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In reply to the discussion: Hey YOU! You there with the American Flag flying on your car! [View all]WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)65. I'm a flag nut; I went around on 9/12/01 educating neighbors who had hung a flag backwards. BUT-----
stickers and decals do not count, nor do flag-depicting picnic napkins or plates, or bandanas, or postal stamps, etc.
Let us get a grip.
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ghostsinthemachine
Sep 2015
OP
The flag should not be displayed on days when the weather is inclement, except when an all weather
Jamastiene
Sep 2015
#38
my conservative neighbors used to keep their flag out in front of their house in all
hollysmom
Sep 2015
#17
You see them a lot in the Southern States. The "Patriots" driving the streets with Flags-a-flying!
BlueJazz
Sep 2015
#7
Most of the ones I've seen are in Jacksonville through northern Florida, southern Georgia, ..
BlueJazz
Sep 2015
#39
Yes!...I've seen that also a lot more lately. Let me tell you, I'm quite impressed.
BlueJazz
Sep 2015
#59
All I would hope to see is that people secure their flags to their rigs at high speeds.
punguin54
Sep 2015
#33
Wow it gives the effect that the flag is backwards to me, well at least I know now. I
doc03
Sep 2015
#24
That flag is stuck into a pile of bones from our founder's genocide, so there is that.
jtuck004
Sep 2015
#37
I feel just fine.<G> I'm not the one who has to be reminded that they have a LOT more
jtuck004
Sep 2015
#50
The "patriots" fly or wear the flag everywhere and paste it on anything to the point that
A Simple Game
Sep 2015
#40
I think the reverence shown to red, white & blue fabric/plastic here is weird and creepy.
Arugula Latte
Sep 2015
#47
It's not the flag, It's the rampant nationalism they display with the symbol.
Spitfire of ATJ
Sep 2015
#49
Right. It often seems to be a package of nationalism, jingoism, U.S. exceptionalism, and
Arugula Latte
Sep 2015
#60
I swear, the Right was in heaven seeing tanks with the American flag tearing through the desert.
Spitfire of ATJ
Sep 2015
#63
TOTALLY agree. While worthy of respect, the worship thing is just way over the top.
underahedgerow
Sep 2015
#52
Actually, probably by slaves that were owned by members of my family....
ghostsinthemachine
Sep 2015
#62