Devil Town

Can Biden or Harris speak to this?

Seems calling Nazis a Nazi is unpopular with the journalists and headline writers.

Make them quote you. Call them Nazis.

One important correction: While Arnie Roth existing as a gay character and Captain America telling him he wasn't diseased for being gay was monumental, Arnie Roth was never diagnosed with AIDS in canon (or even subtextually). He lived to an old age and died from brain cancer, not AIDS.

However!

There is another character close to Steve Rogers that got very very close to being canonically diagnosed with HIV (his writer wanted to make him explicitly HIV+ but Marvel editors wouldn't allow it) and that character is Jack Monroe, AKA the Bucky of the 50s and one of the Nomads, who is a kickass extremely underrated character that punched queerphobes and neo-Nazis with his adopted baby daughter named Bucky while hanging almost exclusively around with sex workers and queer people. Jack Monroe is actually also one of the first characters to comment on Arnie Roth's sexuality in a non-disparaging way in Captain America (1968) #290, making it more explicit to the readers that they weren't just reading too much into things and that the characters in-universe were aware as well:

In Jack's solo run of Nomad (1992) we see him get to explore the world and himself more and has an HIV scare where he gets himself and his infant adoptive daughter tested for HIV. The story ends with him reading the results and the ending is ambiguous to whether he is HIV+ or not, but Fabian Nicieza, the writer, has stated that he intended to make him explicitly HIV+ but wasn't allowed to:

[Nomad (1992) #15]

the idea of living in the same place, or jointly bringing up children, and performing many other tasks as a kind of unit that society would often mislabel as something done by two romantic partners in a union of some kind (i use that term to loosely define an exclusive relationship, not actual binding marriage, though this can include such). the idea of the QPR isn’t just “friends”, it’s very specifically “individuals in a platonic relationship that perform a number of the social aspects of a traditional romantic partnership”.

like, be real for a second. if someone described their relationship with someone to you and said “Yeah we own a house together, we have a kid that we adopted and take care of, we decided to get a dog last week and we file taxes as two members of the same household.”, you wouldn’t look at that person and assume that they arent romantic/sexual partners of some kind, because... well, traditionally, that’s shit that married people do. getting hit with the additional “Yup! And we’re not romantically or sexually involved at all! She has a boyfriend that she visits on the weekends and I’ve never had a romantic relationship in my life.” would throw you for a goddamn loop! What would you even call that relationship? and that’s where the term comes from: an attempt to define a very specific kind of relationship that certainly can and has existed, but isn’t commonly recognized or talked about!

"None of these words are in the Bible": fully opposed, there is no written acceptance.

"This, too, is Torah and I must learn": entirely on board, wants more to happen.

But Squirrel Girl is weird. She's WEIRD weird. She's autistic and barely bothers to hide it. She is very loud and annoying and insanely progressive. Her best friends are all people of color who are extremely opinionated and one of them is trans.

She openly talks smack about Nazis. She's thick as fuck and not just in a comic way she's a big girl. She has a round face and buck teeth. She has no filter. She loves herself.

Squirrel Girl is so much more than just a furry stand in crush and honestly a large majority of the fan base would not like her. She is a GIRLS girl and her best friend writes loki cat fanfiction.

Tonight my folks were ranting about how their new insurance denied my dad one medication unless he tried another medication first, then denied that medication because his recent blood tests indicated he didn’t need any medication, never mind that this a direct result of my dad being on the original medication for years

So I chimed in “kinda makes sense that someone went and 86’d the United guy, huh”

And I got to watch the wheels spin in his head for a few seconds before scoffing and saying “yeah. Guess it does”

"I'm pretty sure that fella ain't here legally."

"Well, that ain't your business Chip, it's his."

They hate being preached to. If you pull out words like 'gender wage gap' they'll tell you you're brainwashed by the far left media.

"He's one of them transgenders."

Shut down the conversation without reacting.

"His dick, not mine" will get you much further to shutting that guy down than "well it's really inappropriate to call someone a slur while I'm the job site".

Christians will deadass claim to be oppressed but feel comfortable and safe enough to:

Force non-Christians to pray to the Christian God in their own fucking homes

Go door-to-door to proselytize

Call people to proselytize

Take classes to proselytize (my mythology teacher actually dealt with this, and now has to include a warning on the first day of class)

Cross the fucking ocean to proselytize

Openly tell people they think they are going to Hell

Insist that their beliefs should influence the law

Get all pissy if someone says this isn’t a Christian nation, but a beautifully mixed one.

Have radio stations built around their religion

Have movies based on their religion

And fucking everything else