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Florida Deploys Police To Stare At Crosswalks, Stop Them From Being Painted Rainbow Colors
(www.erininthemorning.com)
Paint police instead? /silly
this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2025
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I know what you meant, but arguably this does make them the Paint Police.
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Speaking as a foreigner, this shit is so profoundly pathetic, United States. Get your fucking shit together. Not only should you all be well past shitting all over the queer community, but dispatching cops to guard crosswalks in any capacity other than ensuring school kids using them safely after school should embarrass everyone on both sides of the aisle.
Edit: *safely
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Believe me a lot of us are fully aware of how stupid this shit is. A lot of us are fully accepting of the LGBT community and welcome them with open arms. It's incredibly exhausting watching floroda (and all other deep red states and the fed) doing stupid shit like this because the theater of doing it wins them brownie points with their voters.
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Good use of tax money. They should also help usher kids to factories while at it.
I didn't like Florida that much when I lived there in the 80s and 90s. It sounds like it's gotten worse.
Last guy, we're gonna keep coming back. 👍
Id ask what's stopping people from standing in the vicinity with a big box of chalk but thats probably a great way to get chalk made illegal.
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gotta keep those crosswalks from being too gay!
Hold the cops down and paint them then
In my town, they said the rainbow colors are not the state description of crosswalks, might actually, effectively, erase the legal crosswalk, are confusing to drivers, and would increase pedestrian deaths. There's always some bullshit rationalization for being the worst possible person.
Marking the first time they probably have ever given a shit about a pedestrian death
Goddammit, I thought this was going to be an Onion type article. It wasn't.
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