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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI 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 youre 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 cant be tread on, but its 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
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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
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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.
Nittersing
(8,355 posts)2. There is history connecting it to the Revolutionary War.
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
exactly what it means.
malaise
(295,713 posts)3. Other people
Non-whites and women are not free
Hekate
(100,133 posts)4. Although it is connected directly to the US Revolutionary War, it has been co-opted by MAGA...
just as cartoon Pepe the Frog was co-opted by hateful right wingers some 15 years ago.
I would not recommend using the Dont Tread On Me image these days unless you want to make friends among the MAGAs.
canetoad
(20,737 posts)6. Before the magats
I think the Tea party adopted that flag as their symbol.
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Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)9. What a sucker you are for AI generated conservative tropes. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)10. You may have seen this one:
