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Ok this is the best one i've seen.

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Has anything actually gotten better, for all the work you talk about doing? Or is it just treading water in misery forever?

Anon, ten years ago gay people couldn't get married in large parts of the US. AIDS was an almost certain death sentence when I was in high school. I was looking at job boards the other day and found a part time gas station job that had health insurance as a benefit, which NEVER would have happened 15 years ago. When I was a kid, hitting your child was extremely normalized in the US and my parents were the weird ones for not doing it. There is a vaccine for chicken pox. I didn't meet anyone who had transitioned until my 20s because it was so uncommon to transition in the aughts, and now there are some states that protect your right to have gender affirming care provided by your health insurance. It's not all states, but it's better than the number of states that had it in 2010, which was zero. THERE ARE TENANTS UNIONS NOW. WE HAVE A VACCINE AGAINST CERVICAL CANCER.

And all of that has been the work of a lot of individuals and organizations and research teams and activists.

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putting this under the cut so you all have the same emotional experience i just did

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What an absolutely beautiful show. I must admit, last week I was skeptical that they could sell me on a full on happy ending this fast after all that pain, but these episodes did it, and very well. The message that just finding this love and building a life together is an accomplishment worth being proud of, even if they never achieve anything greater in their careers, is so lovely. I will be thinking about these two and the family they found in each other for a long time.

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I really do feel for Hyeonho. He thought he was being a good friend by helping Dohoe maintain the lie, and and that it was the thing that bound them together. But the lie is what was weighing Dohoe down, and they could never build a good relationship from that foundation. It’s not really his fault, because Dohoe was never honest with him until it was far too late.

But Juyoung knows Dohoe deeply despite their years of distance, and he immediately understood how burdened Dohoe was by the lie. So he set him free.

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like some other stuff with the election polling results, we need to be honest about class and education. The next person who tries to put a quasi socialist “but the working class has been so alienated from the democratic elites and their upper class ways so they HAD to vote for an NYC billionaire” is getting it, but so is “only the rich voted for trump,” because exit polling suggests literally neither of these things is true.

Huh huh huh would you look at that. would you take a look at what DID make a significant difference, especially among white people and white women especially?

education.

Heh. Would you look at that. THIs is why education especially among white working class areas is such a political battlefield. This is why access to college for everyone no matter their background is essential. This is why girls need to go to school. Remember that

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“I’ve searched everywhere”

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"Un-uhlaive? UN-UHLAIVE? Ma'am, that man has been killed. He has been MUHDUHED. To DEATH."

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