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McKittyNuts
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Gruesslibaer
albester
As long as it pisses off the people who are pissed off by rainbow logos, I'm fine with it.
TiffanyKorta
Can we not think of something a little more clever than the same image every single bloody year?
Yes, we know corporations are being performative and don't care beyond the pink dollar. But a) It's at least making things more mainstream and accepted, 2) You don't need to give them your money, just enjoy Pride and ignore their obvious efforts.
Tarmaccian
On the other hand, there’s companies like my employer, that has year-round D&I events and actually-inclusive policies… but just keep quiet about it until the marketing drones pull out the rainbow paint once each year.
cousteau
Well, I guess I'll stay away from those corporations.
undercoverles
The only company that truly gets a pass from me on this is Subaru. They embraced the LBGTQ+ community back in the 90s, and have not budged on it. Yeah it originally started as marketing, damn clever marketing, after they realized their main consumers were lesbians, but they didn't have to stick with it, hell they already were selling cars to that demographic fairly strongly.
LeMegachonk
Midgarmerc
Vault-Tec absolutely made a Vault that exclusively admitted gay couples to see how they'd handle the need to reproduce
badgateway502
Soylent Corporation is accepting of all people year-round.
slymore
Hahaha, nice. The Soylent Corp, "we're here for the people".
NeverDownvoteMelBrooks
You know damn well MOM doesn't pander, you dumb bastard!
Elnauriel
*triple slap!*
Euchre
What about the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation?
ProtagonistofReality
Tell it to their complaints department.
ravensdaemon
Those people are too stupid to get the joke.
Elnauriel
I'm not surprised InGen supports LGBT+ rights.
They were the first company to make trans dinosaurs! =p
Midgarmerc
arumunus
Pride was initially ruined for me after having the epiphany that corporations didn't want gay people, they wanted gay people money.
Then I learned some history on Pride, and while it's still a kind of "fuck them corporations," we've definitely come a long way as a society to turn a rebellious act of demanding the right to exist- into a celebration of our existence.
I sincerely hope it continues to be the latter.
cjandstuff
It didn't click for me that this was a thing until, I was living in Washington State and walking into a Chase bank. Pride flags everywhere. Went back to my home state a couple of weeks later (still during Pride month), not one single tiny rainbow anywhere.
BuckIndy
No YOYODYNE?!?
Bhockzer
They’re a growing excited company!
masheenest
No vault-tec either?!
CarlBassett
No Blue Sun?
MightyIink
It's that time of year when companies only show their pride in countries where it is profitable.
chrisjfinlay
Also in countries where supporting LGTBQ+ won’t get their staff literally gruesomely murdered.
Yes you have a point about virtue signaling for profit but please don’t forget that there are many places in the world where showing support is a death sentence. And it’s unfair to demand companies throw their employees to the hateful fanatics who will gladly carry out that sentence with no repercussions.
chewybrian
I'm disappointed in Vandalay Industries for not joining in
Anxietyofthesocial
Isn't Florida one of the states that made it pretty much legal to drive your vehicle into a group of protesters? Yup. The Anti-Protest Law. https://www.vice.com/en/article/88n95a/florida-anti-rioting-law-will-make-it-much-easier-to-run-over-protesters-with-cars
I wonder what would happen if this was used against them. Drive into a crowd of Desatan supporters.
pleaseconsiderthatImightbejoking
they'd have to run into the street and block you in for the law to take effect
Anxietyofthesocial
Put some Trump Sucks or DeSantis as Satan flags on your vehicle and your good to go
WhichOneIsPink25
chrisjfinlay
Gee I wonder if the violent hated for LGTBQ people that pervades the Middle East and would risk employees of these companies being murdered if they showed support might be a reason…
WhichOneIsPink25
Could be. Or it could be capitalism at it's finest 🤷
skapanda616
HoneyBunchesOfStoats
my god, this is perfect. I'm going to be using this all pride month long, thank you
skapanda616
/gallery/hqDsrFt
Xenarion
Thanks, I was looking for that one
TI99Kitty
Awwww... No Vault-Tec? Why, not evil enough?
pleaseconsiderthatImightbejoking
the bombs dropped in october
imgurnaknockuout
You don't see this kinda woke pandering from Roxxon or Vault-Tec, just saying /s
RyanH42
Oh, Roxxon would 100% do this.
MasterMookie
I'm actually for SCP even if they treat death row inmates very inhumanely. They try to understand and protect your average citizen from [REDACTED] and things like [REDACTED].
ImGoingToGoFallAsleepOnABench
That, and the Foundation is actually pretty decent when it comes to respecting LGBTQ+ folks and treating them with dignity.
