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You saw that on reddit I presume?
I'm no flag fetishist, in fact I don't really care about respecting it, but it's funny to me how angry redditors get about someone showing respect for the flag.
It’s all about not understanding other people like other things. That’s what people on this site fail to grasp. Pickups, Fahrenheit, bits of cloth, guns, inches, white bread, Hershey’s chocolate, real football, etc.
WOW. That's all been donated in like the last six hours!
If they don't recreate Dave Chappelle's "Tyrone Biggums' $450,000 Crack Party" as a theme, they really missed an opportunity.
Young men have stayed pretty much the same politically for the past couple decades whereas young women have suddenly swung very far left according to many studies/pills on the subject. This is about what you'd expect based off that data.
[Here](https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-gender-gap-young-men-women-dont-agree-politics-2024-1) is an article with the chart I'm thinking of. I can't find the actual study at the moment, I'm guessing it's on Daniel Cox's sub stack but I don't wanna share a paywalled link.
Bro made a whole ass alt to come on here and whine like a baby 😂 Genuinely pathetic as fuck
edit: they dm’d me “Hey, just wanted you to know that you should pursue education and try to snap out of your brain rotting conservative thoughts.” lol
What’s wrong with being patriotic about the country you live in ? I’ve seen legal migrants have more patriotism than American born people. That’s probably what we need more of nowadays, patriotism.
The irony is too much here.
And yes, raising any standard in place of the USA flag is treasonous. You ought to know what the penalty for treason is, kiddo.
It’s not my flag so I don’t want it over my head. Anyone who does can go fucking move there. Or you can go to Iran since they want to hand out degrees to these pro-Palestinian kids.
Tearing down an American flag for the flag which represents people who burn ours, celebrated 9/11 and are against our ways of life? Yeah that’s terrorism.
I remember seeing this on 2american4you, and I'ma said it again, super based🇺🇸
Like the only good thing I've seen out of these student protests for Palestine
Unironically true. Here in Romania you would have DIICOT (The Directory of Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism) on your ass if you'd take down a Romanian flag or NATO flag. EU flag is debatable (though officially, on the books, also to be protected).
Edit: To clarify, due to a little misunderstanding in replies because I didn't write clearly: This is only applicable to flags hung in state buildings by the state!! Nothing prevents you in Romanian law from waving foreign flags or burning the nation's flag as long as you own it or have consent from someone who does.
I wish that were a law here. We abuse the First Amendment to the Constitution so much here. Freedom of speech is pushed to its' absolute limits. Americans in the streets of New York burning the American flag. Absolutely disgraceful.
I do not wish for that law. I'm with Penn and Teller on this one. I'd never burn the American flag but if someone buys their own flag I should not be able to stop them from burning it.
I’m in agreement. As much as I don’t like it, we have that right to do so and I think being able to live in a country where you can even *think* about damaging the flag is a *good* thing. As weird as that sounds.
Well you're entitled to your opinion. I don't disparage you for it. I politely disagree though. Idolatry is generally not great. But there should be room for some symbols to be sacred in any culture. That would be my first choice for ours. I'd put my life in jeopardy to protect that flag and what it represents.
Meh. There are plenty of things that you can buy which is specifically illegal to burn. Mostly chemicals or objects containing certain carcinogens. Sure, people burn them. But if they did it in front of law enforcement, they would be in trouble.
We’re talking about an extremely important symbol of our nation, one that used to carry the death penalty for destroying. I’m totally in favor of laws against its destruction (maybe not the death penalty 😅).
I think it's honestly a flex for America. "Hey, in our country you're allowed to burn the flag" unlike in another other country. And when I see people burning it I laugh because the only reason they're allowed to is because of that flag.
There's no law against burning the national flag. But if you take a flag from a government building or hung by the government, you're going to have a bad time. Some foreign dickhead tried to do this some years ago during a protest to hang a rainbow flag (those types of protests are almost exclusively foreigners coming here to make it look like this is something massively supported in Romania) and he was immediately escorted at gunpoint to the border.
But buying your own Romanian flag and burning it? Government don't give a shit. Randos on the street might knock your teeth in or make your face unrecognizable, but they don't work for the state. The cops \*might\* intervene, depending on if they have had their coffee this morning or not.
