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Neither do i

As i was cropping it i thought the "no he'd die" was really funny so I kept it

Repost, now do your honors.

I do think a part of the distain for country can come from classism, but I think as a whole it leans more in the opposite direction, it’s been turned into a propaganda piece and not a lot of people today get to experience it as it was truly.

Girl that's exactly why they close down after a year. You NEED money to keep these places open. There's no magic Gay Money Pot with endless cash to keep these places open. It requires YOU to put your money where your values are!!

And it made it about 2 years before shutting down completely. Because all those young people who begged for a place exactly like this would just show up, not buy a single thing, and leave. You cannot build a community without putting your money into it. This isn't about capitalism, this is just reality. You can't open a restaurant where no one buys your food. You can't have a gay bar that only serves 5% of the population and actively excludes everyone else. This is what I mean when I say people confuse "community" and "friend group." You're not obligated to spend money when hanging out with your friend group. But if you want a lasting community centered space, you need to open up that wallet.

A free community space doesn't look like a queer cafe, it's the weekly groups run by a local LGBT center. It's not the bookstore that sells exclusively lesbian romance, it's that one library branch that you know the librarian working at is cool because they ordered the library system a copy of that new book with a trans MC that all your friends are talking about but you can't afford. Things that exist, and are important, but we do have to be realistic about how they come to be. Even if you don't need to purchase things to keep these spaces running, we still need to support them, through volunteering, donations, taxes, all of those sorts of things

also "this isn't about capitalism" wrong. everything is about capitalism. even just in the sense that We Live In A Capitalist Economy. "this is just reality" yes! capitalist reality! capitalism is not something that can be segregated into only specific conversations and is completely unrelated to the idea that "community spaces" means "buying services from a small business" lol

Now accordingly to me, this is a feature, not a bug -- I want public spaces where queers and queerness are welcome, not a members-only queer country club. But some people really want exclusivity without having to pay for it.

Even in a commune, a cafe requires work and materials to exist. The coffee beans need to come from somewhere, the drinks need work to come into existence, the people who do that work need to be able to eat, etc. If no one is willing to support that (as in: no one wants to do that work, or no one wants to support the people who do that work) then it cannot be sustainable.

I agree that people should financially contribute to keeping community spaces open and available if they can, but to say this isn't about capitalism or that those who need free spaces are "whining" and just don't want to contribute is something I disagree with.

Braces

BE UNAPOLOGETICALLY DISABLED AND TAKE UP ALL THE SPACE AND TIME YOU NEED!!!!!

Book that I wanted to like but which failed to live up to my hopes: I am going to write 10,000+ words explaining exactly why this book wronged me

Human Rocky and Eridian Grace??? They ARE my babies. Statement.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.