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My Dad flys a US flag on his house Memorial Day, Independence Day and Veteran's Day. I was talking about this to a flag worshiping conservative coworker some years back and he asked me with concern how he stores the flag when not in use. I told him he just rolls it up and sets it against a wall. He then asked if it has even fallen down to the ground. I answered that one day I found it slipped out of the holder on the front of the house and I just brushed it off and remounted it. He told me that flag shouldn't be flown and we should burn it a buy a new one. I told him that sounds like a huge waste of money, but he shook his head and said "that's not a real flag anymore."
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Jul 4, 2021 15:47
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Did he ever stop shaking his head?
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Jul 4, 2021 15:51
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You have to store it folded thirteen times into a triangle otherwise the flag juice leaks out.
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Jul 4, 2021 15:53
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Vinny the Shark posted:My Dad flys a US flag on his house Memorial Day, Independence Day and Veteran's Day. I was talking about this to a flag worshiping conservative coworker some years back and he asked me with concern how he stores the flag when not in use. I told him he just rolls it up and sets it against a wall. He then asked if it has even fallen down to the ground. I answered that one day I found it slipped out of the holder on the front of the house and I just brushed it off and remounted it. He told me that flag shouldn't be flown and we should burn it a buy a new one. I told him that sounds like a huge waste of money, but he shook his head and said "that's not a real flag anymore." Honestly if you're not willing to follow some silly rules about ritualistic care for an object, it's not special enough to get its own holiday.
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Jul 4, 2021 16:00
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Raising the flag at Iwo Jima cancelled because the solider carrying it tripped
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Jul 4, 2021 16:01
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Vinny the Shark posted:My Dad flys a US flag on his house Memorial Day, Independence Day and Veteran's Day. I was talking about this to a flag worshiping conservative coworker some years back and he asked me with concern how he stores the flag when not in use. I told him he just rolls it up and sets it against a wall. He then asked if it has even fallen down to the ground. I answered that one day I found it slipped out of the holder on the front of the house and I just brushed it off and remounted it. He told me that flag shouldn't be flown and we should burn it a buy a new one. I told him that sounds like a huge waste of money, but he shook his head and said "that's not a real flag anymore." (i)The flag should never be used for advertising purposes in any manner whatsoever. It should not be embroidered on such articles as cushions or handkerchiefs and the like, printed or otherwise impressed on paper napkins or boxes or anything that is designed for temporary use and discard. Advertising signs should not be fastened to a staff or halyard from which the flag is flown. (j)No part of the flag should ever be used as a costume or athletic uniform. However, a flag patch may be affixed to the uniform of military personnel, firemen, policemen, and members of patriotic organizations. The flag represents a living country and is itself considered a living thing. Therefore, the lapel flag pin being a replica, should be worn on the left lapel near the heart.
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Jul 4, 2021 16:16
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The flag is a living thing and yet you deface it by writing lovely memes all over it. Not so pro-life now huh? 
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Jul 4, 2021 16:28
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I lived in DC during the tea party protest years and had a fun time IRL trolling chuds with flag code violations.
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Jul 4, 2021 16:57
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A GigaChud I know paid like $4K to have the American flag airbrushed on his massive garage door. He proudly posted pictures in the Facebook group we belonged to, and we about died laughing. You see, it was actually the Liberian flag. He flew into a rage when we pointed it out. "It's stylized! The full flag would have taken too much time!" Yeah... stylized in the style of Liberia So now anytime he's saying something ridiculous, we just tell him go recite the Liberian national anthem.
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Jul 4, 2021 17:05
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I will follow flag rules to the grave but mask rules can go gently caress yourselves. I’ll shoot you if you try to make me wear a mask.
