Ron DeSantis' new target in his 'war on woke'? Colors, apparently
As part of DeSantis’ “Freedom Summer” initiative, the state’s transportation secretary, Jared W. Perdue, announced earlier this month that bridges in the state will have no choice but to be illuminated in red, white and blue from Memorial Day through Labor Day.
“Thanks to the leadership of @GovRonDeSantis, Florida continues to be the freest state in the nation,” Perdue wrote on X.
Give my regards to the Ministry of Truth.
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/ron-desantis-bridge-colors-rainbow-pride-month-rcna153537Open linkView original on lemmy.world
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so free, you have no choice but to do what they say
This feels like it’s just a way to get around Pride in June.
Didn’t read the article before I said this. Why are my shittiest suspicions about Desantis always right.
And Juneteenth, and a day of remembrance for victims of gun violence
The rain is starting to end. The sun begins to peek from the clouds. DeSantis looks upward in dread.
I do like that the rainbow has been ruined for them despite their holy book talking about how god made it to show Noah and his descendants that he wouldn't kill them all off like he did everyone who came before them.
"The human population has become too genetically diverse since the Garden of Eden, I need to fix that" -God
I remember the olds whining and whining about how the homosexuals ruined the word "gay" for them.
Talk about ruining the rainbow right? Not going to kill everybody... Again
Anyone: "Take a look, it's in a book, the reading rainbow!"
Florida: "Put your hands behind your back."
The irony is indescribable
Gosh, it would be a shame if some of those lights were to be combined or refracted into other colors...
Prisms are a liberal plot to destroy America!
The prisms are turning kids autistic
Nah, it's the puzzles.
It's like Pleasantville, but in reverse and it's a horror film.
In many ways, it's exactly like Pleasantville. The world is changing and the reactionaries don't like it, so they try to use the force of law to make things back the way they perceived them to be, including by restricting the use of color.
Because nothing says freedom like restricting the colors people can use.
My brother bathed in the sacred blood of the One True Redeemer Jesus Peterson Christ, I say unto thee Florida has not yet begun to win!
/floridaman
What a fucking idiot.
Yup…
What a bunch of glue eaters.
You should try glue on pizza though.
Mmmmm. Keeps the cheese from sliding off!
Go out and swap some of the bulbs on their red, white, and blue stings to various other colors to make it a rainbow.
Republicans are NOT Snowflakes!
I'm not going to let you groom my children with your visible light spectrum!
So I went WTF is "National Gun Awareness Month", I mean who actually needs a month long reminder that the US is full of guns? So I went and apparently it's National Gun Violence Awareness Day. Accurate reporting from the Washington Post, as always.
The same confirmed child molester, Ron Desantis, governor of Florida?! Who would have thought?
I thought that was Gaytz
I wonder if they could get away with illuminating the whole bridge in red, since the normal street lights are white and the sky is blue. You know, for Labor Day.
In Florida most of our street lights are purple because they bought a cheap batch of LEDs
Not just purple, gorgeous Lavender Menace!
May Day is before Memorial Day and they could definitely go red for that. You know because reasons unrelated to communism that surely exist.
That sounds so obnoxious
That's DeSantis to a T.
I'll be in Florida soon. I kinda wanna head over after work one night so I can see how awful it looks.
This is the guy that yelled at kids for wearing masks. During a pandemic.
One can hope.
I don't think they understand what free means. Snowflakes.
So much "freedom" down there in Gilead. Policing colors and not letting people choose to eat lab-grown meat. Wouldn't want anyone getting any ideas about any notions of ACTUAL freedom.
Calling Florida the freest state in the country is like saying it's safe to eat enriched uranium rods.
DeSantis is a dope and this move has nothing to do with freedom and is just pandering to dumb Republicans.
But dear God, to paint this as some kind of attack on colors... Well, its almost as if the author is trying to out stupid DeSantis and is pandering to dumb Democrats.
He's hardly inconsequential if you live in Florida.
I believe you mean "Wookiees." But it's easy to tell male from female.
This is a male Wookiee:
And this is a female Wookiee and her son, Lumpy:
Any questions?
One of the funniest Rifftrax is when they took this on...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft4eOUQfJGI