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[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 2 points 6 days ago

Thats stupid

[–] heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 days ago

Lgbt are framed and put into jail in Florida

[–] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 205 points 1 week ago (13 children)

So long as conservatives continue to exert exceptional effort to try and erase LGBT identity, people should attack Christian identity in equal measure. Tear down billboards with gospel on them. Deface publicly displayed crucifixes. Burn bibles in public.

[–] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 101 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't forget to remove churches from your communities..

[–] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I believe in proportionality. So long as their current actions stay in damaging inanimate symbols that's where it should stay. If they were to Remove places significant to LGBT+, then I'd consider it. If they were to start straight up shooting LGBT+ people, well...

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 56 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

These crosswalks were painted specifically in honor of the Pulse massacre where 50 LGBT+ people were murdered in 2016. 25 were injured or killed in a shooting in a Colorado Springs gay bar in 2022.

The shooting has been happening for years already.

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The Pulse shooter wasn’t a Christian, so that’s not really a good reason to start tearing down and burning churches.

Which, I can’t believe I need to say this, is bad. I grew up in a small community that embraced Christian homophobic and transphobic abuse as a virtue, I think Christianity on the whole is more negative than positive, and I still wouldn’t destroy a random church because it’s a church. That is fash shit. You don’t target random places of worship because that’s the religion of your enemy. What is this shit.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

Christian billionaires do fund a lot of the anti gay conspiracy media. I would specifically focus on those entities.

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[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

That is what they want.

Right wing shitheads have been trying to paint themselves as the victims for decades. "The War On Christmas" being one of the best examples. And as much fun as it would be to burn down a church (but not Korean Jesus, that dude is okay), all it will do is provide them the evidence they have been trying to manufacture all this time.

Because news media won't be reporting "As retaliation for the murder of a trans person, a bible was ceremonially burned". It will be "The fucking gays are burning your bibles, go get them"

[–] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago (3 children)

They've been riding their train of manufactured victimhood and rage for decades and found great success, they don't strictly need a reason to abuse people.

Staying your hand because your enemy might get angry and retaliate is the mindset of the battered housewife. People should stand up for themselves even if that means violence in the end.

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[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

I mean, they’re going to claim it’s happening even if it isn’t. May as well try in that case.

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[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 141 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Paint different crosswalks. How many crosswalks are in the city? I bet there are more than they have police to stand and watch them.

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 106 points 1 week ago

What's that meme that was going around? Cities have enough police for one ten thousand person protest but ten one thousand person protests would cripple them? Take it a step futher with the crosswalks

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Then when they put cameras and ED-209 killer robots on every crosswalk, start painting sidewalks. Then bike lanes. Then culverts. This should never end just because we know how much it pisses them off.

edit: ya'll are upvoting this shit but I double-dog DARE you to actually do this shit. You don't even have to do it in Florida, just get out and do SOMETHING you lazy fucks!

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 week ago

Paint the cameras ;)

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[–] notabot@piefed.social 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Why limit yourself to existing crosswalks? Male some new ones.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 131 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Imagine being so insecure that you have to stop people from having a harmless shrine to a bunch of people killed in a mass murder.

Anyways, there's a lot of crosswalks and there's no way they can even long term focus on this crosswalk. Wait for them to leave, do it again.

[–] ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 65 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You bring up a good point here. There are a lot of crosswalks. So what happens if people just start doing this at random crosswalks around the city?

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 49 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Aha, a crime wave! Deploy the National Guard!

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[–] 5too@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I was thinking, what else can we rainbow up while they're all looking at crosswalks?

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[–] JDPoZ@lemmy.world 111 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The article title is framing things way too passively considering the reality which is :

"Florida Republicans order the erasure of mass shooting memorial for 49 murder victims targeted by a bigot wanting to kill members of the LGBT community"

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[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 83 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What an incredibly efficient use of taxpayer-funded police forces! Should report it to DOGE, they definitely need to cut funding for that

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Yep.

We cant give medicine/healthcare that those that need it, cause its to expensive.

We cant give food to those that need it, cause its too expensive.

We can't provide shelter to those that need it, cause its too expensive.

but somehow, magically, when it comes to the police state and fascism.. Theres always an endless waterfall of money.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 59 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You never know when one of those cheeky crossings will turn gay on you.

I looked at the sky the other day after a bit of rain. Boom. Gay. Just like that. It could happen to any of us.

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[–] blargle@sh.itjust.works 57 points 1 week ago (3 children)

There are over 70 confederate monuments in the state of Florida; none of which are yet painted in rainbow colors.

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[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 54 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Quick! Paint somewhere else.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Paint everywhere else. Turn everything that's not guarded in to rainbows of defiance.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 50 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

I've just been to east Germany and saw in a museum the Incredible pettiness of the surveillance state.

They collected smell samples of supposed activists, and you could be labeled an activist for writing something sarcastic on a poster or newspaper. Also if you were labeled as such they could 'unofficially ' ruin your life (as in thwart your ambitions and goals.

So much money and effort was spent on policing the hearts and minds of the populace. And the frail religious conservatives who run America would probably love the idea.

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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Civilian chalk artists now need armed civilan escorts to protect them from police.

Police are going to shoot someone for putting chalk on the pavement to remember the victums of a mass shooting.

This is America.

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[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Earlier this week, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sent letters to all 50 governors calling for the removal of Pride crosswalks.

Just this part alone is super fucked up.

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[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why do they have the resources to do this and not watch for cars almost hitting pedestrians at the same crosswalks.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

simple, pedestrians aren't people

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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Russia: Rainbow Flag Illegal

USA: Rainbow Flag Illegal

So what's the difference anymore.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Russia has a capable (if thoroughly evil) leader?

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 week ago

It’s the same leader

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[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Just wait em out? You're in a seige now, and hopefully the seiging army goes home. Then, you go out and make it a rainbow again.

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Instead of defund the police, it’s now “run out the police budget”

Is it a crime to buy a vinyl decal for a car that says “rainbow painting” and drive around a city, occasionally stopping near crosswalks to check your phone? I don’t think so.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

you'll never run out the police budget.

If you managed to even get close to it, government would step in and take more money from starving children and the ill, to keep their fascist oppressors on the streets.

[–] Patches@ttrpg.network 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

We all literally just saw this happen.

ICE budget is multiplied by 10 because they "ran out of budget"

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Every cop needs to be identified. They will kill their own kids for being gay or trans and they need to see consequences for that.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Seems like a good use of their time. Police jobs are basically welfare for the mediocre low iq dipshits from high school.

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[–] foggy@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] porksnort@slrpnk.net 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Has anyone heard of Toynbee Tiles? These are interesting by themselves but the relevant point is how they are made.

You make a mosaic out of vinyl flooring chunks on a backing of paper and roofing tar as mastic.

You place them paper side up on asphalt pavement in hot weather. As cars drive over them, the paper and tar wear off revealing the vinyl mosaic.

Just a thought that a group of people could quickly make a rainbow crosswalk that can’t be painted over.

Toynbee Tiles

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 week ago

Bully the policists and paint other crosswalks.

[–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

Cause you know, that will stop all the horrible crime the GOP is talking about... You know how dangerous crosswalks are!

[–] arin@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I was expecting the onion... Wtf

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[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fascists using government sponsored violence to protect their desecration of a memorial for a major mass shooting because they side with the shooter

Such are Republicans

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