• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPM
          371·
          3 months ago

          A “come and take it” bumper sticker next to one of those all religions “coexist” bumper stickers. A Christian fish and a pentagram.

          • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
            17·
            3 months ago

            Lol perfect. This is making me think of those fridge magnets you can rearrange to say different things, but for cars.

          • Maeve@kbin.earth
            54·
            3 months ago

            There’s no reason Christianity can’t be compatible with any other religion, including pagan. And really no reason Judaism can’t, either, considering yhwh is a sumarían war god.

            I recently accompanied a neighbor to a neighborhood event at a local church. It was kind of neat because when a lady kept mentioning “the Lord” my mind kept dubbing in “Baal.”

            “What has been seen can not be unseen,” apparently including in the mind’s eye. Also, read as much of the Ethiopian Bible as you can, I can totally see a really chill RPG based on it.

            • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
              21·
              3 months ago

              We look through the world through windows on which have been drawn grids (concepts). Different philosophies use different grids. A culture is a group of people with rather similar grids. Through a window we view chaos, and relate it to the points on our grid, and thereby understand it. The ORDER is in the GRID. That is the Aneristic Principle.

              Western philosophy is traditionally concerned with contrasting one grid with another grid, and amending grids in hopes of finding a perfect one that will account for all reality and will, hence, (say unenlightened westerners) be True. This is illusory; it is what we Erisians call the ANERISTIC ILLUSION. Some grids can be more useful than others, some more beautiful than others, some more pleasant than others, etc., but none can be more True than any other.

  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    621·
    3 months ago

    Came across a truck in a southern town covered in stickers of anime traps (some were borderline hentai), gay pride stickers, and a whole lot of gun stickers. They had a bumper sticker that said something like “the only thing straight about me is my shooting”.

    • Infynis@midwest.socialEnglish
      27·
      3 months ago

      If anyone deserves the right to bare arms, it’s femboys. Not everyone looks good in dresses with sleeves!

    • FinishingDutch@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 months ago

      Back in the Trump days I saw a documentary on YouTube about the rise in LGBTQ+ gun culture.

      Basically, most of the interviewed folks reasoned: I’d rather not need or use a gun, but the people who want me dead all have them, so I want to protect myself. Obviously, there’s also just people in that community who enjoy guns regardless. Both are perfectly valid reasons.

  • paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    56·
    3 months ago

    They support pride in all of its various forms, whether white pride or gay pride.

  • Godric@lemmy.world
    41·
    3 months ago

    I have someone near my home who flies those exact same flags, so it made me think. My state bled for the Union, so it’s not a “southern pride” flag.

    I came to the conclusion American Pride, Gay Pride, And White Pride aren’t exclusive XD

    You can be love America, be gay, and hate minorities all at the same time, what a country

      • Finadil@lemmy.world
        6·
        3 months ago

        Bottom of their sign says: “SpongeBob SquarePants fan club meetings in Tyron’s mom’s basement. Every Wednesday at 7:30PM”

        • masinko@lemmy.world
          2·
          3 months ago

          At further inspection they’re also wearing Spongebob lapel pins.

          These still don’t change the fact that I am more confused by that than anything else.

  • Mark@lemmy.caEnglish
    33·
    3 months ago

    If you use Tumblr to get pictures of handsome working men / military men / etc, you see a lot of this crap coming from the same accounts sharing hot dudes. Gay men decrying “wokeism” and hating on trans people and immigrants.

    Being gay unfortunately does not correllate with intelligence.

    • Psythik@lemmy.world
      131·
      3 months ago

      Yeah no kidding, otherwise Log Cabin Republicans wouldn’t exist. I mean why else would an LGBT+ person vote Republican unless they’re just plain stupid?

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPM
      23·
      3 months ago

      I know, but it’s like… how do you hold those three things as values dear enough to you to wave flags from the back of your truck and not see the dissonance.

      It’s like there’s a town near me and there’s one house that has a big Trump/Vance flag and two Trump/Vance banners on the fence in front of their porch.

      And a “proud union member” sign in their yard.

      Makes no fucking sense.

      • WaxiestSteam69@lemmy.world
        13·
        3 months ago

        Very few people can recognize that level of dissonance. They have twisted stuff in their minds so long it’s impossible to see it.

      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        i still think we should start satirizing flags, and making nonsense flags that don’t actually exist, but appear to exist, not unlike e pluribus anus, although that applies to the show community, so it doesn’t count.

        There’s got to be all kinds of stupid shit we can think up.

      • Chapelgentry@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        That’s Indiana for you. NWI is littered with that and some of the people I work with are in a union and parrot Fox News. Wildest shit I’ve ever seen.