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Karasu

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20. We're using people's CIVIL RIGHTS as a fucking bargaining chip now? For a fucking TRADE AGREEMENT, no less?

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Wed Apr 16, 2025, 03:33 PM

Apr 16

A trade agreement? Like these two things are even remotely comparable in terms of importance?!

And to top it off, these are the rights of people in the UK. A foreign country. If they're this determined to eliminate the rights of LGBT people in another country for the sake of a fucking trade deal, one can only imagine what they want to do to LGBT people here.

I don't think I can justify living here anymore. To say this country is a failure would now be a massive understatement.

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We're using people's CIVIL RIGHTS as a fucking bargaining chip now? For a fucking TRADE AGREEMENT, no less? Karasu Apr 16 #20

*sigh* Errbody's gonna be boycotting us. tanyev Apr 16 #21