MasterMookie
I believe I read some lore where they found an artifact that switched a person's biological sex. It was determined "safe" by all scientists and all personnel with enough clearance could use it making some trans people working for SCP really really happy.
stoic000
I am quite sure SCP has thar year round
MichaelLC
Oh no, you've been in Room [REDACTED], haven't you? I'm so, so sorry.
BosunMark
VonSnootingham
Well, they ARE all dead.
noWhiteHorseHereJustBatturuPrinsu
You haven't seen the Lost: Epilogue - The New Man in Charge?
VonSnootingham
Yes. Ben tells the last two out-of-the-loop dipshits that the Dharma Initiative hasn't existed in twenty years.
tombeithemist
Not officially dead. Just lost.
HeresYourSauce
It's progress. I remember when most companies wouldn't dare to associate with anything remotely gay. They're still companies, they're not good, but even though changing your logo is such I tiny thing I do appreciate it.
unluckyandbored
But they only do it where they consider it safe to do so. Like this does not happen in the Middle East, because being gay is literally a crime there.
Justanotherbloodyacctname
It'll last precisely as long as they think they can glom some profit out of it and not a picosecond longer. The only useful thing about it is as a vague weathervane for the balance of public pressures.
Xenarion
wadatahmydamie
Target cut it short last year because pedophiles and Nazis complained
rshini
and I think employees were actually assaulted by the lunatics
IainG101
I'll take them not making a rainbow logo but also not funding anti-LGBTQ+ politicians over rainbowing their logo and pouring millions of dollars into people trying to destroy LGBTQ+ rights.
TheGreatAtomsk
it's not progress, it's profit and they switch as soon as they see their bottom line at risk because of customer outcry.
KinetoPlay
But that is progress. It's showing that now, the money is in showing acceptance.
They're saying "we'll make more money pandering to the LGBTQIA+ community than we'll lose by upsetting the "Right".
Eiladar
Yeah; then you had companies like Subaru who lowkey supported/marketed to queer folk for years, but never openly. Instead their ads featured small details that most folks never picked up on: note the license plate on the right car. https://priceonomics.com/how-an-ad-campaign-made-lesbians-fall-in-love-with/
abcdefg912
It's not progress, it's just purely performative grandstanding to farm gay people for revenue.
Xenarion
It's a sign that society is progressing if they judge it worth it.
McKittyNuts
Nah I don't like our flag being used for corporate whitewashing/targeted advertising
PourMeAPuppersPlease
Tough, everyone gets advertised at. Companies are run to try and compete for our money, regardless of preference. If you don't like, don't buy their goods/services
HeresYourSauce
They'll stop, once we've won, but until then I enjoy seeing bigots pissed off at the mere sight of it.
blainetog
It's not a good thing in and of itself, but it's a good sign that the queer community is seen as worth advertising to rather than running from. Everyone else gets pandered to, after all.
qtRaven
NacLac
@TotallyNotGLaDOS I didn't know you were so socially conscious!
TotallyNotGLaDOS
Xenarion
I prefer this version
PineappleLoopsBroether
There’ll be cake …
TotallyNotGLaDOS
And grief counseling
HardTimeKillinFoulNews
Liar
lifeisadadjoke
I have seen people as recently as last week lose their shit over this image. When explained, I've heard "Well, then I'm not watching those shows or playing those games then...". Yep, and we're not talking Southern US either...
Bluedinosaur
Reminds me of how there's a new conservative adult animated show called Mr Birchum. There is this gay character, explicitly written to make fun of gay people (not support them), and there's this video of someone filming their angry mother refusing to watch the show, because there's a gay person in it. Probably because it looks like a Family Guy knockoff and they hate those too.
Heavenissize17socks
That's when you let them know that they've self -identified as BRH (bigot, racist and homophobe) with no sense of humor or sense because they were so busy being triggered by the sign they did not actually -read- the sign. (These are fictional company logos)
McKittyNuts
😝😝😝
tarquinious
PickleRiiiiiiiiiiiiick
We really just need to unplug the bigots. And not plug them back in.
Anxietyofthesocial
And racists. And White Nationalists. And White Supremacists. And wannabe Dictators. And book banners. And Domestic Terrorists. And the list probably goes on
PickleRiiiiiiiiiiiiick
The list is sadly massive.
Euchre
That's actually what people thought they were going to do on January 6th. We DON'T want to shut it all down and start over, we have a Constitution that is flexible through a defined and carefully operated process for a reason. What needs turned off is the GOP/MAGA, and LEFT off.
StellarJay77
There is no hate quite like Christian love.
