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[–] 208 points 1 year ago (31 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.

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  • [–] 103 points 1 year ago (8 children)

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

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (7 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...

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  • [–] 55 points 1 year ago* (5 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.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (4 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.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago* (10 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"

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year 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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    [–] 140 points 1 year ago (12 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.

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    [–] 130 points 1 year ago (12 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.

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  • [–] 65 points 1 year ago (7 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?

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    [–] 81 points 1 year ago (9 children)

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

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year 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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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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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    [–] 58 points 1 year 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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    [–] 58 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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    [–] 53 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Quick! Paint somewhere else.

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  • [–] 51 points 1 year 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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    [–] 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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    [–] 46 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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    [–] 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Russia: Rainbow Flag Illegal

    USA: Rainbow Flag Illegal

    So what's the difference anymore.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 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.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (3 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.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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.

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    [–] 23 points 1 year 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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    [–] 22 points 1 year 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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    [–] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I was expecting the onion... Wtf

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    [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    Bully the policists and paint other crosswalks.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year 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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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Paint police instead? /silly

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