After the state said its bridges will be lit red, white and blue all summer, LGBTQ supporters used rainbow-colored flashlights on Main Street bridge.
  • CptEnder@lemmy.worldEnglish
    94·
    6 months ago

    Conservatives: “bunch of triggered snowflake libs”

    Also conservatives: literally triggered by the visible color spectrum

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      63·
      6 months ago

      “That was a lone wolf.”

      “Nobody saw that coming.”

      “He was always so peaceful.”

      “He’s an elder of my church.”

      “Just one bad apple.”

      “A rare occurrence.”

      – any time a white male engages in domestic terrorism

      • Lumelore (She/her)English
        11·
        6 months ago

        I read that as a poem, is it supposed to be one? It’s pretty good regardless of if that was intentional lol.

      • JovialMicrobial@lemm.eeEnglish
        8·
        6 months ago

        I think the last white domestic terrorists to be called terrorists were the unibomber and Timothy McVeigh.

        Both were in the 80s - 90s iirc. For some reason since 9/11 the word terrorist has been reserved for brown people who may or may not be Muslim and it’s really fucking us over.

        At the same time people have been burning down and bombing abortion clinics since the late 70’s and that has never been called out as terrorism, or more accurately christian terrorism either.

        I guess my point is that the US government sucks at indentifying/dealing with domestic terrorists and openly turn a blind eye to privileged groups committing atrocities domestically.

    • CatoblepasEnglish
      10·
      6 months ago

      Going after power substations (again) is more likely IMO. It’s an easy to commit crime and the kind of bigots that have a problem with Pride are also the kind of bigots that keep a lot of white nationalist tactics in their toolbox.

      • dezmd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        Yall Queda and the Gravy Seals just aren’t that strategically competent with their slice of plain white bread class of domestic terrorism, not without some foreign intelligence command and control running them.

    • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      6 months ago

      It’s Pride, if they wanted to hurt LGBT people and burn some shit down, they don’t need any more provocation. If they want to do it, they’ll do it.