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Fox, OAN, NewsMax, etc. Those are gateways to the Christian Taliban... I mean ISIS. Same thing.
Y’all Qaeda is a bigger threat to the world than any Afghanis ever were.
Y'all Qaeda
That got me laughing to the point of having a coughing fit.
retards of a feather flock together
its ironic that vanilla isis is talking shit about original flavor isis, trying to imply that their shared boogie man wants anything to do with either kind of crazy religious right wingnuts
The most amazing part is that they've resolved all of the more important issues and have the time to consider what flags should be allowed to fly at government buildings.
Right? I mean how negligent would it be to prioritize passing an approved flags list while issues that affect their constituents still need attention.
Plus, notice the absolute freedom these people are enforcing. Republicans, truly the people who still take freedom and self-determination serious! Not like those Democrafts who always want to legislate everything and have rules and bans and shit! Just let people do what they personally want, the republican way.
(Can we please just shove them all into the ocean already? Nothing of any value will be lost and we also reduce the carbon footprint a little bit.)
Oh, the carbon footprint will be drastic.
I suspect those are the people who shun any climate science, and instead will do the opposite of anything told to do.
It must be great to live in a place that has so few real problems that the town can waste time with bullshit culture war distractions.
Oh I'm sure they have plenty of problems, but it's probably only minorities and poor people who experience them so who cares!
Noisy "news" like this are actually really good at hiding a lot of real problems. Especially chronic ones that are "old news".
They're just stringing together words at random at this point.
ChatGTP is more coherent.
I'd take hallucinating ai over conservative official any day. At least the AI isn't trying to fuck the children
You might have a point.
"ISIS is gay."
Proceeds to hoist a military flag
Is this town a modern warfare 2 lobby?
I hope no one emails or calls him about this issue by going to this link
https://www.enfield-ct.gov/directory.aspx?EID=699
Please please no one use *67 before dialing. Please no one go to the million or so temporary email boxes and email him. Please please don't make your voice heard and stand up for a minority being attacked in our midst. Remember to say nothing about the oppression of x unless you are a member of x. Please do not set an alarm on your phone as a reminder to call once a day. Please go gently into that good night and let the fascists win by a million cuts.
I'm doing my part!
Thank you for that. It is so important that small evil people are allowed to quitely harm the world without being called out on it.
Also no one go to his person website and do it
Religious Fascists claiming non-Fascist symbols are a gateway for other Religious Fascists.
Satire is dead!
ban all flags from flying at government buildings save for the United States, Connecticut state, and military flags
Ah yes, military flags, very neutral. It's great that conservatives are super neutral and yet they shit on people's desire to not promote war, imperialism and genocide.
But people died for those flags! /s
Pretty silly to die for a piece of cloth.
Tom Tyler, the interim town attorney, claimed at one point that if the the Pride flag was allowed to be flown, “ISIS could come in and want to display one, the IRA…basically anybody. You’d have to be content neutral and let everybody." He then went off-topic to accuse schools of trying to indoctrinate students with “transgender ideology.”
"This has nothing to do with it being a Pride flag! Now I'm going to go on a transphobic rant which, as I just said, has nothing to do with this!"
Probably should sue the town for violating 1A rights.
Right wingers love to pull that one out of their arse, would be funny to see them trying to cope with that.
Anyone that goes through that much effort to ban something that doesn’t harm them is hiding something.
We need to start bounties on this, maybe via Kickstarter. Anyone who can get pictures of Tom Tyler getting head at a truck stop glory hole wins money. Cold hard cash.
Lets all just settle on the satan flag 😁
Ugggh, so I really don't want to be on their side with this, but... I kind of agree that the only flags that should fly in government buildings is US, state, and military flags. There also shouldn't be religious wall decorations like the Ten Commandments or crosses. There shouldn't be Confederate flags. There shouldn't be state university flags. It's a government building, and it should represent everyone equally, and not promote any cause, group, or religion except explicitly what is part of the government.
I reeeeeeally don't like the reason they want to ban it, but I think it would be great for every government building to adopt those standards.
I think the government has an obligation to represent oppressed minorities, including their symbology when appropriate.There is no such thing as neutrality, and even if it wasn't for regressive reasons it would still be a regressive policy.
IMHO, the crucial difference is that the LGBTQ pride flag isn't saying the gays are the best. It's merely asking for equal treatment, for human rights. A government which does not agree with those goals, which does not work for the equal treatment and human rights of all its citizen, is being partial in precisely the way you describe.
The irony is thick.
..ISIS, which I'm not sure even exists anymore, a terrorist organization infamous for among other things murdering gay people.... Is Pro-Pride Flags?
Son, what kind of shit are you on?
Not sure how you came to this, unless you only read the title. According to the actual post content, the argument is, that if you allow one you can't discriminate and will have to allow any.
Immediately followed by a transphobic rant that I'm sure was completely unrelated.
So that is a violation of the first amendment
Not necessarily, since this is a government building it would be the government's speech, and they clearly don't want to fly it. They aren't preventing people from flying it on their personal property.
That said, there's a clear likelihood that this is purely anti-lgbtq sentiment in action.
I'm figuring out how you come with these words together. I don't know. It's a new level of intellectual gymnastics.
It's just an excuse to ban LGBTQ+ expression, that's all, and the bigots know it'll work.
It's really easy if you rtfa
Tom Tyler, the interim town attorney, claimed at one point that if the the Pride flag was allowed to be flown, “ISIS could come in and want to display one, the IRA…basically anybody. You’d have to be content neutral and let everybody."
I don't agree with him in the slightest, but it's not like he's saying that being gay makes you a terrorist or something
Does ISIS raise property value?
LOL, spit take. I appreciate you.