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marble falls
(71,936 posts)43. Which is worse, being wrapped in a flag or being wrapped around it? It's a flag.
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Apparently, it isn't. I had no idea there were so many Hamas lovers and terror supporters among us.
SoFlaBro
Jun 2024
#15
It's not a "plant". It's vile anti-Semite Nerdeen Kiswani of Within Our Lifetime.
lapucelle
Jun 2024
#94
How far away are we from seeing, "Nova Festival was a false flag!" or "It was nothing but crisis actors!"?
Behind the Aegis
Jun 2024
#111
Certainly not the entire movement but waaaaay too many Hamas friendly participants for my fucking comfort.
SoFlaBro
Jun 2024
#97
Because traffic law trumps (irony) ciivil rights. Is that a Democratic principle? We have no political prisoners ...
marble falls
Jun 2024
#28
You don't need to block streets to exercise your civil rights. Camping is not speech.
SunSeeker
Jun 2024
#31
Civil disobediance is as American as the Revolution and apple pie. It's how thought and actions gets tested ...
marble falls
Jun 2024
#34
Civil disobedience is for when a law is unjust. These idiots are not the victims of an unjust law.
SunSeeker
Jun 2024
#35
They blocked people from leaving the exhibit hall and basically held them hostage.
SunSeeker
Jun 2024
#55
Flags are flags. What flag represents the outrage of over 30,000 non Hamas dead in Gaza. Are you represented ...
marble falls
Jun 2024
#29
They're demonstrating to the wrong people. Hamas refusing to surrender is causing the deaths.
SunSeeker
Jun 2024
#33
They are not opposing an unjust draft. These idiots are protesting a memorial for Israeli dead.
SunSeeker
Jun 2024
#44
So who gets to chose what issue is "correct"? Ever hear of the prohibition on prior restraint? It's in the Constitution
marble falls
Jun 2024
#49
Their speech was not restrained. They blocked people from leaving the exhibit hall and basically held them hostage.
SunSeeker
Jun 2024
#52
I feel like the sad truth is that both sides are lying about most things there
sboatcar
Jun 2024
#69
I pity the fools who choose the flag of a terrorist Iranian proxy to represent themselves.
Beastly Boy
Jun 2024
#40
I don't think you're going find many if any on DU defending the Confederate flag
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Jun 2024
#103
Hey, If They'd Just Left Those Captives In Durance Vile, Those Innocent Palestinians Would Be Alive
The Magistrate
Jun 2024
#101
Exactly, freedom to speech does not include freedom from criticism. Despite the claims,
sarisataka
Jun 2024
#85
Freedom of speech for terrorist supporters, but maybe not for other not-so-pleasant groups?
LeftInTX
Jun 2024
#11
Yup. Just like the Nazi flag on the capitol steps of South Dakota on Saturday...
AnrothElf
Jun 2024
#18
What are the distinctions between the two flags that make their comparison hyperbolic?
Beastly Boy
Jun 2024
#41
Which is worse, being wrapped in a flag or being wrapped around it? It's a flag.
marble falls
Jun 2024
#43
I'd like to see you explain that to an African American about the Confederate Flag. n/t
Coventina
Jun 2024
#82
Indeed. Try flying a US Marines Corps flag in front of the Beirut stock exchange.
Beastly Boy
Jun 2024
#61
I imagine the FBI might be interested in whoever is waving that Hezbollah flag. nt
SunSeeker
Jun 2024
#8
A useful idiot cosplaying resistance. No self-respecting professional terrorist would expose himself
Beastly Boy
Jun 2024
#10
I've been wondering about that. Must be like when medical professionals watch cheesy hospital TV shows
betsuni
Jun 2024
#16
They'll throw things at the police and make sure they're arrested so they can post
betsuni
Jun 2024
#19
Interesting. I too used Google translate. I didn't research the entire flag on Wikipedia.
littlemissmartypants
Jun 2024
#110
Apparently, a flag of an Iranian proxy terror group on Wall Street does not sufficiently impress you.
Beastly Boy
Jun 2024
#25
I don't know about NY, but in many States they would be 1st and 2nd amendment protected
sanatanadharma
Jun 2024
#36
It is their right of free speech that is protected, not their hateful message.
Beastly Boy
Jun 2024
#39
I was commenting about a armed 'death to America' group on the streets of open carry States
sanatanadharma
Jun 2024
#65
NOBODY was prohibiting this demonstration. Neither was it blocking traffic.
brooklynite
Jun 2024
#56
Protesters were blocking access to the street, trapping people in the Nova Exhibit Hall.
SunSeeker
Jun 2024
#58
Still fail to see the connection with carrying a Lebanese based terrorists organization flag
sarisataka
Jun 2024
#66
OMG, its even worse that that. They were protesting the Nova Exhibit of 10/7 dead as "propaganda."
SunSeeker
Jun 2024
#37
Sane people would think twice before associating themselves with these scumbags.
Beastly Boy
Jun 2024
#42
They blocked people from leaving the exhibit hall and basically held them hostage.
SunSeeker
Jun 2024
#48
Wow, I hadn't realized there were there to celebrate the rape and murder of Jewish civilians
sarisataka
Jun 2024
#64
"I wish H*tler was still here, he would've wiped you all out" - man tells Jews in Union Square"
Cha
Jun 2024
#114
If you can't smell Russia all over trying to inflame this "Jews vs Palestinians dust up" then I ...
Botany
Jun 2024
#76
There is a whole bouquet of smells that I detect, Russia and Iran being most prominent,
Beastly Boy
Jun 2024
#78
A Pathological Fallacy is an overgeneralization in which the pathological or abnormal characteristics of an
sop
Jun 2024
#83
Not a single example. I suppose that settles the matter, just as I anticipated it would, and sooner than I expected.
Beastly Boy
Jun 2024
#92
And the Palestinian vs Israeli not getting along goes back 80 + years but thanx to the GOP and ....
Botany
Jun 2024
#86