*Independent organization that the US occasionally allows to meet with and assist some recent migrants doesn’t change broader US policy to exclude people attempting to migrate from countries in the Global South, in spite of the fact that many of those countries are violently oppressive towards their LGBTQ+ populations

Like, good for them doing what they’re doing, but it really doesn’t address the underlying problems here

Fair enough, I guess my point (besides just making sure these couple of historical footnotes don’t go down the memory hole) is that this is all totally in keeping with Target’s pattern of pretending to be progressive to get the conscientious consumer dollar and then backtracking the second they think it’s in their interest to do so

Speaking of remembering a time before,

Before Obergefell made marriage equality the law of the land in 2015, it was a very live political issue that lots of Republican scumbags vocally opposed and campaigned on hard. Target made a bunch of donations to a lot of those Republican scumbags in the 2010 election cycle because they wanted tax cuts, got called out on it, promised to do better, and then resumed donating to those same people a few months later.

Two years later, in the election of 2012, Minnesota Republicans got an amendment to their state constitution on the ballot that would have banned gay marriage outright. Target ran ads encouraging gay couples to do their wedding registries at their stores but refused to ever take a position on that amendment, which was ultimately narrowly defeated.

The only color of the rainbow Target has ever cared about is green.

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Hear hear, fuck military dictatorships.

Also, yeesh, that headline… Like, I’m sure if people wanted to do a deep dive into this topic the ethnic ties and traditions that are shared by these different rebel groups are important to understanding them and what’s going on here, but would it have killed the AP to describe them as “pro-democracy guerillas” in the headline instead of saving that one for the article and going with “armed ethnic alliances”? You start telling Americans about armed ethnic alliances and they’ll be demanding airstrikes before you’ve finished your sentence.