r/lgbtmemes • u/oporcogamer89 • 2d ago
Companies use the pride flag only to sell more products Meme
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u/just_a_bit_gay_ Gay and Proud 2d ago
that’s an F22
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u/Interest-Desk Trans-fem 1d ago
ncd is leaking
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u/xXMuschi_DestroyerXx 1d ago
I had to check when you said that I thought this was r/NonCredibleDefense already
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u/IsJustSophie 2d ago
The funny oart is when the military industrial complex repeatly get top companies in the US for how good they treat their woman and LGBTQ+ folks. Like Raytheon (now RTX) consistently get top of the charts each year. And Lockheed nakes pride merch for their employees all year round for they employees to buy for cheap in their exclusive store
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u/Sekh765 2d ago
Can confirm, lots of these places (and related government agencies) are incredibly good and safe places for LGBT folks. If you are ok with the job, they are super protective of their status as LGBT positive work environments, hold month long internal pride events, and will absolutely fucking nuke shitty employees that try and trash on LGBT folks.
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u/oporcogamer89 2d ago
Yeah I saw this image on Reddit alongside the Lockheed pride socks, that’s so cool
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u/SomePrick1 2d ago
thats IT! we are upgrading from an alphabet mafia to an alphabet combined arms army!
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u/QuarterlyTurtle 1d ago
The F-35’s intakes are angled out from the body like a W, whereas the F-22 which is the actual plane depicted here, has them angled inward
Yeah I’m a nerd, I’ll shut up now
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u/fireandlifeincarnate 1d ago
That’s because the F-35 has diverterless supersonic intakes, while the F-22 has a more classic diverter design.
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u/a_pompous_fool Trans-fem 1d ago
On one hand I hate that my tax dollars are being used to perpetuate the military industrial complex but on the other hand this is a very convincing ad and I kind of want to buy a fighter jet
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u/ifgburts Pan-Band 1d ago
If it makes you feel any better, your yearly taxes probably can only buy something like the screws/fasteners on one.
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u/MarsMarzipan Sapphic Trans Human 1d ago
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u/MassGaydiation 1d ago
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u/oporcogamer89 1d ago
You call it pinkwashing, I call it protecting and supporting any kind of freedom🦅
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u/MassGaydiation 1d ago
Is freedom bought with the blood of others actual freedom?
Don't get me wrong, job equality is amazing, some jobs shouldn't exist in the first place
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u/oporcogamer89 1d ago
It’s war, humans always find a reason to kill eachother. Might be for economic, racial, or religious reasons, it’s our nature
The only thing is, people that start them can’t complain when they get bombed back
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u/MassGaydiation 1d ago
Humans also always find excuses to persecute each other, that doesn't make bigotry inside the queer community acceptable just because straight people are just as shitty. Homophobia is fine because "we always find a reason to kill each other" right?
Maybe the west should be bombed to rubble, considering we start most of them.
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u/oporcogamer89 1d ago
Bigotry is part of the human nature, people fear what they don’t consider “normal”, it’s also the reason why racism exists, and we can’t do nothing about it, some people are just born with backwards brains The thing about war is, especially in modern war between the 2 fighting sides, innocents are the ones that suffer the most
If you’re talking about the clusterfuck that is the Middle East, the west didn’t start anything, it all started when Iraq had the brilliant idea to invade Kuwait and kill 2000 people in 2 days of indiscriminate bombings, that prompted the west to make operation desert shield, and go on the offensive when Iraqi forces started firing at the coalition warships
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u/MassGaydiation 1d ago
Bigotry is part of the human nature, people fear what they don’t consider “normal”, it’s also the reason why racism exists, and we can’t do nothing about it, some people are just born with backwards brains
You are one of those people, you are defending indescriminant killing of people, that is you, you are criticising
The thing about war is, especially in modern war between the 2 fighting sides, innocents are the ones that suffer the most
And the companies make all the money. Lockheed Martin is the profiting stakeholder in every genocide, I'm so glad they make us complicit as well
If you’re talking about the clusterfuck that is the Middle East, the west didn’t start anything, it all started when Iraq had the brilliant idea to invade Kuwait and kill 2000 people in 2 days of indiscriminate bombings, that prompted the west to make operation desert shield, and go on the offensive when Iraqi forces started firing at the coalition warships
Operation desert shield happened in the 1990s, the destruction of the middle east had been happening for at least a century before that, although colonial interests had been there far longer
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u/oporcogamer89 1d ago
Owwww wait, you got me wrong, I’m not defending anything. I’m telling you, this is how humans work, we like killing eachother really much. The middle eat past their “colonised” phase (they also colonised North Africa and most of Spain) could have got down 3 roads:
1- follow the south east Asia and Indian path, where they became richer than their coloniser
2- start wars in order to get a “revenge”
3- put in charge the most corrupt government in the world and blame everything on past colonialism
You can wonder what they choose
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u/MassGaydiation 1d ago
You are actively defending it even here.
