Republicans have time to pettily paint over a memorial for people killed in a mass shooting because they can’t hate gay people enough, but they can’t be bothered to stop school shootings because they don’t love children enough.

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The memorial outside the nightclub was put in place as a vital testament to the strength, resilience and love of the LGBTQ+ community and its allies.

Opinion | Florida painting over this LGBTQ memorial is a grievous offense

The memorial outside the nightclub was put in place as a vital testament to the strength, resilience and love of the LGBTQ+ community and its allies.

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  1. It’s shocking how some politicians can summon passion for trivial battles but remain inert in the face of repeated tragedies. Children’s safety deserves more than performative outrage.

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  2. Wrong take.

    Common-sense Americans, i.e. Normal People, are sick & tired of Progs. incessantly pushing their woke agenda in their face. Or, in this instance, on their streets. You just don’t get it, do you? Woke neo-Marxism is a kind of religious orthodoxy practiced by unthinking zealots.

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  3. It was intended to be a grevious offense. If you are worried about memorials and people being disappeared, you're not watching the oligarchs walking off work everyone's piece of the pie.

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  4. I think it is incredible, fantastic, wonderful, that the walkway keeps coming back, in full memorial colors. Yessss. That's the spirit.

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  5. That is one of the most heartbreaking statements I have ever heard. Because it is 100% true.

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  6. Das ist ein klassischer Umweg, um die eigentliche Problematik zu vermeiden. Denken Sie an die Kinder, die bereits Opfer wurden, anstatt sich auf die Täter zu konzentrieren.

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  7. DeSantis is very big on culture war political theater. He’s such a petty, whiney, weasel who likes to make believe he’s a tough guy. Hmmm sounds like someone else. In fact, it sounds like the entire GOP.

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  8. The leaders holding the powers of America consider their wealth & power are much more important than the life of others.

    To me, that's been clear for decades now; both Dem & GOP.

    Only one exception: President Carter; I saw a man who truly cared about the well being of others most.

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  9. If we're really going to stop this madness, we need to show the dead bodies on TV. That's the only way to create enough outrage to make millions of Americans pummel their representatives into banning assault weapons, flagging large ammo purchases, and providing adequate mental healthcare.

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  10. When you say the Republikkkans don't love children enough, that implies that they love children. And aside from the euphemism, they don't. They despise children. They torture children. They starve children. And all of the Republikkkans should have their perfectly removable heads perfectly removed.

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  11. It's the American rights way:

    Scapegoat everyone/anything before taking personal responsibility/being accountable.

    That's why they indoctrinate boys online to never pursue context/develop the ability to empathize... and to never take accountability while generalizing all women as unaccountable.

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  12. Well, Floridians, why don't you 'mandate' that ALL pics and references to the dictator t-Rump, be removed from public places??? And ONLY POST pics and info that describe this president's evil agendas!! IT WONT be lying!! If they're choosing to remove 'memories', GIVE them a new one!

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  13. Who did the shooting today? Was it a crazed Republican wanting to kill kids? Or was it a crazed mentally ill kid who thinks he can change sexes because democrats say he can? Which was it?

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  14. Don’t think for a moment they wouldn’t incarcerate & kill us if they thought they could get away with it. Including Thiel, Grenell & the closet cases Scott & Graham etc

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  15. Because at least in their minds school shootings drive gun sales and justifies their "only a good guy with a gun can stop a bad guy with a gun" gospel.

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  16. What is the defining characteristic of people who are drawn to an abomination like Trump— racism? selfishness? greed? stupidity? fear? resentment? tribalism? hatred?

    It’s not the search for truth— I can tell you that much. 🤦🏻‍♂️🚩🚩🚩

    ALT: a woman is saying that she is pretty hopeless
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  17. It's all obfuscation to draw attention.... look over here, not over there, there's nothing to see over there..

    They won't stop gun violence because they want to be sure that anybody and everybody can get a gun to protect them from violence by .... anybody and everybody else that can get a gun...

