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.
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:
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.
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…
