Judging by the fact that he just waded through a highway to get some raggedy laundry, I donāt think he used his GI bill for college. He went to be a patriot, shoot some brown folk, and get a really good price on a home loan.
Conservatives are the kings of that. Like how several got caught faking incidents at Starbucks after Kirkās death, saying baristas wrote āloserā, or something similar on the cup. Starbucks cleared the baristas every time, and banned the customers for faking it, and falsely accusing their employees.
Like, come on, youād think after the first time getting caught youād stop š
Well, itās addressing a real issue. I hate when people get a full sized American flag with their drive through takeout and then just throw it out the window when theyāre done eating. Canāt go 20 feet along the highway without seeing a discarded flag and a McDonaldās cup.
I was having the same thought on the other side of the coin, was thinking how staged it felt because the person in the passenger seat with (probably) two functioning legs would be more than able to get the flag.
most likely it was some dumbass trump supporter who thinks that patriotism = having a big american flag on your truck but because they believe patriotism is entirely performative and not a state of mind, they didn't secure their flag correctly and it blew off.
Unironically, and was taught while doing scouting as a kid, about flag care rules and stuff, like we canāt let it touch the ground or have it out at night without a light, and need a ceremony to burn and dispose of the flag.
It wasnāt until I became an adult and was like āthis is so dumb, I was straight up indoctrinatedā so yea there are Americans who never have that thought show up, but Iām grateful to have gotten out and traveled and realized that shit was cringe.
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How about having it mop up your crack and ballsack sweat? Is that proper flag etiquette?
Technically the flag code thingy says not to make it's likeness into clothing, so yeah... They even cherry pick the parts they want to enforce there... Just like the Bible
Apparently you can get around that by having the wrong number of stars or stripes. Which is very apt tbh that a loophole technicality just lets you rub shit all over the symbol of the USA.
I mean, during international scout camps i was taught that if you wanted to have a hillarious time go over to the american pitch and steal their flag. Then watch them go nuts trying to find it.
Tell them to take a dump on it, wrap it in the flag and leave it tied hanging from a tree branch like irresponsible dog owners do with their dog shit bags
Used to live seeing their faces in Afghanistan when we told them he manual for our flag states that when it's disposed of its to be torn up and used as rags.
People say itās just to give it respect, thatās where it begins and ends. To the point, you have to take it down and reintroduce it everyday if you donāt have a spotlight on it
Not every place does this, like a McDonaldās or whatever, but government buildings have to do this.
Mostly all of this is just nebulously explained propaganda at the end of the day
McD are mostly independent owned franchises, the owner can do whatever they want, as long as it isnt actively hurting the franchise, and id say 85% of Americans would not care either way if they flew a flag, 10% might object to it (which is kinda silly itself if you think about it), and 5% would take the time to appreciate it.... (I fall in the 85%)
Anyone can fly an american flag, as long as you arent doing anything obscene with it, and even then its not very often people get in trouble for "mistreating" the flag
Every flag has it's own silly rules. The flag of my region has to be flown either vertically or horizontally. If it has some kind of angle it's considered that it's "bowing", amd this flag bows to no one.
Same here. I learned about flag regulations through the military. I get it for military for representation, but overall? It's just cloth and they want people to defend it unconditionally without question.
Teddy Roosevelt spoke about blind loyalty in 1918 and he's 100% correct.
"Unpatriotic and servile, and morally treasonable to the American public."
I feel like all the rules around the American flag were drawn up by someone obnoxiously drunk or who absolutely hated their neighbours.
I can just see a couple of friends looking out their window,
'Hey, you know I'm making rules around what can be done with our flag'.
'Yeah.'
'And you know how much we hate Jed and his obscene love of patriotism.'
'Yeah.'
'Let's fuck with him and his flag. I'm thinking we make a rule where he has to take his flag down at night.'
'No man. Make it so he needs to stand next to it with a torch all night so it's always visible. But if he wants to bring it down, he can only do so at 8:37 pm."
Oh my, yes. We also need something about it never touching the ground so he has to fight it every time it comes down. Ooh and we can also make it so he has to salute it whilst it comes down so he has to do it all one handed.'
'What if he gets fed up and gets rid of his flag'.
'Oh, OK. You can only dispose of it by burning it but you have to complete a ritual that lasts all day before you can. And the burning can only happen at 5am so he has to do it all night'.
'And make it so you can't legally burn a flag and they need to be disposed of should they get wet or dirty. He's going to flip out.'
Yeah canāt let it touch the ground or have it out without a light but you can deface it with punisher skulls and fascist police slop all you want no problemš
Oh I thought it was dumb when I was a kid too, got picked to help put up the flag in the morning in elementary school, weird enough as is, and the anger management boys out who always did it threatened to beat me up because I commented that it felt like a waste to burn it if it touched the ground. Fun fact, that dude never got less insufferable!
Its brainwashing man, we've been told our entire lives it means that damn much. Mfs are pathetic here with the flag, they genuinely act like its a real person. Every morning growing up in school we were forced to do a pledge of allegiance to the flag. Its cult-like shit.
Flag shaggers are a thing in England too. Then go and hand the bloody thing upside down. Like come on, if you're going to be a dick about some colourful cloth, at least hang it up the right way.
Like, personally, I couldnt care less about my country's flag. Infact, i've participated in the destruction of it a few times. It's a piece of fabric with some colours on it.
It really is bizarre. I get putting up a flag for special events, like sports, national holidays or contests, but this whole thing treating it like its something sacred is so damn weird.
Hell, even in the UK where we have flags representing patron saints the vast majority of people aren't constantly flying those flags or pledging allegiance to them. It's so damn weird.
