World News @lemmy.world newiceberg @piefed.social 6 mo. ago

Florida won't light bridges in rainbow colors. So Jacksonville's LGBTQ community did.

eu.jacksonville.com Florida won't light bridges in rainbow colors. So Jacksonville's LGBTQ community did.

After the state said its bridges will be lit red, white and blue all summer, LGBTQ supporters used rainbow-colored flashlights on Main Street bridge.

US News @lemy.lol TVgog56789 @lemy.lol 6 mo. ago

eu.jacksonville.com /story/news/local/2024/06/01/jacksonville-residents-shine-pride-lights-after-florida-stops-official-bridge-displa-them-on-bridges/73914750007/

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Good. Fuck the thought police. Fuck the life police.
- And, to take it one step further generalized: fuck the police.
  
  If you do, use protection. Wouldn’t want to get what they have.
Conservatives: "bunch of triggered snowflake libs"

Also conservatives: literally triggered by the visible color spectrum
- You would think, given their "we're the hard working true Americans" shtick, that they would see just how hard the LGBTQ+ community fights for their rights and begin to respect them for it.
  
  But no, because they don't have any honor ; they're just hateful troglodytes that would be better off dead.
Rainbow road! Let's blue shell the homophobes 😂

Edit: I'm not sure how to write it. LGBTQ+-phobes?
- The proper way to write it is either F A S C I S T or B I G O T. There are other, more colorful spellings that are also good but those two are the bread & butter
  
  Alternatively, you can just abbreviate it as GOP.
  
  Anyway, let's start blasting
- i quite like queerphobes, very funny.
  
  Makes it sound like you hate fairies or some shit.
  
  Fairyphobe would be absolutely amazing
  
  Doesn't sound as good though.
  
  What about queerophobes? Lol
A good move by the LGBTQ community there.
I'm afraid there will be some crazy nazi conservatives ready to bomb the bridge because of that "evil rainbow".
- "That was a lone wolf."
  
  "Nobody saw that coming."
  
  "He was always so peaceful."
  
  "He's an elder of my church."
  
  "Just one bad apple."
  
  "A rare occurrence."
  
  -- any time a white male engages in domestic terrorism
  
  I read that as a poem, is it supposed to be one? It's pretty good regardless of if that was intentional lol.
  
  I think the last white domestic terrorists to be called terrorists were the unibomber and Timothy McVeigh.
  
  Both were in the 80s - 90s iirc. For some reason since 9/11 the word terrorist has been reserved for brown people who may or may not be Muslim and it's really fucking us over.
  
  At the same time people have been burning down and bombing abortion clinics since the late 70's and that has never been called out as terrorism, or more accurately christian terrorism either.
  
  I guess my point is that the US government sucks at indentifying/dealing with domestic terrorists and openly turn a blind eye to privileged groups committing atrocities domestically.
- Going after power substations (again) is more likely IMO. It’s an easy to commit crime and the kind of bigots that have a problem with Pride are also the kind of bigots that keep a lot of white nationalist tactics in their toolbox.
  
  Yall Queda and the Gravy Seals just aren't that strategically competent with their slice of plain white bread class of domestic terrorism, not without some foreign intelligence command and control running them.
- It's Pride, if they wanted to hurt LGBT people and burn some shit down, they don't need any more provocation. If they want to do it, they'll do it.
Fucking legends.
Good
Much respect to these heroes.
Fah Who foraze.

Dah Who doraze.

EDIT: I wasn't being dismissive.
- Fus Roh Dah
  
  Baa Ram Ewe

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