I believe in proportionality. So long as their current actions stay in damaging inanimate symbols that's where it should stay. If they were to Remove places significant to LGBT+, then I'd consider it. If they were to start straight up shooting LGBT+ people, well...

They've been riding their train of manufactured victimhood and rage for decades and found great success, they don't strictly need a reason to abuse people.

Staying your hand because your enemy might get angry and retaliate is the mindset of the battered housewife. People should stand up for themselves even if that means violence in the end.

I mean, they’re going to claim it’s happening even if it isn’t. May as well try in that case.

Funny because if they knew their history, the original people that had a war on Christmas was Christians.

Right wing shitheads have been trying to paint themselves as the victims for decades.

Ok. Time to make them actual victims.

This isn't fun and games anymore. They've ramped up their oppression. They've made it clear they are our enemies and won't stop until their boot is firmly on our necks, indefinitely.

If you don't end up fighting the schoolyard bully, they bully you forever.

I see that shit a lot too. And i live somewhere, where i don't even know anyone who is a real Christian who believes all that crap. No clue for whom it's for and how anyone looks at these and think: good thing they don't pay taxes so they have enough money to advertise to no one and hide their kiddy fuckers.

I would never advocate or incite for imminent lawless action. I would advocate for a change in public policy that included things currently held to be illegal.
As long as it makes a difference, the first amendment protects your right to advocate for changes to law and policy. You just can't tell people to right now go and break a specific law if you have reason to believe they might.

"People should shoot maga fascists dead in the street and hang them from lampposts" is protected because it's saying what society should do, not actively calling for people to go do this.

You got me, officer. I'm a coward who's all talk, I would never do anything I described.

Paint the cameras ;)

As if any bike lanes will remain in this scenario.

every intersection is by law a crosswalk unless labeled not for crossing. they're called marked and unmarked crosswalks.

Aha, a crime wave! Deploy the National Guard!

Do the Andy Dufresne method of shaking colored paint/chalk out of your pant legs while you cross the street. They'll never see it coming.

Postal boxes? Transformer boxes? Manhole covers? Park walking paths? Detention center fences? The houses of local homophobic politicians? Bike racks? Telephone poles?

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.

There's no IRS, just stop paying taxes...

I think it is as long as you say you're fishing.

Hah!

Well then lets hope the US Gov. also crumbles from the sheer amount of resources it takes to be that kind of a dick to its population.

Why do you think republicans are so keen on AI? The stasi had to rely on slow humans who might give a shit about accuracy. Republicans don't care if they arrest the wrong person. Particularly since they know that AI trained on a racist system is going to behave like a racist system.

I was in Leipzig, the museum I was mainly taking about was museum der runde ecke but this museum Was also very informative

If they wanted to live, they should have gotten a car.

/s

And they could be black and or gay.

It’s the same leader

Mmm, I'd say Ukraine makes that not the case. The capable part, not the evil part.

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.

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.

The decal should say "Gay Agenda Traffic Services."

Quick, someone send the Army.

Yeah, it’s intriguing.

I have given it some thought and they could be made even more durable by using vinyl flooring adhesive to adhere the mosaic pieces to a backing of wire mesh.

The usual method uses only asphalt crack filler, which is still necessary, but it also requires one to assemble the design backwards. Adhering to metal mesh first would allow one to assemble it front the viewer’s perspective and reduce shifting of the pieces over time for more durability.

Not to mention that a basic CNC machine could cut the vinyl very precisely and in elaborate shapes. One could really take the quality and durability of the designs up a notch or two using the old noggin and modern Maker tools.

So now I am going to have to think of a place locally to do this….

I've said for a while they should lean into it more. Embrace the absurdity and turn it on its head.

Something like "Trump correctly identifies all members of his cabinet during meeting" or "Trump to open H1B visas for ICE positions as recruitment dwindles".

I do not envy you that situation, it's what all the cool kids are calling "sub optimal".

Your election results suggest otherwise.

It's not a straightwalk, it's a crosswalk.

here they were, being worried about Jewish space lasers, and the whole time it was crosswalks turn the frogs gay!

Pretending like the Soviet Union wasn't mostly Christian is some real Revisionist history.

Religon fights education in the modern world.

I dont understand why you all are getting on this persons case. They brought up a pretty reasonable point, traffic markings are better when they are standardized. There are avenues where having a memorial doesnt detract from that standardization. They gave reasonable alternatives in addition. They arent sitting here praising the motivations behind the enforcement yet you all are acting like thats the commenters motivation.

Literally the only other pavement marking that comes anywhere near looking like or being placed in the same way on a road is a stop bar. And guess what, car drivers routinely mistake the plain crosswalks for stop bars, thereby blocking the crosswalk

So because people already have issues with standardization we should allow less of it? This doesnt improve the argument you are trying to make. Stop being reactionary because of the subject matter here and take a step back first.

Making the claim that painting a pedestrian crosswalk in bright colors somehow makes them less visible or recognizable has got to be the dumbest argument I've heard this week.

Its honestly pretty sane in this context when you step back instead of getting reactionary. Is the paint being used reflective? Is it causing the crosswalks to be less reflective in low light conditions? Its not like all the painting being done is standardized. Not all places in the world have cross walks painted out and in night conditions where we constantly have headlights blinding people and some that arent bright enough to compensate for those differences those painted crosswalks could have an impact on safety if the decrease visibility of them in low light conditions.

In the case of the original crosswalk memorial that got defaced by the fascists I am assuming there was reflective paint used, so if people are using something with the same reflective properties as regular road paint I dont see an issue at all with a colorful crosswalk. But when you have people without that style of paint covering up crosswalks it can become a safety issue in night conditions and you arent going to see stats/studies for this as there is not enough sample data to even make that case. Not every rule or standard needs to be written in blood sometimes we can use common sense before allowing people to get injured enough to make a study and dataset to back a point.

Having a memorial that is off the road one would be more visible and also take away the hiding of motivation when the fascists try to deface it by acting like its just a safety thing. Which they recommended, paint walls, the faces of steps etc.

Like I get this is a sore topic due to the state of shit right now but we need to stop fighting with those who are trying to be helpful or offer other valid viewpoints. If we want to fight back against the rising fascism around the world we need more unity which comes from being open to dialog not just being reactionary. All being reactionary is going to do is push people away and make us more fractured and disorganized.

You could have stopped at dumbest. I believe I'm making a civil and reasonable comment.

Also, a black and white contrast is objectively more un-equivocal than a flurry of colors. For example, my mother, in her 80's is a surprisingly safe driver for her age, but her visual acuity is just not the same as before, and at night she may have trouble with a rainbow.

I could go on a flame war over "it takes zero effort not to be a pedantic but also ignorant ass just for the sake of it." as an answer to a civilized, reasoned comment, but I don't want this place to be Reddit. Insults really detract from your argument.

Safety

Have I said that? I do despise the the motivation, but that does not detract from the cold facts.