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.
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…
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.
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 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.
Fascism is heeeeeeerrrrrrrrrre
The Louisiana Republican says a flag used by the January 6 insurrectionists is harmless.
mostly
January 6th was done by ANTIFA so does this mean Johnson is an ANTIFA supporter since he’s flying an ANTIFA flag?
A reprehensible as anyone flying that flag is, Mike Johnson is expected to be a deeply biased shithead who aligns with civilian groups. Being objectionable to good reasonable democracy-loving liberals is part of their performance. The Alito story is a very different thing and I don’t think it strengthens that case to try to hunt down every instance of people in government flying the flag.
