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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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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
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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.
I do not envy you that situation, it's what all the cool kids are calling "sub optimal".
On Lemmy 99% would agree with. In a random place in America probably like 80% would agree with you.
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Sorry. Our nation is a trash pile full of racists, religious sycophants, and the extremely ignorant.
It's only going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better.
gotta keep those crosswalks from being too gay!
Where are the straights supposed to cross 😡
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It's not a straightforward, it's a crosswalk.
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here they were, being worried about Jewish space lasers, and the whole time it was crosswalks turn the frogs gay!
These comments are wild smh
In my town, they said the rainbow colors are not the state description of crosswalks, might actually, effectively, erase the legal crosswalk, are confusing to drivers, and would increase pedestrian deaths. There's always some bullshit rationalization for being the worst possible person.
Marking the first time they probably have ever given a shit about a pedestrian death
What a fucking great use of taxpayer money... NOT!
i understand this crosswalk has meaning, but until it is unguarded, let all unguarded crosswalks be rainbows! : D
be safe out there <3
Paint the Police cars!
Paint all the crosswalks.
These would be state police, wouldn't they? They shouldn't have jurisdiction on city streets. Time for that mayor to grow a spine and use local cops to chase them and the toadies who keep painting it black off.