President Donald Trump signed an executive order seeking to penalize people who burn flags, although courts have long upheld the practice as legitimate expression under the First Amendment.
The order aims to prosecute people who burn flags associated with other violence, such as inciting a riot, the president said.
"If you burn a flag, you get one year in jail," Trump said. "You will see flag burning stop immediately."
Conservatives have the weirdest boner for flags, and against flagburning. A thing that almost never happens.
It’ll probably be happening a lot more now
I have the urge… to buy a bunch of Made in China flags… and do some arts and crafts.
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.
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.
@[email protected] You left out the thin blue line flag.
Last I read, the change in colors and design are significant enough for that iteration to not count, but I might’ve read it from a biased source. I can’t quite remember where, but I was erring on the side of caution, not that it would actually be applied even if that flag counted.
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No, no, no.
Don’t be destructive, be creative.
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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.
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).
Flag burning happens all the time, mostly done by the Scouts.
Yup, 8 year old me was clearly a criminal.
I was a bit older than 8, but I learned to smoke weed in the Boy Scouts.
Ha, I wish my pack was that cool. I think the coolest thing we got to do was shoot guns and go skiing.
Also proper retirement of flags is done in a pyre. I was in boy scouts when I was a kid and we had to do it semi frequently.