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Florida Deploys Police To Stare At Crosswalks, Stop Them From Being Painted Rainbow Colors
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this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2025
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Paint different crosswalks. How many crosswalks are in the city? I bet there are more than they have police to stand and watch them.
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
Why limit yourself to existing crosswalks? Male some new ones.
every intersection is by law a crosswalk unless labeled not for crossing. they're called marked and unmarked crosswalks.
So, rainbows at every intersection is what you're saying? I bet they'd have some difficulty policing that.
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!
Paint the cameras ;)
As if any bike lanes will remain in this scenario.
Rainbow 🌈 bike lanes. Do you know the chalk holders used to make staves for music class? 🎼Also useful for graphs 📊📉 in math class and primary - school lines for penmanship. Make something similar that holds sidewalk chalk or paint and hang it off the back of a bike. Bonus for visibility of the bike lanes.
I think this is a particular one due to the Pulse massacre
You can symbolically erect memorials in other places, though, which is what OP is going for.
better to honor our lost at all than perfectly