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SHRED

(28,136 posts)
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 12:54 PM Aug 2017

The Gadsen Flag

I've always thought it represented unity of the colonies?

Considering the Tea Party does its best to bad mouth our government and wants to basically do away with the Federal Government (except the military) and therefore destroy our Union I find it ironic that they choose this flag.

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Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
1. That flag was usurped by racists and Nazis some years ago. It's as offensive as a Swastika or
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 01:02 PM
Aug 2017

confederate flag. White wingers won't admit it, but it's quite obvious.






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mfcorey1

(11,001 posts)
4. There is a student that flies one everyday in the parking lot of my granddaughter's
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 01:08 PM
Aug 2017

high school, Dunwoody High, everyday in Atlanta. One one side is the large yellow flag and on the other is the American flag . It's for attention and everyone ignores him, which does more damage to his ego.

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
5. The cut up snake came first
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 01:20 PM
Aug 2017

Ben Franklin drew the 13 colonies as a cut up snake with "Join or die" as a motto in 1751. Then came the Gadsen flag during the War for Independence. It makes sense that the Tea Party and other deplorables would coopt it because it is basically saying "Don't fuck with me!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsden_flag

TheBlackAdder

(28,222 posts)
6. One of my daughters came out the other year, we joke that the LGBTQ community should co-opt the flag
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 01:42 PM
Aug 2017

.

Not the Rainbow variant, that we see from time to time, but the original Gadsden flag shown in the OP.


Make it so that those who see the flag flying don't know if those sporting it support the LGBTQ cause or not.

After a couple of years, we won't be seeing the Nazis and White Supremacists flying it anymore.


It's time to start taking shit away from them.

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BannonsLiver

(16,470 posts)
7. It's now code for "Hello world! I'm a moron!"
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 01:43 PM
Aug 2017

That's what I think every time I see it plastered onto the back of a car or pickup (which usually also has a pair of truck nuts dangling from the rear bumper).

Squinch

(51,021 posts)
8. It says to me "I'm a white guy who can't compete with women and people of color, and I
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 03:28 PM
Aug 2017

want ALL of my unfair advantages back!!! Or I'll cry on youtube!!!"

LeftInTX

(25,567 posts)
9. It was popular with my high school group 45 years ago!
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 04:03 PM
Aug 2017

It basically meant, "Get off my butt Mom, Dad, teachers etc".

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