Upside-down flag in protest of Obama, upsets neighbors

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@77rednecktruck

It’s just how I was raised. My family has a lot of people in the military and I guess it stems from that.

I am sorry you don’t like the USA. It may be pretty ****ty here at some times, but it’s a whole lot better than living anywhere else.

Ahh, there’s the leap you’re making. I love it here. There’s good people, it’s a land of opportunity, lots of different cultures, complexity, etc. But I don’t love it BECAUSE it’s “AMERICA”. We’re just a bunch of people that all happen to have been born on the same continent, and we made up some imaginary lines to say “this is ours” and that’s that. America is a label, just like Nike or Reebok. I love this country because of it’s quality, not it’s brand name, if that makes any sense…

@Sleeper

That flag stands for the men and woman who fought and still fight today to keep faggots like you safe in the U.S, it’s right winged liberals like you who i cannot stand nor will, you are nothing but an Uncle Tom when it comes to politics and a disgrace. DIAF you disrepsectful ****… Go live in third world countries for awhile and see how long it takes for your pussy ass to come crying back to the U.S

That flag stands for a lot more than just that. This country has done great things and it has done horrific things. And what the **** is a Right wing liberal? I’m a realist. The founding fathers of this country did not want a strong central government. we are the UNITED STATES. Autonomous states, supposed to be loosely bound by a federal government that provided for only the most basic of things… national defense, currency printing, foreign policy, etc. I mean the National Guard was originally supposed to be state militias that kept arms just in case the federal government got too powerful. Now look at us. So if I’m an “unamerican piece of ****”, then so are George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Go dig them up and bitch to them. Maybe they’ll come back to life and teach you something about the country you claim to be so ****ing head over heels in love with.

@ShalerPunk

“Right winged liberals?”

And don’t generalize. I’m probably one of the most liberal people on the forum, and one of the harshest critics of the outgoing administration, and I still respect the flag and what it represents.

I’m sure there are plenty of elderly Europeans who were happy as hell to see that flag show up in WW2.

The thing is that we have to avoid blind nationalism. My family came here from Austria because they were avoiding a people who had become patriotic to the point of irrationality.

yeah, it was the flag that they were happy to see, not the American’s coming to save their ass. And yes, blind nationalism is exactly what is so disturbing in this thread.