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Florida Deploys Police To Stare At Crosswalks, Stop Them From Being Painted Rainbow Colors
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Thats stupid
this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2025
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Good use of tax money. They should also help usher kids to factories while at it.
There are over 70 confederate monuments in the state of Florida; none of which are yet painted in rainbow colors.
Pride and Prejudice.
I'll see myself out.
I looked at the map and was surprised to see 2 "confederate monuments" in the Bay Area in California. Turn out it's two buildings in Berkeley that have since been renamed. Whew!
Some confederate soldier statues in full drag kit and face would make quite a spectacle.
Lgbt are framed and put into jail in Florida
What an incredibly efficient use of taxpayer-funded police forces! Should report it to DOGE, they definitely need to cut funding for that
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.
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.
i mean, you dont even have to look at it that way.
cause it literally is that.
Police, since the begining, have existed to protect the property of the rich. Not the rights of the poor.
They've literally gone to the supreme court to fight against being held accountable to their own "protect and serve" bullshit.
The very first police officers were primarily slave catchers
Yep, the property of the rich.
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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.
Damn, you caught the gay?
I'm so sorry bro. Want a BJ to cheer you up?
.... No homo.
Quick! Paint somewhere else.
Paint everywhere else. Turn everything that's not guarded in to rainbows of defiance.
I didn't like Florida that much when I lived there in the 80s and 90s. It sounds like it's gotten worse.
Bully the policists and paint other crosswalks.
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?
Goddammit, I thought this was going to be an Onion type article. It wasn't.
We already live in clown world. We are beyond parody.
Russia: Rainbow Flag Illegal
USA: Rainbow Flag Illegal
So what's the difference anymore.
Russia has a capable (if thoroughly evil) leader?
It’s the same leader
Mmm, I'd say Ukraine makes that not the case. The capable part, not the evil part.
Maybe. I think Putin's main concern with Ukraine was preventing them from selling natural gas from the Donbas region to Western Europe and undercutting his main source of revenue, and he's achieved that even if he didn't successfully overrun the whole country.
That's almost certainly part of why, but he most definitely wasn't expecting to sink this much money, time, and personnel into the conquest. Continuing to do so is definitely not something a capable leader would do.
The US also has a very capable leader. As you can see with President Putin's implementation of his controversial policies in the US.
Oh you mentioned some orange old man hanging out in DC? Oh that's just the court jester.
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.
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.
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.
We all literally just saw this happen.
ICE budget is multiplied by 10 because they "ran out of budget"
The decal should say "Gay Agenda Traffic Services."
Go and stand there with buckets of paint and a roller and wait them out. Even better if it's one can labeled "rainbow" paint.
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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Cause you know, that will stop all the horrible crime the GOP is talking about... You know how dangerous crosswalks are!
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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The article title is framing things way too passively considering the reality which is :
"Florida Republicans order the erasure of mass shooting memorial for 49 murder victims targeted by a bigot wanting to kill members of the LGBT community"
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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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Paint police instead? /silly
I know what you meant, but arguably this does make them the Paint Police.
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