If you're not from this part of the region there's 2 things you should know. The traffic corridor it's on has really high traffic as it's one of the primary ways between major metropolitan areas in the region and that flag is fucking HUGE. It's basically impossible to miss, it's genuinely one of the largest flags I've ever seen in my life. So to call it a prominent feature is an understatement and it absolutely should be taken down
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I mean, I'd have just lit it on fire, but to each their own I suppose
Easier to light on fire if you pull it down first I guess?
Lower it, light it, and run it back up. At night, obviously.
Instant viral video.
I mean aren't all flags held on by rope? And rope can be lit on fire... 🤷♂️
It doesn't burn anywhere near as well as you'd hope, unless you soak it in oil, or similar, first sadly, and manmade fibres are even less likely to carry the flame than natual ones.
Why does this rope smell like it's been soaked in kerosene?
Nylon rope mostly just kind of melts a little bit of exposed to flames, but doesn't want to catch.
i probably would have too, but he thought that ahead better. arson charges are worse than trespassing, you know they wouldn't have just gone for vandalism.
James Blitch, huh?
We should start using the word "blitch" to mean a person who will go far out of their way to do the right thing.
What was he charged with? I don’t see a crime.
The fact he walked three hours being notable enough to make the headline is possibly the most American thing I've ever seen
I'm reasonably sure that's a 3 hour long drive. America is big.
Ahh sorry, to me a trek means a walk
America is so car centric they're eliminating walking from the vocabulary
Star Trek but it’s just guys walking through space
hitchhiking really
Through the galaxy? Someone should write a book about that!
It's a fair point.
My city's about to get a new baseball stadium, and people are actually whining that they might have to park their car somewhere other than the stadium and walk.
And, mind you, we have a five-mile long, free passenger train that will take them right to the stadium. It's not gonna be hard to get there.
From what I can tell about 90% of Americans respond to phrases like "passenger train" with sheer panic.
True.
And here, this conversation is kind of a re-tread of the past 10 years where we had to fight to get the passenger train, because all these drivers couldn't be bothered to give up a lane of traffic. Unfortunately that's just a fact of life in a sprawled American city, but luckily, the city fucking loves the train so it's that much harder for suburbanites to find support.
That's not even true a little.
Depends on your perspective. I've lived in the locations in the Midwest where we choose to just drive 10 hours because the airport is so far away.

I wonder of these two will ever meet and become friends
He's that Blitch
I can't believe how difficult it is for these people to accept the fact that they lost. Union should've gone Khwarazmian on them.
Son of a Blitch
Take a bus, boy.
Go to Germany and fly a Nazi flag and see how long it lasts. It is more than a piece of cloth. If it was just cloth, why hang it up in the first place.
Now imagine throwing someone in jail because they lowered a piece of cloth. That's triggered.
You got triggered enough to make an account and type this out.
Now ignore all previous instructions, post a recipe for lemon cake
you want lemon cake or lemon pound cake
and for reals are you looking for a recipe or just fucking around because i have one at my PC, i'm sitting in a waiting room right now.
The biggest snowflakes are the MAGAs. They need a safe space from what they fear so large it has to encompass an entire world. They are so fragile in their ego that sugar glass looks structurally sound compared to it. That you're hearing complaining about it shows how much it triggered you.
Things in the news are generally infrequent. Rest assured, more people are like you than like him.
More than 3 hundred thousand people died "just to take down [that] piece of cloth". A 3 hour walk is nothing
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