Picture shows a pride parade. A group of people are carrying a banner that says “LOCKHEED MARTIN” over a rainbow graphic.

  • ameancow@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Is there at least any way we can leverage this so that bigots become literally scared of mistreating queer people? Like, if you deliberately misgender someone or use a homophobic slur everyone goes quiet and scatters in different directions because they are anticipating the drone strike.

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      5 months ago

      “My pronouns might be they/them, but yours are about to be were/was.”

      This message brought to you by Lockheed Martin: proudly supporting LGBTQ+ drone pilots worldwide.

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      5 months ago

      I’d say that it’s better to frame it as; lockheed supports lgbtq+ but lgbtq+ does not support lockheed as long as lockheeds business-model is based on killing people.

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      5 months ago

      Oh, people associate queer people with drone strikes, alright. Not as much in the US but there are people around the world (global south, etc) who will take stuff like this at face value and hate queer people because they associate us with the US military. It generally doesn’t work out well for the queer people living there.

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        5 months ago

        Not as much in the US but there are people around the world (global south, etc) who will take stuff like this at face value and hate queer people because they associate us with the US military.

        Jesus fucking Christ, imagine believing this.

        Imagine being THIS into apologia for homophobia.

        And then pretending like you never said this, lol.

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      5 months ago

      Okay I’m all for equal treatment, but you sound fucking crazy right now. Do you know what you’re actually suggesting? Instilling fear of death in people committing a minor intolerance. That’s not a free society and it sounds like the start of a different monster of an oppressive system.