The article title is framing things way too passively considering the reality which is :
...a mass shooting that took place LESS THAN A DECADE AGO
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.
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?
Aha, a crime wave! Deploy the National Guard!
This would be funny if it was not true
I was thinking, what else can we rainbow up while they're all looking at crosswalks?
Postal boxes? Transformer boxes? Manhole covers? Park walking paths? Detention center fences? The houses of local homophobic politicians? Bike racks? Telephone poles?
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.
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.
There are over 70 confederate monuments in the state of Florida; none of which are yet painted in rainbow colors.
What an incredibly efficient use of taxpayer-funded police forces! Should report it to DOGE, they definitely need to cut funding for that
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
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.
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.
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.
/s
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 🤔
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
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
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
Id ask what's stopping people from standing in the vicinity with a big box of chalk but thats probably a great way to get chalk made illegal.
I mean... They outlawed unmarried women from parachuting on Sundays, and fishing while driving across bridges....
Why not chalk too?
Seems like a good use of their time. Police jobs are basically welfare for the mediocre low iq dipshits from high school.
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".
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