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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.
Don't forget to remove churches from your communities..
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...
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.
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.
Christian billionaires do fund a lot of the anti gay conspiracy media. I would specifically focus on those entities.
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.
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"
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.
I mean, they’re going to claim it’s happening even if it isn’t. May as well try in that case.
There's a significant number of LGBTQ+ friendly churches in Orlando. Presumably some of the dead could have been members of those churches. A religious-freedom argument could be made to sue for reinstatement of the memorial. I remember the time UCC and Unitarian churches sued for the right to perform gay marriages in a red state before it became legal nationwide.
In my city, I always see the stupid billboard that says “THINK GOD” and I always fantasize about climbing up there and putting a big red X on GOD so it just says THINK.
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
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 ;)
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.
Why do they have the resources to do this and not watch for cars almost hitting pedestrians at the same crosswalks.
simple, pedestrians aren't people
If they wanted to live, they should have gotten a car.
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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.
These comments are wild smh
I was expecting the onion... Wtf
It has to be hard to be an onion writer right now. How can you come up with a story more absurd than our current reality?
I've said for a while they should lean into it more. Embrace the absurdity and turn it on its head.
Something like "Trump correctly identifies all members of his cabinet during meeting" or "Trump to open H1B visas for ICE positions as recruitment dwindles".
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.
Transportation Secretary
Sounds woke 🤔
Every cop needs to be identified. They will kill their own kids for being gay or trans and they need to see consequences for that.
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
Last guy, we're gonna keep coming back. 👍
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
sigh
Believe me a lot of us are fully aware of how stupid this shit is. A lot of us are fully accepting of the LGBT community and welcome them with open arms. It's incredibly exhausting watching floroda (and all other deep red states and the fed) doing stupid shit like this because the theater of doing it wins them brownie points with their voters.