The upside-down American flag goes mainstream as a form of right-wing protest
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https://www.npr.org/2024/06/03/nx-s1-4987590/upside-down-american-flag-protest-symbol-history
Imagine starting or rallying towards a civil war
..... for some dumb, stupid, meaningless, ignorant, arrogant and self serving politician like Donald Trump.
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.
Not to mention a professional debtor who has probably borrowed more money than he’s ever made for himself.
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.
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.
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. :(
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You misunderstand. It’s an international sign of distress, or a way to protest your neighbor’s inappropriate yard signs. Isn’t that right, Justice?
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.
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.
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"Don't desecrate the flag unless we want to"
Same group that threw a hissy fit over flag burning
Isn’t flying the flag upside down against the US Flag code? Then again, so is turning it into clothing IIRC.
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.
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.
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...
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.
I mean, if you want the comments section to be filled with the same things over and over, go for it. Enshittify away.
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.
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)
Exactly. I'm reminded of that old Far Side cartoon when it comes to dipshit regalia like upside flags.
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.
It's sort of a cliche thing to do whenever you're out of power. Frankly I've always liked it.
I hate nation-states as much as the next guy but this is pretty obviously not cool