I mean, a lot of us are pro-Cuba, which is AES and has some of the most progressive family policy in the world.
Also, your “historical” thing is just really hard to process. After all, standards change. Hell, within the “West”, LGBTQ+ acceptance is barely 40 years old (and often, as we see, under attack for the gains that have been won). Was the US in the 90’s really that much better for LGBTQ+ folks than the USSR before it collapsed? And while not LGBTQ specifically, the situation of women in the USSR was far superior to the West - especially in STEM..
This doesn’t mean that we can’t (and shouldn’t) judge the lack of LGBTQ+rights in the past – we can and should. However, Cuba’s family policy shows that there’s nothing inherent to communism that’s “incompatible with our freedom and possibly our lives.”
In summary (and here I’ll post my only emoji, since there’s the bug),
Great post comrade
Also the middle part of Xenoblade Chronicles 2, funnily enough.
Just played and was like “holy shit this has just become a Kojima game”. It was awesome.
The most based episode of trek.
We have the best emotes folks! The best.
My take is it really doesn’t actually do much (except perhaps reduce the sense of blame in the term homeless - i.e. unhoused implies they should be housed).
However chuds hate it because of that implication, therefore critical support for the semantic shift.
So can I use my hexbear emotes here?
Looks like I can. Blessed comrades of lemmygrad, I’m excited to post with you all.
You guys rock and federation has made me happy just seeing you comrades in our posts.