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  18. Cruelty is the point. DeSantis is patting himself on the back & laughing his smarmy, little laugh.

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  19. The GOP are haters of regular people, because regular people are in reality diverse. Their narrow religion blindered pea brains can't handle this simple bit of life.

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  20. The feds say rainbow crosswalks are “unsafe.” DeSantis calls them too “gay.” But as a gay man who’s fought my whole life to be visible, I know what this really means: the first brushstrokes in a campaign to shove us back in the closet. www.gopocalypse-now.com/desantis-fed...

    Rainbow crosswalks aren’t a safety hazard — they’re a visibility hazard for politicians who’d rather erase us. As a gay man, I know this is just the start of shoving us back in the closet.

    DeSantis & the Feds Declare War on Rainbows

    Rainbow crosswalks aren’t a safety hazard — they’re a visibility hazard for politicians who’d rather erase us. As a gay man, I know this is just the start of shoving us back in the closet.

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    Call for New Elections Call for New Elections Call for New Elections Call for New Elections Call for New Elections Call for New Elections

    DONT GET DISTRACTED

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  22. Former GOP Congressman Trey Gowdy: “And so we’re going to have to have a conversation of freedom versus protecting children. I mean, how many school shootings does it take before we’re going to have a conversation about keeping firearms out?”

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  23. Now DeathSatan has his SS goons (oh, sorry, 'police' LMAO) watching the crosswalk 24/7 so it can't be rechalked. These are nothing but Nazi sociopaths. They are subhuman and pure evil.

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  24. Such devout Christians! How can anyone claim to be a Christian but obviously has never read a word of scripture?

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  25. They just can’t help themselves! They only exist to torture and humiliate others. The remaining ones afflicted with this TDS are selfish and self serving. They think the whole world revolves around them!! Evil beings have no soul. Greedlust follows them wherever they go.

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  26. If you are gay time to leave FL If you want science to keep you alive Leave Florida If you want women’s rights protected Time to Move If you are a Senior Snowbird Time to fly West If you want to visit Disney head for CA If you are scared of Hurricanes & Flooding Move away from the Oceans

    ALT: the capitol building in washington d.c. with a blue sky behind it
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  27. They don't. They say the do, protect them from pedophiles, kidnappers, sex traffickers, murderers but what they do instead is protect all those people.

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  28. "follow the money" used to be an indicator of crime, but now it's a giveaway of true values

    they'll always find the money to worsen the lives of gay people, and they'll accept money to ensure kids get shot at school

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  29. My opinion. We are sitting on a powder keg. One day it is going to BLOW UP. I feel Republicans are going to be the ones to light fuse. Just to get away from FDT AND HIS EVIL WAYS. Then they will stand back and watch him burn. When does it happen? My opinion. WOW WTF FDT

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  30. Well would suggest this to people with a massive rainbow chalking of the state crosswalks, the police after all can't be everywhere

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  31. They should start adding "Don't kill, abuse or rape children" in everything rainbow. We know they don't care, but will have a harder time explaining why they removed it.

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  32. There should be a fund set up for the paint needed to keep repainting the rainbow crossing. Don't let the bigots win. Our village painted each of the crosswalks a rainbow color. Everyone loves it. They stand out nicely, too, I've had less trouble avoiding college students and tourists crossing😁

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  33. The Orlando city police are fighting off the Florida Highway Patrol who are the ones painting over the crosswalk. A jurisdiction battle going on.

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  34. A friend in FL said this was enforceable because of some new state law specifically stating "paint" and roadways.

    But the recoloring was "chalk", which I thought was brilliant. But they still painted gray again

    Any insights from someone in the know?

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  35. Nope - they are now singularly focused on the fact that the school shooter might have been a trans individual. They literally hate that entire community. It's lunacy.

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  36. Conservatives are a blight on society that need all forms of power ripped from their hands in perpetuity. Theirs is an ideology that must be shamed out of existence if there is to be any hope for us as a species.

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  37. Republicans can't be sure that all the kids saved were White, straight, cis Christian Nationalist kids so no dice.

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