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SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

Look at how quickly you focused on a pride flag being involved.

There are literally millions of square feet of road surface in Fort Lauderdale (or so I assume, given that that's true of pretty much any city, especially in North America). I'd be very surprised if more than 1000 of those square feet have any sort of pro-LGBT artwork on them. The odds that two separate individuals/groups would deliberately deface a pro-LGBT patch of road over any other as a matter of random chance are pretty astronomically low. That suggests intent, for which the most obvious explanation is homophobic dickbaggery (especially in Florida). Unless you have evidence to the contrary, there's really no reason to expect there to be a need to dig deeper than that.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

You jumped to conclusions about dog whistles and gas lighting when that wasn't the subject.

No, I presented that as one extreme on the spectrum of possible reasons why you're acting like this. That was not a conclusion, merely a stated possibility. As it happens, I believe you are actually more on the clueless end of the spectrum than the evil end, but you'd be better to just get off that spectrum entirely by thinking sensibly about the matter. Again, your approach is comparable to flat-earther "logic" in how vague and non-committal everything you've said is.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

Meanwhile you ignored the lack of evidence to support deliberate action and the credibility of the source.

Just-released surveillance video captured the bicyclists skidding out over the rainbow pattern painted on the road symbolizing LGBTQ+ Pride back on Feb. 26.
Then, on Feb. 28 the same cameras captured a black Ford F-250 burning tire marks on top of the mural on Sebastian Street off A1A.

Both of those passages describe deliberate acts, caught on film. Again, leaving skid marks is not something that happens during normal driving. You'd know this, if you understood anything about driving, but you don't, so try listening to people that do. If you're leaving skid marks, it's because you're either braking, turning, or accelerating exceptionally hard, to the point where the tire disintegrates a bit because you're demanding more frictional force than can be provided by the material.

Sometimes, this happens accidentally, as a result of losing control or having to brake hard in an emergency situation. Otherwise, it's a result of deliberately driving/cycling in a way that causes tires to squeal. Again, the odds of such emergency situations randomly happening on top of the same pride flag twice are exceptionally remote, plus that would have been extremely obvious from the video. That means it was done deliberately (which would also be obvious from the video), and the low odds of this one spot of road being chosen randomly suggest that it was not chosen randomly (especially when there's such an obvious motive available).

Now, is it possible that the video does actually show accidental skidding, and the news article chose to lie about that for the sake of pushing a narrative about homophobia being a problem? Sure. But the odds of that are pretty low, given how common homophobic acts like this are (which means there's no real need to fabricate them), so I wouldn't advise giving serious consideration to that possibility. If you're bent on doing so, though, it's pretty easy to support the theory: Research the matter a bit, dig up the video, and use it to show us that there's no evidence of homophobic intent.