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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Gadsen Flag
I've always thought it represented unity of the colonies?
Considering the Tea Party does its best to bad mouth our government and wants to basically do away with the Federal Government (except the military) and therefore destroy our Union I find it ironic that they choose this flag.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)confederate flag. White wingers won't admit it, but it's quite obvious.
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LiberalArkie
(15,777 posts)I am a redneck racist snow flake, please don't step on me.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Perhaps proud is not quite the correct word.
mfcorey1
(11,012 posts)high school, Dunwoody High, everyday in Atlanta. One one side is the large yellow flag and on the other is the American flag . It's for attention and everyone ignores him, which does more damage to his ego.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Ben Franklin drew the 13 colonies as a cut up snake with "Join or die" as a motto in 1751. Then came the Gadsen flag during the War for Independence. It makes sense that the Tea Party and other deplorables would coopt it because it is basically saying "Don't fuck with me!"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsden_flag
TheBlackAdder
(28,382 posts).
Not the Rainbow variant, that we see from time to time, but the original Gadsden flag shown in the OP.
Make it so that those who see the flag flying don't know if those sporting it support the LGBTQ cause or not.
After a couple of years, we won't be seeing the Nazis and White Supremacists flying it anymore.
It's time to start taking shit away from them.
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BannonsLiver
(16,701 posts)That's what I think every time I see it plastered onto the back of a car or pickup (which usually also has a pair of truck nuts dangling from the rear bumper).
Squinch
(51,241 posts)want ALL of my unfair advantages back!!! Or I'll cry on youtube!!!"
LeftInTX
(26,337 posts)It basically meant, "Get off my butt Mom, Dad, teachers etc".