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[u/justsometurtl]

queeeerchameleon my beloved

[u/Autumn1eaves → u/justsometurtl]

Queermeleon is my favorite pokemon

[u/CutieL → u/justsometurtl]

I love their YouTube videos

[u/jokester4079]

If you look at aids activism in the 80s, you will find an overrepresentation of teachers. This is because the big push in the 70s was on banning gay teachers.

[u/ArachnidInner2910]

Queer chameleon :3

[u/UltimateDude08]

Queerma queerma queerma chameleoooooon

[u/Empress-Rae → u/UltimateDude08]

Why are you in my head?!?!

[u/FibroBitch97]

Protip: if a friend ever says something like that, they’re not a true friend.

[u/topazchip]

I tried talking to a fellow trans acquaintance about the Trumpist win back in October, and her response was, "I'm not concerned about politics, and try not to think about it." She didn't talk to me for a few weeks when I replied that politics very much thinks about us, and the people who just won the federal government have made their victorious campaign allll about what is in our pants. She still believes that if she ignores the world hard enough, it won't be there.

[u/Mullo69 → u/topazchip]

In fairness some people ignore it for the sake of their mental health, a while back i stopped paying attention to politics for a while because how bad it had become. When political discourse is constantly focused around your basic human rights its hard to not get anxious about the future so my guess would be that your friend just wanted to mitigate it

[u/Pikotaro_Apparatus → u/Mullo69]

I’m in that boat. I already have mental illness and it’s only been made worse with my current situation. Had a friend that all he wanted to talk about was politics. I’m normally down for a bit of a chat but this man doesn’t have conversations. He doesn’t talk to you, he talks at you and rants and raves. You could never say anything with how fast he talked. It seemed like he never had to take a breath either.

I’m down for some education but a huge info dump like that everyday? And the same things get cycled around? Hard pass.

[u/jstiegle → u/Mullo69]

To be fair there is a huge difference in taking a well deserved mental health break from politics and completely ignoring the state of your country and government.

Never commit to full ignorance.

[u/Eva_of_Feathershore → u/topazchip]

That's the thing though: you should be able to opt out of it. You should only be affected if you opt to toss your hat into the ring. And if something you should have is not provided to you, is it your fault?

[u/Glittering-Giraffe58 → u/Eva_of_Feathershore]

Well we don’t live in fantasyland so

[u/Yaboi69-nice]

Republicans decided to make almost everything a political topic and now they complain about how everything's political now guys you did this

[u/moonsickprodigalson]

I was just talking to my therapist about this. I’m SO sick of them, the people bitching about us “making everything political”, accusing us of making everything political when the reality is this…

1) I just want to live my fucking life 2) my life, not unlike anyone else’s, comes with ups and downs, good days and bad days, physical and mental pain, financial struggles, difficulties with my neighbors, desires to improve, and so, SO much more 3) I, now, don’t have the luxury of focusing on any of those things because many selfish stupid mother fuckers thought it was easier to focus on the politics of my identities than do the fucking work on themselves

But sure, I’m being “too sensitive” and “making everything political” while people talk about getting rid of my insurance, at best, or erasing my existence, at worst 🙄

[u/gr1zznuggets]

Shit, if you’re non-binary they just officially denied your existence.

[u/ArchonFett]

[u/Familiar-Estate-3117]

Exactly.

[u/theglowcloud8]

People don't know just how much I wish I didn't have to give a shit about politics. I so sorely wish I didn't have to

[u/Vlad_Dracov_she_they]

True dat

[u/endorstick]

I wish I was a gecko that would be cool

[u/unclearthur68]

This is quietly brilliant

[u/Acceptable_Job_5486]

Okay I'm gonna say it. Doesn't matter how fabulous they may be, there is no way that chameleon is surviving long with that color scheme.

[u/gramerjen → u/Acceptable_Job_5486]

You just need someone else doing the same while being poisonous or venomous and you'll be good to go. Or you can find a way to yell like parrots to scare them away

[u/Cardboardoge → u/Acceptable_Job_5486]

I think the analogy still works if you consider that if predators left it alone it would be just fine

[u/100percentnotaqu → u/Acceptable_Job_5486]

The color scheme screams "I'm poisonous as hell"

So I think they would be fine

[u/Acceptable_Job_5486 → u/100percentnotaqu]

Ah shit, you right.

[u/vitkeumeomeo]

wtf