GOP bill says only the American flag can fly over US embassies: No more pride, BLM flags

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[–]1Icemonkey 8 insightful - 6 fun8 insightful - 5 fun9 insightful - 6 fun -  (5 children)

How exactly is the United States supposed to flaunt it’s spreading of the gay anal tranny agenda if it’s not going to fly it’s national (rainbow) flag everywhere?

[–]Alienhunter 4 insightful - 6 fun4 insightful - 5 fun5 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

The US of Gay must fly with pride to protect to future of tran babies everywhere.

[–]jamesK_3rd 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I think you can very much say that the stars and stripes are pretty much the same as there pride flag these days. The color scheme might be a lil different, but their meaning and representation is the exact same.

[–]1Icemonkey 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh, I was just joking that the fag flag is now our country’s flag. 😜😜

[–]hfxB0oyAPirate Party 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I laughed at this pic when I first saw it. Now the person who made is Nostradamus to me.

[–]1Icemonkey 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Wow!

[–]Alienhunter 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

So my question is. If the pride flag, BLM flag. And others are allowed.

Why can't other political groups petition to fly their own flags. Pro life flag. Christian nationalist flag? KKK flag? Republican flag?

Why not?

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

My guess is that pride and BLM are inclusive.

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (7 children)

Black Lesbian Men! 🌈

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Sure. But the point is they're not a hate group that opposes black non-lesbian men.

The KKK, christians and republicans can't, in truth, say that they don't oppose some groups of people.

[–]Alienhunter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Careful man your partisan bias is shining bright like a supernova.

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Because I think that republicans don't represent the 70% of Americans don't consider themselves republican?

Or because I think that the KKK doesn't represent the greater than that proportion of Americans whose family tree has branches?

[–]Alienhunter 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Because you're conflating a insular racial purity group that happens to mostly consist of people who belong to the other two categories with one of the two big tent political parties that represents a whole swath of people that for whatever reason aren't in the other big tent.

It would be like lumping in Climate Terrorists from Elf with Athiests and Democrats.

A climate terrorist from ELF is probably an Atheist and probably more inclined to vote democrat. Yet a democrat is not a climate terrorist nor even necessarily an atheist.

What you are doing is engaging in a rediculous form of generalization that is baldly partisan.

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I'm not conflating them.

I'm pointing out that they both don't include the majority of Americans.

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Gallup. On December 17, 2020, Gallup polling found that 31% of Americans identified as Democrats, 25% identified as Republican, and 41% as Independent.

There is no majority consensus. However, if we wish to pretend that numbers and percentages matter here beyond the one poll that does matter in November. I would ask why then do we see this discrepancy between political party identification and the party make up of American Congress.

Currently out of 535 seats available for both houses of Congress. Only three senators have an independent party affiliation. Which is less than 1% of the total seats available. Whereas combined republicans and democrats together only represent about 56% of the US population. Control virtually 99% of Congressional positions. A huge disparity.

If you wish to claim that because republicans only represent 25% of the population and are therefore not representative of American majority values. I wish to counter that by saying that the same argument rings true for the Democratic party despite having a slight numerical edge over the republicans.

Therefore it seems bizarre and blatantly partisan to insinuate that KKK Republicans and Christians are all equivalent. When it is wholly incongruent with the statistical makeup of the United States. The arguments with Christianity even more bizzare as that is the one group mentioned that is a majority position of the US population.

Therefore your argument is without any merit. It is merely a partisan jab designed to play at people's preconceptions and stereotypes of political expression in order to bolster partisan support.

In other words you are ignoring objective reality and taking advantage of bigotry to further a political goal. Which is I suppose what you'd argue your opponent is doing.

In reality the positions of either major party plan into a bipartisan political dynamic that encourages the amplification of extremist voices and positions in both parties to gain a sufficient voter base of both zealous and zealously opposed individuals on both and all ends of the "political spectrum" in order to gain enough seats to form a government.

Basically. The majority interests are less important to the election results than being the least undesirable candidate. As long as people dislike the other guy more you can win even if you yourself are also unpopular.

We say elections are a popularity contest, that is often true. But American elections specifically oftentimes simply boil down into being an unpopularity contest.

