Summary
Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s embattled nominee for defense secretary, has denounced policies allowing openly gay troops and women in combat roles as part of a “Marxist” agenda undermining military readiness.
In his book The War on Warriors and past interviews, Hegseth criticized the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” and argued that inclusivity erodes standards.
Accused of misconduct, his views against women in combat and seeing inclusivity as a threat to national security have been closely examined during his confirmation process.
Isn’t it “funny” how LGBT is “degenerate western propaganda” in communist dictatorships and “Marxist propaganda” for capitalistic autocrats.
we’re a threat to power, in general. the current world is built by sexually frustrated angry men. our existence in the open threatens them because if people realize we have always existed, we have always been a threat to power by way of not engaging with the specific torture that keeps the world going, and we still respond to terror enacted against us by calling on people to sing, dance, and be merry, they might do something dangerous: they might start singing, dancing, and being merry
I appreciate the sentiment, but none of that seems based on reality.
The reason is both those groups mad about LGBTQ are Abrahmic religious extremists.
And for the Abrhamic religions, it’s a numbers game. They want their population to reproduce faster than others because the more followers the more power/wealth the leaders have.
Not whatever that was supposed to mean.
This isnt the town from Dirty Dancing and the danger isn’t being told you can’t “be merry”.
And that is not going to be an effective way to fight back.
oh we’re still strapped. but the singing, dancing, and being merry is a driving factor in class solidarity and passing the people’s songs down to future generations. every resistance movement has had art centered within it. and yes: religions use fear to play numbers games. they need masses of people to enact genocides against other masses of people. us queer folk aren’t offering up those numbers, and our historical social responsibility has always been to take part in raising the next generation by imparting in them wisdom their parents don’t have because they lack perspective and they can’t be there 100% of the time. the wielders of power fear our art and our education deeply. they don’t want it taught in schools, and they want kids to be scared of us. why? because we have always been dangerous to these systems of power.
like, i genuinely appreciate you replying. it gives me an opportunity to give more context. armed resistance from places of love are so critical to pushing for liberation. just like how every liberation movement really catches steam once the movement starts listening to and involving women
*State Capitalist Dictatorships
Theres nothing “communist” about those so-called “communist” countries that still have rich people and huge wealth gaps, and gender inequality. Fun fact: most people in power in “communist” China, are men. In fact, all 24 Members of the Chinese Politiburo are men, zero women. Doesn’t sound very communist to me.
Every country is just capitalism under a different banner.
You’re confusing economic systems with social policy…
Which is ironic considering that’s what you’re upset about others doing in the rest of your comment.
Yes, but the economic policy too, they don’t even have universal healthcare.
Healthcare is a social issue…
But it’s incredibly depressing that people believe it’s economic policy now.
Allowing for profit healthcare is very much economic policy too.
communism was originally a stateless, post economic, social organization structure. the fact of the matter is that all issues you engage with in life have multiple facets to them: social, economic, political, and propaganda. the real questions when applying a critical lens to our current place in time is to examine who benefits, who suffers, and who is played between the two to decide who the real evil is, and in what ways are they tricked into thinking the people with power are on their side.