We can’t keep giving up historical symbols and flags each time some assholes decide to adopt them. The pine tree flag is objectively cool and a part of Americans’ shared history. It should not be allowed to become an exclusively right-wing nationalist symbol.
In Canada you can’t fly an official Canadian flag without looking like a right wing nutjob.
I fly mine all year to make sure the nutjobs don’t get to claim it.
Now if you’re flying a flag off a car? Completely nuts.
Around the NCR, especially on Quebec’s side, it’s fairly common for people to fly it
New California Republic? I assume it’s not National Cash Register, because that’s not anything geographic.
Unfortunately, there’s no stopping them. Appropriation is part and parcel with them since they make up for their overabundance of vitriol with a tendency towards a complete lack of productive creativity.
Another example is the Gadsden Flag. It was originally an anti-colonial flag designed during the Revolutionary war, but nowadays it’s mostly a libertarian “don’t stop me from stepping on others” flag. Here’s some parody versions, though:
I’m sad that it’s gotten to the point where I assume people with a dozen+ American flags in their yard are right-wing nationalists…
