Important note for those who dont want to read the actual article: the ban is essentially saying only some flags can be bought with federal funds and then hung up officially, and the pride flag isn’t one of them. It also doesn’t prohibit personal displays, so while they can’t be on flag poles or bought with federal funds, they can still be displayed. Interestingly, the bill also bans the confederate flag. It’s still just bigotry being forced by the GOP but there’s always more context than a headline can provide.
It’s also giving 1.8 billion dollars in weapons to Israel. Fuck every single dem who voted for genocide, and the few republicans who didn’t vote for it because it was insufficiently genocidal.
This was included in a funding bill. If that wouldn’t pass the government would shut down. You can blame Republicans for those extra things added.
I’ve been hearing this excuse for like a decade now.
Shutting down the government to refuse weapon sales to Israel would be a good thing, goddammit. I’d feel that maybe there’s a shred of humanity left in those ghouls if they had.
Yeah, let’s hurt others for your own protest. Maybe you should do your own hunger strike?
People are missing the forest for the trees but you are right.
If Republicans force this through on every bill then at some point it would have to pass. You can’t just shut down the US government indefinitely in the real world.
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We’re ad-hom’ing comments based on their instance now? Cool cool cool…
Maybe the US’s adversaries could learn from this and go the opposite way to improve LGBT rights instead. Would decrease western govs’ ability to pinkwash imperialism, spread atrocity propaganda etc.
So far, the only governments I can think of that seem to have realized this and vastly improved LGBT rights accordingly have been the GDR (which would’ve likely spread to the rest of the socialist states) and Cuba.
What a waste of time. Sometimes I’m ashamed to even admit that I’m American.
Nationalists ruin nations
Hopefully they get rid of the POW/MIA Flags too.
Time to start raising the Wrath flags.
I read that as “Welsh flags” at first and thought “a little unorthodox, but ok… Let’s have some dragons up in this bitch!”
I read it as “Wraith Flags” and wondered how Colonel John Sheppard has been doing.
Ban the scary rainbows
Should note this is not permanent. It’s only for the extent of the spending bill, which is until October, and can be easily removed from the spending bills after the election, when hopefully we have a more blue congress that won’t need to make these shitty concession just to fund the damn government.
more blue
Lol
BlueAnon 👁️
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