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[-] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 204 points 8 months ago

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 104 points 8 months ago

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

[-] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 34 points 8 months ago

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 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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 34 points 8 months ago

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 28 points 8 months ago

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

[-] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 16 points 8 months ago

I apologize, I'm with you on do not attack random churches and should have called that out myself in my first post and can see how what I said could be interpreted as supporting it.

I was trying to point out that LGBTQ+ people are already under physical threat and have been and the first person's point about waiting until they are getting shot to take further action was passed already. I think the real physical threat is not understood by many. I do not think the action should be burning down random churches.

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[-] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 44 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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 50 points 8 months ago

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 19 points 8 months 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 138 points 8 months ago

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 104 points 8 months 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

[-] notabot@piefed.social 23 points 8 months ago

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

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[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 131 points 8 months ago

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 65 points 8 months ago

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 48 points 8 months ago

Aha, a crime wave! Deploy the National Guard!

[-] bananabread@lemmy.zip 18 points 8 months ago

This would be funny if it was not true

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[-] 5too@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago

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

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[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 82 points 8 months ago

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 50 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 17 points 8 months ago

I guess when one is in a gold-plated conference room with oligarch friends and you collectively have a couple trillion dollars in assets to "protect," peeling away a few billion to pay some of the poors to shoot the other poors before they take your shit (or your head) seems like a pretty reasonable business expense.

When you look at them as the protectors of capital rather than the protectors of the people, it makes a lot more sense.

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 59 points 8 months ago

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 56 points 8 months ago

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 8 months ago

Quick! Paint somewhere else.

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 34 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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

[-] logicbomb@lemmy.world 45 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 41 points 8 months ago

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

[-] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 23 points 8 months ago

simple, pedestrians aren't people

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[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 39 points 8 months ago

Russia: Rainbow Flag Illegal

USA: Rainbow Flag Illegal

So what's the difference anymore.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago

Russia has a capable (if thoroughly evil) leader?

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 19 points 8 months ago

It’s the same leader

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 15 points 8 months ago

Mmm, I'd say Ukraine makes that not the case. The capable part, not the evil part.

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[-] Sunflier@lemmy.world 37 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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 8 months ago

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 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

We all literally just saw this happen.

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

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[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 23 points 8 months ago

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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[-] porksnort@slrpnk.net 22 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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 8 months ago

Bully the policists and paint other crosswalks.

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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

[-] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago

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

[-] yoriaiko 16 points 8 months ago

Paint police instead? /silly

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[-] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Speaking as a foreigner, this shit is so profoundly pathetic, United States. Get your fucking shit together. Not only should you all be well past shitting all over the queer community, but dispatching cops to guard crosswalks in any capacity other than ensuring school kids using them safely after school should embarrass everyone on both sides of the aisle.

Edit: *safely

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