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Jul 4, 2021 17:05
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:The thing that's always been most interesting to me is poorly maintained American flag displays. Yeah, very few of the Look How American and Patriotic I Am crowd seems to give much of a poo poo at all about the flag code - assuming they even know about it - which is odd because these types are usually the first ones to take offense at liberals saluting troops wrong, laying a wreath down improperly or fake images of Obama pledging allegiance with the wrong hand on his heart and poo poo like that. EDIT: Also, the Thin Blue Line flag on your vehicle is such an rear end kissing suck up move to me and seems like the sort of thing CHUDS would be opposed to: coddling up and ceding power to government, state sanctioned, heavily armed authority that wants to trample on your rights and freedom by hassling you for no reason. I notice when it's on a windshield they always put it on the driver's side on the rear to ensure Mr Cop gets a nice clear look at it when he pulls you over and approaches your car. BiggerBoat fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Jul 4, 2021 |
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Jul 4, 2021 17:20
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Guavanaut posted:You have to store it folded thirteen times into a triangle otherwise the flag juice leaks out. Yeah, every flag has a finite amount of Freedom Juice poo poo: double post
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Jul 4, 2021 17:27
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The American flag looks like a circus clown's underwear, there I said it.
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Jul 4, 2021 18:03
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Junkie Disease posted:Did he ever stop shaking his head? Legend says he still shaking his head to this day.
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Jul 4, 2021 18:23
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World Famous W posted:I see far less confederate flags now (in Alabama) then when I was a child. Still waaaaay to many though You reminded me that I still hate going to Danville and seeing the giant Confederate flag billboard that welcomes you to "The Last Capital of the Confederacy" alongside the enormous Confederate flag flying on a flagpole beside it. Plenty of people still flying it along the early stretches of 58 when you get into the city too.
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Jul 4, 2021 19:15
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BiggerBoat posted:
This is what I always rub in their face. That that are siding with the people that would be confiscating their guns, taking their kids away, siding with their ex in some DV dispute, wiring every petty and rent seeking fines and fees that they could manage. But they think the cops are always going to be on their side, which must make it very convenient for authorities when chuds get investigated fur assault or murder and are extremely 'helpful' to the cops in giving their side of the story.
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Jul 4, 2021 19:31
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HootTheOwl posted:The flag represents a living country and is itself considered a living thing. Therefore, the lapel flag pin being a replica, should be worn on the left lapel near the heart. Get fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked with this poo poo (not you Hoot). OR Wearing a replica of a living flag over your heart is Pure and Good and What Jeezus Would Have Done, but North Koreans wearing a Kim lapel badge in the same place is communist poo poo for loving commies and Why Haven't We Invaded Yet. Seriously, Americans' (as an amorphous mass (which many of them are heyooooo)) lack of cognitive dissonance wrt this stuff just amazes me. Mandate that people stand and recite a pledge of allegiance to a loving flag (but Don't Tell Me What To Do), mandate that people salute the flag and wear pins (but Other Places That Do That Are Evil), etc.
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Jul 4, 2021 20:14
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Libra posted:The American flag looks like a circus clown's underwear, there I said it. If you want a laugh, go check out the flag of the British East India Company (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company) Yes, the US flag is just a dye-rip of that, but with the icons of the States quartered instead of the icon of the UK
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Jul 4, 2021 20:55
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Libra posted:The American flag looks like a circus clown's underwear, there I said it. Stars only come out at night, so why have it on blue?!! should be black or least darker shade of blue. And they are all in a line! No stars are in a line, get it right! And too many stripes! How many, 50? Hard to draw that poo poo, keep it minimal, like 2 or 3 stripes. And no yellow it. All the best flags have yellow.
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Jul 4, 2021 22:27
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I think I followed all those steps, but it doesn't look right.
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Jul 4, 2021 22:35
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happyhippy posted:Stars only come out at night, so why have it on blue?!! should be black or least darker shade of blue. make the arrangement of stars randomly generated for every single flag made or printed. Use 4 R Troops as the seed!
