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It’s almost as if social ideals change slowly. 30 years ago gay marriage was unthinkable. Now it’s common practice. To say congress hasn’t accomplished anythin
by tw04 2y ago
It’s almost as if social ideals change slowly. 30 years ago gay marriage was unthinkable. Now it’s common practice.
To say congress hasn’t accomplished anything in your adult life is to be in denial or intentionally uneducated about accomplishments. While the ACA for instance isn’t perfect, it was a major accomplishment.
- relaxing 2y ago30 years ago we had civil unions in Hawaii. 25 years ago in Vermont. It was thinkable, and it didn’t have to wait for Obama.
- tw04 2y agoThat’s some revisionist history if I’ve ever seen it. Hawaii had a constitutional ban on same sex marriages in 1999. The fact there were some legal challenges before that doesn’t at all reflect the fact society wasn’t accepting. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_Hawaii https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_Hawaii
- relaxing 2y agoNothing revisionist there, everything I said is fact. It was so plainly thinkable, people went from thinking it to doing it.