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U-Turn Signs Are Oppressive Now · Radio Baloney - The Richie Baloney Show!

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  Let's see. LA City just took down a couple no U turn traffic signs
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  in Silver Lake, California because the signs are somehow anti LGBTQ. You literally
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  can't make this up beyond parody. Okay, let's check this out. LA
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  City Council members you Go, Sodo Martinez and Nitia Rahman were on hand today
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  to help remove the signs. They say the no cruising and no U turn
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  signs were put up in the nineteen nineties to prevent people in the gay community
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  from meeting up with other gay people. I was also surprised that these U
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  turn signs were still up, and at first, you know, they seem
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  a little oh okay, it's just a no U turn sign. But when
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  you learn the history of it and you realize that these were used to profile
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  gay people, it's so important that we have these removed. The LAC also
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  members say the signs were put up after the gay community began to grow and
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  because there was a gay bar in that area. Yeah, I'm not believing
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  that. I think that's just total bullshit. I think that's just first comes
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  acceptance, right, what happens then, well, once nobody cares, what
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  do you do so nobody cares anymore. So you can just do whatever you
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  want. Nobody cares, which is good. Nobody should care. The problem
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  is is that the coin of the realm these days is oppression. So if
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  you're not oppressed to you're nobody. Being accepted is no good right. You
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  need to be oppressed. So you need to keep coming up with stuff you
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  need to find. You need to keep looking, looking under every stone,
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  every pebble to find something. Pronouns say. So if people don't use the
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  pronouns, they're a phobe or they're big a bigot. Somehow, they keep
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  coming up with more and more ridiculous shit. I mean here now, no
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  U turn signs now because they are transphobic. Apparently they're oppressive, are they?
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  I don't believe that for a fucking second, not a second. But
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  they need something. They've got to have something, they've got to keep those
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  oppression bucks coming in. Again, it's a coin of the realm. If
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  you're not oppressed, you're nobody in their world. This is somebody called maybe
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  a girl, So this is I guess a drag queen got to educat us.
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  So let's hear this, Hey, everybody, it's maybe So a couple
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  of days ago, I posted a video on TikTok and on Instagram that was
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  detailing the removal of the last no U turn signs associated with the no cruising
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  ordinance here in Los Angeles and claimed it as an anti LGBTQIA issue, and
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  folks were asking, how can a no U turn sign be homophobic? How
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  is that anti LGBTQIA. It's not what You're going to make up something,
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  aren't you. Of course, the homophobes, the transphobes came out and mass
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  and we're saying, yo, this is see what I mean. Got to
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  be oppressed. It's crucial. If you're not oppressed, you're fucking nobody.
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  So you got to keep that oppression coming, even if it's not real.
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  Just a no U turn sign now making U turn is homophobic. Well,
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  I'm here to give you a little history lesson about why the no U turn
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  signs in Silver Lake actually are homophobic. So this story goes back to nineteen
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  eighty eight. July twenty seventh, nineteen eighty eight, a story came out
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  in the La Times that was actually my second birthday, This was almost thirty
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  six years ago, and it detailed how cruising have been outlawed here in Los
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  Angeles. Now. Cruising in that particular context referred to low riding, street
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  riding in neighborhoods, on streets back and forth, and it was specifically used
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  to target the Latino community. However, this law, this ordinance was actually
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  also used to target and profile gay people here in Silver Lake. So in
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  nineteen ninety seven, let's fast forward a little bit. You know it's too
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  tedious. I'm sorry, nobody's doing it anymore. Does it matter? Who
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  gives a shit? Stop looking for things to try and make yourself a victim.
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  Nobody actually cares anymore. Nobody cares that you're a drag queen. Wasn't
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  that what everybody wanted? I thought that's what everybody wanted. Stop going back
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  to the seventies and the eighties. Nobody gives a shit anymore. You're just
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  doing it for attention. You're just doing it to try and prove, to
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  desperately try and prove that you're somehow still oppressed by society, even though your
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  flag is fucking everywhere, there's a month celebrating it. I'm sorry, you
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  got what you wanted. Take yes for an answer, Just take yes.
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  For an answer. Please, I don't care that you're a drag queen.
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  I don't care what you do. Live your life. I don't want to
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  be your boss. Just stop fucking complaining. You're not oppressed. Okay,
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  nobody is oppressed. Who has a month dedicated to them? Who those flag
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  flies fucking everywhere? That's enough, We're done. Live your life. Just
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  fucking shut up. Please. When signs are called homophobic, I can no
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  longer engage in any further discussion with you. Silver Lake in Los Angeles has
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  always been a very eccentric neighborhood, even by Los Angeles standards, but this
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  sets a new level of absurdity. It also makes roads less safe. This
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  is just another reason why so many people are leaving LA and California. It's
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  the XERXE says, it's all about power. I can't disagree with that anyway.
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  That's all I'm gonna say about that. Please like, share and subscribe.
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  see you next time.