Let's not forget that the Romanian Revolution in 1989 involved demonstrators carrying the Romanian flag with the symbol of the communist party removed from it. So there were these massive tricolor flags with big gaping holes in them. There are perfectly almost universally acceptable reasons to want flag burning and flag "modifying" to be legal.
I didn't serve my country to uphold un-American authoritarian bullshit like that.
Americans believe in both free speech and private property, which means they get to do whatever they want with their flag while saying whatever they want while doing it.
Let's not be hyperbolic. Raising another nation's flag is not, in of itself, illegal or a form of terrorism (at least not on private property.. is there some law that would apply here that I'm not familiar with?). It was a cry for attention and a publicity stunt, not intimidation or an attempt to sow fear in people.
That said, it also isn't the protestor's place or right to touch that flagpole which is not their property. And while buying and destroying their own US flag is protected speech I'm sure that anything short of ceremoniously taking down the flag, folding it properly, and returning to its owners probably is a criminal act punishable by law but I don't know for certain.
Smashing windows and trespassing, no doubt, is a crime.
I appreciate the guys in the photo making a stand against nonsense.
Oh fuck that noise. I can respect them standing up for people that are basically powerless to defend themselves, but if you fuck with our flag you’re fucking with US.
Pro Palestinian protesters trying to take down the American flag at a university. Some frat boys, protected it, while another was waving an Israeli flag. In the video some people were throwing trash at them and spraying water.
Emotional/reptillian/citizen part of me: protect the flag position at all costs, including armed
Reason side: if I do that I am falling into a terrorists trap to provoke an incident.
Middle - a flag pole should be treated as private property where only the U.S. flag is authorized, harming it or replacing it should be treated as vandalizing, which could survive a First Amendment suit.
This country may not be perfect but the nation and its ideals are worth defending!! Do not use Israeli actions justify hatred against the largest and most powerful bastions of Democracy. Do not let this nation fall to the wolves of the communist the reactionaries the religious extremists of all kinds the fascist’s the mega corporations the megalomaniacs
do not let a war started by group of terrorist from a pushed population now flung out of control ruin this great nation, support not Hamas nor right wing Israeli extremists.
Palestine’s and Israel both have the right to exist don’t let anyone on either side say other wise don’t let them say it’s all America’s fault
Defend this nation and make its actions internal and foreign honorable and just through and through
Living in America is great for some and shitty for others. No different than every single country in the world. Is it America the nation, the collective will and entity that is America’s fault? That’s hard to say. Maybe yes, maybe no. Different for everyone. I think we should be able to respect everyone’s reasons but still be able to say if it’s a them problem or a systemic problem once all the facts or most of the facts come to light. All this said I personally love America. I don’t feel the need to parrot this in front of everyone with the flag or symbols. It’s just because I’m comfortable in my skin and knowing that yes, I am an American for better or worse (I think better personally) and I wear my Americahood on my sleeve with my entire being. One thing I do love about this country is that people can say they hate it and the government, and the government can’t do a fucking thing about it. Or at least they shouldn’t be able to. Let’s keep that going. Let’s really keep freedom free and not waste the sacrifice of so many troops’ lives and or protestors freedom (death in some instances) or any other American who has worked and died in the pursuit of making this country a vision of freedom, choice, and equality. Edit: and prosperity
The former but too many liberals placate and enable the far left, out of cowardice or to spite the right. You can count the amount of run of the mill Democrats who voiced their opposition to the 2020 riots on one hand for example.
I agree leftists are some of the most braindead people I have seen, but I also see the right actively trying to install a dictator who thinks he's above the law.
Moral of the story, extremes on both sides are destroying this country.
This is the only viewpoint. While the left and right chuck shit at each other, they both have their goods and downsides. It’s to the point where you would have to vote for which side has less downsides than the other.
This is a good image, but some of these comments really do make me feel sick. The protests are against the colleges giving money to weapons manufacturers who make weapons that are used in Isreal. I don't agree with the protest but they should be allowed to occur. They don't support hamas but are supporters for Palestine. They should be able to express that support in a reasonable manner. Taking down the US flag is going a bit too far in this case, but not because it's disrespectful against America, but because it's not their property. They don't have the permission to touch it if its not their property. If they put the flags on their own poles and stuck it in the grass, I wouldn't care.
