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[–] 96 points 11 months ago* (4 children)

Conservatives have the weirdest boner for flags, and against flagburning. A thing that almost never happens.

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  • [–] 36 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    This is likely to apply more to conservatives than anyone else. Slapping words on a flag? Desecration. Using it for advertising? Desecration. Adding symbols (like guns)? Desecration. It's not going to be enforced like that, but the hypocrisy is real.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    The conservatives wallow in hypocrisy. These were the same assfucks that were calling themselves free speech absolutists, too.

    As usual, they are absolutely full of shit.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    No, no, no.

    Don't be destructive, be creative.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

    Ha, what a coincidence. Kudos to you and "thank you for your service". I am backseat driving here from Australia.

    That example shows four spaces above the blue. Enough room for red, orange, yellow, green. Perfect. But most times I see only three spaces above it so which colour did you drop on those ones?

    Then two after for indigo and violet. Unfortunately the thin blue line is more indigo than blue though. How did you handle the lines below the thin blue line? The meme messes it up with pink and white.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Last I read, the change in colors and design are significant enough for that iteration to not count, but I might've read it from a biased source. I can't quite remember where, but I was erring on the side of caution, not that it would actually be applied even if that flag counted.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    The whole gimmick of conservatism is to bind people you don't like with laws while exempting people you do like from the same laws. Nothing new.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago*

    That's in the USAmerican experience. I recall in Yugoslavia that the Left pulled the same hypocritical stunt and the conservatives in USA felt like it was already happening to them (since it was exaggerated into panic by social media's polarizing algorithms).

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Flag burning happens all the time, mostly done by the Scouts.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Yup, 8 year old me was clearly a criminal.

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    [–] 28 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I'd burn a flag in protest but it's not worth the price of buying a flag

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  • [–] 25 points 11 months ago

    One year? Eh I'll still do it as it is my freedom of speech.

    So in other words, FUCK YOU!

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  • [–] 19 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    When a flag is so tattered that it can no longer serve as a symbol of the United States, it should be destroyed in a dignified manner, preferably by burning.

    What about if the country is so tattered?

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Trump need to be targeted by the high cholesterol and sodium in this body and die.

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    "The Attorney General shall prioritize the enforcement to the fullest extent possible of our Nation’s criminal and civil laws against acts of American Flag desecration that violate applicable, content-neutral laws, while causing harm unrelated to expression, consistent with the First Amendment" If I am reading this correctly, all the Trump enthusiasts desecrating a flag with their diesel exhaust while speeding/road rage/DUI should all be round up. So vague in wording not even describing what desiccating the flag means...

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Is there toilet paper with the US flag? I have the urge to wipe my arse with it.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago

    Makes me wanna start burning flags out of pure spite

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I'll get some flags with the wrong number of stars or stripes and burn them. I'll also burn Confederate flags because fuck those traitors, and I'll burn pictures of Pig Boy Trump and stick pins into bloated orange dolls.

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    [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    The executive branch signs bills into law. It doesn't create laws.

    😢

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Nothing unconstitutional about that.

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  • ♪ There's a lot of flag burners ♪♪ Who have got too much freedom ♪♪ I want to make it legal for policemen to beat 'em ♪

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