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I wish to counter that by saying that the same argument rings true for the Democratic party despite having a slight numerical edge over the republicans.

Agree. I'm not saying that a democratic part flag should fly over US embassies in foreign countries. That would also be not inclusive of the majority of Americans.

Therefore it seems bizarre and blatantly partisan to insinuate that KKK Republicans and Christians are all equivalent.

I'm not saying they're equivalent. I'm saying they stand against the majority of Americans.

The arguments with Christianity even more bizzare as that is the one group mentioned that is a majority position of the US population.

Right. But we're talking about the christian nationalist flag, and by christian, I mean, in this context, christian nationalists. I should have been more precise, and agree that the word doesn't mean christian nationalist. But you should be following the conversation.

[–]hfxB0oyAPirate Party 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A while back, a local school put up "All black trans lives matter" on their outdoor messaging sign. Highly inclusive.

[–]Fiyanggu 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Bury wokeness and virtue signaling. End of problem.

[–]hfxB0oyAPirate Party 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Even if I cared about Pride or BLM, or the USA (not American), I would still agree with this. Any national embassy is there simply to represent the the country in question. Even if these issues are important to the US, they should not be thought of as synonymous to nationhood. We all know what happened in the past when a popular movement's flag ended up replacing the flag of the nation in question....

[–]SMCAB 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

But that's exactly what's happening.

Culture wars are the cornerstone of the Stage 4 segment of a globalist/commie subversion.

[–]hfxB0oyAPirate Party 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Which is why it needs to be pushed back against. It's being proven over and over again that the public has no appetite for this BS, but the activists are the ones with the biggest bullhorns. When actions countering this stuff reach a critical mass, the groundswell of vocal support from fed-up normies will seem like a tidal wave that came out of nowhere.

[–]SMCAB 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I think you have WAAAAAAAAY too much optimism in your fellow man. The only thing that will get your idiot neighbor to do ANYTHING about ANYTHING is hunger.

groundswell of vocal support from fed-up normies will seem like a tidal wave that came out of nowhere.

I don't disagree with you in the context of understanding and realizing what's happening. Unfortunately, intelligence and having a clue doesn't equal fortitude.

You WILL drive past a guy in a wounded warrior t-shirt and "we the people" tatted on his arm handing over guns to the military on his own front porch. While I lay dead on mine.

[–]hfxB0oyAPirate Party 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm in Canada, so the details are different. But I get your point.

[–]SMCAB 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well damn, there I go being a typical American and assuming everyone is American. I'm sorry.

I think you boys proved me a bit wrong though. I don't think what happened during your trucker convoy would ever happen here. I was impressed frankly.

You even said it in you original comment. 🤦🏼

[–]tiny-brown-mug 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I traveled to Maine this past summer. Rural Maine. And if anyone's every been up there, you know it's the New England approximation of rural Indiana or something. Very down-to-earth, hard-working, moderate-to-conservative folks.

So a town had completely replaced all of the US flags on a public bridge with Pride Progress flags. Every single one. In rural Maine. On a public bridge. I had to kind of stare at the scene and mentally process it. And it's not like some or half of the US flags has been swapped out, every single one was gone.

How is anyone not supposed to interpret that as some kind of a hostile take over? And on a public road?

[–]aaarrgh 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

a step in the good direction

[–]Bonn1770Republican Party 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Flying the fag flag and nig flag over our embassies is just more commie demoralization. Nobody wants it.

[–]cons_ncConstitution Party 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It'll never pass without a GOP anti-uniparty President in office.

[–]EternalSunset 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's so unpatriotic of them to ban the true american flag xD

[–]Brewdabier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

GOP did one good thing.

[–]RandumbZer0 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Guess their 'Initiaism Weirdo' finally stole one too many batches of luggage..?

[–]LynchTheGroomers 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They're the same thing.

[–]Gaslov 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The US better get this bullshit under control.

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"It is important to ensure that Old Glory only is flown at American embassies to represent our ideals abroad," [Rep. Jeff Duncan of South Carolina] said.

tbh, I'm not understanding the importance.

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You done pissed off the dumb ass wokies with that shit.

[–]UncleHowdy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh the sad faggots, dikes, and troons not to mention them damn niggers always want to get into our business. Strike them down and ban their flags.