even where there's laws, it's incredibly difficult to prove and a modern company knows how to cover its ass.

The law does not protect, even where it's nominally on the books, if they want to fire you for being gay they'll find some other reason and do it. You will not win a discrimination lawsuit unless you have your direct boss on video tape going "Muahaha, I'm firing this person because he is gay!" and even then it's…

My friend was fired for being gay, not in a way that he could win a lawsuit about it, the company in Cincinnati was smarter than that. They just pushed him out the door. But it was clear that he wasn't a "culture fit" because he was gay and they found out.

straight people don't EVER need to worry about offending anyone with your "lifestyle" "orientation". you never have to even think about it. you can just mention your family at work and everyone nods in approval. It's always appropriate and always fine. You never have to worry about who to bring to the company…

These heteros need to stop shoving their straightness down my throat constantly with their mentioning of wives and kids and family camping trips!

So because they CAN hide it, they should, otherwise it's "flaunting" it. Got it. Fuck you.

Sweatshops, yes but also the environment. Nobody gives a shit about recycling (except for pointless blue bins that get emptied into the same trashcan) or pesticides (except for expensive organic food), or pollution in general, people are as likely to circulate petitions against wind farms as fracking.. and nobody…

that circle drag KILLS ME every time.

they're all about science unless it's about climate change or evolution.

Well yeah, there were many reasons for Kolibri, mostly political - the SA was useful street thugs but when Hitler got into power they became a liability when he needed the army on his side. But the Roehm-led SA did have a reputation for being very accepting of homosexuals, how many brownshirts were actually gay…

The pink triangles got the worst treatment of all the camp inmates, some of the hardest labor, and even the other prisoners abused them. There's always a pecking order and they were at the very bottom of it.

Ernst Roehm and the SA is well documented, try "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by Shirer. The fundie revisionist history claiming all Nazis were gay (and by implication, all gays are Nazis) is found in the odious shitpile "The Pink Swastika" by Scott Lively, which I can almost guarantee you this Fitzpatrick…

Oh yeah. The Russians and Eastern Europeans were not at all kind to the Jews either after the war.

I recommend Nicholson Baker's "Human Smoke" as a good account of what the runup to "the good war" was like. tldr version: there's no such thing as a good war.

standard fundie doctrine is that the Nazis WERE homosexuals, using the example of Ernst Roehm, conveniently forgetting all about the night of the long knives. The early SA had a few gay dudes but it's hard to tell how much was propaganda and how much was fact. Roehm was definitely gay though and was killed for it by…

When I was a Lego-maniac kid in the 70s, my definitely-not-rich parents griped about the cost of Lego all the time. But nothing else had the quality. It was an early lesson for me in certain things being worth the cost.

TOTALLY. I rocked the fire barrels. They were a key strategy in taking out several of the Legendaries.

we learned nothing from horse_ebooks apparently. None of these "weird" things are worth paying attention to, it's always some marketing fuck.

I automatically assume shit like this is some viral marketing bullshit from the start for some crappy movie or video game or "art project". And see, it worked, it got you writing about it!

Ah, the suburbanite rightwinger's view of public transit, that it's just one constant festival of muggings and public urination. They know it's true, they saw it in a movie from 1979! Fear! Fear! oh my god a BLACK GUY might get on the train and be all black at me!! I'm a skeert! Fucking pansies living in…