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.
Ha, what a coincidence. Kudos to you and "thank you for your service". I am backseat driving here from Australia.
That example shows four spaces above the blue. Enough room for red, orange, yellow, green. Perfect. But most times I see only three spaces above it so which colour did you drop on those ones?
Then two after for indigo and violet. Unfortunately the thin blue line is more indigo than blue though. How did you handle the lines below the thin blue line? The meme messes it up with pink and white.
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.
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).
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.
"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...
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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blitzen@lemmy.ca · 96 pts · 360d
Conservatives have the weirdest boner for flags, and against flagburning. A thing that almost never happens.
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works · 53 pts · 360d
It'll probably be happening a lot more now
Vupware@lemmy.zip · 25 pts · 360d
I have the urge… to buy a bunch of Made in China flags… and do some arts and crafts.
MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com · 36 pts · 360d
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.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 360d
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.
sqgl@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 360d
@MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com You left out the thin blue line flag.
floo@retrolemmy.com · 1 pts · 354d
sqgl@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 354d
No, no, no.
Don't be destructive, be creative.
floo@retrolemmy.com · 2 pts · 354d
sqgl@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 354d
Ha, what a coincidence. Kudos to you and "thank you for your service". I am backseat driving here from Australia.
That example shows four spaces above the blue. Enough room for red, orange, yellow, green. Perfect. But most times I see only three spaces above it so which colour did you drop on those ones?
Then two after for indigo and violet. Unfortunately the thin blue line is more indigo than blue though. How did you handle the lines below the thin blue line? The meme messes it up with pink and white.
MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 354d
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.
n1ck_n4m3@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 359d
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.
sqgl@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 354d
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).
RunJun@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 360d
Flag burning happens all the time, mostly done by the Scouts.
Raiderkev@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 360d
Yup, 8 year old me was clearly a criminal.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 358d
I was a bit older than 8, but I learned to smoke weed in the Boy Scouts.
Raiderkev@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 358d
Ha, I wish my pack was that cool. I think the coolest thing we got to do was shoot guns and go skiing.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 360d
Also proper retirement of flags is done in a pyre. I was in boy scouts when I was a kid and we had to do it semi frequently.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 360d
noxypaws@pawb.social · 28 pts · 360d
I'd burn a flag in protest but it's not worth the price of buying a flag
optissima@lemmy.ml · 18 pts · 360d
Burn other peoples flags
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 360d
A blowtorch will effectively burn flag stickers on jacked-up pickup trucks. Not that I'm advocating such a thing.
CubitOom@infosec.pub · 10 pts · 360d
Especially with those tariffs.
not_that_guy05@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 360d
One year? Eh I'll still do it as it is my freedom of speech.
So in other words, FUCK YOU!
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 360d
What about if the country is so tattered?
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 360d
Then it should be destroyed in a dignified manner, preferably by burning.
Typhoon@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 360d
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 358d
How Canadian of you.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 360d
Trump need to be targeted by the high cholesterol and sodium in this body and die.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 358d
He must have the world's laziest arterial plaques.
BiCow@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 360d
"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...
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 360d
All of his executive orders read like they were spit out by an LLM. Which they probably were.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 358d
Trump is like an LLM trained on stupid. He's a Markov process generating horse shit.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 9 pts · 360d
Is there toilet paper with the US flag? I have the urge to wipe my arse with it.
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 360d
Isn't the pedo-in-charge already doing that? Oh no wait, that's the constitution...
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 360d
TP with Trump's face exists.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 1 pts · 360d
Even better
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 360d
Makes me wanna start burning flags out of pure spite
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 360d
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.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 360d
Yeah do what Disney does, the flags in the Disney parks are missing stars or bars so that they don’t have to follow the flag code
zarathustra0@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 360d
Much woke.
cmeu@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 359d
The executive branch signs bills into law. It doesn't create laws.
😢
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 358d
It creates laws if the other branches of government are too corrupt to stop it.
cmeu@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 356d
Right - Checks and balances don't work if they're colluding! It all falls down without integrity
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 360d
Nothing unconstitutional about that.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 360d
At least for now. Won't be once it goes to the White Supremacist Court.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 360d
♪ There's a lot of flag burners ♪♪ Who have got too much freedom ♪♪ I want to make it legal for policemen to beat 'em ♪