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Flag is just a piece of cloth

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I don’t understand this weird American obsession with flag. I was looking at some photos of Trump’s rallies. Flags everywhere - on shirts, hats, glasses etc. And this bizarre cult of the flag - “it cannot touch the ground” etc.

At the end of the day the flag is just a piece of cloth. If you worship any flag or take offense to any flag, you need to get a life.

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baduhai@sopuli.xyz
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I understand a flag having meaning. What I don’t understand is kids pledging allegiance to the flag everyday. That’s some North Korea shit.

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baduhai@sopuli.xyz
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Sure, but kids are kids, they probably don’t understand that. It’s fucked up.

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Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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And they should, so spread the word and let parents know.

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masquenox@lemmy.world
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That’s some North Korea shit.

Nope. That’s some American shit. And it was American shit long before the DPRK even existed.

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ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world
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it’s post-ww2, cold war-era creepy shit. Need to make soldiers and weed out the conspirators.

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