Ah yes the party of free speech.
this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2023
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And small government...
Then again, stuff like these stickers are only needed due to the type of idiotic assholes who would remove them, existing.
You can't expect these people to be able to identify their own hypocrisy. Or to care if they do.
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Democrats are against free speech because people on twitter will tell me I'm being racist or sexist when I post funny jokes.
Republicans are pro free speech because they don't ever tell me I'm a bigot, they just pass legislation that prevents me from publicly stating my political viewpoints that they do not agree with.
This is unironically how conservatives think.
they're so brave, they are willing to go to war with stickers
We've lost the wars on hunger, poverty, drugs, the middle-east and un-fucking the middle-east; why not go for stickers next? Goose egg omelettes for everyone!
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Imagine being such a coward that who someone else loves scares the shit out of you.
Imagine the rich owners of this country using religion to group shame communities in order to produce more slaves
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Wtf is even their argument for this?!
Edit: I obviously know their motivation, what I wanna know is their excuse for why this is supposedly justified.
To a Republican, a safe space for people who aren't straight, white Christians is akin to a safe space for pedophiles/Satan/dark-skinned foreigners (all the same thing in their terms). The people they hate with everything in their being must not be allowed to peacefully exist. This is the very foundation of Republicanism/conservativism.
This comment needs to be put on top. I am not American but I did live there for a short time installing very big machinery, and I'm glad to be out of there.The Republicans who are doing this think a pride flag is equivalent to putting up a sign that says 'kill kids'. Which you can't do, free speech doesn't cover overt threats to crime or violence.
That's how far gone these people are, they have drank so much of the kool-aid they perceve every pride flag as an overt call to crime and violence. They perceve the existence of LGBTQ+ as an overt threat to crime or violence. At this point they're too far gone to bring back. They're so full of misinformation and vitriol that they only things they can feel anymore are fear, pride, and rage; it's kind of of like Ingsoc in 1984 using those exact emotions to manipulate their people. It's bad.
"Freedom of speech unless you're saying something that I don't like."
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Im not american so i dont know all the freedom of speech laws work but its so fucking convenient that republicans can just decide what is and what isnt freedom of speech.
You can put anything in your window that isn't fraudulent, straight pornography or otherwise illegal on its own.
"Kill x" would likely be illegal as it's incitement to violence. "x need to die" would likely be legal.
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Republicans will not stop until they have the ability to legally shoot and kill anyone they perceive to be gay.
They won’t stop until they have the legal ability to shoot and kill anyone they disagree with. They just starting with gays to normalize it.
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The Republicans seem to spend most of their time thinking about LGBTQ+.
Hmm.....
No "hmm...", don't do that shit to lgbtq people, they do it because they see them as less than human, full stop.
It's not them angry at others getting to be themselves while they have to suppress their true nature, it's just heirarchy.
We should never, ever at face value take claims from Republicans or anyone that they're doing this for the children or whatever (not that we should have been in the first place regardless). Because they've been making it more clear than ever that they want to erase the entirety of the idea of LGBT+ people from existence.
Because they’ve been making it more clear than ever that they want to erase the entirety of the idea of LGBT+ people from existence.
And then they whine when people point out who they're acting like.
How does this not violate the First Amendment?
The same way that all of these anti-gay, anti-minority bills work:
They absolutely violate the Constitution. The Republicans just don't care.
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Come on Desantis, no one’s voting for you. Stop being such a tryhard.
Slightly more than half of Florida voted for him to be governor, and it was clear he was a piece of shit then.
4.6 million out of 21 almost 22 million.
~21% of the state of Florida.
More than half the state didn't even vote. (Not saying that's better)
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Slightly more than half of the people who Florida allows to vote you mean.
With gerrymandering coupled with voter suppression, it's easy to keep power in a state. You pack all the blue voters into as tiny of an area as possible, then make sure they get fewer voting machines and longer lines. This gets you fewer blue voters overall. Tie in a few other tactics, and you have yourself a solid republican majority in what should be a swing state.
Got to purge those voter rolls every chance you get, but only in the cities. You wouldn't want to accidentally purge a likely republican voter.
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As a 🦅Conservative®🦅, I think people should be left alone to do what they want.
That is why I support this policy, Because Ron M. Desantis should be allowed to do what he wants.
But Ron Desantis isn’t a person. He’s a greasy nylon stocking stuffed full of purulent, rancid ground pork that somehow learnt to stand upright and wear high heels.
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Hey, are you one of those "novelty accounts" I've heard so much about?
Novelty is the opposite of what is advocated for by 🦅Conservatives®🦅.
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Please tell me the misspelling in your username is intentional
You got a problem with the Trueth©?
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But I thought god owned the rainbow™️? Now the good Christians are disavowing it??
When the rainbow stopped being a reminder that god won’t genocide the world AGAIN and started being a reminder of love and inclusion, man that was too much for those great purveyors of xtian love.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Some central Florida lawmakers said they were considering "all legislative, legal and executive options available" to stop business owners in a small town from voluntarily displaying rainbow decals in their windows indicating that they are a "safe place" for LGBTQ+ people who feel threatened.
Four Republican lawmakers wrote a letter to officials in Mount Dora two weeks ago warning that the new, optional city-sponsored program could put the central Florida community outside Orlando "in the crosshairs of potentially detrimental and absolutely unnecessary economic harm."
The lawmakers cited boycotts of Bud Light and Target, which followed the brands' efforts to promote diversity and inclusion of the LGBTQ+ community.
Mount Dora's city council approved the Safe Place Initiative last month.
Safe Place programs are visible throughout metro Orlando — as well as throughout the US — including ones sponsored by the Orlando Police Department, Orange County Sheriff's Office and Osceola County Sheriff's Office, all in central Florida.
The council's decision to approve the program has coincided with an uptick in anti-LGBTQ+ incidents, including vandalism last month at two LGBTQ+ centers in Orlando.
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Why wouldn't the article name the Republicans that signed the letter? Seems like poor journalism?
I don't understand why this is a headline, constitutionally, lawmakers can't do jack fuckin shit to forbid that.
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Ah the good ol’ “I’m not transphobic I’m just thinking of the pooor economy!”
As a non-Anerican I read that Florida is being awful to a lot of people and I wonder, if people there notice a difference in rural or urban areas? Do people start to migrate to other states? Does it have an impact on the state and its economy? Or are these just impotent talking points designed to engage voters but with no effect on public life? Would love to hear from residents how to relativize all those horrible headlines..
It's quite interesting from some who lives out of state. Florida seems to be a testing ground for all of these terrible policies, as if they aren't afraid to pass a law no matter how shit it is. Maybe it's because they know people are going to be moving out of Florida because of climate change so they might as well see what kinda shit they can get away with. But maybe it is all talking points.
Tourism to Florida is down across all fronts but the only thing you'll hear from right-wing news is that Disney is "too woke" now so people aren't visiting anymore. Of course that's complete bullshit but that doesn't matter to the talking heads.
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When can we stop them [Republicans], preferably forever? Should the rest of the world be involved to make sure they don't cause any domino effect of some sort to other countries?
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This is really crazy. What's going in the US? Aren't LGBT groups protesting this?
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I give you the party of small government. /S
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