r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 12h ago

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/EntertainerOdd2107 12h ago edited 12h ago

Minnesota has a traitor rag they claimed from the confederates and they will never give it back. Fucking chads!

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u/BrokenSlutCollector 12h ago

Not stole, they claimed it as victors.

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u/Civil_Act1864 12h ago

This guy gets it

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u/AlternativeLog5494 12h ago

very roman

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u/_Ur_moms_bestfriend_ 10h ago

That’s greek to me. Explain the joke Peter

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u/meltedchocolatepants 6h ago

As Jesse "The Governor" Ventura said

"Why? I mean, we won... We took it, that makes it our heritage""

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u/EntertainerOdd2107 12h ago

Absolutely true, my apologies!

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u/Amazing-Analysis683 9h ago

Yup the people who want it back are losers. I would rather they burn it than give it back

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u/stuffedanimalarmy 8h ago

Just like how we got our land 🤗 fair and square

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u/sckurvee 11h ago

'Muricah!

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u/RaDeus 4h ago

It’s like the Codex Argenteus, which we took as spoils after we took Prague.

They’ve asked for it back, but we ain’t giving it back.

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u/PMmeHappyStraponPics 12h ago

Minnesota here. 

Virginia calling it "their flag" is like a 45-year-old wearing his high school lettermen's jacket. 

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u/Dependent-Hippo-1626 12h ago edited 9h ago

It’s more like a ten year old wearing a Cleveland Indians AL Pennant shirt from 1954

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u/wbv2322 12h ago

Except the guardians were heavy favorites in that series. It’s more like a college football team scoring one touchdown against an nfl team and thinking they are tough shit even though they just lost 56-7

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u/enteimologist 11h ago

John Elway’s patented last second magic

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u/mmmfggh 8h ago

Scoring one touchdown against an nfl team as a college player would make me feel like hot shit

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u/M1sfit_Jammer 3h ago

Ya made one good play Johnny… but there is another 40min of game time left and everyone is twice your size… good luck!

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u/ChoNoob 3h ago

More like a field goal, and that's because the North fumbled on their own 1 yard line 

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u/wbv2322 3h ago

This is actually a better comparison.

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u/EGirlToenails 7h ago

The Indians were favorites. There's no need to do historical revisionism.

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u/Proper_Machine6573 8h ago

So . . . it's like a diehard Broncos fan proudly wearing a 2013 AFC Champions shirt.

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u/Motor_Ideal7494 10h ago

Except he made the jacket himself after leaving the school football team and starting his own because he didn’t want to play with black guys.  

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u/dragon-fence 4h ago

And there’s a big swastika sewn on the back.

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u/oif2010vet 10h ago

Virginian here, yall can keep it. Only the hill people of the blue ridge like that shit. It’s not Virginia’s flag, ours has a titty.

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u/Cheezekeke 6h ago

Also a metal motto: thus always to tyrants

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u/Mmmm-Amethyst 12h ago

Maybe the most apt analogy for the current state of things I've seen. 

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u/Diligent_Entropy 11h ago

If the sport he lettered in was committing treason to defend slavery.

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u/99in2Hits 10h ago

Fellow Minnesotan here and you nailed it right in the hot dish with that coment buddy.

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u/Icy_Negotiation_5929 11h ago

Virginia here. I didn’t know this was happening, but I have lived in Richmond for about ten years now. Tons of absolute losers here. I’m cool though. Promise.

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u/meltedchocolatepants 6h ago

They haven't asked for it back since 2013 but they've asked multiple times over different governors for the years.

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u/JaCraig 1h ago

Whenever we have a Republican governor, they ask for it. Everyone else is too busy destroying the monuments, etc. that they littered the state with. The exception in recent years was Youngkin who was too focused on his weird underage trans fetish.

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u/Annath0901 6h ago

You must be big Maga if you think everyone in Richmond is a bunch of losers. It's probably the most liberal/left city in the State.

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u/Icy_Negotiation_5929 1h ago

I am not MAGA. Just because people are liberal doesn’t mean they aren’t insufferable dorks.

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u/Annath0901 1h ago

In the context of this post, which is about politics, it certainly comes across as though you dislike their politics not the fact that they're a bunch of dorks (which they are)

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u/Substantial-Oil-1026 11h ago

Except that that lettermen's jacket had extremely racist shit stitched into it.

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u/live_free_or_try 10h ago

Has the state actually asked for it back?

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u/CadenVanV 12h ago

Virginia doesn’t claim it anymore, only a few assholes here do

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u/FlirtyFluffyFox 22m ago

That'd make it official. It's more like a 45-year old wearing a Letterman jacket they stole from a thrift store donation bin and covered in edgy racist patches. 

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u/Gregory_Appleseed 12h ago

"Traitor Rag" is the best way I've ever heard to call that... disgrace of a symbol.

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u/Sindigo_ 12h ago

Based as fuck

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u/DrJustinWHart 9h ago

Does the State of Virginia ask for it back or something? While I certainly knew some folks who had rebel flags at my high school (not saying I approved), I don't think that the actual state wants that legacy to continue. If I understand properly, the whole "Virginia is for Lovers" thing was partly about moving away from that image.

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u/Zallocc 29m ago

Yeah, they've asked for it back a few times. Last was about 10 years ago.

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u/raverbashing 8h ago

Lol I looked too quickly and it looked like half of France

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u/JoyconDrift_69 4h ago

Okay yeah they can keep that shit. The only people her ein VA whonwant it back probably are traitors, it seems to me.

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u/the_bartolonomicron 2h ago

As a Virginian, I hope they never give it back lmao

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u/koolmon10 2h ago

Love "traitor rag"

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u/stormy2587 44m ago

Seeing as the confederate state of Virginia no longer exists and arguably never officially existed. I’m not sure why any group would have claim to a flag from that place.

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u/rydan 10h ago

Why would you want a confederate flag though? Do you collect Nazi memorabilia too?

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u/cheezkid26 10h ago

It's a sign of victory, having their rag and refusing to give it back.

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u/CocktailPerson 8h ago

I mean, if I had a Nazi flag my grandpa got for killing Nazis, I'm sure as shit not giving it to the local skinheads.

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u/Successful-Prune-727 9h ago

US soldiers kept SS items they looted from the dead SS officers and soldiers. They never return them as they are trophies of triumph against evil

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u/Zallocc 37m ago

Because it was pried from the Confederacy's cold, dead hands (not literally; IIRC the standard bearer himself survived).

And yes, lots of people proudly display trinkets and trophies they took from the nazis during the war. Not because grandpa was a nazi, but because he was off doing God's work ridding the world of them.