The American flag fetish is a trip.
Well, that flag was no angel
Guy yelled at me that it “wasn’t the time” when I defended looting gonna ping him with this.
Thousands of people are literally stranded
Let’s stop and pick up this tattered cloth to make sure it’s safe.
This is like an echo of that 9/11 shit where a cross-shaped piece of wreckage got the hogs oinking for years.
Bush did 9/11
Jesus did 9/11 and left a cross as a calling card
Thinking back on it I’ll always marvel at how the hogs could simultaneously hold these two thoughts in their head: “NYC is a liberal hellhole, a modern Sodom” and “we must transform into Super American Patriots 2 after WE were attacked by terrorists”
I have reached the conclusion that holding mutually exclusive beliefs is a core feature of fascism. The only stable belief they have is the belief in their own supremacy and they will take up any other belief that advances their supremacy. History is full of such examples, when the Nazis were a small struggling party they were moaning about the freeze peach of Hitler, when they gained power they violently oppressed any dissenting speech. In my own country, without skipping a beat fascists transitioned from believing that banning corporal punishment of children was “monstrous socialism” to believing that Muslims are savages for beating their children, once they saw popular opinion had shifted.
Liberals will see this inconsistency of beliefs as a weakness, and think they are clever for making gotcha! clapbacks. They’re not. Far from being a weakness, this slippery ideological flexibility is one of the strengths of fascism. Not only are fascists able to appeal to groups of people whose material interests are objectively antagonistic to eachother, believing everything and nothing at the same time makes them pretty much immune to liberal ideals of free democratic debate in the marketplace of ideas. You can’t debate a fascist, if a belief is no longer opportune for them they will always have had the opposite opinion. At best trying to debate fascists is a waste of time, at worst it legitimises them and normalises their supremacist ideology.
I mean yeah Umberto Eco listed this in Ur-Fascism. Fascists are only concerned about power and the ends justify the means of acquiring said power. They revel in lying and being disingenuous.
Insert Levi Jeans polka satire quote here idk do we have a bot for that?
If you’ve ever walked through any vaguely chuddy neighborhood you’d expect American flags to be washed up like seaweed after a flood
It will be retired from use.
This thing is virtually trash, even to the flag fuckers lmao
The Nazis had their blood flag, the YanKKKees can have their “mud flag.” Same-same lol
The confederates had their “blood stained banner”
And in bad country after a natural disaster caused by climate change the regime accelerated dead bodies are passed over for their national flag which takes priority.
“Moving.”
Yeah okay dude, settle down before you throw your back out
Do bowel movements count?
: “You are such a dumb, silly, childish ideology.”
: “You’re the ideology that sees inanimate objects as more important than human life.”
Gotta nurse the flag back to good health so that it can go back to being good fuel for a fire
You actually retire a flag by burning it
Yeah, but respectfully.🤮
Simultaneously pathetic and disgusting
Caring more for symbols and photo ops than their own people.
That flag had a family 😔
When an East India Company mommy flag lives another flag very much…