Just because it’s better than the alternative doesn’t make it good lmao. You think they really care about us? Fucking dumbass.

So like. I don't give a shit if they actually care lol. But when one side is saying "it's okay to be gay" through gritted teeth and the other side is saying "I want to kill this guy and anyone else who says, for any reason, that it's okay to be gay" with a smile on their face and a gun in their hand, not only am I not going to complain about the first person's begrudging support, I'm definitely not going to start handing fresh ammo to the second person and cheering them on for Shutting Down The Phony!

Because, again, guess what: to the right wing, there isn't a difference between someone who says "happy pride" because they want to make a dollar and someone who says "happy pride" because they actually care about gay people. Whether or not you're actually a witch doesn't matter, to the stake they're burning you at.

I need the baby gays to understand that rainbow capitalism is progress.

You know where I had to go when I wanted pride gear? The answer wasn't Target. It was a tiny, dark, tucked-away little shop run by one dude and his partner deep in the heart of the gaybourhood (and that was an improvement because I lived in a place that had a gaybourhood). It was completely inaccessible, invisible to anyone who didn't already know about it, and the back half was entirely porn hidden by a black curtain. This was the early 2000s, btw, not the dark ages.

The first year Target put out a Pride collection it was available only in a handful of stores in a select few, highly liberal cities across the country. I made a special trip out to get rainbow swim trunks because every other company was still more afraid of Focus on the Family and the Moral Majority than they were the purchasing power of The Gays.

Does rainbow capitalism mean any of these companies give one single fuck about us or our community? Of fucking course not. They're massive corporations, they don't give a fuck about anyone. You don't support rainbow capitalism because you think corporations care about anything other than profit. You support it because it means the bigots are losing. It means that queerphobes have less social power than queers and allies. It means that companies are no longer afraid of being boycotted by bigots. It means that Pride is so normal and unremarkable that even fucking Disney isn't afraid to acknowledge it.

Rainbow capitalism isn't important because corporations give a fuck. Anyone trying to argue whether or not they do is (a) an idiot and (b) missing the damned point. Rainbow capitalism is important because it's symbolic. It's an indication of wider societal norms and support. Ignore it if you want, buy local, support an independent seller, but understand that it's not about corporations giving a fuck. It's about not letting bigots once again terrorise everyone into keeping quiet.

Just because it’s better than the alternative doesn’t make it good lmao. You think they really care about us? Fucking dumbass.

So like. I don't give a shit if they actually care lol. But when one side is saying "it's okay to be gay" through gritted teeth and the other side is saying "I want to kill this guy and anyone else who says, for any reason, that it's okay to be gay" with a smile on their face and a gun in their hand, not only am I not going to complain about the first person's begrudging support, I'm definitely not going to start handing fresh ammo to the second person and cheering them on for Shutting Down The Phony!

Because, again, guess what: to the right wing, there isn't a difference between someone who says "happy pride" because they want to make a dollar and someone who says "happy pride" because they actually care about gay people. Whether or not you're actually a witch doesn't matter, to the stake they're burning you at.

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no metaphor here just pure confusion...is there a line where one ocean stops and another begins? or is it like a smooth gradient of percentages of one ocean shading into another ocean?

Yes, there is a line. There are confluences you can see and touch and they are NOT subtle in the slightest.

That's the Atlantic and the Caribbean on a particularly pronounced day.

This is the Indian and the Pacific. It's not always this obvious everywhere but the dividing lines are very much there.

Oceans have their own properties as far as temperature and salinity and unless something like a storm or a current forces them to mix they won't. Mostly this applies to vertical mixing and it gives you things like thermoclines and haloclines but water is wierd and won't mix horizontally either.

The ocean basins tend to have their own currents that go in a circle and define that ocean, and those patterns mix the water within that ocean. Like a washing machine.

The Caribbean has a little loop of its own that not on this map, but that current keeps that ocean pretty internally consistent. It's got clear warm water because of the shallow bowl of limestone sand it sits in. Where it meets the Atlantic with wildly different conditions the water is traveling in opposite directions, and it acts kind of like an oncoming lane of highway traffic. Species that have adapted to a narrow band of temperatures and salinities (most fish) can't cross, while species with a stronger homeostasis hang out there on purpose, (marine mammals, turtles, sharks). Plankton, that cannot control their horizontal movement in the water column, are held in their home territories by these barriers.

But honestly! Renowned French poet Théophile de Viau wrote the poetic ode to King James titled "The Duke of Buckingham," containing the immortal lines "One man fucks Monsieur le Grand de Bellegarde/Another fucks the Comte de Tonnerre/And it is well known that the King of England/Fucks the Duke of Buckingham" exactly 400 years ago and people still act like being gay was invented by Oscar Wilde in 1890

Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep were buried together in the 25th century BC and people still act like being gay was invented by renowned French poet Théophile de Viau 400 years ago

Gilgamesh and Enkidu "loved each other like man and wife" in 2700 BC and ppl STILL act like being gay was invented by Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep in the 25th century BC

Nearly every social species on the planet has a non zero frequency of homosexuality and most likely had for millions of years before primates first evolved and ppl still act like being gay was invented by Gilgamesh and Enkidu in 2700 BC

[ID: a comment reading, "i fully know what you mean! but! i did also think "Oscar Wilde published The Picture of Dorian Gray 133 years ago as of 2 months from now, and people still act like being gay was invented by the Rocky Horror Show in 1973" and now i cannot stop laughing making more gay history comparisons." /end ID]