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How long does it take for exceptions like the 'thin blue line' or confederate flag get exceptions for being cultural representations?
Frankly, I'm surprised that wasn't rolled up in that one.
Need a thin Gay line flag.
The stars should be nipples.
Now hold on. Male nipples or feminine nipples?
We're all females now, so it's moot.
¿Porque no Los dos?
One can alternate.
I was thinking dicks at first, but I couldn't think how or if we could alternate vaginas.
Incidentally, one could draw ovaries to look like dicks.
Considering a full uterus is already the same general shape it wouldn't be too hard.
They already are - who's going to enforce their takedown?
Trump doesn't remember what he did in 2019. He signed a law requiring the POW flag be flown at all USPS offices.
The order was issued by the new Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who said there are exceptions to the order when it came to Prisoner of War/Missing in Action flag and the Wrongful Detainees flag, as these specific flags will be able allowed to be flown on state department facilities.
So now we can’t have a state flag next to the national flag at our capitols and courts?
he can only 'order' federal facilities around.
if he wants to 'ban' other flags or dictate what when where etc, he's gonna need legislation that survives the inevitable legal battles.
It will survive.
So what's the problem? No flags should be flown over government entities but the US flag, the state flag and the city flag, as applicable. Drop the POW flag as well.
Want to argue? OK, we fly the Liberal Gun Owners flag....
Lemmy: FUCK YOU!
Government has zero business flying anything but government flags. Full stop.
No flags should be flown over government entities but the US flag, the state flag and the city flag,
Based on what exactly? Is there some kind of historical or philosophical underpinning to that assertion?
The rightness, the morality, of a flag is still a political statement. Who gets to determine what flags are allowed? You? Me?
(Don't downvote for the question. It's perfectly fair and worded so.)
The US government can send troops to fight in a war between two foreign countries. That's a pretty big political statement. Maybe some citizens support one country, and some support the other. Who gets to decide? I think the answer is pretty obvious that it's the elected representatives that get to make decisions. What flags to fly is one of the least consequential things a government does, so what makes it different?