The Crosswalk Will Be Mined To Protect It From Dirty Shoes
In somewhat-surreal-modernity news:
The release continued: “Officers observed widespread damage as black scuff marks consistent with scooter wheels were observed across the entirety of the mural… Attached to the release were two photos demonstrating the extent of the damage, both of which showed faint black marks on the street painting consistent with thin tire marks.
Sensitive readers may wish to look away now:
Traumatic scenes of the desecration taking place can be found below:
A group of five to six kids just starting doing donuts and creating skid marks on the Pride Mural. Right in front of me as we’re reporting on three people getting arrested for doing the same thing last night.@KHQLocalNews pic.twitter.com/FMXGAg77fx
— Adam Schwager (@schwagerTV) June 6, 2024
The situation is of course terribly fraught and further complications have been uncovered by our tireless media professionals:
After allegedly causing “widespread damage” – again, see photo, above – three suspects have been arrested and charged with first-degree malicious mischief, a class-B felony:
Clearly, feelings run high.
“At a time when our teams at Lime are beginning pride celebrations around the globe, it is disturbing to see the hate taking place in Spokane,” he added. “We will not let the hateful few spoil the joy of Pride Month in Spokane, and are grateful for those working to make Spokane more welcoming for all.”
Though it occurs to me that the pretentious weeping currently underway could have been avoided by not painting one’s weird religious symbols on the chuffing road at a busy intersection. As if that were a perfectly normal thing to do, and in no way a potential irritant or an invitation to mischief.
And then, inevitably, the sly conflation:
At which point, readers may wonder whether the children’s scootering, and the wider disaffection for the increasingly cluttered and kaleidoscopic Pride flag, may have less to do with “homophobia,” as claimed, and rather more to do with a symbol that is now associated with creepy, compelled unrealism, fantasy pronouns, and the steering of children towards experimental drugging and surgical mutilation. The kinds of things that many people, including many gay people, might find a little contentious, or alienating, or morally repugnant.
That the repeatedly ‘enhanced’ Pride flag now represents a range of things to which a great many people, including gay people, might conceivably take exception – or find obnoxious, indeed degenerate – is apparently unthinkable. Or at least unsayable. And so, with the deploying of the word “homophobia,” gay people are being used as a rhetorical shield against objections to, for instance, pornography in schools, the ideological grooming and sexualisation of children, and cross-dressing men in women’s intimate spaces.
However, pretentious howling is very much in fashion, and so,
I’m guessing the wear and tear caused by normal foot traffic will be monitored closely. Dog walkers will doubtless be urged to avoid the sacred space at all costs, lest the unthinkable occur.
Heavens, three buttons. I wonder what they do.
“Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.”
No doubt these same people would be upset at any similar treatment of the American flag were it painted on the ground.
IIRC, when someone painted MAGA on a street in 2020, it was vandalism straight up. Just sayin.
Still, that thread did have this, which falls in the definitely better category.
That video never gets old.
I note that burning the flag of this country is protected as speech. Compared to the present says that the powers that be consider the symbol of mental illness a greater symbol that that of our country.
No doubt these same people would be upset at any similar treatment of the American flag were it painted on the ground.
Was it the Israeli or American (or both) flags that were painted on the ground somewhere unhappy Muhammadans congregated, and if I recall correctly said unhappy Muhammadans trod on said painted surfaces (an insult in Muhammadan) as protest for being oppressed or something, and were lauded by these same types of people for doing so. Only rainbow flags are sacred symbols to these people. And Korans, because they like their heads to stay on their shoulders,
Both. At least according to one video I saw a few years ago. It was supposedly from Iran but as a form of anti-mullah counter-protest students were walking around the flags, refusing to step on them. Though everything is fake today and Iran is still a sh*thole so, who knows?
Queer supremacy
This is the part that I don’t understand at all. I know cops have to take orders from higher-ups, but seriously? Did they go through cop school and all that training to bust kids on scooters for lousing up some street paint?
