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surfered

(13,282 posts)
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 03:43 PM Oct 2025

I see this on flags, bumper stickers, and window stickers, but none at the No Kings protests.



I used to think it was about personal freedom, but what about being stopped and asked for your papers and detained until you prove you’re a citizen? What about searches without a warrant? What about free speech, but getting fired for a social media post criticizing the government? There many more infringements of our rights going on.

Is it just “your” freedoms that can’t be tread on, but it’s ok for those “other people?” Or Is it just because you wanted to openly carry a pistol on your hip?

Please explain it to me.

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I see this on flags, bumper stickers, and window stickers, but none at the No Kings protests. (Original Post) surfered Oct 2025 OP
That's a maga flag. It means rattlesnake people, watch out. It's the flag of the j6 hallway shitters brigade. Blues Heron Oct 2025 #1
There is history connecting it to the Revolutionary War. Nittersing Oct 2025 #2
Take it back. I have. And If anyone asks about my big cup, I tell them Callie1979 Oct 2025 #5
Other people malaise Oct 2025 #3
Exactly! surfered Oct 2025 #7
Although it is connected directly to the US Revolutionary War, it has been co-opted by MAGA... Hekate Oct 2025 #4
Before the magats canetoad Oct 2025 #6
Message auto-removed Name removed Oct 2025 #8
What a sucker you are for AI generated conservative tropes. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2025 #9
You may have seen this one: Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2025 #10

Blues Heron

(8,765 posts)
1. That's a maga flag. It means rattlesnake people, watch out. It's the flag of the j6 hallway shitters brigade.
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 03:45 PM
Oct 2025

Nittersing

(8,355 posts)
2. There is history connecting it to the Revolutionary War.
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 03:53 PM
Oct 2025

Maggots hijacked it.

(Born in Lexington, Mass. This had always irritated me.)

Callie1979

(1,345 posts)
5. Take it back. I have. And If anyone asks about my big cup, I tell them
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 04:06 PM
Oct 2025

exactly what it means.

Hekate

(100,133 posts)
4. Although it is connected directly to the US Revolutionary War, it has been co-opted by MAGA...
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 03:59 PM
Oct 2025

…just as cartoon Pepe the Frog was co-opted by hateful right wingers some 15 years ago.

I would not recommend using the Don’t Tread On Me image these days unless you want to make friends among the MAGAs.

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