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New government spending bill bans U.S. embassies from flying Pride flag (www.cbsnews.com)

submitted 2 years ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/lgbtq_plus@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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The prohibition was one of many side issues included in the mammoth $1.2 trillion package to fund the government through September.

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[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 71 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The fact that things like this can be attached to spending bills is insane.

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Straight up

It's a budget, it should only include budget related things

[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

But the republicans know nothing about politics, only blackmail and abuses of power

[–] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's because the headline is slightly misleading. Technically the bill says US government funds can't be used to buy pride flag to fly above state department facilities. Theoretically there wouldn't be anything to stop someone from buying it with out of pocket money and flying it, or use flags they've already purchased. Still ridiculous though, I know.

[+] shalafi@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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[–] Crow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can't we have both tho? Does a second flag somehow diminish the meaning of a country flag? Shouldn't a country also show off their values, especially in embassies in other countries? Tho, America doesn't value queer people so I guess it makes sense. Maybe I'm just not patriotic enough as a European, because if I heard that my country was removing pride flags I'd get quite crossed

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Does a second flag somehow diminish the meaning of a country flag?

Yes. Which is fine in most contexts, but for an embassy is basically the same as a sign saying what the building is for, so adding more flags muddles what should be a very clear message: "This building is an outpost of the US government."

Tho, America doesn't value queer people so I guess it makes sense.

Yeah, flying a pride flag would be misleading. It's like all the rainbow police cars were have in Seattle even though everyone knows cops aren't on the side of LGBT+ people.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 years ago

The US is weirdly flag obsessed to begin with

[–] thedevisinthedetails@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

Wow what a strong opinion to have about something you only just learned about.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Fwiw the White House has already pledged to veto it

*the flag ban not the entire budget

[–] TheControlled@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Are they, like, really expensive pride flags?

[–] RoseTintedGlasses@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

the budget also like pushes through a shit ton of pro israel stuff too and about two thirds of the funding is going to the military to blow up kids on the other side of the planet. shit sucks, death to america.