State GOP tells people to "burn all Pride flags" during June - LGBTQ Nation
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The Republican Party calls LGBTQ+ people "demonic, godless groomers" who "ultimately harm our children."
      • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
        11·
        6 months ago

        I mean, I would argue the “Coward’s Swastika” (thin blue line) flags are about pride.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
      21·
      6 months ago

      I mean, this statement was made in Colorado. They love Lincoln up in Colorado, cause he built a ton of the rail network that makes Denver more than a glorified truck stop (and also helped kill all the Indians in the northern territories to enable westward expansion).

      • LimeZest@discuss.tchncs.de
        28·
        6 months ago

        Paired with the accompanying text, the commenter implies that the people calling for the burning of Pride flags should burn their racist confederate pride flags.

    • frezik@midwest.social
      4·
      6 months ago

      It’s all they have now. They’re unwilling to compromise any position, even though those positions are horribly unpopular. Instead they have to make a lot of noise and insist you move further to the right to meet them in the middle, or else.

    • StarPupil@ttrpg.network
      4·
      6 months ago

      I get the blue and green ones (police and military), the red ones are for firefighters, right? To steal a phrase, nobody ever said fuck the fire department.

      • Schmoo@slrpnk.net
        3·
        6 months ago

        We’re lucky we don’t have ancient Roman style privatized firefighters that would stand around and wait for payment before putting out your fire.

        • StarPupil@ttrpg.network
          1·
          6 months ago

          Alternatively, “Hi, I’m with the fire department and I would like to buy your on-fire house. Take this deal now, because the price is only going down!” But yeah, they probably said fuck this specific fire brigade two thousand years ago lol

        • frezik@midwest.social
          4·
          6 months ago

          American-sized license plate holders, so it’d be the Tacoma (similar to Hilux, but not quite the same). Or possibly old enough that it’s just called “Toyota Truck”.

          It is, however, one machine gun away from being a technical.

      • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        2·
        6 months ago

        Not me but I love the idea

        In fact I’ve already got my bi flag and pride flag that I’m planning to put on my truck like all the people with US flags do on theirs

      • RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        6 months ago

        The MAGA heads would explode because they love the truck but hate the flags.

        • Schmoo@slrpnk.net
          1·
          6 months ago

          No they hate this truck. It needs to be 3x the size, get 10 miles to the gallon, and be filled with useless smart features before it meets their standards.

    • Zier@fedia.io
      12·
      6 months ago

      Just a friendly suggestion… add the word “ally” to it or you may get a lot of unsolicited propositions.

      • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
        15·
        6 months ago

        I would but I feel it would ruin the aesthetic.

        Plus I don’t want people to think I’m straight right off the bat. Seems counterproductive. I want people to think I’m gay so they treat me the way they would treat a gay person.

        So I can fuck them up for being homophobic.

        • Zier@fedia.io
          2·
          6 months ago

          If you hang out with any LGBT+ people, the bigots always assume you are LGBT+, in case you didn’t know. Ally’s get treated just as bad. Everything about the way bigots work is a “guilty by association” mindset.

          • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
            2·
            6 months ago

            Oh I’m aware. It’s why I’ve become so aggressive against homophobes.

            Too many of my friends have dealt with the bigotry and I’m not having it anymore.

          • MagicShel@programming.dev
            4·
            6 months ago

            I was mainly posting to make my insecurities into a funny. That is still gratifying to read. Thank you. I appreciate that there are people here who are just happy to be kind to others. We all need it sometimes.

  • odelik@lemmy.today
    16·
    6 months ago

    “Go commit a hate crime! And one of you is definitely going to escalate beyond burning and we won’t be there to support you when you commits physical violence to a member of the LGBTQ+ community!”

    • Moneo@lemmy.world
      5·
      6 months ago

      Jesus fucking christ america. Their bio includes “and, yes, Democrats love criminals and steal your tax dollars.” Did they forget their candidate is a felon?

      • Drusas@kbin.run
        2·
        6 months ago

        They don’t care about reality because their voter base will believe whatever they say as long as it gets their emotions riled up.

    • frezik@midwest.social
      4·
      6 months ago

      Some years ago, before Trump even took over the party, the Texas GOP started putting shit like this directly into their official state party platform. Including a nice PDF doc on their own hosted domain where you could cite everything. It was really handy for showing Enlightened Centrists that, no, it’s not just a loud minority of the right. This is what the party is like now, and has been for a while.

    • RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      Some of those religious nutter comments are absolutely unhinged.

      Religion is a mental illness and it’s astounding that it’s still acceptable.

  • NickwithaC@lemmy.worldEnglish
    72·
    6 months ago

    The republican party really are the Darleks of politics. All they know is hatred, war, and destruction.

  • unreasonabro@lemmy.world
    3·
    6 months ago

    Somebody’s house gonna burn over this. we all know who the true removeds are

    it’s always the people who see demons everywhere behaving like fucking demons

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