RoxyRollah

Admit it you just want me to defend you.

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John Wilkes Booth

of course. like every other online decision i've ever made, the main priority was winning favor with roxy

RoxyRollah

Your so alluring when you lie.

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John Wilkes Booth

i guess that's just one of my talents

girth6

donald trump acts crazy and ridiculous and will drop out last second to make the rel republican candidate look normal

Two Spirit

Why has this issue suddenly sprung up out of nowhere? The flag is over a century old, and everyone knows the history of it, yet everyone has suddenly become butthurt over it, even to the point of people disrespecting others private property by stealing the flags and desecrating them.

Frownland

It was sparked by a vote to remove the flag from government buildings in South Carolina as a response to the Charleston shooting since the shooter's photos were with the flag. That sparked the discussion and became the chic marketing trend to remove all signs of the flag even when it's relevant.

I agree that it shouldn't be at government offices since that country no longer exists (kind of like flying a Rhodesia flag in Zimbabwe). Yet while I don't support people flying the flag due to its obvious links to slavery, I don't think it's appropriate for people to do things that you've described or to overzealously make it taboo in stores, even for things like Dukes of Hazzard.

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John Wilkes Booth

because apparently, every tragedy needs to be relentlessly exploited for the purposes of pursuing one particular ideological agenda or another.

this isn't a new issue, of course. people have been complaining about this flag since the civil rights movement. but because the flag is so revered by so many people, there was never the political will in some parts of the south to abandon it.

of course, once 9 people were brutally gunned down on the basis of race, by some autistic looking, bowl-cut-sporting southern spastic, the resulting outrage was enough to galvanize people against the flag. even though this in no way makes it less likely that another crime like this could happen in the future. since we don't know how to solve that problem, people revert to flaggate in order to at least secure some sort of vague symbolic victory, so that those 9 people didn't die in vain.

Mr. Charlie

It's just a flag, innit.

Chula Vista

Didn't mention media once.

Amazing.

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on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”