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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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    [–] 27 points 1 year ago (3 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 1 year 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 1 year ago (3 children)

    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 1 year ago (2 children)

    "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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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 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 1 year ago

    Makes me wanna start burning flags out of pure spite

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

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

    😢

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year 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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    [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    A non-issue and a curtailing of free speech. It will not hold up.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Fuck this asshole... I'm tempted to go buy a flag and burn it right now.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Supreme Court already ruled on this

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Wait... People didn't burn theirs years ago?

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