Be rule do warcrimes

Getting wealthy on war profiteering while wrapping yourself in the pride flag. Great, just great...

Is there at least any way we can leverage this so that bigots become literally scared of mistreating queer people? Like, if you deliberately misgender someone or use a homophobic slur everyone goes quiet and scatters in different directions because they are anticipating the drone strike.
- "My pronouns might be they/them, but yours are about to be were/was."
  This message brought to you by Lockheed Martin: proudly supporting LGBTQ+ drone pilots worldwide.
- I'd say that it's better to frame it as; lockheed supports lgbtq+ but lgbtq+ does not support lockheed as long as lockheeds business-model is based on killing people.
- Okay I’m all for equal treatment, but you sound fucking crazy right now. Do you know what you’re actually suggesting? Instilling fear of death in people committing a minor intolerance. That’s not a free society and it sounds like the start of a different monster of an oppressive system.
- Oh, people associate queer people with drone strikes, alright. Not as much in the US but there are people around the world (global south, etc) who will take stuff like this at face value and hate queer people because they associate us with the US military. It generally doesn't work out well for the queer people living there.

🤌

My first pride experience involved wearing a Kuffiyeh and shouting at my local military contractor’s HR department and the one visibly LGBTQ person as they strolled down the street appalled that people didn’t want them there.

No pride in genocide,

- You think an entire people are one dimensional religious fundamentalists, based on an article of clothing worn by an entire people, even their queers?
  Jesus fucking christ, you are being racist as hell
- Sounds like you don’t understand Palestinians, if you’re going to paint them with such broad strokes.

I can't say if this specific one is authentic but I would not be surprised, as my company does the same: branded pride flags, t-shirts for their LGBTQ+ employees. And I'm torn on this, because I feel a bit bad about the branding aspect of it, but on the other hand the company putting their name to openly support all sexual and gender identities does seem like a good thing to do....

Yes, the irony of a company that produces more efficient ways of killing people being concerned with social issues does not escape me. But there are employees of the company who apparently support both (and good for them)

Any employee of Lockheed Martin who's an ally attended on their own, not behind company branding. This is just a big business rainbowwashing itself. Using queer people as a tool to improve its own social capital.
- Well that doesn't really adress the point
But there are employees of the company who apparently support both (and good for them)
God, what the fuck is wrong with you people. "Good for people to be able to both be supportive of LGBTQ+ and support the military industry of an imperialist country like the US!!". Fuck you, honestly
- That imperialist country is really the leading force in pushing for LGBTQ rights globally. So keep stanning dictatorships where queer people would be bullied at best, routinely tortured and murdered at worst.
It's also led by LGBT people and allies within the company. The goal is to make it a nicer place to work and recruit talent; whatever PR comes their way is just a perk.
- If you're not fucking ASHAMED of parading with a Lockheed Martin banner, you're a disgusting human being. Change my mind

Is this picture real? I mean, for real, real...? Link to video?

Probably. Following resource is from 2021: https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/news/features/2021/16-years-of-pride-business-resource-group.html
- Thank you
Video source
I live near another military contractor, and I saw them in pride this year. I’d say this is real.
It’s pretty disgusting ngl

If all of a sudden the white power movement had mass public support, these corpos would have their logos plastered over red, black, and white banners by next week. Fuck em.

they might ... you know ... be gay and work at lockheed martin ... and got their managers to pay for some shit for pride. maybe could submit expense reports and have the trip paid for ...

there were times when gay people couldn't work at lockheed martin. i prefer this photo to that.

The fact that anyone, let alone LGBTQ+ people, can go to the streets holding a "Lockheed Martin" sign and not get shamed into dropping it, shows we're failing as a society
- Lockheed martin makes HIMARS. HIMARS is saving ukraine lives. That's a good thing.
No you dont

Liberalism in a nutshell:

When the new gay CEO unfairly fires 2000 workers, gay and straight alike 🤑👌
IDK, I'd rather the people making the weapons be on our side.
- As a Queer person what the hell do you mean? The gears of the military industrial complex are lubricated with the blood of the innocent.
- Our side you mean the side of imperialism and neocolonialism, of the invasion of Iraq, of the bombing of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Korea, and the interventionism in Chile, Libya, Iran (Mosaddegh era), and the support of the banana republics? Fuck that, that's not my side.

Lockheed-Martin doesn't commit war crimes, the governments you elected or didn't, do the war crimes. They're a weapon and aeronautical reasearch, development, and manufacturing company. Building weapons and planes and jets is something every single nation on Earth does (or buy from those that do). This is just as silly as Coca-Cola sponsoring Pride, maybe even more so if you knew what they've been up to.

Corporations are not your friend or ally, rainbow or not. It doesn't matter what they support because they are all in some way evil. But if people want their support in Pride, why not?

Corporations want to be perceived as people, and they are protected by law as such. A person who knowingly manufactures weapons that are being used to commit a genocide is a psychopath. Psychopaths typically feign empathy to appear normal and blend in with society. Lockheed Martin supporting Pride is an example of such behavior.
Of course corporations are profit maximization engines, not people. By allowing them to act like people, we are normalizing psychopathy.
- That ship sailed centuries ago.
Bold of you to assume that there's no cause-effect relation between what Lockheed-Martin execs deem profitable, and whatever policy the US takes. Lobbying is a thing, and the same investors that put money in military conglomerates, put money into lobbying and into media. If you can't see how the existence of powerful capitalist companies that make weapons is detrimental to a democracy, I don't know what to tell you.
What's this bullshit? Now we can't criticise the military conglomerates because "they're just companies doing company things"? Nah fuck that and fuck Lockheed Martin, selling weapons to an imperialist government makes you as bad as the imperialist government.
The same plant makes missiles for Ukraine and bombs for Israel. Corporate doesn't care, the governments need to instead.
- "Corporate shouldn't be criticised for selling weapons to murderous governments because they're just trying to make a profit". What an absolute shit of a take
I hope you where paid by Lockheed-Martin. Don't make unfair competition to public relationship

The SCP foundation isn't a company
What, no Aperture Laboratories?! Shame! Shame!
- Bottom right, third from the bottom.

Yikes. I'd rather get arrested than hold that banner

LOCKQUEER MARTIN

Lockqueer Martini is a great drag queen name

So you don't think national defense is a matter of life and death? You knew what you were saying calling for my death. Just admit that you can't have a civilized discussion without calling for someone's death.