Just tell everyone to leave their signs at home, clean up after themselves, and walk the capitol grounds and/or the surrounding areas chanting/yelling phrases in unison. Hard to drown out the unified voices of 1,000 people. That way they don’t use state resources, and don’t set up any structures, materials, or displays.
The laws for POA would have to change to allow for such a union. There would have to be some kind of protection for wills as well, because there are going to be fights from people against the LGBTQ community.
If all marriages were dissolved and became unions, that might work. Otherwise, it would be a separate but equal thing.
I’ve heard too many people say that a 15 minute drive to the polls that have at most a 10 minute wait to agree with this view.
Polls, in TX at least, are open for at least 9 hours a day the first week of voting, at least 12 hours the next, and at least 12 hours on election day. There’s plenty of time to go before or after work for the majority of people, sure there are exceptions, but those exceptions don’t make up 60% of the population.
Paperwork didn’t help the partners of AIDS victims who were kept out of the hospital and heard of their partner’s passing via the obituaries and then kicked out of their house.
Even today, there are families who would separate sane sex partners and do the same awful things. Marriage guarantees rights, paperwork does nothing to stop the horrible people in our lives that would lash out at the first chance.
How would you protect the rights that go with marriage if you abolish marriage? Those include the right to visit your spouse in the hospital, right to attend spouse’s funeral, right to name spouse for inheritance purposes with legal weight, right to live in the housing you shared with your spouse after your spouse dies, right for your spouse to make medical decisions should you be unable to make those decisions, and others that I may be overlooking.
If only we could get people in blue cities to vote! So many in the past have claimed to support a dem candidate and when it came to it, they didn’t actually support anyone because they found excuse after excuse not to vote.
Separate but equal is not the solution you think it is.
Especially not using the lords name in vain. They want it to mean don’t say oh my God, but that doesn’t have anything to do with it. That means don’t say God tells you to do X or don’t do y when God didn’t actually say. Similar to people saying stop in the name of the king.
One of those misinterpretation that helps bad actors take advantage of people
When it had a plastic bag ban in place, the town of Laredo, TX saved something like a quarter or half million dollars a year on waterway cleanup because there were so many less plastic bags blocking everything.
Then the legislature and maybe state Supreme Court struck down the bans.
Some of them burned a few calories standing up from the couch and walking into the polling station to vote. They’ve burned through more savings to pay for groceries and everything else because of all the trumpflation in both terms, but they at least burned off most of a French fry.
His brain is so far gone, he’s gonna get trapped in the bathroom because he can’t find the way out.
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They seem to be getting ready to use the pink triangle for its first purpose again.
Might be a different symbol this time, given that the pink triangle became the first pride symbol.
Unfortunately this time, it’s not just Russian propaganda.
Boycotting seafood from a cou try that recently had an oil spill or a country where a contaminate was found to be used in factories would be apolitical boycotts.
Late 2015/early 2016, Trump himself said that he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and not lose any votes.
Sorry, I turned the frogs gay.
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If we were having this conversation in 2017, I’d agree with you. However Trump announced his run over 10 years ago and has been spewing more of the same shit since then. The excuse about not knowing isn’t really valid anymore. The morons who voted for Hitler are called fascist, just as were the bigots who fervently supporter him.
Gen Z was born 1996-2009, the oldest were 19 years old in 2016 when Trump campaigned to drain the swamp, which famously didnt work.
Only racists and fascists voted for him after 2016. He was surprisingly open about all the terrible things that have happened so far in his second term while on the campaign trail. Although I never listened to his campaign ramblings (nor did a large chunk of his crowd), I didn’t see reports about the drain the swamp slogan after the first term.
How did it take them 9 years to feel duped?
Yeah, it’s crazy working as a server now. $2.15/hour plus tips. You have to be somewhere that makes good tips. The law only guarantees that you will make at least $7.25/hour and the restaurant is supposed to pay you to that average only if tips don’t get you to minimum wage.
How do you see the notes? I just see the headline as the post title. I might be missing a lemmy feature