Are they really that shackled by captured command structures? And if so, you almost have to admire the conspirators for making sure the police forces were on their side before unleashing the kraken.
Laughed. Not sorry.
As you can probably imagine, I’m not a fan of vandalism, whether it involves accelerant, or just the “vile act” of trundling about on a scooter. But the vigour with which some sins, even minor ones, are punished, as opposed to other, more serious transgressions, is sometimes hard to miss. And, I think, telling.
And again, the possibility that the Pride symbol may have acquired connotations that some people find disagreeable with good cause – say, the elevation of tiresome kinks to the status of unassailable “identities” – never enters the discussion. It’s apparently An Unthinkable Thing. We’re evidently not supposed to think of Pride, or anything bundled with it, as in any way contentious, or incongruous, or open for debate.
Which strikes me as rather more significant than a few scooter skid marks on a crossing.
Somewhat related: With regard to the left’s weaponization of the law to make war on conservatives, legal scholar John Yoo has, reportedly, said that it is now necessary for the right to do to the left what the left has been doing to the right, because only this sort of tit-for-tat will discourage the left from making lawfare a permanent part of its toolkit.
Indeed. The whole rainbow pride activism thing didn’t start to annoy me until people started shoving it in my face. Prior to that someone’s sexual orientation didn’t much interest or worry me. But then people started telling me I must publicly express approval of every kink imaginable, and my thinking began to change in ways they would have disliked.
But the vigour with which some sins, even minor ones, are punished, as opposed to other, more serious transgressions, is sometimes hard to miss.
The mistake the kids made was not kidnapping and killing an old lady while scooting.
Footnote of note.
It’s easier to bust kids on scooters than the guy jumped up on the drug du jour with a knife. Less chance of ending up on TikTok too.
The we-must-be-betters have been stymieing the punch-back-twice-as-hards for ages.
Feel free to nag me about finding a link. I keep meaning to do so, but, well, you know.
Bastards!!!
This is such a hyperaggressive policy. One can ignore flags. One cannot ignore the crosswalk at an intersection. It’s the same with pronouns. Forcing people to bow and scrape to our betters upon pain of incarceration or penury.
Indeed. My cable TV provider removed half the good channels from my “basic” package in an attempt to coerce me into paying even more for a premium package. Eff them; my library has lots of DVD’s of old movies.
😧
A flag painted on a road is a dare.
Are they really that shackled by captured command structures?
The police are not on your side, and haven’t been for quite some time. I haven’t got it to hand, but there’s video of Yvette Felarca repeatedly pummelling a counter-protestor in front of a line of riot cops who do nothing, while the counter-protestor repeatedly calls them out on their inaction in the face of assault and battery happening right in front of them.
I was at this meeting, although inside by the time this happened. There tons of police in attendance – 60 feet away, standing around and doing nothing. Bernier had to be rushed inside the venue surrounded by bodyguards to prevent him being swarmed by the crowd.
They’re Not. On. Your. Side.
only this sort of tit-for-tat will discourage the left from making lawfare a permanent part of its toolkit
It’s called the Prisoner’s Dilemma, and as aelfheld pointed out, most of the “right” isn’t on your side either.
Bezmenov’s demoralization is complete. All that remains is running out the clock to the inevitable civil war and invasion.
“He dindu nuffin! Why dey hafta kill him?” Dead punk’s parents sue racist po-leece for cruelly shooting their son when he merely shot a security guard after frightening bar staff and stealing liquor.
Not entirely unrelated, some flag priorities.
Pride Month.
Memorial Day.
Discuss.
A vanishingly small fraction of the liberals I know honor Memorial Day, which is one of many clues that that Memorial Day is a day too long for them.
It used to be that the flag would fly at half-staff on Memorial Day until noon, then be raised to full-staff. Does anyone still do that?
Exactly. It’s a swarming attack.
I am darkly amused at how his parents said he “did not pose a threat to anyone.”
That is the perpetual complaint of the dindu nuffin class.
Not entirely unfair.