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Any version of the flag has basically become a racist, nationalist dog whistle. The thin blue line, black and white, upsidedown/backwards ones are the even more extreme folks typically. There’s a slim chance someone with a regular American flag isn’t a nationalist twat.

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Billy_Gnosis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
That’s what pisses me off about the Gadsden flag.

The flag has been described as the “most popular symbol of the American revolution”. Its design proclaims an assertive warning of vigilance and willingness to act in defense against coercion. This has led it to be associated with the ideas of individualism and liberty.

These are some of the ideals and what I stand behind. But now the right wing loonies have corrupted it and use it for their own purposes.

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- Astroturfed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Ya, that one always cracks me up because it’s the folks bootlicking the police state and our corporate overlords having it displayed.
  
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Intralexical@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

There’s a slim chance someone with a regular American flag isn’t a nationalist twat.

Y’all should really reclaim that. It’s a good flag, and it’s supposed to mean some things that are actually quite nice.

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- Astroturfed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It’s already too late at this point. Can’t happen anytime soon. Hell, I’m a approaching middle age white guy living in the south, I cant do a buzzcut without getting assuming looks. Wearing or sporting an American flag gets all the wrong kind of attention. I really don’t want to deal with it. Frightening minorities and getting thumbs up/nods from racists isn’t really my thing.
  
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  - mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yall need to get a pride american flag. That would let you take it back.
    
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    Intralexical@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Definitely fly both at once, or overlay them tastefully or something, instead of going full pride-version.
    
    Mutilating the country’s flag in order to show your “patriotism”, as certain groups do, is… Certainly an interesting symbolic choice.
    
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  - Intralexical@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    Wearing or sporting an American flag gets all the wrong kind of attention. I really don’t want to deal with it. Frightening minorities and getting thumbs up/nods from racists isn’t really my thing.
    
    Then stick it next to a rainbow flag, or a Statue of Liberty, or a peace sign, or the date of the Emancipation Proclamation, or any of the symbols that y’all actually do still have for actual freedom.
    
    It’s all about the messaging. Make it clear: “This is the flag of the nation, for everybody in the nation, and anyone who flies a mutilated version of it is a coward.”
    
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brygphilomena@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Upside down flag means distress, need to be saved ornrescues. Co-opted by idiots saying the nation as a whole is in trouble.

Backwards is actually a normal, proper way to display it if it’s on someone’s right shoulder or the right side of a vehicle. It’s as it would be were it blowing in the wind as the car or person moves forward.

But of course, so few people that put the flag on anything know even the basics of the flag code. Any change to it is disrespectful, such as the blue line. Making clothes out of it is disrespectful. Hell, I had a neighbor who painted it on the bed of his vehicle trailer. He was literally driving and parking vehicles on top of the flag.

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