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.

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[–] 423 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (40 children)

It must be hard to be this fragile little bitch of a bigot.

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  • [–] 129 points 5 months ago (35 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 55 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 32 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Agree.

    Rotten Shitbag could also work.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Where’s the satire in Fight Club?

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 5 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    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.)

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (15 children)

    Yes, gendered insults are much better.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    I haven't associated bitch with gender, like, ever. Language evolves over time

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not totally disagreeing, but I also can't square it with the term "asshole". What does the term for someone being mean have to do with the end of your digestive tract? Why do "cunt" and "pussy" have almost opposite meanings, and "cunt" being very similar to how we use "dick" or "asshole" to refer to a person?

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  • [+] -7 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    In what way is "little bitches" gendered?

    Wait, are you thinking I'm using the definition of "female dog"?

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Okay, what definition are you using?

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  • [–] -4 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Someone who's weak, submissive, pathetic, and blames all others for their short comings and insecurities.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    "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?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    In no way did I ever say women are weak, submissive, or pathetic. That kinda seems like you drawing your own lines.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    If you were to call a woman a bitch would it mean the same? Would you be calling her weak and submissive?

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  • [–] 179 points 5 months ago (12 children)

    And not a single person has complained about being “forced” to see all the churches he also goes past.

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  • [–] 95 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    Waiting for the precedent so the Church of Satan Satanic Temple can abuse the fuck out of it to start forcing churches into seclusion

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    So yes, but also this is slightly different than that. It's about the department itself flying the flag. Still absolutely insane, but slightly less insane than that. The end result, if this person wins, is literally no flags or any other messaging. "My religion doesn't support nationalism." This would also include extreme stances like "my religion doesn't support the periodic table" or things like that.

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  • [–] 81 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Would be fun to see this lawsuit succeeding.

    The Satanic Temple would have a field day suing everything christian by this precedent.

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  • [–] 74 points 5 months ago (10 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 61 points 5 months ago* (9 children)

    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".

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  • [–] 26 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Imagine resurrecting into a world full of people wearing crosses with you nailed to them all just acting like it's not fucked

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    The funny part is that they aren’t even historically accurate crosses. The cross was more like a capital T. The upright post was buried in the ground like a fence pole, with a square peg carved at the top. The actual cross part was just the crossbar, with a matching square hole carved in it. The crossbar was lifted up and set on top of that peg.

    The square peg likely only stuck out an inch or two from the top of the T, and that was mostly just to make it more durable, as the peg wore down with use but burying the posts was a labor intensive process. They didn’t want to bury a new post for every single crucifixion, so they made the posts reusable and just swapped out the crossbars.

    When Jesus carried his cross to Calvary, he was only carrying the top of the T. But over time, to distinguish it from the capital T, Christians started using the modern cross with the accentuated peg, and it eventually morphed into the modern cross that we all recognize today.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago

    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."

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  • [–] 62 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    I see confederate flags round here all the time and I don't feel forced to celebrate the confederacy.. idiot.

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  • [–] 55 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Christians like this are SO addicted to seeing themselves as victims.

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  • [–] 54 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    this guy does not deserve his last name

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  • [–] 42 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 40 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    How does seeing something equate to celebration, recognition, or solemnization?

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  • [–] 37 points 5 months ago

    Fucking snowflakes

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  • [–] 35 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    If this works, is it not precedent to make the same complaint every time I see a cross?

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Since they claim he's everywhere, we can demand he stops spying on us in the bathroom.

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