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The majority of the people who complain about how shitty the US is/has become, have never spent an extended amount of time in an actual shiity country. I lived too much of my adult life in/around/passing through shitty countries. I know what we have here.
I never came back from a deployment hearing anyone complain about going home to the USofA, and if you think it's just because they were being reunited with loved ones, you haven't got damn a clue. |
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I don’t generally attach sentiment to inanimate objects. I don’t get offended by…about anything. I don’t care if someone kneels for the national anthem, stands, wears a hat, whatever. I don’t care if someone spits or urinates on the flag or burns it. It doesn’t mean anything. They’re not pissing on me. They’re not burning the country down. It’s a flag.
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Johnny Cash - Ragged Old Flag (Official Audio) |
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Quoted: I don't generally attach sentiment to inanimate objects. I don't get offended by about anything. I don't care if someone kneels for the national anthem, stands, wears a hat, whatever. I don't care if someone spits or urinates on the flag or burns it. It doesn't mean anything. They're not pissing on me. They're not burning the country down. It's a flag. View Quote Also this. I consider kneeling as a peaceful protest to be as American as it gets. It brings a smile to me, though, that those first to decry kneeling are also first to fly an upside down flag because they don't like the current President. |
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Quoted: Also this. I consider kneeling as a peaceful protest to be as American as it gets. It brings a smile to me, though, that those first to decry kneeling are also first to fly an upside down flag because they don't like the current President. View Quote The upside down whiny thread from a few weeks back was about as limp dicked as it gets. |
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Quoted: Also this. I consider kneeling as a peaceful protest to be as American as it gets. It brings a smile to me, though, that those first to decry kneeling are also first to fly an upside down flag because they don't like the current President. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I don't generally attach sentiment to inanimate objects. I don't get offended by about anything. I don't care if someone kneels for the national anthem, stands, wears a hat, whatever. I don't care if someone spits or urinates on the flag or burns it. It doesn't mean anything. They're not pissing on me. They're not burning the country down. It's a flag. Also this. I consider kneeling as a peaceful protest to be as American as it gets. It brings a smile to me, though, that those first to decry kneeling are also first to fly an upside down flag because they don't like the current President. Colin Kaepernic burned down his entire career for something he believed in. That's worthy of respect, even if one doesn't agree. |
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Positive for me.
I think of what America is meant to be when I see it. It represents all the good things about our history, culture, etc... What pisses me off is seeing this symbol co-opted and perverted by leftists and freaks. I'd rather you hate America and openly spit on the flag than wrap yourself in it to PRETEND you love America all while you're trying to destroy it. At least one is honest. The rainbow has been so thoroughly abused that I'll never look at one positively again. |
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A Reminder of what is being thrown away and lost to time.
Most people do not want freedom, they want security. |
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Quoted: https://i.postimg.cc/tgdRrZSK/IMG-5464.jpg What comes to mind when you see this flag? What emotions does it elicit? Ignoring the history of what it may have meant in the past and what it could mean in the future, is it something you are proud of in 2024? View Quote The fact that it should be upside down. We're in distress. |
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We should retweet this until it is the number 1 repost on X:
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 3, 2020 Attached File |
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I've had ancestors who have fought for liberty before there was a United States, and forward to today...
There is a growing groundswell of resistance to the current regime, and that flag is a symbol that unites those of us that still believe that freedom and liberty are still worth fighting for, to the last round and the last breath. We are the last, best hope for liberty... |
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Positive. It represents our country. Unfortunately our government does not.
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Positive for me. Just cant stand to see it disgraced with peoples faces, colored lines or any variation thereof applied on it.
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I prefer the Betsy Ross. To me it symbolizes our founding ideals.
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Always wondered what Gen. Bethlehem meant when he said "That flag is an abomination!" in The Postman (Kevin Costner).
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Quoted: When I see the flag, I'm reminded of manning the rail to honor our shipmates on the USS Arizona when entering Pearl Harbor. https://www.pearlharbortours.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/USS_Abraham_Lincoln_CVN-72_manning_rails_for_USS_Arizona-2002-by-Kittie-VandenBosch-U.S_2.jpg View Quote |
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Quoted: i don't suit up for the merican flag or you or your useless fellow mericans. merica was lost many decades ago. flag in 2024 is a symbol of what merica was. guys like me fight for the men (and women) next to us. View Quote If you are a believer, then the Christian flag has much better meaning than the US flag |
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It no longer elicits pride in the "that's who we are" way it always did as I was younger.
But it elicits pride in a "that's who we can be again" kind of way. |
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25 years of reveilles and retreats, multiple deployments to theater shitholes where the base flag was the only tangible symbol of home, folded and presented at my (retired USMC) father's funeral and my retirement.
