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[-] heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 hours ago

Lgbt are framed and put into jail in Florida

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 11 points 10 hours ago

Good use of tax money. They should also help usher kids to factories while at it.

[-] blargle@sh.itjust.works 52 points 20 hours ago

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

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 hours ago

I looked at the map and was surprised to see 2 "confederate monuments" in the Bay Area in California. Turn out it's two buildings in Berkeley that have since been renamed. Whew!

[-] PyroNeurosis 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Some confederate soldier statues in full drag kit and face would make quite a spectacle.

[-] OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago

Pride and Prejudice.

I'll see myself out.

[-] CircuitGuy@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago

I didn't like Florida that much when I lived there in the 80s and 90s. It sounds like it's gotten worse.

[-] tomkatt@lemmy.world 9 points 19 hours ago

Goddammit, I thought this was going to be an Onion type article. It wasn't.

[-] Wolf@lemmy.today 4 points 10 hours ago

We already live in clown world. We are beyond parody.

[-] Burninator05@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago

Id ask what's stopping people from standing in the vicinity with a big box of chalk but thats probably a great way to get chalk made illegal.

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago

I mean... They outlawed unmarried women from parachuting on Sundays, and fishing while driving across bridges....

Why not chalk too?

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 52 points 1 day ago

Quick! Paint somewhere else.

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 57 points 1 day 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.

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Damn, you caught the gay?

I'm so sorry bro. Want a BJ to cheer you up?

.... No homo.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 day ago

Bully the policists and paint other crosswalks.

[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 79 points 1 day 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 48 points 1 day 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 16 points 1 day 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.

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

i mean, you dont even have to look at it that way.

cause it literally is that.

Police, since the begining, have existed to protect the property of the rich. Not the rights of the poor.

They've literally gone to the supreme court to fight against being held accountable to their own "protect and serve" bullshit.

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 points 19 hours ago

The very first police officers were primarily slave catchers

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Yep, the property of the rich.

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[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 day ago

Russia: Rainbow Flag Illegal

USA: Rainbow Flag Illegal

So what's the difference anymore.

Russia has a capable (if thoroughly evil) leader?

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago

It’s the same leader

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago

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

Maybe. I think Putin's main concern with Ukraine was preventing them from selling natural gas from the Donbas region to Western Europe and undercutting his main source of revenue, and he's achieved that even if he didn't successfully overrun the whole country.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 hours ago

That's almost certainly part of why, but he most definitely wasn't expecting to sink this much money, time, and personnel into the conquest. Continuing to do so is definitely not something a capable leader would do.

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

The US also has a very capable leader. As you can see with President Putin's implementation of his controversial policies in the US.

Oh you mentioned some orange old man hanging out in DC? Oh that's just the court jester.

[-] Sunflier@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 20 points 1 day 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.

[-] modus@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

The decal should say "Gay Agenda Traffic Services."

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We all literally just saw this happen.

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

[-] modus@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Go and stand there with buckets of paint and a roller and wait them out. Even better if it's one can labeled "rainbow" paint.

[-] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

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

[-] yoriaiko 15 points 1 day ago

Paint police instead? /silly

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