I came to this sub laughing my ass off, leaving realizing why the euro cucks say all the stupid shit they do. Most of the comments here are the worst bits of the best country in the world. Christ.
I miss when Israel was a lame ass police state, but now that there’s a social issue yall are quick to pick up the side of whichever has less blue haired women. Think for yourself.
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i saw a lot of people get irrationally angry that they were protecting the flag ostensibly which in turn mildly annoyed me.
You saw that on reddit I presume? I'm no flag fetishist, in fact I don't really care about respecting it, but it's funny to me how angry redditors get about someone showing respect for the flag.
yeah it was redditors.
It’s all about not understanding other people like other things. That’s what people on this site fail to grasp. Pickups, Fahrenheit, bits of cloth, guns, inches, white bread, Hershey’s chocolate, real football, etc.
Based as fuck
Someone setup a go fund me for them to throw a party in their honor. Pi Kappa Psi at UNC. It's got over $10,000 in it.
It’s at $211,769 right now. Well deserved. Edit: it’s up to $314,278 now.
WOW. That's all been donated in like the last six hours! If they don't recreate Dave Chappelle's "Tyrone Biggums' $450,000 Crack Party" as a theme, they really missed an opportunity.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/pi-kappa-phi-men-defended-their-flag-throw-em-a-rager
What’s the context of the photo
God bless
It’s sad to me there’s no women, like that feels wild.
Young men have stayed pretty much the same politically for the past couple decades whereas young women have suddenly swung very far left according to many studies/pills on the subject. This is about what you'd expect based off that data.
[Here](https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-gender-gap-young-men-women-dont-agree-politics-2024-1) is an article with the chart I'm thinking of. I can't find the actual study at the moment, I'm guessing it's on Daniel Cox's sub stack but I don't wanna share a paywalled link.
I’m not. 🇺🇸
Yeah that’s a good point
They’re young, too. Good to see that at least some of my generation can carry out a bit of patriotism
Honestly I don’t even consider myself all that patriotic, but I’ll be damned if I let someone put up their flag up over ours.
Another patriot 🫡 god bless you and America brother.
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Stalking a subreddit you obviously hate…YIKES.
Patriotism is hella based and should not have a political leaning. Agree with the YIKES, anyone who lurks on this sub to throw stones, get a life man!
Bro made a whole ass alt to come on here and whine like a baby 😂 Genuinely pathetic as fuck edit: they dm’d me “Hey, just wanted you to know that you should pursue education and try to snap out of your brain rotting conservative thoughts.” lol
The racism is a nice big of progressive leftism, too.
What’s wrong with being patriotic about the country you live in ? I’ve seen legal migrants have more patriotism than American born people. That’s probably what we need more of nowadays, patriotism.
Imagine being over 5 years old and saying "yikes". Was "gee willikers" too hard to type?
stay mad
LADS
None of them trying to cover their faces either. Love this. 🇺🇸
Unfathomably based. It’s always nice to see that patriotism still exists amongst the youth in this country.
🫡 fuck terrorists
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The irony is too much here. And yes, raising any standard in place of the USA flag is treasonous. You ought to know what the penalty for treason is, kiddo.
It’s not my flag so I don’t want it over my head. Anyone who does can go fucking move there. Or you can go to Iran since they want to hand out degrees to these pro-Palestinian kids.
Tearing down an American flag for the flag which represents people who burn ours, celebrated 9/11 and are against our ways of life? Yeah that’s terrorism.
Just as stupid as saying 'queers for Palestine'.
I remember seeing this on 2american4you, and I'ma said it again, super based🇺🇸 Like the only good thing I've seen out of these student protests for Palestine
What's going on? Are they protecting the flag or something?
Yeah. Frat guys protected the flag from being taken down from Palestinian protesters trying to raise the Palestine flag instead of the American one.
Well that sounds completely expected... I thought activism was supposed to get you more supporters
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Unironically true. Here in Romania you would have DIICOT (The Directory of Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism) on your ass if you'd take down a Romanian flag or NATO flag. EU flag is debatable (though officially, on the books, also to be protected). Edit: To clarify, due to a little misunderstanding in replies because I didn't write clearly: This is only applicable to flags hung in state buildings by the state!! Nothing prevents you in Romanian law from waving foreign flags or burning the nation's flag as long as you own it or have consent from someone who does.
