• IninewCrow
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    1187 months ago

    Imagine starting or rallying towards a civil war

    … for some dumb, stupid, meaningless, ignorant, arrogant and self serving politician like Donald Trump.

    • @morphballganon
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      547 months ago

      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

      • Drusas
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        457 months ago

        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.

        • finley
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          227 months ago

          Not to mention a professional debtor who has probably borrowed more money than he’s ever made for himself.

          • @FrankFrankson
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            67 months ago

            That is not fair he made that money…out of thin air by fraudulently misrepresenting the value of his buildings used as collateral for those loans.

    • @[email protected]
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      107 months ago

      Counterpoint: it’s more like they are trying to use support for him as the excuse to start the civil war? But if not him, they would find some other “cause” for it.

      With arson, it is not enough simply to put out the immediate fire.

    • @[email protected]
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      287 months ago

      I can’t wait to hear the conservative explanation on how the two are completely different and not at all related.

      • @gibmiser
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        57 months ago

        Easy. “It’s different when we do it because we do it for good reasons your reasons are bad you socialist scum”

        Done.

  • @Hackworth
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    617 months ago

    Y’all run out of Confederate flags AND No Step on Snek flags?

  • @[email protected]
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    Now is your chance to sell the new upside down american flags for triple the price to the stupidest people on planet earth. Do it quick before they realize they can just flip over the 27 flags they already own. End your ebay listing with god bless to really sell it.

  • @lemmus
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    457 months ago

    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.

    • @WhatAmLemmy
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      197 months ago

      Conservatisms ultimate allegiance lies with authoritarianism and dictatorship.

  • @alexc
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    257 months ago

    Isn’t flying the flag upside down against the US Flag code? Then again, so is turning it into clothing IIRC.

    • @SpaceNoodle
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      307 months ago

      These people believe that the law protects but does not bind them.

      • @ilinamorato
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        177 months ago

        Also, technically the Flag Code isn’t the law. Not that that occurred to them when people were using it for progressive protests.

        • @[email protected]
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          97 months ago

          I’m sure to some sovcits out there, flag code is as sacred as maritime law from 200 years ago.

          • @[email protected]
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            27 months ago

            You have to accept these pieces of paper I printed out instead of me paying off my credit card debt because I invoke USC 420.69 Hocus Pocus Debt Begonus.

        • @CharlesDarwin
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          87 months ago

          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…

          • @ilinamorato
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            47 months ago

            They never think their gonzo opinions through to their logical conclusions.

        • @SpaceNoodle
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          27 months ago

          No, but you see how they care about rules in general.

      • @ilinamorato
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        87 months ago

        And binds but does not protect anyone else.

        • @Bassman1805
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          127 months ago

          I mean…

          [Gestures wildly at the state of the USA]

          Yeah.

    • @[email protected]
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      87 months ago

      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.

      • AtHeartEngineer
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        47 months ago

        That’s correct, some still find it disrespectful though.

        • @DBT
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          17 months ago

          When it fits their narrative.

  • @mlg
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    257 months ago

    “Don’t desecrate the flag unless we want to”

    Same group that threw a hissy fit over flag burning

  • MushuChupacabra
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    227 months ago

    So … kneeling during the anthem bad, flying the flag upside-down good?

  • @notannpc
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    217 months ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    177 months ago

    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)

  • @kaffiene
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    147 months ago

    Aren’t these the same fuckers who wailed about respecting the flag?

  • @reddig33
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    147 months ago

    Makes it easier to spot which neighbors to avoid.

    • @CharlesDarwin
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      47 months ago

      Exactly. I’m reminded of that old Far Side cartoon when it comes to dipshit regalia like upside flags.