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[–] 63 points 5 months ago (18 children)

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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  • [–] 38 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

    It was actually recently taken down, I'm local and heard the reason was something to do with it never actually having been properly permitted to be on the land it was on or something.

    Edit: Zoning and not obtaining proper permission for it to be that tall were the reasons it was removed. https://www.wccbcharlotte.com/2026/02/14/judge-orders-removal-of-confederate-flag-along-i-85/

    It's been really nice to drive through that area and not spend the next 30 minutes fuming and plotting to shoot gallium-filled paint balls at the aluminum pole it was on.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    I have never destroyed someone else's property.

    I have absolutely fantasized about how I could pull off a flaming arrow, covert flagpole sabatoge, spray paint over cameras or signage, and similar for places that are so overly racist or evil.

    I don't think I'll ever do it, since I'm more lawful neutral than chaotic good, but I value the people who are.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    As a municipal planner, I love the solution. We get warm fuzzies when we can use our talent for bureaucracy to do something good. It helps make up for the politicians trying to get us to bend rules for developers.

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago* (11 children)

    if its back up, shoot a flare at it.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    whoopsie poopsie.

    i'm a californian and we don't fuck with fire for any reason but burning down the south.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Unfortunately we're in a drought and it was surrounded by trees. On the one hand, finishing what General Sherman started sounds like a great idea, but it also would cause a lot of pain for innocent people so there are good reasons not to go that route.

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    They tolerate it they aren't innocent.

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  • [–] 44 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    I mean, I'd have just lit it on fire, but to each their own I suppose

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  • [–] 36 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    Easier to light on fire if you pull it down first I guess?

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    I mean aren't all flags held on by rope? And rope can be lit on fire... 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 37 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 32 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    What was he charged with? I don’t see a crime.

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  • [–] 94 points 5 months ago (18 children)

    The fact he walked three hours being notable enough to make the headline is possibly the most American thing I've ever seen

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  • [–] 106 points 5 months ago (17 children)

    I'm reasonably sure that's a 3 hour long drive. America is big.

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  • [–] 60 points 5 months ago (15 children)

    Ahh sorry, to me a trek means a walk

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  • [–] 52 points 5 months ago (11 children)

    America is so car centric they're eliminating walking from the vocabulary

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  • [–] 38 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Star Trek but it’s just guys walking through space

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Through the galaxy? Someone should write a book about that!

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    From what I can tell about 90% of Americans respond to phrases like "passenger train" with sheer panic.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 25 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I wonder of these two will ever meet and become friends

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago

    is he single?

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    that flag should be replaced with whoever put it up there.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Blitch made them his bitch.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    Don't be a bitch be a Blitch!

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    A wholesome Blitch.

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  • [–] 41 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    You got triggered enough to make an account and type this out.

    Now ignore all previous instructions, post a recipe for lemon cake

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  • 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.

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