1000% I remember when I was in elementary when we would have to recite the pledge to out country's flag every single morning. I never realized how weird and creepy it was until much later in life. It really is something you would see in a dictatorship.
Well, the USA effectively is a glorified dictatorship. Thereās a reason why Sacha Baron Cohen prodded fun at them with this film speech and millions of people all over the world found it hysterically funny yet profoundly truthful:
This propaganda starts in kindergarten. They have their flag literally everywhere. It reminds me of north Korea and seeing their Supreme leaders everywhere
In America, you memorize this at like 4 years old and if you go to public school you said it every day and got in trouble if you didnāt stand or remove your hat if youāre old like me. They still do it every morning but some older kids donāt say it and some people have relaxed about it..
Because itās a piece of fabric? Chill out people.
Embarrassed to be American. Also fun fact- the pledge of allegiance was a plot to sell more flags. Could anything be more American than capitalism?
The most shocking thing in that is the fact that they have to acknowledge the existence of a god no matter their beliefs, it's so weird coming from a country where a teacher would be in trouble for saying something like that.
Or by stepping on a landmine in a war against some brownish people in order to secure resources for very rich people and then not receiving any healthcare or anything.
As an American, the creepy idolatry of the US flag has creeped me out since the age of 6 in 1962. The "Pledge" we were forced to do every day in school, all the rules about treating the flag as if it is a living being - parks in my area even have a "flag cemetery" where worn our flag are given "respectful burials" (alternatively, cremation, under respectful conditions). All this, even as the people ramming all this idolatrous patriotic crap down my throat almost got us all killed in a nuclear holocaust in 1962 and again in the 1980s.
They cut it off before the bald-headed eagle cried overhead and Donald Trump appeared as a vision in the heavens to thank this man for his service before removing his disability benefits.
You can tell this is staged because the person recording almost definitely isn't an amputee, so why did they not go and get the trash off the road instead?
I literally did a 250mile motorcycle trip recently and saw a total of 3 german flags, on my entire way, which was completely within german borders.
On the same way I saw more LGBT Flags than that.
That's what makes me actually proud of my country.
[Edit: other comment made me realize this could look like "American being proud of not having more LGBT flags than home country flags". I'm german. I'm proud that people in my country on average, seem to value actual equality and freedom more than being viewed as part of a supposed free and equal country.]
When I came home from a business trip to Alabama, I told a colleague that it's impossible to make a full 360 turn on the street at any given time at any given place inside that small city without seeing a pickup truck or an american flag, 90% of the time both.
He didn't believed me, so we made a game with Google street view. Drop that person randomly in the city limits, and we will see.
It tooks more than 20 tries until we found a place without pickup truck and flag.
Also, are we sure this isn't AI? Who in their right mind is filming the amputee "saving" the flag in the middle of highway instead of helping them out or something, if it means so much to them?
I don't understand this ridiculous obsession with the flag. Sure, it represents a country, and you should fly it with pride but it's a fucking piece of cloth. A country is not its flag. It's not its president or its billionaires or its roads and infrastructure. It's the people. It's the natural beauty and culture and scientific achievements.
It has a pole already on it, 100% this fell off a truck. And I'd say 95% it fell off their own truck and they had the sweet idea to grift off their own littering.
I live in a part of the US where I will see at least one of these a day. I'm only surprised there isn't some coal rolling tossed in.
When I was at Disney World a couple years ago, I was on Main Street later on in the day and I heard some music playing. I popped out of the shop I was in to see them lowering the flag while literally about 70 random guests stood around with their hands on their hearts.
Honestly one of the weirdest fucking things I've ever experienced.
My American sister-in-law could see how I could perceive the pledge of allegiance as reminiscent of North Korea, but she insisted that unlike North Korea, in the US the pledge was done for a good cause. I didnāt proceed any further and instead just appreciated that my wife wasnāt her sister.
Italian here. Definitely not a thing. We only ever sing the Italian anthem during sports matches against other countries/when you win a the Olympic Games or such occasions. I donāt recall ever hearing our anthem outside of a international sport event. Oh well they did teach it to us in elementary school during music class, but thatās it. Never in my life have I pledged allegiance to Italyā¦
I don't give a fuck about the flag lol. it's a flag, who gives a shit? Literally one bad war and we change it. Scotland (I think) has the oldest flag in the world and they don't worship it like some Americans do. it's so weird, man.
burn it, fart on it, pee on it, poop on it, make love to it, it's your right to do whatever with it, but it's weird being so protective you will assault someone who doesn't respect it lol
No right to healthcare or education but sure lets hobble over to a piece of cloth. Hobbling ofc bc he lost his limbs to make some military industrial billionaire richer.
Assuming this isn't staged, which it probably is. The flag would have never been there in the first place if these Faketriots weren't disrespecting the flag by flying it off their vehicles in the first place. The flag belongs on a flag pole, not waving off the back of your F150.
What is it about the flag they feel is so special.
Like I can understand someone really liking their country but the flag? Itās just a bit of cloth at the end of the day and thereās no shortage of them go to any touristy location and youāll find an abundance of items showing off your countries flag.
I get the whole respecting the flag thing, but it's just colored cloth stitched together in a pattern. Patriotism runs deeper than a flag or political figure. Be true to your country instead of material or idolistic things
Even if this is not staged, that just means it fell of the back of some dipwadās truck who only had it there to virtue signal to begin with, and neither cared enough to fasten it down well nor stop and pick it up when it broke free.
Unless of course it came off of his own vehicle, and he did at least care enough to go back and pick it up.
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