What are your thoughts of people who display this flag?
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I think they are old white men who wear old guys rule tee shirts and hate the government. They own small businesses like hardware stores and love fake memories of Reagan.
They watch a lot of Fox news and have a beer bellies. They don't trust anyone under 60 and live for spreading Scotts turfbuilder on their lawns. They listen to Rush and loved to believe
the birther conspiracy theory.
They watch a lot of Fox news and have a beer bellies. They don't trust anyone under 60 and live for spreading Scotts turfbuilder on their lawns. They listen to Rush and loved to believe
the birther conspiracy theory.
I don't know anyone personally that does, so I don't know why people display the flag.
Callinectes
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I've always liked it. That makes me a racist, right?
You forgot the Ford 150's
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-shifting-symbolism-of-the-gadsden-flag
The Gadsden flag is one of at least three kinds of flags created by independence-minded colonists in the run-up to the Revolutionary War.
The snake, it turns out, was something of a Colonial-era meme, evidently originated by Benjamin Franklin. In 1751, Franklin made the satirical suggestion that the colonies might repay the Crown for shipping convicts to America by distributing rattlesnakes around England, “particularly in the Gardens of the Prime Ministers, the Lords of Trade and Members of Parliament; for to them we are most particularly obliged.” Later, in what may be America’s first-ever political cartoon, Franklin published the famous “Join or Die” image, which depicts the American colonies as segments of a snake. Among other borrowers, Paul Revere put the snake in a seventeen-seventies newspaper nameplate. Gadsden’s venomous remix, for a flag used by Continental sailors, depicted the reassembled rattler as a righteous threat to trampling imperialism. “The origins of ‘Don’t Tread On Me,’ ” Leepson summarizes, “were completely, one hundred percent anti-British, and pro-revolution.” Indeed, that E.E.O.C. directive agrees, “It is clear that the Gadsden Flag originated in the Revolutionary War in a non-racial context.”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-shifting-symbolism-of-the-gadsden-flag
The snake, it turns out, was something of a Colonial-era meme, evidently originated by Benjamin Franklin. In 1751, Franklin made the satirical suggestion that the colonies might repay the Crown for shipping convicts to America by distributing rattlesnakes around England, “particularly in the Gardens of the Prime Ministers, the Lords of Trade and Members of Parliament; for to them we are most particularly obliged.” Later, in what may be America’s first-ever political cartoon, Franklin published the famous “Join or Die” image, which depicts the American colonies as segments of a snake. Among other borrowers, Paul Revere put the snake in a seventeen-seventies newspaper nameplate. Gadsden’s venomous remix, for a flag used by Continental sailors, depicted the reassembled rattler as a righteous threat to trampling imperialism. “The origins of ‘Don’t Tread On Me,’ ” Leepson summarizes, “were completely, one hundred percent anti-British, and pro-revolution.” Indeed, that E.E.O.C. directive agrees, “It is clear that the Gadsden Flag originated in the Revolutionary War in a non-racial context.”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-shifting-symbolism-of-the-gadsden-flag
It is also the first Navy Jack, still flown today on Naval vessels. Same wording and a snake, just a different background (stripes).
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Every time I pass someone with that bumper sticker I mutter under my breath. Hope they get in a wreck and die.
It's interesting. To two young men who murdered a couple of cops and wrapped their bodies in it, it meant a white supremacist uprising. The swastika was once Buddhist.
Nasty old farts trying to exert their authority by flying that flag are more cute than threatening, I mean until the DMV suspends their drivers licenses for lack of skill and they drive anyway.
Then they are more threatening than cute.
I hear ya. I just shake my head and roll my eyes knowing that they have Rush blaring on the amplitude modulator.. Old people are a pisser.
You seem to have no clue what that flag means to many. Kind of sad really.
And from the same article;
"Observers of the Gadsden flag’s resurgence frequently end up comparing it to the Confederate battle flag. That flag that we’re familiar with today was originally used by Confederate war veterans’ groups and the like, and was then embraced by the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacists. This association with racial hatred, and the flag’s historic roots as an emblem of a would-be government that embraced slavery, has long made the flag offensive to many."
"Along the way, it picked up other connotations: strident anti-government sentiment, often directed with particular vehemence at the first African-American President."
still flown today? wow. I didn't know it was the first naval flag either.
i didn't post that part as I wasn't clear
if they were talking about the Confederate battle flag, stars and bars,or the Gadsden flag
Yes. It has quite a history. It is also authorized on some uniforms as a patch. Like I said, the statement on that particular flag is quite clear.
"The word svastika is Sanskrit in origin and means “conducive to well-being.”. Archaeological finds have long demonstrated that the swastika is a very old symbol, but ancient examples are by no means limited to India. It was used by the Ancient Greeks, Celts, and Anglo-Saxons and some of the oldest examples have been found in Eastern Europe, from the Baltic to the Balkans .
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29644591
Ancient Roman mosaics of La Olmeda, Spain
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Isn't that the Tea Party (RIP) flag? I agree with all except what fake memories do they have of Reagan?
I'd also add that they clean their guns while watching Fox News. They cleaned them a little harder when the O'Reilly Factor was around.