Nah it's starts to feel to much of a salute to the current ~~Nazis~~ Trump that are in charge. Don't want to be a ~~Nazi~~ trump sympathizer.
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That's what I worry about: people no longer proud of our nation, despite all the years between 1776 and now that displaying a flag could signify.
The likes of Musk and Ted Cruz may not be from here, but MLK and AOC are.
Intel this country becomes a beacon of hope and diversity and communities. The flag will always say what I said about it.
Understood. Germany repented and stopped their ways - forcibly ofc - and nowadays showing a flag there may be different than doing so back then. But for us, it is an ongoing thing, and more than just one election or even just one of the three branches.
I'd never fly an American flag. I'm not at all patriotic; I'm deeply ashamed of this country.
Highly ironically - and you may hate me for saying this but... - that you share in common with the other side. Man, disinformation has worked so incredibly well to prey upon our existing division spots and weaknesses.
Pride flag, sure. Any country's flag, nah.
Not really. America as a state is a bad thing, imo. Colonialist state built on genocide and slavery, continues to be a violent force in the rest of the world.
I love the land itself and I have compassion for my fellow citizens, but not the country, if that makes any sense. To me the flag represents something that needs to be dismantled.
I guess it can mean different things to different people. To a conservative, a strong past followed up by a bright fascist future only held up by corrupt liberals, while to liberals a march toward a welcoming socialist utopia only held up by backwards thinking conservatives.
Truth lies in the middle I am afraid, but anyway I feel like I get some of what you mean even if I inject my own lines of thinking into that as well (that both sides are naive and led around by the nose by the wealthy who purchase politicians who promise much and then deliver next to nothing or even worse sometimes).
Personally I think that we need to make life happen locally regardless of what they do, but I understand if someone else thinks otherwise. Although in your case that's kinda what your said maybe, except I don't care if the tax collection system gets dismantled or not, I just think that the former is true regardless.
Personally I think that we need to make life happen locally regardless of what they do, but I understand if someone else thinks otherwise.
That's something we definitely agree on. I think our differences are basically semantic; I can't detangle the name and symbology of America from a structure I don't believe in, but I know that's not universal. At the end of the day we both care about our home and the people living here.
I fly one of these LGBTQ American flags on my house
https://flagsforgood.com/products/for-all-united-states-flag?variant=39858231443614
Nice!
I pass a house and I see a flag... "A racist definitely lives there."
American flags are so much work if you want to follow the Flag Code, and I feel very strongly about following the Flag Code.
if i had a yard, or even an exterior door (my 'front door' opens to an interior common hallway), yea. probably.
but it'd be my goldy one on gopher/badger hockey weekends. that's about it.
Sure, I have an American Flag I put out on the appropriate days like Memorial Day, Labor Day, Veterans Day, and July 4th.
I also have a variety of University Sports Teams and Political flags that I will put out when appropriate.
Nov I am not of a kind who has developed emotional relationship with colorfull rag of "particular" criminalls and murderers.