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In reply to the discussion: "Why the Flag No Longer Flies on My Home in SC and Why I am an Unhappy American" [View all]elocs
(24,486 posts)26. Flying the flag gives no clue to anyone who doesn't know you if you are a rwnj.
Because you still could be. Just as nobody knows if you are a business flying the flag if you are truly doing it for patriotic reasons or if it's just an advertising ploy. I live next to a hotel that would fly the flag at the entrance on one of my city's most busy streets until it is nothing more than a tattered rag and they were shamed to take it down and never replace it.
Flying the flag is no longer a dependable way to guarantee that those who are rwnjs to not think you are one of them because they just might think you are unless you display something else along with it that proves to them where you stand.
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"Why the Flag No Longer Flies on My Home in SC and Why I am an Unhappy American" [View all]
babylonsister
May 2024
OP
We fly our flag to honor the warriors who fought for our county and because we refuse to give it up to the MAGA mob.
keopeli
May 2024
#6
We have ours up too for the same reason.. I will be hanged if I let MAGA steal the flag
Peacetrain
May 2024
#10
Which is why I bought a "Appeal to Heaven" flag about 10 years ago, and now find out the wing nuts have taken that one
LT Barclay
May 2024
#58
Everyone's entitled to their opinion...this is one I completely disagree with.
brooklynite
May 2024
#18
Agree with ya. Mad enough when the RWer nutz adopted the Gadsden flag! I won't surrender the US flag!
Attilatheblond
May 2024
#40
I fly it. I believe the flag is intended to represent the ideal of a country . Some places, it is not such as when it
Wonder Why
May 2024
#20
I agree, it is our flag, and I am not surrendering it to the MAGA liars and criminals.
emulatorloo
May 2024
#43
I just bought an American flag today along with the Canadian and Luxembourg flags.
neverforget
May 2024
#54