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8. The flag is a reference to the Know-Nothings

Sun Oct 29, 2017, 10:54 PM

Oct 2017

They were a mid-19th century anti-Catholic, anti-immigrant political party and secret society.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_Nothing

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This Idiot holding up a flag that says... [View all] yuiyoshida Oct 2017 OP

it reminded me of Russian letters. yuiyoshida Oct 2017 #2

Signifies foreign writing, the backwards N Kaleva Oct 2017 #4

Yah I know..and NO...he is not yuiyoshida Oct 2017 #5

You will never convince them of that... Thor_MN Oct 2017 #11

oh yeah I am sure you are right... yuiyoshida Oct 2017 #12

Is there a particular reason most of the N's on the flag are reversed? jmowreader Oct 2017 #3

Sickening. Kath2 Oct 2017 #6

that's a major level of stupid. spanone Oct 2017 #7

The flag is a reference to the Know-Nothings BayouBengal07 Oct 2017 #8

Good to know but... yuiyoshida Oct 2017 #9

Why don't we compromise? Pope George Ringo II Oct 2017 #14

That works... lets just say they are ... yuiyoshida Oct 2017 #15

Thanks emulatorloo Oct 2017 #10