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[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I'm sad that it's gotten to the point where I assume people with a dozen+ American flags in their yard are right-wing nationalists...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

That's fair. One is normal. More than that is weird.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 months ago (5 children)

None is normal. I know what fucking country I'm in.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago

You know how many houses in Japan fly the Japanese flag? Zero!

Outside of government buildings and the largest train stations, I almost never see the Japanese flag in public.

In fact, because of curry restaurants and fly-by-night English schools, I see the Union Jack and the Nepalese flag more often than I do the Japanese flag.

So, yeah, anyone who stabs their front lawn with tiny American flags like Uncle Sam went minesweeping is a weirdo.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

But what if a space alien lands on the planet but forgot to bring a geopolitical map with them and needed to find out what country they are in so they can ask to see our leader but they have to inefficiently resort to trying out different languages on people instead of looking up and seeing a national flag which would give them the data they need to proceed to ask to see our leader in the correct language?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

to be fair it's a pretty flag and represents the entire nation of people, not just the shitty government and fucked up history

i think of all the good people i love in my country when i see my flag. it makes me sad to think it's also a symbol of so much bad shit :( but i also understand. :(

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nah. Nationalism is a blight on society.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

being a USA "nationalist" is so dumb because our whole deal is being a nation made up of people from all over the world lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

To be fair, flying the flag of the country you're in while in that country, is super lame. I say this as someone who wore the flag while in combat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I think normal depends entirely on where you were raised. Most of the homes in my neighborhood displayed a single American flag when I was a kid. I do the same as an adult, and I'm glad the sick magalunatics make it easy for us to pick them out with their desperate cries for attention, and their fuck your feelings flags.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

One is pretty normal for career military too. Doesn't matter on politics, but there's certainly a right leaning tendency

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

My s/o has a couple from military. He’s def not right leaning. I think they’re more like memorabilia.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I agree with you, but I grew up in a place where people actually have national pride. And just to be exceedingly clear, that is different from Christofascism and white nationalism. And yes, I did vote for Obama.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

Just a single flag with no mitigating signage and I assume it is a Christofascist. It's not as strong of a signal as Blue Line, Swastika, or Repub campaign yard sign but you'll be right more than half the time. Two US flags is like 99% certainty.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Well, that flag has represented horseshit for a long long time now. It only makes sense.