FL has had excellent drag shows for 30-40 years and nobody gave a shit until a few party poopers pulled their heads out of their asses and decided to do some event searches. It's non-explicit adult entertainment usually for a mixed crowd, all laughing their asses off and cheering on the entertainment. Florida has more than enough titty bars, prostitutes and international sex trafficking rings to keep a Southern Baptist pastor happy but somehow men dressed like women singing popular music is too crazy.
burnt-resistor · 18h ago
Austin TX near downtown on the east side has an outdoor bar around 5th st. that regularly holds drag shows.
SV_BubbleTime · 19h ago
>decided to do some event searches
And found what?
Rebelgecko · 19h ago
As per the article it sounds like they found performers where risque (but not obscene) outfits
SV_BubbleTime · 8h ago
Sounds like grey area. Maybe best to keep kids away?
ecocentrik · 6h ago
It's adult entertainment but there's no nudity or explicit imagery. Some parents feel comfortable taking their kids, other's don't in the same way that some parents feel comfortable taking their kids to concerts or R rated movies.
fjfaase · 19h ago
Combine this with the recent executive order to institutionize people with mental issues. Do not forget that the first people to be locked up in concentration camps in nazi Germany included communists, socialists, mentaly ill, homeless, and criminals.
RajT88 · 15h ago
Homosexuals too.
burnt-resistor · 18h ago
First they came for the transgender juvenile athletes
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a transgender juvenile athlete (and there
are probably only 100 in the whole country)
-
Then they came for the unofficial migrants (the paperwork is a civil federal matter)
And I did not speak out
Because I was not an unofficial migrant
-
Then they came for the unhoused Americans
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a currently unhoused American, a person camping on BLM land, or a person camping in their back yard for more than 7 days per year where it is now illegal
-
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
shepherdjerred · 11h ago
* Transgender women juvenile athletes not being able to play with cisgender women (this issue doesn't even have a consensus one way or the other; the opinion roughly a 50/50 split afaik)
* Immigrants breaking established laws (that you may or may not agree with, again a 50/50 split)
* I have no idea what you're talking about the last one, feel free to link some articles for me to read
Are you really comparing the above to the treatment of minorities during the Halocaust, e.g. round up and murdered en masse?
Does what's happening today even look remotely close to some of the evil things the US has done in the past, e.g. Japenese internment, displacement of Native Americans, slavery, etc.
I don't agree with what's going on, and I do see potential for it to become worse, but comparing it to actual crimes against humanity seems like a stretch
> Federal agents take an hour and a half, almost two, trying to figure out who I am
Absolutely terrible that this happened, but how in the world are you comparing this to rounding up people based on race/other traits and systemically killing them?
> “The individual with the same first, middle and last name bears a striking resemblance to the individual temporarily taken into custody by mistake.”
> Insisting that he looked like a violent criminal on their wanted list
> Shave your beard off so we won't mistake you again
stupid comment from the agent, but it sounds like they were explaining how they mixed the victim up with a criminal
And found what?
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a transgender juvenile athlete (and there are probably only 100 in the whole country)
-
Then they came for the unofficial migrants (the paperwork is a civil federal matter)
And I did not speak out
Because I was not an unofficial migrant
-
Then they came for the unhoused Americans
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a currently unhoused American, a person camping on BLM land, or a person camping in their back yard for more than 7 days per year where it is now illegal
-
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
* Immigrants breaking established laws (that you may or may not agree with, again a 50/50 split)
* I have no idea what you're talking about the last one, feel free to link some articles for me to read
Are you really comparing the above to the treatment of minorities during the Halocaust, e.g. round up and murdered en masse?
Does what's happening today even look remotely close to some of the evil things the US has done in the past, e.g. Japenese internment, displacement of Native Americans, slavery, etc.
I don't agree with what's going on, and I do see potential for it to become worse, but comparing it to actual crimes against humanity seems like a stretch
Absolutely terrible that this happened, but how in the world are you comparing this to rounding up people based on race/other traits and systemically killing them?
> “The individual with the same first, middle and last name bears a striking resemblance to the individual temporarily taken into custody by mistake.”
> Insisting that he looked like a violent criminal on their wanted list
> Shave your beard off so we won't mistake you again
stupid comment from the agent, but it sounds like they were explaining how they mixed the victim up with a criminal