Department of Public Works employee Eric Batman claims that having to see a Progress Pride flag flying outside the department’s Alhambra, California, headquarters during the month of June effectively forces him to “celebrate, recognize, and solemnize conduct and actions that he views as sin” in conflict with his sincerely held Christian religious beliefs, according to a lawsuit filed in March by anti-LGBTQ+ evangelical nonprofit the Liberty Counsel.
It must be hard to be this fragile little bitch of a bigot.
Ya know…I really hate that people use the term “snowflake” to describe soft sensitive people. My logic is simple. When I grew up, I was taught that snowflakes were unique and beautiful. Individually a work of art on their own or can work together to form something greater.
I don’t want that beautiful word to describe these foul creatures.
Instead I suggest they are called “little bitches”. Use that term instead of snowflakes from now on.
Hey now, us bitches work hard! This pathetic human being that can’t look at a rainbow flag without feeling shame, regret, and evil, he needs therapy.
Therapy and a long time spent in exile away from society.
Besides, where would you be without bitches and their bitchcraft? Absolutely maidenless, that’s where.
These fuckin maidenless scoundrels!
Agree.
Rotten Shitbag could also work.
Hey, rotten shitbags probably melt eventually too
Jet fuel melts rotten shitbags!
Shitbags sound useful for certain scenarios.
Why not just rotten turd?
“We Shitbags are a proud people!”
Yes, gendered insults are much better.
I haven’t associated bitch with gender, like, ever. Language evolves over time
So you don’t think that the reason “bitch” is used to insult a man as being weak has anything to do with the fact that it’s a feminine slur?
Nope.
What does it mean to you?
That guy from the story
In what way is “little bitches” gendered?
Wait, are you thinking I’m using the definition of “female dog”?
Okay, what definition are you using?
Someone who’s weak, submissive, pathetic, and blames all others for their short comings and insecurities.
“Weak, submissive, pathetic” like the traditional misogynistic view of women? The one that gets applied to men to suggest they are being feminine as an insult?
In no way did I ever say women are weak, submissive, or pathetic. That kinda seems like you drawing your own lines.
I’m pretty sure people started calling conservatives snowflakes when conservatives used it to bitch about participation trophies and that kinda stuff. So it’s use it’s use is a critique of conservatives using it for absurd things when they themselves are so sensitive to a lot of things.
Oh, yeah, I get the orgin. I still don’t like it.
Pendejos in Spanish
Fixed it, just for you
little bitch of a bigot
That’s got a ring to it! It’s fun to say, and I hope one day I get to use that to insult someone withthat phrase.
We’ve done good work here today!
Shitflakes, Bo Banders
It’s somewhat apt though, given that they got the term from Fight Club - Just more proof that they wouldn’t understand satire even if it cockslapped them in the face.
Where’s the satire in Fight Club?
Tylee Durden is am allegory for toxic masculinity. He talks a big game about individuality and self-determination, but Project Mayhem is even more strictly conformist and anti-individualistic than the corporate culture it’s rebelling against.
People like Andrew Tate watch the movie and think Tyler Durden is an example to be followed but they don’t even take on his critique of capitalism.
Like. In his speech at the start, about how your possessions own you, he’s not wrong about society. But instead of offering a real solution, all he does is gather men with social issues into a rage-fuelled terrorist cult which he can’t even control. Much like the One Ring uses good intentions to corrupt its wearer to evil, so Tyler Durden uses genuine feelings of dissatisfaction and disaffection men feel in the late 20th century to pointlessly destructive aims, ultimately reproducing the very power structures they claim to fight against.
In the early years of the alt-right and 4chan/b, the derisive use of snowflake was a counter to the notion that everyone is special, noting that while snowflakes are unique and beautiful, they’re also superfluously abundant.
It smacks of social Darwinism, the notion that there’s too many people and fair treatment of them all is unaffordable, which is only the case when a few hold an extremely disproportionate amount of wealth and power.
(As an aside, the extreme wealth/power disparity that we see today is a symptom of the decay of a society that precedes decline and collapse, at least as we’ve seen in history. Before the US, an embarrassment of riches was exactly that. In the states, since the rise of the gold rush and the railroad barons, extreme wealth in the US has become an object of admiration and aspiration. The American dream is to join the billionaire class, no matter how rarely it actually happens.)
I like “suppurating assholes” for this reason.
Calling them “snowflakes” is just to point out their hypocrisy.
What’s hard is living in a country that seems to care more about this snowflake bullshit than health care and wages.
Fragile + Bigot… There’s something there
Biggile?
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And not a single person has complained about being “forced” to see all the churches he also goes past.
Waiting for the precedent so the
Church of SatanSatanic Temple can abuse the fuck out of it to start forcing churches into seclusionThat’s the satanic temple, but i take your point
oops, you’re right. fixed!
I have complained about that. I just didn’t file a lawsuit…
Welp, now you have your
missionpurpose in life.
This is one of those rare paradox for me. I truly hate religion. Yet, I hold lots of respect and even amazement at some of the religious architecture.
It’s truly amazing what people can achieve when they want to. Too bad it’s done in service of bigoted ignorance.
Whenever I see incredible religious structures, the emotion after amazement is sadness, because what if all that effort were put toward something productive?
Yup, could help so many with the billions poured into religious facilities.
True. Hard to calculate the $$ spent and hours of “volunteer” (slave?) labor.
