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Texas governor calls for removal of rainbow crosswalks, calling them a safety issue
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this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2025
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You apparently caught my vibe in your edit, they make all kinds of paint.
Your vibe is "reads really far into things without actually explaining what they think is going on"
Does my post not acknowledge, in the plainly written text, that there's likely other varieties that are appropriate?
So I ask again, what argument are you trying to make, emphasis on the trying?
“Texas governor” “rainbow walk way” it’s a fucking stretch to even begin to consider this mandate came from a safety concern and not a culture war concern. It’s a further stretch to then hypothesize on the consistency and texture of the dried paint. Trying to validate this as a realistic safety concern in a state that regularly cooks/freezes residents to death is comical and horrible.
It makes the road surface slicker, as I said.
Nowhere did I support Texas
Nowhere did I say the way that crosswalks are is bad
I said maybe having a slicker than usual stretch of road leading up to a crosswalk would be bad, which isn't what's happening
What's more, you literally have a response next to mine on this subthread where you are clearly in agreement with me.
https://vger.to/lemmy.myserv.one/comment/16401772