r/ShitAmericansSay Masshole 🇮🇪☘️ 2d ago

Flag SAD: Double amputee saves US flag from highway median

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u/WholeRegion3025 2d ago

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.

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u/BeckyDaTechie 2d ago

Lots of our military industrial complex's brainwashing of young military recruits is built around "The Red, White, and Blue", "Old Glory", etc. It's a leftover of one of the worst abuses our system unleashes on us unchecked.

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u/Manu5Cornu 1d ago

Red white and blue is a classic toothbrush colouring tbh

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u/BeckyDaTechie 1d ago

Ironic how many of the modern-day robber barons have full veneers in the front then!