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Jul 5, 2021 00:24
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Jul 5, 2021 00:52
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This is filling up my timeline today. It is your standard poo poo (if you don’t love it, leave it; don’t disgrace the flag; taking down our statues; they are trying to undo everything Dear Leader did; etc). Although this is the first time I can remember someone making GBS threads on Bruce Springsteen. Apparently, Staind made him insanely stupid early on in life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnNJv5yNZjE
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Jul 5, 2021 01:37
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the_steve posted:Nah, they just sincerely believe that Under God was always in the original, just like all money always had "In God We Trust" and that wasn't just something they slapped on during the Cold War. It was that way when they were children and that is fundamentally the same thing as "always" to them. Also the flag being a living thing sounds Catholic as hell to me. Orange Devil fucked around with this message at 10:50 on Jul 5, 2021 |
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Jul 5, 2021 10:42
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Orange Devil posted:It was that way when they were children and that is fundamentally the same thing as "always" to them. And yet loads of americans will ask "are they christian or are they catholic?" Curious (and Klannish)
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Jul 5, 2021 15:27
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Jul 5, 2021 16:28
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Gee, almost like capitalism dragged its feet on the HIV vaccine because it didn't find it profitable enough or something crazy like that... And of course, I'm not a medical researcher but I know finding a vaccine for the common cold or for cancer is not nearly as easy as these brain geniuses seem to think it is.
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Jul 5, 2021 16:31
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mRNA technology developed over the past 40 years has yielded a promising vaccine candidate for HIV-1 after the huge funding boost that the past year gave the field, as well as possible gene therapies for some cancers. The HPV vaccine greatly reduces the risk of cervical cancer.
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Jul 5, 2021 16:33
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Guavanaut posted:mRNA technology developed over the past 40 years has yielded a promising vaccine candidate for HIV-1 after the huge funding boost that the past year gave the field, as well as possible gene therapies for some cancers. The HPV vaccine greatly reduces the risk of cervical cancer. I was about to say that mRNA vaccines may be able to create a vaccine for HIV. Also, cancers are caused by a poo poo ton of different factors including genetic, viral and environmental. I doubt that there is any cure for cancer that does not involve gene editing.
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Jul 5, 2021 16:41
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Bizarro Kanyon posted:I was about to say that mRNA vaccines may be able to create a vaccine for HIV. Also, cancers are caused by a poo poo ton of different factors including genetic, viral and environmental. I doubt that there is any cure for cancer that does not involve gene editing. And there are hundreds of varieties of "cancer", each of which would need its own vaccine. To say nothing of cancers caused by environmental hazards such as asbestos, you can't vaccinate against tiny razor blades slicing your DNA into malignant mutant fragments.
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Jul 5, 2021 17:54
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 Also, the original Revolutionary flag of New York is hilarious: 
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Jul 5, 2021 17:58
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Almost like paying reparations and educating your children goes a long way without needing to blame them.
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Jul 5, 2021 18:04
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Remember when Fukushima happened and tons of people were going "revenge for Pearl Harbor" on facebook
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Jul 5, 2021 18:34
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Gee, almost like capitalism dragged its feet on the HIV vaccine because it didn't find it profitable enough or something crazy like that... Eh, if it were easy, they'd have already made a vaccine for HIV. The problem is that it infects the same system that is responsible for killing it, so it's not exactly a trivial thing to make. There are diseases that are more difficult to create vaccines for than others.
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Jul 5, 2021 18:52
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mllaneza posted:you can't vaccinate against tiny razor blades slicing your DNA into malignant mutant fragments. yet
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Jul 5, 2021 18:56
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Libra posted:The American flag looks like a circus clown's underwear, there I said it. God drat.
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Jul 6, 2021 15:23
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Forwarded emails now in music form! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b5mrpSb9Mg
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Jul 6, 2021 15:28
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It is the quickest way to make a buck for musicians. Get a “patriotic but sad” song to go viral and you can make a bunch of money quickly.
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