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Steve @startrek.website

2w ago

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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So you're the one who stole my bath towel.
- Yes I collect gay bath towels
  
  How can you tell the sexuality of a towel?
  edit: I think some people thought I was asking about identifying the gender of the towel. As much as I never thought I'd have to write anything like this sentence: I was asking how to identify the partnership preferred by a towel, rather than anything to do with its hypothetical undercarriage.
  
  Well, there are worse hobbies...
  
  So you're saying my bi bath towels were taken by someone else?
  
  Quiet you, I'm trying to buy in while they're still under the radar.

Don't tempt them. It's hard enough to cross the street as it is.
- 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"
  
  A good wholesome road needs to be safe for our traditional family SUVs and free of these dangerous ((pedestrians)).
- "It's for the children! No more crosswalks! Just frogger it, kids!" -Ron DeSantis
  
  Kids these days still play Frogger, right?

I like this idea. It’s like depressed version of pride flag, indicating LGBTQ people are repressed and in pain
- Like a dead coral reef.
  
  Perfect for Florida!
- Yes, a distress flag

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

Just adopt red and white stripes. See what they do then
- Cat in the hat style

Now we just get the uniforms:

Nobody tell them about the cishet ally flag which is almost exactly this... ;)
- Having just checked that flag, damn, we don’t get any fun colors?!?
  
  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.
  
  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:
  https://youtu.be/8-H_noXhBeU
  
  As a queer circus performer, I hate that flag since half my performance wear is black and white circus stripes

Yeah tbh. And it aligns better with the concept of sexuality/gender being more of a spectrum than rigidly designated buckets.
- Isn't the rainbow meant to represent the spectrum. Like how rainbows show the visible spectrum of light?
  
  It would be a lot prettier that way
  
  It... is kind of a giant mess.
  https://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.

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

I'm saving those for the big day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_stripes

Don't give Florida ideas

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...
- Don't tell them that how the colours are for the left and right political parties in other countries
  
  Canada, for instance

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

Just adopt the Florida state flag?
- That feels about as appropriate as the Nazi flag
  
  I tell people that the back the blue flag is for pedophiles. It's fun to fuck with their nonsense.

beatles pride flag

What in the white skittles?

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?
- 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.
  
  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.

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

Isn't black and white stripes the "ally" denominator already?
- Techhnically that's black and white stripes with a capital lambda.
  Black and white stripes can be used as such too, though.

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

the united colors of benetton would approve of those flags

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
- Shape the flag like him.
  
  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

Confirmed, walking around town instead of driving is gay.

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