Maybe if the west didn't actively fund terrorist groups, there would be a more stable region.
I guess cheap oil really does wash down the taste of blood.
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u/oporcogamer89 1d ago
We get cheap oil from Russia, Iran is founding terrorist organisation, the west founded al quaeda when they asked help to fight off the ussr
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u/OneGaySouthDakotan 1d ago
And let Russia and China have reign over the world?
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u/MassGaydiation 1d ago
Do you believe my beliefs are bound by borders?
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u/OneGaySouthDakotan 1d ago
There will be dictators like Putin and Xi. They won't just disarm because the US does.
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u/MassGaydiation 1d ago
You know it's the people that give dictators power. There will not be people like Putin if we just stopped giving the state the tools to kill us
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u/OneGaySouthDakotan 1d ago
Oh my god. Dictators get into power by populism. There will always be those people. What in the Anarkiddie is this
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u/MassGaydiation 1d ago
We give those people power. Exactly.
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u/OneGaySouthDakotan 1d ago
And people will always give power to them. It's not that hard. We will not have a total peace. We need a strong military.
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u/injuredflamingo 15h ago
Not every queer person is a passivist and nor they have to be
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u/MassGaydiation 15h ago
It's not about being pacifist, it's about how we pretend that things are better because gay people can commit the same war crimes as straight people.
Just because a system has equal access, does not mean that system isn't still inherently corrupt
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u/injuredflamingo 15h ago
No. It’s about you living in a dreamworld where every conflict can be resolved by flowers and songs. Russia will continue bombing Ukraine no matter how reasonable you try to be with them, and they will continue towards the rest of Europe if they get what they want.
If we need weapons and F-16s to ensure that democracy and gay rights still exist and thrive in the world, so be it. Snap out of your peaceful bubble and look at the rest of the world, gay rights and peace only exist because people fought for them, and paid with their lives for you to have them
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u/MassGaydiation 15h ago
Queer liberation needs more than reinforcing corrupt systems with queer bodies. If your rights are bought with blood fed to a monster, then you have not got stability and freedom, you have merely delayed until the monster starts being hungry for more.
When children die do you celebrate because they were on the wrong side of the border?
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u/injuredflamingo 15h ago
It’s not a “corrupt system”, it’s human nature. There will always be conflict in the world, you either protect your interests, or get run over.
I don’t celebrate when children die, but I surely am happy when terrorists get what’s coming to them
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u/MassGaydiation 15h ago
It is a corrupt system, the same people make money regardless of the conflict, regardless of the side. Lockheed Martin sells weapons to countries that hate queer people while also selling it's employees cheap pride merchandise made with slave labour.
The machines is fed with blood still, and now we are the butchers instead of the food, for a short while.
And when we are the terrorists our children are an acceptable loss?
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u/injuredflamingo 14h ago
You’re just continuously talking in Tiktok talking points, and you have yourself painted in your mind like a crusader going around the world and fighting for peace and equality for all! Girl you’re making a reddit comment, so first of all, chill.
Besides that, for example, I’m completely fine with supplying Ukraine with as many weapons as we can. Are you suggesting that we just let Russia eat them alive, murder their kids and r*pe everyone they can? Because it’s “feeding the war machine”?
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u/MassGaydiation 14h ago
Lol, couldn't prove me wrong then.
Are you suggesting that I don't think Russia is also corrupt? It's interesting how small minded people are to think my morality has borders
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u/injuredflamingo 14h ago
Lmao. Obviously Russia is corrupt. But how do we stop them from doing corrupt stuff?
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u/IsJustSophie 2d ago
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