separate beds, they had their own bedrooms. Of course this didn’t mean one wouldn’t spill crumbs in the other’s bed.

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    Growing up in the 80s, Bert and Ernie were the most realistically stable television couple. They argued but loved each other, no question about it.

    That’s some real shit.

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    Gay marriage doesn’t come with the implicit expectation of rising children. Imagine all the frustrated parents struggling with the many obstacles that our societies maintain against rising children and their surpressed realization that they could have defied social expectations and just stayed childlessly happy.

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      8 days ago

      The thing about the gay community is that they’ve gone full retard and have been co opted to a certain extent.

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          Go to pride or even take grinder. All are capitalist hellscape because of the co opting.

          Well off gay men are insulated from the trials of regular people and need to take responsibility in the areas that were neglected during thier activism.

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            7 days ago

            What co opting is happening? Do gay men decide who is allowed to be gay?

            Your tone makes it sound like a major thing but I have never heard of anything troubling about the gay community.