The Political Thread

[Death By Looch]

Brittney Griner arrives in U.S. following her release by Russia in prisoner swap for arms dealer Viktor Bout

Her plane landed in San Antonio, Texas. Griner was freed from Russia in exchange for notorious international arms dealer Viktor Bout.

www.cbsnews.com

Basketball player Brittney Griner is released in a prisoner swap for arms dealer Viktor Bout.

Good for her and I know it's not the point, but what a completely lopsided trade.

 

[Comrade Khan]

so a female basketball player for a warcriminal. sweet trade. jfc

 

[Death By Looch]

so a female basketball player for a warcriminal. sweet trade. jfc

Right?

Especially in this case it's just infuriating for all kinds of reasons.

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

Watch us recapture him in a few years or some shit for being a murderer.

 

[CakeWalker]

The original prison swap for Bout was going to be a Marine in 2000 - but the Bout deemed as too high value. Swapping the Merchant of Death for a WNBA, seems to confirm Bout more as a political prisoner - playing right into Russian propaganda

 

[Swamps]

crazy that I see this pop up now when two of my coworkers were legit just discussing the pros and cons of getting lasik like an hour ago lol

I got PRK 10 years ago. Haven't had any issues as of yet.

 

[Death By Looch]

House passes landmark bill to protect same-sex marriages, sending it to Biden's desk

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a landmark bill Thursday enshrining federal protections for same-sex and interracial marriage.

www.cnbc.com

The United States House of Representatives pass the bill protecting same-sex marriage and interracial marriage in a vote of 258-169-1, with 39 Republicans joining all Democrats voting in favor.

 

[Chris]

Lol those 169 dweebs

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

Now to finally sign it into law and possible turn it into an Amendment.

 

[Death By Looch]

Lol those 169 dweebs

I wonder how many were specifically against either same-sex marriage or interracial marriage.

 

[Chris]

I wonder how many were specifically against either same-sex marriage or interracial marriage.

They never admit either its just "states rights" lol just like how the civil war wasn't about slavery

 

[Smart Marx]

That’s amazing news. I think that should be enough for now but it definitely will need to be an amendment to the constitution to realistically uphold for good.

Doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate this glorious mile stone in the meantime because holy shit some meaningful legislation actually got passed through the Senate and the House with both Democrats and Republicans.

 

[Smart Marx]

They never admit either its just "states rights" lol just like how the civil war wasn't about slavery

I think on this particular issue I think the ones are saying states rights are more libertarian speakers because I know plenty of conservative politician is that no problem just outright saying they don’t think gay people should get married. Why it bothers him that much I don’t know.

I do think there are more Republicans coming around on dropping this issue though because I’ve seen a couple conservative commentators that are even fighting their own audiences because they keep telling them we don’t care about gay marriage anymore stop talking about it.

It’s pretty funny actually. Especially when they try to explain why conservatives need to still care about it.

 

[Chris]

That’s amazing news. I think that should be enough for now but it definitely will need to be an amendment to the constitution to realistically uphold for good. Doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate this glorious mile stone in the meantime because holy shit some meaningful legislation actually got passed through the Senate and the House with both Democrats and Republicans.

realistically you can't take it away already as we're seeing that gay people actually exist even in conservative states bc they aren't as scared to come out. But there's been a shift there even now that we have websites to report drag shows popping up after mass shootings happen against the LGBTQ community. Sadly seems to be going backwards in a lot of states using the "think of the children narrative"

 

[Smart Marx]

realistically you can't take it away already as we're seeing that gay people actually exist even in conservative states bc they aren't as scared to come out. But there's been a shift there even now that we have websites to report drag shows popping up after mass shootings happen against the LGBTQ community. Sadly seems to be going backwards in a lot of states using the "think of the children narrative"

There’s definitely a shift with more gay conservatives coming out in and there’s a lot of even gay conservative activist groups which I think is why we were even able to get this legislation passed so I don’t think there’s going to be anyone that’s going to attempt right now to overturn it but in 40-50 years it’s possible the Supreme Court could overturn it like they did Roe but it’s not likely but it would be nice just to get it in the constitution just because.