forgot to include their friend
*pulls on my red string of fate like this*:
I haven't seen dancing pumpkin guy ONCE this year, are you guys okay?
FINE! I'll do it myself
Why did 12 people reblog this today??? IT IS ONLY AUGUST!!!
Gee, I thought these people were the ones who were like “If you don’t like it, you can just move to a blue state.”
And now they’re mad the guy is doing just that?
You can’t oppress and discriminate against someone then be mad when they take their highly useful skill elsewhere.
His point is basically that he’s going to go where he’s wanted. Guys like Brett realize, as he’s leaving that he’s actually beneficial to the society he’s leaving. If he wasn’t, Bret would be celebrating. This brain drain they’re fretting about is entirely of their own bigoted doing. If they’d thought about retaining great contributors to society instead of culture wars, there’d be no issue.
And the guy still is doing his job, by the way. Saving sick kids.
He just wants to do it in a state that doesn’t hate him and his family.
also like. He's not leaving just to make a point, though a powerful point is being made. He's leaving because his home is no longer safe for him. People tend to like their homes, and tend to want to stay there, and much of the time, when people leave, it's because staying has become untenable. You don't think a pediatrician absolutely cares that children in Louisiana won't have access to cardiac care without him? He's a *pediatrician*, I guarantee you this guy cares about children's welfare but his home is no longer safe for him.
All grand political statements and solidarity (all of which is incredibly important ofc) aside, his home cast him out and made him unsafe and now people have the audacity to call him selfish and insinuate that he left because he just didn't feel like living and working there anymore. This isn't a 'go where you're wanted' situation, it's a 'flee for your life' situation and framing it as some kind of political statement rather than a self-defense measure obscures just how dangerous anti-queer laws have become
and also one last point but: even if no queer person was a 'great contributor to society' these laws are still evil, still poison. Laws that cast out human beings and oppress them based on innate traits are inherently fascist and cannot be softened by implying that the problem is the loss of skilled labor as opposed to blatant human rights abuses against everyone
able-bodied people always have the audacity to say “you’re tired because you sleep too much”
my little kitty cat has started taking an inhaler
my guinea pig needed ointment a while back
i would... i would do so much... i would do everything and anything for her.
[VD: A tiktok of a buff, blonde woman in a green and cream dress and a white hairband. Text over the screen reads "I forget that I can't wear cute cottagecore outfits because I'm jacked and I look ridiculous". The video then cuts to a woman with brown hair and blonde highlights, who has a thick Slavic accent, and she says: "What is more cottagecore than being strong from ploughing fields and moving the tractors? You are beautiful strong woman. You are cottagecore." /End ID]
Woman.... Big... pretty
