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.

  • ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    the issue is that even British flag shaggers have nothing on the crazy level muricans take this to.

    But that’s not saying I disagree with you.

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      2 months ago

      I doubt that one group of flag extremists is less crazy than another.

      I think it’s easy to conflate different groups like Christian nationalists or peppers or the KKK with jingoistic idiots because a lot of them fly flags, but it’s in no way an accurate critique of an entire population any more than someone assuming that everyone in Spain is a fascist because some people who wave the Spanish flag are fascists.