Imagine starting or rallying towards a civil war
..... for some dumb, stupid, meaningless, ignorant, arrogant and self serving politician like Donald Trump.
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He's not even a politician
He's a game show host who was informed his only chance of staying out of prison was to be elected president
But then he committed more crimes, so even having been president will no longer cut it
He's not even a game show host. He's a failed real estate mogul who inherited his wealth and then squandered it, bankrupting multiple businesses along the way.
Y'all run out of Confederate flags AND No Step on Snek flags?
You leave that adorable no step on snek flag out of this. It's so cute! Even though it's meant to be a parody of the gadsden, I sadly can't enjoy it without people making assumptions. :(
This is all I see there, I'm sorry.
Whoa, that's a really cool dragon! Can you teach me how to draw that?
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I like this one personally
Join my movement to turn "don't tread on me" to a bikers first message. We support bike infrastructure and stopping cars from treading on cycling.
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But God forbid you kneel during the anthem...
I can't wait to hear the conservative explanation on how the two are completely different and not at all related.
They're not brown. Duh.
Easy. "It's different when we do it because we do it for good reasons your reasons are bad you socialist scum"
Done.
Right-wingers love to disrespect the flag. Seems to contradict their allegiance to the flag, and the liberty and justice for all it is purported to represent.
Conservatisms ultimate allegiance lies with authoritarianism and dictatorship.
Isn’t flying the flag upside down against the US Flag code? Then again, so is turning it into clothing IIRC.
These people believe that the law protects but does not bind them.
Also, technically the Flag Code isn't the law. Not that that occurred to them when people were using it for progressive protests.
I'm sure to some sovcits out there, flag code is as sacred as maritime law from 200 years ago.
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I had to laugh when I was talking to some young con at my university who was beside himself that someone....gasp!....burned a flag on campus in protest. He thought whoever burned it should be in prison.
I first asked him - what about the First Amendment? He didn't GAF - not "that kind" of free speech, that's too far! I asked him if he knew what the proper disposal of a flag was? I told him the right way was to BURN it, and so what should happen to those people who are disposing of flags under this new law he wanted that banned burning of flags? He didn't believe me and was aghast that I'd even say such a thing. LOL.
I also asked him what he thought should happen to old shirts, shoes, and every other random item the flag is plastered all over - if someone tosses those in the trash, and they get incinerated, who goes to jail for that? At this point, he was kinda worn out...
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And binds but does not protect anyone else.
No, its an old symbol of distress
So they’re fragile?
I mean...
[Gestures wildly at the state of the USA]
Yeah.
For the clothing thing, Isn't the rule just that you can't turn a flag into clothing. You're allowed to make clothes with patterns from flags as long as the material didn't come from a flag.
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"Don't desecrate the flag unless we want to"
Same group that threw a hissy fit over flag burning
So ... kneeling during the anthem bad, flying the flag upside-down good?
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It’s not a form of right-wing protest. It’s a form of peaceful protest that is currently being used by right-wing morons. There is a difference. Words matter.
Stop assigning ownership of symbols to fleeting groups of imbeciles.
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Babies. Hypocritical babies.
As someone from the Netherlands this is nothing new. Right wingers and anti-climate policy farmers have been using the upside down Dutch flag for a long time. Always funny when people from other countries see it:
“Why is the flag of Yugoslavia so prevalent?” Or the same thing with Schleswig-Holstein. (A German province)
Aren't these the same fuckers who wailed about respecting the flag?
This sounds like something edgy kids at a school would do.
Rage Against the Machine is gonna be pissed!
I have a neighbor directly behind me that has been doing the upside down flag thing for a while now. I think they started doing it after January 6.
These same neighbors also fly a don't tread flag.
I'm glad I haven't needed to interact with these dunces.
Thought the upside down American flag was just a Hexbear/tankie/communist thing.
It's sort of a cliche thing to do whenever you're out of power. Frankly I've always liked it.