Emotion strong enough that I would make my best effort at beating your ass for burning it in protest, no matter what the law says. |
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Quoted: Quoted: What I said doesn't mean I don't care, it means I'm not blind like you are. Agree....we're not blind either. We will fight if need be to. But you've already surrendered. Just like all the illegal criminals who've surrendered their country and abandoned it. |
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Quoted: I I can love something but realize what it has become is not what it was supposed to be. View Quote I'll agree with you on that. You're right. But mark my words a day will come when Americans will have to make a choice. That flag will be held high when they do. If anyone thinks for one moment their aren't Americans in this nation that will not do what's necessary. You're crazy. You can back the most gentle scared dog there is into a corner, and he will rip you apart to get out. Americans are being backed into a corner. Everything that we love is being attacked. Everything that represents America is not only being attacked but destroyed by this domestic threat to our republic. We've already had war declared on us. Who they call MAGA (MakeAmericaGreatAgain), the greatest threat to their Democratic democracy in the history of America. We must be stopped at all costs. You fly an American flag, and you are a threat because you're supposed to hate America and it's symbol. These traitors have subverted everything America, including the display of our nation's symbol. But mark my words a day will come where you'll carry that flag or another and choices will have to be made. This nation is to divided and this post is just one more example of that. |
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Quoted: 25 years of reveilles and retreats, multiple deployments to theater shitholes where the base flag was the only tangible symbol of home, folded and presented at my (retired USMC) father's funeral and my retirement. Emotion strong enough that I would make my best effort at beating your ass for burning it in protest, no matter what the law says. View Quote |
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John Wayne - Face the Flag I don't think you'll find a more respectful tribute to The Colors at any time or at any place in the USA than at a rodeo. Rodeo Flag Ceremony - very moving. Learn from history |
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I respect and admire the US Flag and the Constitution it represents.
All special interest adaptation flags are ghey. I don't care what color your special stripe is. Ghey. |
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I spent the last 35 years of my life representing that flag around the world. It means more to me than i could ever properly express with words.
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A nation being looted and run into the ground by corrupt, globalist gangsters.
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“The flag still stands for Freedom, and You Can’t Take That Away!”
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Quoted: https://i.postimg.cc/tgdRrZSK/IMG-5464.jpg What comes to mind when you see this flag? What emotions does it elicit? Ignoring the history of what it may have meant in the past and what it could mean in the future, is it something you are proud of in 2024? View Quote When I see that flag, I think of all the training, and gear, and skills that were wasted because we were forced to sit on the sidelines while commie flag wearing dudes with trash can lids were burning our cities down, and the whole time the media was lying to us and saying things were mostly peaceful while people's businesses were being looted and burned, and people were being dragged out of their cars and stomped to death. Our government took a dive for the commies, and then gave us potato. They intentionally held us back, and let those commie slimeballs do whatever they felt like doing with no repercussions. Now people are all giddy to put the same guy who was in charge then back in charge, because him or potato. That's the choice we have. That, or potato. Potato, or that. |
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Quoted: When I see that flag, I think of all the training, and gear, and skills that were wasted because we were forced to sit on the sidelines while commie flag wearing dudes with trash can lids were burning our cities down, and the whole time the media was lying to us and saying things were mostly peaceful while people's businesses were being looted and burned, and people were being dragged out of their cars and stomped to death. Our government took a dive for the commies, and then gave us potato. They intentionally held us back, and let those commie slimeballs do whatever they felt like doing with no repercussions. Now people are all giddy to put the same guy who was in charge then back in charge, because him or potato. That's the choice we have. That, or potato. Potato, or that. View Quote higher taxes, people on welfare, gun rights and the debt which was $12 trillion dollars less than it is only 4 years later. The riots shattered the illusion that the country could reverse course. It was at that moment I realized the country had an inoperable tumor that will continue to growing until it consumes what good remains. The country is unrecognizable from even 10 years ago. The Obama years seem amazing in comparison to now. I can't imagine what we'll look like in 40 years with more mass migration and cultural subversion. Everyone likes to recall the times the country has gone through hardship in the past and rallied together and came back and how we can do it again. But let's compare the demographics and culture during the previous periods of time when America was tested vs the demographics of America today. Multi-culturalism and importing much of the 3rd world is part of the reason why it's not going to work anymore. |
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Here's how I see it. Our flag isn't a status indicator. My reaction to our flag isn't based on my feelings on what is going on in America at the time. Our flag is a symbol of what we are supposed to be and what our nation is supposed to be. It's a symbol that reminds us of both our history (13 stripes) and our greatness (50 stars). I find it inspirational in the best of times and the worst of times. How I see the flag doesn't change depending on what's going on at the time.
When I see the flag, I see my father, who came home from Vietnam in a silver box when I was 9 years old. I see my uncle, who drank himself to death trying to get away from his memories of The Frozen Chosin. I see the faces of the shipmates I watched die. I see the sunken wreck of the USS Arizona. I see the ranks of stone at Arlington. I see the war memorials in thousands of cities and towns all across America. I see all the sacrifices made by so many Americans who fought underneath our flag. Did we fly the flag upside down over Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941? Hell no. Did we fly the flag upside down over the Marine Barracks in Beirut on October 23, 1983? Hell no! Did we fly the flag upside down over any part of America on September 11, 2011? Hell no! The times that have been the toughest for America ... are the times we have flown our flag the highest and proudest. Few would argue that the times aren't tough right now. Now is the time to fly Old Glory loud and proud! Not as a symbol of what American is but as a symbol of what American is supposed to be. As well as out of respect for those who came before us and who gave their all for us under that flag. That's how I see it. How you see it is up to you. Because I believe in what our flag symbolizes, I respect your right to see things however you want to see them. |
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still love my country. these deficiencies can be corrected. never quit. travel the world and you will have a greater appreciation for the magic of the USA. |
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