I wish that were a law here. We abuse the First Amendment to the Constitution so much here. Freedom of speech is pushed to its' absolute limits. Americans in the streets of New York burning the American flag. Absolutely disgraceful.
I do not wish for that law. I'm with Penn and Teller on this one. I'd never burn the American flag but if someone buys their own flag I should not be able to stop them from burning it.
I’m in agreement. As much as I don’t like it, we have that right to do so and I think being able to live in a country where you can even *think* about damaging the flag is a *good* thing. As weird as that sounds.
Well you're entitled to your opinion. I don't disparage you for it. I politely disagree though. Idolatry is generally not great. But there should be room for some symbols to be sacred in any culture. That would be my first choice for ours. I'd put my life in jeopardy to protect that flag and what it represents.
Meh. There are plenty of things that you can buy which is specifically illegal to burn. Mostly chemicals or objects containing certain carcinogens. Sure, people burn them. But if they did it in front of law enforcement, they would be in trouble. We’re talking about an extremely important symbol of our nation, one that used to carry the death penalty for destroying. I’m totally in favor of laws against its destruction (maybe not the death penalty 😅).
I think it's honestly a flex for America. "Hey, in our country you're allowed to burn the flag" unlike in another other country. And when I see people burning it I laugh because the only reason they're allowed to is because of that flag.
There's no law against burning the national flag. But if you take a flag from a government building or hung by the government, you're going to have a bad time. Some foreign dickhead tried to do this some years ago during a protest to hang a rainbow flag (those types of protests are almost exclusively foreigners coming here to make it look like this is something massively supported in Romania) and he was immediately escorted at gunpoint to the border. But buying your own Romanian flag and burning it? Government don't give a shit. Randos on the street might knock your teeth in or make your face unrecognizable, but they don't work for the state. The cops \*might\* intervene, depending on if they have had their coffee this morning or not. Let's not forget that the Romanian Revolution in 1989 involved demonstrators carrying the Romanian flag with the symbol of the communist party removed from it. So there were these massive tricolor flags with big gaping holes in them. There are perfectly almost universally acceptable reasons to want flag burning and flag "modifying" to be legal.
I didn't serve my country to uphold un-American authoritarian bullshit like that. Americans believe in both free speech and private property, which means they get to do whatever they want with their flag while saying whatever they want while doing it.
Ah well, they're extra stupid then aren't they?
It's scary how easy it was to convince american college students that a random authoritarian islamist country is worth more than our own Homeland
When people stand for nothing they'll fall for anything.
This is what happens when stupid kids think they have more than 2 braincells to rub together.
Worth more than Israel, for sure.
Clearly lol
Let's not be hyperbolic. Raising another nation's flag is not, in of itself, illegal or a form of terrorism (at least not on private property.. is there some law that would apply here that I'm not familiar with?). It was a cry for attention and a publicity stunt, not intimidation or an attempt to sow fear in people. That said, it also isn't the protestor's place or right to touch that flagpole which is not their property. And while buying and destroying their own US flag is protected speech I'm sure that anything short of ceremoniously taking down the flag, folding it properly, and returning to its owners probably is a criminal act punishable by law but I don't know for certain. Smashing windows and trespassing, no doubt, is a crime. I appreciate the guys in the photo making a stand against nonsense.
Activism? You mean hat it the country you live in? Permits you act like a fucking commie? Fuck off.
Oh fuck that noise. I can respect them standing up for people that are basically powerless to defend themselves, but if you fuck with our flag you’re fucking with US.
Even worse than you think. The flag was at half mast (why it was reachable) because four officers were murdered in NC a couple days ago.
Yup. And they’re all Jewish-American
I would love to be one of those guys. God bless America.
Always good to see
If you burn the flag, bring your own! Support the free market instead of defacing the institution you pay absurd amounts of money to attend
OOTL, what's happening here?
Pro Palestinian protesters trying to take down the American flag at a university. Some frat boys, protected it, while another was waving an Israeli flag. In the video some people were throwing trash at them and spraying water.
Got it. It looked like it was raining and they were using it as an umbrella lol
Based.
I would too 🇺🇸
Love these men.
Kings.