NotSomoneElse68
They weren't playing or watching those anyway.
ScootinNtootin
I love in Florida and when you're in big cities like Tampa, Orlando or Miami you'd be surprised how "liberal" we are but as soon as you leave the city limits you can almost hear the banjos start playing. This place makes no sense to me.
poopfromabove
In a lot of ways Chicago is similar once you get past it's suburbs.
Billis75
Just like Nebraska. Omaha has its own electoral vote. As soon as people have to live together, it's almost as if they can't vote like assholes anymore.
7thor8thcaw
Entire counties like Polk, banjo it up real good.
lifeisadadjoke
Yep - big difference between Kissimmee and say, Sanford or even Lake Mary, let alone going east from there.
cuddleskunk
I'm in Winter Haven...It seems to be a flip-a-coin place. Either you meet someone who doesn't care one way or the other, a reasonable liberal, or a MAGAt you'd swear has his sister's name tatooed on his dick
Unclescam
I see the guys I work with...one is a shrodingers douchebag podcast loving pseudo intellectual. Another is a gun nut who claims he wouldn't have had the discipline to be in the military.
thedarkcanuck
AKA the military didn't want him
Unclescam
Possible. He's new to us and,despite his never shutting up, that hasn't been said.
beeeeeeerkaaaaa
It makes no sense to anyone. Read some Karl Hiaasen. A good reflection of florida in reality.
iguessihaveto
I enjoy his books so much. Like Dave Barry if Dave Barry wrote comedic ecoterrorism.
Illithidbane
Not valid in Florida.
JacenHorn
That's a good thing. Celebrate the _country_ you're in.
PrincessDaystar
Maybe when it stops being such a pos towards minorities, and progresses. As is theres not much to celebrate here.
Shaodyn
And by "free", they mean free to do what you're told.
Illithidbane
There are only two sides to everything: the correct way and someone just being political. You can be white or political, straight or political, cisgendered or political, christian or political. They just "don't want to be political" about it because their in-group is the default and any discussion might erode that inherent bias.
Shaodyn
They discourage all forms of discussion because they know their beliefs are fragile. Don't ask questions, just do what you're told.
MagnorCriol
"Party of small government," right?
Illithidbane
Small government to help you, large government to hurt you.
heartlessninja6
The “Shoot at real rainbows to keep the Gay away” state.
OceanCitySoul
The only freedom you have in Florida is discrimination against others.
TheHolyFatman
*not valid in Orlando (this is me flying into Orlando last summer 🤣🤣)
CountDookie23
I feel like florida is just trump and the rnc's "testing grounds" of what will eventually be tolerated by the general public if they ever actually gain their fascist upper hand
Djones06236
"Free", but they'll ban tons of book.
VindictiveBathToaster
I imagine that Ron Dasanis is the Nazi in this video. (Not a big stretch of the imagination)
cuttlefishsticks
So... all rainbows all the time from Sep 3rd to May 26th, right?
OtterlyMagnificent
Every flag everywhere
00LimaRomeo
What a miserable pack of pricks.
PTNLemay
Textbook double speak
algavinn
Id love to light up the bridges in red white and blue to say Fuck Desantis, totalitarian fuckwad
mageninja
"Freest"
phiemale
Isn’t white TECHNICALLY all colours?
100KushUps
"I swear they're all RGB bulbs showing white. They're just broken ever so slightly in a different way. Oh. Yeah, I guess that DOES make it look like a rainbow. Weird."
thedarkcanuck
There's a house I drive past every day with one flag that says "liberty" above an anti-gay flag. Where do you even start with that?
Illithidbane
"Freedom for me, tyranny for everyone else" seems to be a rallying cry for the worst people
JohnnyGoatphucker
This HAS to be satire.
thundermoe79
Sooooo! Red white and blue together means freedom! Annnnnd France is?
Deeldee
Desantissess fat mouth
Fishy820
Hard to believe not that long ago Orlando shooting at a gay club and everyone was supporting pride day
OtterlyMagnificent
The problem, right now, is that Floridians are in general good people who are alright with LGBTQ+ people existing. But they're led by a cult who has spent decades and multiple billions designing voting regions to carefully cultivate their election results. And that's how DeSantis is still walking around free instead of being in jail for human rights violations.
cousteau
Does Ron DeSantis know what "irony" is?
DoctorBaby
"Irony" is the flavor of his soul. barf
DoctorBaby
Ooo ooo! I can do better!! "He bloody doesn't."
Shaodyn
He doesn't know what a lot of things are.
