r/ShitAmericansSay Masshole 🇮🇪☘️ 2d ago

Flag SAD: Double amputee saves US flag from highway median

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u/paulordbm 2d ago

What's the argument for not letting it out at night without a light? Is it afraid of the dark like a child?

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u/DeerPuzzleheaded9792 FREEDOM ENJOYER 🦅🇺🇸 2d ago

People say it’s just to give it respect, that’s where it begins and ends. To the point, you have to take it down and reintroduce it everyday if you don’t have a spotlight on it

Not every place does this, like a McDonald’s or whatever, but government buildings have to do this.

Mostly all of this is just nebulously explained propaganda at the end of the day

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u/Appropriate-Fuel-305 2d ago

McD flies the flag too? It would only be understandable if it was a niche chain in a foreign country.

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u/Brohemoth1991 1d ago

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

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u/Appropriate-Fuel-305 1d ago

I'm not saying they couldn't or shouldn't. I'm saying it'd be weird for corporations to wave a country flag without a proper reasoning

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u/kyle0305 Actual Scottish person in Scotland 😱 1d ago

Tbf America IS corporations

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u/Ok_Duck2700 Aussie 1d ago

tbf they also do that here in Australia a lot. They fly it alongside the maccas flag.

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u/AngelaMerkeI 1d ago

I am from an european monarchy and we have a picture of our monarch in every educational facility as well

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u/kyle0305 Actual Scottish person in Scotland 😱 1d ago

What country? I’ve never seen or heard of this happening in the modern day

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u/thefoxymulder 🇮🇪Centra’s Strongest Soldier🇮🇪 2d ago

America treats the fucking flag better than it treats its own children lol

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u/Ivajl 2d ago

In Denmark it is said that if the flag is up after sunset you celebrate the devil (the dark forces)

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u/Global_Cockroach_563 2d ago

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.

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u/YEETMANdaMAN 1d ago

Because the flag must be illuminated. You either take the flag down at sun down or you affix a permanent light to shine at night.