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In reply to the discussion: "I tread where I please" [View all]Celerity
(54,936 posts)Why would I want some chisto-fash projection trampling that?
I also do not give a toss about some RW assholes trying to co-opt it, I refuse to let them take it away, nor do I accept some Christian mythology trying to push up on it.
Gadsden flag
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsden_flag
The Gadsden flag is a historical American flag with a yellow field depicting a timber rattlesnake coiled and ready to strike. Beneath the rattlesnake are the words Dont Tread on Me. Some modern versions of the flag include an apostrophe in the word "don't".
The flag is named after Christopher Gadsden, a South Carolinian delegate to the Continental Congress, brigadier general in the Continental Army and Slaver, who designed the flag in 1775 during the American Revolution. He gave the flag to Commodore Esek Hopkins, and it was unfurled on the main mast of Hopkins' flagship USS Alfred on December 20, 1775. Two days later, Congress made Hopkins commander-in-chief of the Continental Navy. He adopted the Gadsden banner as his personal flag, flying it from the mainmast of the flagship while he was aboard. The Continental Marines also flew the flag during the early part of the war.
The rattlesnake was a symbol of the unity of the Thirteen Colonies at the start of the Revolutionary War, and it had a long history as a political symbol in America. Benjamin Franklin used it for his Join, or Die woodcut in 1754. Gadsden intended his flag to serve as a physical symbol of the American Revolution's ideals.
If you search around for that 'I Tread Where I Want' flag you posted, you will see it is a lot RW christo-fashies who are pushing it.