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What if LGBT adopts a white and grey striped flag to replace the rainbow? Then Florida would have to abolish crosswalks entirely.

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Steve@startrek.website⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩

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  • ceenote@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So you’re the one who stole my bath towel.

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    • Steve@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes I collect gay bath towels

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      • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        How can you tell the sexuality of a towel?

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      • neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Well, there are worse hobbies…

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      • ceenote@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        So you’re saying my bi bath towels were taken by someone else?

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      • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Quiet you, I’m trying to buy in while they’re still under the radar.

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  • artifex@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Don't tempt them. It's hard enough to cross the street as it is.

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    • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      lol … conservatives would be the first to happily just get rid of cross walks altogether … both to not acknowledge LGBTQ+ and also to give more freedom to vehicles and get rid of “pedestrians”

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      • SGforce@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        A good wholesome road needs to be safe for our traditional family SUVs and free of these dangerous ((pedestrians)).

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    • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “It’s for the children! No more crosswalks! Just frogger it, kids!” -Ron DeSantis

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      • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Kids these days still play Frogger, right?

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  • dangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I like this idea. It’s like depressed version of pride flag, indicating LGBTQ people are repressed and in pain

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    • rustydrd@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Like a dead coral reef.

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      • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Perfect for Florida!

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    • Steve@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes, a distress flag

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  • aramova@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    To be honest those twats would already be on board with that.

    “Crosswalks? The fuck, you ain’t driving your truck across the street to get there? It too damn far!”

    – Florida Man

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  • warm@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Just adopt red and white stripes. See what they do then

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    • Emerald@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Cat in the hat style

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  • altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Now we just get the uniforms:

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  • Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nobody tell them about the cishet ally flag which is almost exactly this… ;)

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    • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Having just checked that flag, damn, we don’t get any fun colors?!?

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      • TheRealKuni@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The ally flag gets fun colors! It’s the black and white background with a rainbow ∧ shape. I wear this as a pin sometimes. Also my favorite restaurant has one hanging proudly inside.

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      • Witchfire@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        As a queer circus performer, I hate that flag since half my performance wear is black and white circus stripes

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      • janNatan@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        So, your question got me wondering. I went on a whole search down the rabbit hole, and I eventually came upon a YouTube video that summarizes it briefly and elegantly:

        youtu.be/8-H_noXhBeU

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  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah tbh. And it aligns better with the concept of sexuality/gender being more of a spectrum than rigidly designated buckets.

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    • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Isn’t the rainbow meant to represent the spectrum. Like how rainbows show the visible spectrum of light?

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      • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It would be a lot prettier that way

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      • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It… is kind of a giant mess.

        en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_flag_(LGBTQ) is a good summary but the modern rainbow color scheme is a somewhat recent iteration.

        But much as “LGBT” has become “LGBTQ” and “LGBTQIA” and “LGBTQIA+” and so forth, so too have the flag added and removed stripes. And… a lot of that is intentional animosity since a shocking number of LGBTQIA+ folk are actually REALLY bigoted (the old “jokes” about how bisexual people need to “choose a side” and so forth) and it becomes a whole thing.

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  • s@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s giving “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”

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  • twice_hatch@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m saving those for the big day en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_stripes

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  • Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Don’t give Florida ideas

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  • SuperDuperKitten@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What in the white skittles?

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  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I just wish I could get people to care half as much about health care and wages as they do about their meaningless pieces of nylon fabric.

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    • twice_hatch@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Guess I’ll take the $20 I’d spend on a flag and buy some votes instead

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  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Florida always at the ready for ideas that can harm children.

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    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PTiMKsTo-o

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  • NatakuNox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Just adopt the Florida state flag?

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    • Steve@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That feels about as appropriate as the Nazi flag

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      • NatakuNox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I tell people that the back the blue flag is for pedophiles. It’s fun to fuck with their nonsense.

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  • BoloMKXXVIII@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why is Red on the left and Blue on the right? Don't tell the MAGA crowd or they will try to pass another law...

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    • Samuelwankenobi@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Don’t tell them that how the colours are for the left and right political parties in other countries

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      • Witchfire@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Canada, for instance

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  • jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Cute but this wouldn’t work for this obvious reason – conservatives would be like, “sure buddy. If you say so.”

    OTOH, we made the rainbow work so… I guess?

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    • Steve@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Dude have you seen the rainbow? ITS LITERALLY JUST VISIBLE LIGHT and its the greatest threat to the conservative world.

      You way underestimate how much they care.

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      • MIDItheKID@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And they are literally naturally occurring. Like… I wonder how mad conservatives get when it rains on a sunny day, and a rainbow comes popping up in the sky reminding them of their closeted homosexuality.

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    • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Just please stop screwing it up.

      progress pride flag

      Stop

      Progress Pride flag 2 intersex boogaloo

      I said, Stop!

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  • RedStrider@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    beatles pride flag

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  • TomMasz@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Part of me is all for this, but part of me realizes this would only make things worse for pedestrians and bicyclists.

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  • kruhmaster@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Image

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  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    the united colors of benetton would approve of those flags

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  • Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That weird shaped guy that Florida keeps electing would just move the goalposts more and do whatever he can to torment anyone who is lgbt

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    • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Shape the flag like him.

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      • Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Then he might attempt to get healthy in order to change his shape and I’d rather he look like an egg so his heart will bail on him more quickly

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  • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Confirmed, walking around town instead of driving is gay.

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  • whaleross@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Isn’t black and white stripes they ally denominator already?

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    • birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Techhnically that’s black and white stripes with a rainbow.

      Black and white stripes can be used as such too, though.

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