Illithidbane
He knows. He's just trying to pander to the angriest, most atavistic Red Hat voting bloc in hopes of being the next Trump.
eromitlab
Sadly, he's already tried and failed at that. Now he's trying to rebuild his asshole point balance after blowing it all on Casey flying first class.
cousteau
OK, I have a "brilliant" idea. Make the "white" part actually red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple flashing sequentially at about camera shutter speed. Looks white to the naked eye, but photo cameras will capture it like a rainbow flag.
thetonestarr
The problem with that is that lights to flash that fast are expensive.
cousteau
Projector?
lifeisadadjoke
Where there's a will, there's a way. I love this sort of thinking!
NickNackGus
Could also use some creative liberties. The trans pride flag can be made with white, blue, and "lightish red".
iwenttousersubandalligotwasthislousyusername
Now that's thinking like Donut!
dohcohv
Here's some red, white and blue to use.
JAVSmasher
We stand for this flag o7
mikeatike
dohcohv
"Free" and not allowed to use most colors, the irony is lost on them.
ScootinNtootin
We're actually more than half democrats. It's just re-distracting that forces the state to barely go red every election. But sure, lump all 19 million people into one idiot mess. That's not discrimination in itself at all.
dohcohv
You say that, but your state races with senators and Governor all went Republican, districts don't have anything to do with those.
ScootinNtootin
The districts are restructured every 2 years. But sure, keep defending your view of an entire population based on where they live. You're more of a maga POS than you think.
dohcohv
Districts have absolutely nothing to do with Senate or governor elections, they only matter in the house of representatives. The claim was that there are more democrats than republicans, but the voting history says otherwise. Both senators and the governor are republican. Either there are more republicans than democrats, or the democrats don't vote.
malachilenomade
Do you actually think they know what the word 'irony' means? They sure as hell don't know what 'hypocrisy' means....
lifeisadadjoke
Cognitive Dissonance is the superpower of the MAGAts
CyborgScribe
More the ability to not experience it, really.
porfyria
Orwellian double speak from the Ministry of Truth.
EdmundandHarald365
It's not. They want ultimate control and minimal freedom. They just pay lip service to what they know brainless voters will love. Twas ever thus with the far right.
commentsbadcomments
They are free to obey or face the state gestapo force.
vu1f
You could even say they are generous, since you are still free to leave...for now...
echoawoo
The state has had a concerted political target campaign going on since 2014 that didn't get a peep out of the news networks. The state of Florida arrests democrats at a rate 16x higher than conservatives. Conservatives have almost entirely violent crimes. Democrats mostly have drug crimes. Somehow the cons always seem get to keep their rights.
insanitycontinuum
It's not lost to them, to them 1984 is a textbook
malachilenomade
TheMightyMollusk
"In on honor of Freedom Summer, fuck your freedoms."
TheWombatStrikesAgain
It's always their freedom, never yours. They have buzzwords, but no principles.
Someshithead241
Whenever they use free or freedom, it just means "the level of which it is up it's own ass about how much it wants over the flag and supposed greatness of the country."
Someshithead241
Seriously tho, I've seen some serious patriotism, but America outdoes it all with how much you guys obsess over and worship that stupid fucking cloth.
kmikl
Republicans have zero self awareness or capacity of self-reflection.
Illithidbane
This extends to having zero media literacy, too. They thought Homelander was a good guy! It's a total lack of comprehension of gray areas or context. Anyone in the in-group is good, anyone in the out-group is bad, and that's as deep as it gets. LGBT or BLM awareness is for the out-groups, so therefore bad.
echoawoo
That assumes they have the same definition of freedom. For you or I, freedom means the ability to do anything that doesn't harm others. For them, freedom means their right to tell you that you can't.
TinkerThinker42
echoawoo
Much better wording!
susancreature
The doublespeak is so strong now. "We're freest" because "We can't display rainbows"
Xenarion
See, it's freedom to be bigoted.
TinkerThinker42
Illithidbane
Related:
Illithidbane
That's come to be the norm for the Right. Patriotism means treason. Religious Freedom means christofascism. Masculine means fragile gender identity. Freedom means control. So they assume everyone else is in Backwards Day too, so naturally Antifa means pro-facism, for instance.
Anxietyofthesocial
I've always wondered how Republicans get pro-fascism out of Antifa. The word Anti is a part of it and Fa means Fascism. But, this all comes down to their inability to educate themselves and instead they rely on their handlers to tell them what to believe.
Illithidbane
"I want to be a fascist and support the candidate who praises fascists and these guys don't want to let that happen? They want to deny me my god given right to be fascist? Those fascists!" -Some guy in a red hat and mirror shades, ranting in his truck