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    Conservatives have the weirdest boner for flags, and against flagburning. A thing that almost never happens.

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        I have the urge… to buy a bunch of Made in China flags… and do some arts and crafts.

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      This is likely to apply more to conservatives than anyone else. Slapping words on a flag? Desecration. Using it for advertising? Desecration. Adding symbols (like guns)? Desecration. It’s not going to be enforced like that, but the hypocrisy is real.

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        The conservatives wallow in hypocrisy. These were the same assfucks that were calling themselves free speech absolutists, too.

        As usual, they are absolutely full of shit.

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                I’m all for it, but, and this may surprise you, I used to carry around a pack of prisma color markers with me everywhere I went. That 12 pack they sell at art stores.

                I used to do this a lot

                Thing is, it takes a while to get it all done, and it’s easy to get caught— and those guys are pretty quick to pull their guns. So… Something to consider.

                I did it a lot when I was younger, but I’m in my mid 40s now. I can’t run so fast anymore…lol

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                  Ha, what a coincidence. Kudos to you and “thank you for your service”. I am backseat driving here from Australia.

                  That example shows four spaces above the blue. Enough room for red, orange, yellow, green. Perfect. But most times I see only three spaces above it so which colour did you drop on those ones?

                  Then two after for indigo and violet. Unfortunately the thin blue line is more indigo than blue though. How did you handle the lines below the thin blue line? The meme messes it up with pink and white.

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        The whole gimmick of conservatism is to bind people you don’t like with laws while exempting people you do like from the same laws. Nothing new.

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          That’s in the USAmerican experience. I recall in Yugoslavia that the Left pulled the same hypocritical stunt and the conservatives in USA felt like it was already happening to them (since it was exaggerated into panic by social media’s polarizing algorithms).

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    I’d burn a flag in protest but it’s not worth the price of buying a flag

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    When a flag is so tattered that it can no longer serve as a symbol of the United States, it should be destroyed in a dignified manner, preferably by burning.

    What about if the country is so tattered?

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        Right - Checks and balances don’t work if they’re colluding! It all falls down without integrity

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    “The Attorney General shall prioritize the enforcement to the fullest extent possible of our Nation’s criminal and civil laws against acts of American Flag desecration that violate applicable, content-neutral laws, while causing harm unrelated to expression, consistent with the First Amendment” If I am reading this correctly, all the Trump enthusiasts desecrating a flag with their diesel exhaust while speeding/road rage/DUI should all be round up. So vague in wording not even describing what desiccating the flag means…

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    I’ll get some flags with the wrong number of stars or stripes and burn them. I’ll also burn Confederate flags because fuck those traitors, and I’ll burn pictures of Pig Boy Trump and stick pins into bloated orange dolls.