Florida Transportation Secretary James Perdue announced on social media that as part of the state’s “Freedom Summer,” all bridges will be lit in patriotic colors from May 27 to September 2, which means no rainbows for Pride.
  • 0110010001100010@lemmy.world
    992·
    6 months ago

    Brought to you by the party of small government*

    *Some restrictions apply

    Also:

    “Thanks to the leadership of Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida continues to be the freest state in the nation.”

    What in the actual fuck? How does banning things = freedom?

    • elliot_crane@lemmy.world
      422·
      6 months ago

      No, no, you got it all wrong. It’s freedom for bigots to not have “the gay agenda” forcibly foisted upon them. Don’t you see how it could be offensive to and even discriminatory against christofascists to be reminded that non-straight people exist and are human beings too? Idk dude it sounds to me like you just hate small government conservative values ™️ and freedom.

      (/s if it wasn’t obvious)

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
      111·
      6 months ago

      Wtf, do I have to spell it out? It’s just like how teachers can go to jail for mentioning their same-sex partner. If that doesn’t spell freedumb, I don’t know how else to explain it to you. And tracking pregnancies? How could you get any freer?!

    • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
      51·
      6 months ago

      How does banning things = freedom?

      That’s the official Republican definition of freedom now.

      Just like how “Patriots” = “Racist white Boomers”.

      Or how “First Amendment” = “Please let me say the n-word”.

  • nalinna@lemmy.world
    421·
    6 months ago

    I no longer have the energy for additional sarcastic remarks regarding this vacuous tool’s culture-war-pageantry.

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
    331·
    6 months ago

    Oh no, they’re banning the visible spectrum! Certainly dark days ahead for Florida.

    • XTL@sopuli.xyz
      131·
      6 months ago

      No, they’re just against segregation of the colours, you see.

      It’s replaced with harmonious all white light.

  • Shurimal@kbin.social
    193·
    6 months ago

    Well, let’s light 'em bridges up in glorious RGB rainbows anyway, just under the pretense of “PC Gaming Month”, concurrent with a Steam sale of coincidentally LGBT+ themed games🙃

    …And thus a truly cosmic amount of salt shall be generated by both conservatives and g4m3r manchildren🤪

  • Furbag@lemmy.world
    182·
    6 months ago

    “Well boys, we did it. Homosexuality is no more.”

    • Florida Republicans, probably.
  • Billiam@lemmy.world
    13·
    6 months ago

    Well duh- you can’t have a return to the dark ages if you have electric lights, now can you?

  • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
    144·
    6 months ago

    Oh, don’t worry. The conservatives still plan to decorate the bridges by hanging gay people from them.

    A plague of conservatism cannot cure itself. The disease must be aggressively fought to be destroyed.

  • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
    111·
    6 months ago

    I’m waiting for desaturation glasses so these fucking whiners can’t even see colors just in case they might line up in something close to ROYGBIV.

  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
    2·
    6 months ago

    Maybe they should do it just for the sake of not getting ran into by boats. Seems to be a lot of that going around this year…