The American flag: To some it’s Old Glory. To others it’s a MAGA hat on a stick.
When I see an American Flag, I immediately think “This fucking redneck is going to shoot my trans ass and claim I was trying to indoctrinate his kids.”
No, but we want to fly a red flag.
I wear a black American flag patch on my day bag upside down so everyone knows that I know shit is fucked.
It’s always been the flag of a terrorist state
Now the US sees the flag in the same way the rest of the world has always seen it.
It is a red flag.
And a white flag, and a blue flag.
When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross
Very accurate. These people have coopted the American flag like the Nazis coopted the swastika. It had an original purpose and meaning, but when you see only Nazis waving it around it becomes a Nazi flag.
It’s not a good design, anyway, according to the principles of vexillology. We should replace it after the civil war.
Seeing an American flag, I just roll my eyes and move on (for a while now I’ve felt that our overuse of the flag–especially for home decor–is tacky, but as the article demonstrates, everyone has their own motivations for flying it). But “250 celebration” decor? Major stinkeye. I’ve actively avoided businesses and neighbors that post this nonsense.
II used to be very patriotic and naive. Thinking that the flag represented a desire to be the greatest country. Dreams fulfilled, melting pot, helping one’s neighbors, constant progression (albeit too slowly even when it did). I traveled to a few countries, got older, more educated. Realized what the flag meant to me wasn’t how it was being used. I still struggle with what I thought the country and patriotism stood for but I most certainly negatively judge most displays I see anymore and will also avoid businesses and neighbors that are proudly supporting this shit show of a country.
I always low-key know that the US is really young, but I always forget exactly how young it is. Like my town is 3-4 times older at least and there are nearby ruins which are in excess of 20 times older
I mean there are cities and ruins here that are that old as well. One capital of a native tribe here is over 1000 years old based off just archeological remains, and oral tradition puts it far older still. It’s still occupied and acts as the center of their tribal land. There are others as well, but as a white neoeuro country the US is very young.
It’s always been a red flag.
It always was cringe AF.
After the COVID trucker protests, the Canadian flag became a red flag.
After the ongoing Albertan separation scandal, the Canadian flag has been redeemed and the Albertan flag is a red flag.
If someone has just one flag, that’s ok. It’s when they have dozens of the things that I find them suspicious.
The more USA flags I see someone has on their house or car, the more likely I want to avoid them.
When we were looking for a house, there were a few we nixed because of thin blue line flags and just excessive US flags being displayed overall in the neighborhood.
