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djg21

(1,803 posts)
10. Dumbfuckistan
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 11:01 PM
Oct 2017

Upstate NY is largely rural, relatively poor and very red. One of the larger employers is the State prison system. A big issue is guns, and there are anti-SAFE Act (NY assault weapon and handgun legislation) everywhere.

There are a number of Confederate flags flying by me — a few within a couple of miles — and I’m not too far north of Albany. But there is karma. A mosque and Islamic learning center just opened across the street from one home in my town with a Confederate flag flying out front.

I’d love to post pictures and addresses of these houses somewhere. I presume that the dumbfucks flying these flags aren’t celebrating their Southern heritage.

Who the fuck cares what it means to them?! It objectively is the battle flag Dark n Stormy Knight Oct 2017 #1
I'll see your traitors JustAnotherGen Oct 2017 #17
Why would of all places a person from NY have a traitor's flag? rockfordfile Oct 2017 #2
how did they handle the winters? pstokely Oct 2017 #8
Love it! PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2017 #11
Dumbfuckistan djg21 Oct 2017 #10
He's from Georgia JustAnotherGen Oct 2017 #18
In what universe does this constitute a news story? oberliner Oct 2017 #3
You dont like it, dont click. Eko Oct 2017 #5
I just don't like when Raw Story steals the work of others oberliner Oct 2017 #9
That's pretty much what RawStory does. greatauntoftriplets Oct 2017 #19
Raw Story ALWAYS provides an obvious link to the original story, they don't "steal" work of others. George II Oct 2017 #24
A person at Raw Story put their name as the byline oberliner Oct 2017 #30
Read the article, please. George II Oct 2017 #34
Wait, you first said that this isnt important enough to be a news story, now you say Eliot Rosewater Oct 2017 #26
No I didn't oberliner Oct 2017 #29
This message was self-deleted by its author Eliot Rosewater Oct 2017 #32
Exactly oberliner Oct 2017 #33
Huh? n/t malaise Oct 2017 #6
Seems like they took NPR's article oberliner Oct 2017 #7
I didn't see that anyone said it constituted a new story, that's why it's in... George II Oct 2017 #20
Agree JustAnotherGen Oct 2017 #22
Notice he couldn't give a rat's about the content of the story. tenderfoot Oct 2017 #25
Always notice that, myself. Eliot Rosewater Oct 2017 #27
It's an enemy flag. Philistein Oct 2017 #4
I don't really find it funny. It was an act of racist aggression to a child meant to intimidate. SweetieD Oct 2017 #12
Yup, Eko Oct 2017 #13
Here's the original article from npr tenderfoot Oct 2017 #14
You know . . . JustAnotherGen Oct 2017 #16
I feel for the flag owner, I do. He sincerely needs that black person or any black person to Eliot Rosewater Oct 2017 #31
That's what I don't get about 45/140 supporters JustAnotherGen Oct 2017 #35
What did they think he would say? True_Blue Oct 2017 #15
If It Means Something Other Than What He Said, To Them. . . ProfessorGAC Oct 2017 #21
what the fucking hell??? Blue_Tires Oct 2017 #23
That's an extremely polite young man bigbrother05 Oct 2017 #28
Those who flew the stars and bars killed those OldHippieChick Oct 2017 #36
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