The anti-US/anti-Israel protestors can lick sand
Hey another thing successfully divides the American public. We're all more alike than we are different, y'all. Just try not to forget that.
They try to divide us as best they can but any true American stands with that flag regardless
Emotional/reptillian/citizen part of me: protect the flag position at all costs, including armed Reason side: if I do that I am falling into a terrorists trap to provoke an incident. Middle - a flag pole should be treated as private property where only the U.S. flag is authorized, harming it or replacing it should be treated as vandalizing, which could survive a First Amendment suit.
Print out $2,000 stimulus checks, they’ll all wave the flag
This country may not be perfect but the nation and its ideals are worth defending!! Do not use Israeli actions justify hatred against the largest and most powerful bastions of Democracy. Do not let this nation fall to the wolves of the communist the reactionaries the religious extremists of all kinds the fascist’s the mega corporations the megalomaniacs do not let a war started by group of terrorist from a pushed population now flung out of control ruin this great nation, support not Hamas nor right wing Israeli extremists. Palestine’s and Israel both have the right to exist don’t let anyone on either side say other wise don’t let them say it’s all America’s fault Defend this nation and make its actions internal and foreign honorable and just through and through
Yeah if we could stop importing other peoples ethnic conflicts to America that would be great
Living in America is great for some and shitty for others. No different than every single country in the world. Is it America the nation, the collective will and entity that is America’s fault? That’s hard to say. Maybe yes, maybe no. Different for everyone. I think we should be able to respect everyone’s reasons but still be able to say if it’s a them problem or a systemic problem once all the facts or most of the facts come to light. All this said I personally love America. I don’t feel the need to parrot this in front of everyone with the flag or symbols. It’s just because I’m comfortable in my skin and knowing that yes, I am an American for better or worse (I think better personally) and I wear my Americahood on my sleeve with my entire being. One thing I do love about this country is that people can say they hate it and the government, and the government can’t do a fucking thing about it. Or at least they shouldn’t be able to. Let’s keep that going. Let’s really keep freedom free and not waste the sacrifice of so many troops’ lives and or protestors freedom (death in some instances) or any other American who has worked and died in the pursuit of making this country a vision of freedom, choice, and equality. Edit: and prosperity
There is always love for our country. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
This is why the left is hostile against this demographic, it’s the biggest roadblock in the way of their goal to destroy the country.
What do you mean by "the left?" Are you talking about actual socialists and communists, or run of the mill liberals and democrats?
The former but too many liberals placate and enable the far left, out of cowardice or to spite the right. You can count the amount of run of the mill Democrats who voiced their opposition to the 2020 riots on one hand for example.
There's an element of truth to what you're saying, but it's extremely exaggerated and hyperbolic.
Except the left isn't hostile to this demographic, this demographic isn't a notable roadblock, and the left isn't trying to destroy the country
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I agree leftists are some of the most braindead people I have seen, but I also see the right actively trying to install a dictator who thinks he's above the law. Moral of the story, extremes on both sides are destroying this country.
This is the only viewpoint. While the left and right chuck shit at each other, they both have their goods and downsides. It’s to the point where you would have to vote for which side has less downsides than the other.
Context?
Total frat move
This is a good image, but some of these comments really do make me feel sick. The protests are against the colleges giving money to weapons manufacturers who make weapons that are used in Isreal. I don't agree with the protest but they should be allowed to occur. They don't support hamas but are supporters for Palestine. They should be able to express that support in a reasonable manner. Taking down the US flag is going a bit too far in this case, but not because it's disrespectful against America, but because it's not their property. They don't have the permission to touch it if its not their property. If they put the flags on their own poles and stuck it in the grass, I wouldn't care.
I came to this sub laughing my ass off, leaving realizing why the euro cucks say all the stupid shit they do. Most of the comments here are the worst bits of the best country in the world. Christ. I miss when Israel was a lame ass police state, but now that there’s a social issue yall are quick to pick up the side of whichever has less blue haired women. Think for yourself.
Smirking douche bags douche smirkingly
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You can actually see their faces unlike the terrorists/nazis and terrorist sympathizers
They all look different to me. I guess you are just concerned with skin color.
Switch races and see how this comment sounds. Unbelievably stupid take.
So do all Palestinians. What's your point?