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The rainbow flag or pride flag is a symbol of LGBT pride and LGBT social movements. The colors reflect the diversity of the LGBT community and the spectrum of human sexuality and gender. Using a rainbow flag as a symbol of LGBT pride began in San Francisco, California, but eventually became common at LGBT rights events worldwide.

Originally devised by the artists Gilbert Baker, Lynn Segerblom, James McNamara and other activists, the design underwent several revisions after its debut in 1978, and continues to inspire variations. Although Baker’s original rainbow flag had eight colors, from 1979 to the present day the most common variant consists of six stripes: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. The flag is typically displayed horizontally, with the red stripe on top, as it would be in a natural rainbow.

LGBT people and allies currently use rainbow flags and many rainbow-themed items and color schemes as an outward symbol of their identity or support. There are derivations of the rainbow flag that are used to focus attention on specific causes or groups within the community (e.g. transgender people, fighting the AIDS epidemic, inclusion of LGBT people of color). In addition to the rainbow, many other flags and symbols are used to communicate specific identities within the LGBT community.

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  • Blockocheese [any]@hexbear.net
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    Reading Captive Revolution by Nahla Abdo and getting so pissed off it gives me brain damage

    Imperialist “feminists” get the wall

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    I had a weird dream where the singer from Metric (Canadian band) was on a tour with a problematic musician that I can’t remember now. My friends and I went but shook our heads the entire time so everyone knows we disagreed.

  • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Checking out the wider internet, finding a lot of evidence for my theory of “Anyone who talks seriously about honor in war or geopolitics is a fucking moron or thinks you are.”

  • CrawlMarks [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Anyone work in a social Healthcare system? Tell me some bloomer shit. I am so tired of shit just being stupid in American hospitals.

  • tocopherol [any]@hexbear.net
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    To make the revolution, to transform the old society into a new one is a very glorious, but also extremely heavy task, a complex, protracted and hard struggle. Only a strong man can travel a long distance with a heavy load on his back. A revolutionary must have a solid foundation of revolutionary morality in order to fulfil his glorious revolutionary task.

    I hadn’t read any thing aside from snippits of Ho Chi Minh before, I really enjoy the style of writing and clearness of his On Revolutionary Morality. Reading it is giving me drive to get hella fit and more engaged cat-com

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    Feeling very misanthropic again.

    (vent: Ima discuss bigotry and anti-environmentalism and how it’s making some of my misanthropy worse and if you don’t want to hear that I totally get it.)

    Why the fuck is in the modern day being mean is the new polite? Look at Twitter and 4chan. Is this just what people are like deep down? It’s so infuriating seeing these douchebags be swooned over by literally everyone and anyone who’s just trying to be nice, or shows any semblance of intelligence is despised by everyone for being “uncool”.

    Look at all these douchebags yelling slurs at innocent minorities and laughing and laughing and laughing and everyone clapping like seals for how “cool” they are for being so mean. I feel like a child, but this is how I see humans, as just flat out mean. Meanwhile if you’re nice you’re stigmatized to hell and back for not being a douchebag like the internet popular kids.

    What’s worse is these pricks are invincible. Say something back? They’ll laugh it off, and either you get roasted by the entire site as the “DESTROYED SJW” of the week, or get banned. And if that’s not bad enough, real life hate crimes happen or just pure wonton violence and everyone gleefully celebrates the suffering of innocents because “soooo evil! Soooooo cooooool!”

    It makes me feel like I will never have friends and I should stop trying to reach out to people. This is just what humans are like and my “goodness” is nothing more than a freak accident rather than an actual accomplishment of a lifetime of learning.

    Sorry, I really had to get this off my chest.