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[–] 94 points 1 year ago* (13 children)

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

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (5 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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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
  • 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yup, 8 year old me was clearly a criminal.

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