It’s a hate flag, no less than the Confederate or Nazi flags, but they’re allowed too — in your window at home, or on the bumper of your personal car.
This, though, is vile —
… Tensions began when the Springfield Township Police Department incorporated the “thin blue line” flag into its official logo in 2021. …
This is why people don’t take this shit serious.
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Jesus! I just made the mistake of looking at that guy’s comment history. Someone is an edgy boi 😬
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I mean the bootlicking nazi loser at the root of this comment chain
You’ll notice you’re at -10 and dropping.
Is that at all an indicator that you might be incorrect? Or is the whole world full of clowns graced by your intellect?
Popularity isn’t an indicator of correctness, especially popularity in an echo chamber like lemmy.
Fuck a cop, but conflating everything you disagree with with Nazism is lazy and immediately dismissed by most normal, rational people.
In this, and the vast majority of other situations: it literally is. Especially when your fallback is an appeal to how our average compatriot would react. How do you not make that connection?
Popularity isn’t an indicator of correctness, so why should we care what most “normal rational people” think?