I complain about that. Often.
Would be fun to see this lawsuit succeeding.
The Satanic Temple would have a field day suing everything christian by this precedent.
I also think the Progress Pride Flag represents conduct and actions I view as sin. Not like, gender/sexual sin. Design sin.
The rainbow flag was already perfect. The rainbow flag to me says “human behavior exists on a spectrum, and everyone matters”. It’s beautiful, elegant. The stripes don’t represent distinct groups, though sinners (the flag redesigners, not LGBTQ+ people) have tried. The flag itself represents harmony in diversity. You can’t get better than that, no notes.
The Progress flag is meddling with a perfect formula. It takes a perfect symbol to celebrate diversity itself and plasters it with footnotes. By highlighting specific groups that were included by the rainbow in the first place, it just opens the door to more and more complex revisions to include more and more distinct groups. It turns a poignant symbol of broad inclusiveness into a weird patchwork of granular inclusiveness. That would seem like hyperbole if the pictured flag wasn’t already the intersex-inclusive revision.
It’s just sloppy vexillology. The rainbow flag is awesome. Why are we fucking with it?
That’s basically my problem with the term “LGBT(Q(IA(+)))” but as a basically straight white dude my input has very little weight. I think SAGA is cleaner (Sexuality And Gender Acceptance/Alliance), covers all the bases while being a pronounceable word with a poetic meaning. “Queer” works too but has too much baggage in some regions.
I’m partial to GRSM (Gender, Romantic, and Sexual Minorities).
Hear hear. I refuse to use it for this exact reason. The rainbow flag is such a strong symbol!
I’m also really annoyed by it and I would love to use the old one, but around here trans exclusive LGB groups started using it… Soooo, kinda burned for me unfortunately.
Don’t want to tell you to not use it btw! Just be aware that it could mean something different for certain groups of people.
I’d explain it includes them too. If they can’t accept that it really isn’t my problem.
Oh that’s gotta piss Gilbert Baker off
Eisenmann was a sinner too.
To avoid confusion with the Cusco flag? I jest, of course. Cusco changed its flag in 2021 by adding a golden sun in the middle. Probably to differentiate it from the pride flag.
It’s very simple. We’ll get rid of the pride flags as soon as they get rid of all the crosses. Fair is fair, after all.
The fucking crosses, man.
You think Jesus ever would want to see another cross again?
Dude wouldn’t be able to take Public Transit in Boston.
If Jesus came back he probably wouldn’t even use the letter “t”.
Imagine resurrecting into a world full of people wearing crosses with you nailed to them all just acting like it’s not fucked
Then you go to church and see them eat your flesh and blood.
Cannibal death cults man, they be fucked.
To be fair, that one he said to do
thats why theres the angels to clear everything out when the time comes.
Jesus talkking to Peter after the rapture: “Yeah, got all of them, except those antichristians who celebrate my death with crosses. No way I’m bring those sick weirdos up here.”
That brings a whole new dimension to the T, but you know what, after being subjected to the green line more than a few times it entirely makes sense.
I see confederate flags round here all the time and I don’t feel forced to celebrate the confederacy… idiot.
It’s important to see both sides of any argument. The winning side, and the losing side.
Well … you don’t see Nazi flags in Germany today but you can see them in USA. “Freedom to be idiot” is a great thing.
Religion has no more validity than any other work of fiction or any other fandom. There, I fucking said what we are all thinking.
Next up, someone suing because someone is displaying merch from a rivaling sports team
I’ve got an NCR flag in front of my house. It would actually be hilarious if some dude in Roman legion garb came to my house and demanded I take it down.
NCR?
New California Republic. It’s from the fallout games. As is their rivals, Caesars legion.
You do not fly Ravens gear in Cleveland. You’re likely to get shot.
We also don’t like Pittsburgh, but we at least respect their right to exist.
this guy does not deserve his last name
He’s the opposite of Batman
Manbat?
Oppressing people for money sounds a lot like Batman. I guess he’s not beating up the people he steals from yet.
Can I sue for Christmas?
Santa died on the cross for your sins
Santa was beat to death at a Walmart Black Friday sale trying to grab a 38" flatscreen.
Christians like this are SO addicted to seeing themselves as victims.
There is a certain strain of Christianity that must see itself as the underdog in a cosmic war of good and evil. Everything fits into that overarching narrative.
having to see a Progress Pride flag … forces him to “celebrate, recognize, and solemnize conduct and actions that he views as sin”
If it only was that easy to get people to celebrate, recognize, and solemnize gay sex, world would be a better place no doubt.
Maybe this guy really likes flags
How does seeing something equate to celebration, recognition, or solemnization?
Oh no, I just witnesses a train wreck. Now I have to go repent for celebrating all those deaths /s
Sounds like he is very, VERY gay.
That has to be it, right?
If seeing a piece of cloth is so triggering, then maybe that’s an indicator of a much more deep-rooted problem.
The “Christian men” who protest gay rights the loudest are usually the ones who wind up in the headlines when they get caught soliciting male prostitutes at rest areas.
Fucking snowflakes
If this works, is it not precedent to make the same complaint every time I see a cross?
Or see “god” anywhere.
Since they claim he’s everywhere, we can demand he stops spying on us in the bathroom.
Maybe. Sometimes different rules apply to government (public) property vs private.
