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The anger came as the Lake County Commission considered a proposal, which ultimately got unanimous approval, to rename a stretch of road as the Charlie Kirk Memorial Highway.

The majority of public commenters at the Tuesday meeting opposed the plan, including resident Gavin Brown, who argued the county should name roads after local figures who had served the community like veterans or law enforcement, such as Bradley Link, a sheriff’s deputy who was killed last year.

“Wouldn’t it be more suitable and ideal to have a memorial to honor someone who fought to serve and protect us, have a true Lake County resident who was a brave American hero?” Brown said.

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[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 54 points 6 days ago

USA is not a country anymore, it's become an insane asylum.

[-] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

At least in an asylum you can follow the rules and get out to live somewhere else.

[-] C4551E 5 points 6 days ago

Not after they Make Asylums Great Again

[-] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 40 points 6 days ago

Y'all, the denial of power happens on every possible level. We gain power with every single Charlie Kirk Memorial Highway sign that gets "accidentally" knocked down with a car bumper. Or every Charlie Kirk Memorial Highway offramp sign that gets suddenly redesigned overnight with a can of black spray paint. Deny them quarter on every single front.

[-] ScrambledEggs@lazysoci.al 9 points 6 days ago

I really hope they don't shoot up the memorial signs

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 3 points 6 days ago

One bullet in the sign would just make it more accurate

[-] Ironfist79@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

Cordless angle grinders are cheap.

[-] username123@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago

We really need to do something about all the surveillance cameras.

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

Paintball guns or any other remote delivery method, if it's close to the ground you can then just bash it with something heavy and if it's high up it won't get fixed because city maintenance doesn't want to allocate the lift truck to it.

[-] DrPop@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Steal the signs

[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago

Where I come from, it's more traditional to shoot highway signs. In Kirk's case, it also seems somehow more fitting.

We all need to cross out Charlie on all the signs and write in James T.

[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 days ago

Remember what his and others of similar ilk's hateful followers do to a simple rainbow crosswalk.

There's a whole road for ~~antifa~~ profree to work with.

[-] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

What the fuck is wrong with people?

[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

A handful of assholes got into power with the help of a shitload of idiots, and an incredible number of them live in Florida

[-] czarcasm@kbin.earth 56 points 1 week ago

This road will now become a public bathroom.

[-] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 18 points 1 week ago

Its Florida after all, so it probably already was

[-] Lembot_0004@discuss.online 9 points 1 week ago

That's exactly how representative democracy works: people might be against but decision is made by "elected officials" who couldn't care less about some "common folk" opinion.

[-] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 27 points 1 week ago

At least at the local level, the only reason it shakes out that way is because the common folk haven't really been paying all that much attention to what the elected officials are doing, as long as they had an R after their names. At the national level there is additional fuckery, but these are exactly the people they voted for, you can't exactly blame that on the system. It's a problem of education and of apathy.

I feel like, after all the long decades of fuckery, this might be the year that they wake up about it because it is finally impacting them directly in a fashion that can't be explained away. Maybe not but I definitely feel like that is possible.

[-] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I've given up most hope that Anyone "wakes up." They've had many more reasons before now but still did fuck all.

I'd love to be proven wrong.

[-] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

What have you done?

[-] IamSparticles@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago

Sadly, I think we all underestimated just how many people there are in this country that actually desperately want the fuckery. They think it helps them. They think they're "winning". I keep thinking they'll realize, at some point, that it does the opposite. It hasn't happened yet.

[-] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 2 points 6 days ago

It hasn’t happened yet.

Take a look at those Republican town hall videos though. They definitely have realized, at least some of them. I think it's mostly just a question of whether it will translate into anything, or whether they'll just settle back down and get back in their place.

A lot of them even if they realize they made a terrible mistake will still vote R anyways because they have been taught anything else is terrible through propoganda. "I guess this bad is what was bound to happen, at least fascism is slowing it"... While accelerating the decline into the very few ultra rich people, and the rest in poverty.

[-] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 1 points 6 days ago

Anything done can be undone. Any evil once defeated can rise again, and vice versa.

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