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pnw ◴[] No.44544999[source]
Haven't missed Chrome once since switching to https://brave.com/
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burnte[dead post] ◴[] No.44546288[source]
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rustcleaner ◴[] No.44546809[source]
>Brendan Eich's hateful hands

LOL California Proposition 8 was pretty mainstream opinion back then. Maybe stop with the ex post facto persecution?

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acdha ◴[] No.44546830[source]
Hate can be popular but that still doesn’t make it right. He knew that he was spending money hoping to take away rights from people he knew, to tell some of them that their marriages shouldn’t be allowed, and did it anyway. That’s hateful regardless of how many other people joined him.
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djrj477dhsnv ◴[] No.44547203[source]
By that definition, all politics is "hate". Passing a law will always take away the rights of a group in some way or other, and politics is the debate of whether or not that's a good or bad thing.

Personally I'm 100% for letting everyone express their gender or sexual identities. But I'm not going to demonize someone for having a different opinion and making a small donation to support their political views.

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1. acdha ◴[] No.44552269[source]
Not all politics is defined by hate, so your logic is clearly incorrect unless you’re redefining that word so broadly as to render it meaningless.

In this case, there’s a simple litmus test: is it taking away rights or adding them? It’s very hard to believe your last sentence would be true if the people whose rights were being taken away included you or people you care about, and in the case of things like LGBTQ rights there really isn’t a better argument than thinking someone else shouldn’t have the same rights you have. That’s a hateful motivation no matter how much failed Christians like to claim they “love the sinner” but it’s also a relatively unusual political debate in the way that the cost or harm is entirely one-sided. Most other hot topics have at least some possibility for a principled objection based on something other than bigotry (e.g. some people oppose immigration policy changes because they’re racist but for others it’s purely economic based on downward wage pressure).