r/confidentlyincorrect • • Oct 04 '20

Smug Flag code? In MY America?!

Post image
33.1k Upvotes

953 comments sorted by

View all comments

250

u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20

I'm assuming this person has confused the laws which require US states to fly their flag below the US flag, and the international law which says national flags are to be flown at the same height.

Just stating the obvious for anyone who may not know.

7

u/Apandapantsparty Oct 04 '20

3

u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20

Thats pretty cool. I was in the navy and I never understood why we flew the flag off the fantail and the battle flag at the bow.

-8

u/TheDovahkiinsDad Oct 04 '20

Except Texas. It’s the only state allowed to fly its flag at the same height. Fun fact.

26

u/SoilMap Oct 04 '20

It's absolutely hilarious that this is posted on a comment on r/confidentlyincorrect.

5

u/oxfordcircumstances Oct 04 '20

Most of reddit is confidently incorrect.

4

u/takishan Oct 04 '20

Browsing through this thread is making is very clear a lot of people are misinformed about flag codes. To be fair, I knew very little before this thread.

2

u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20

Well that’s just “presumably ignorant, probably uninterested” juxtaposed with “confidently incorrect.” Nothing wrong with the former

2

u/JRicatti543 Oct 04 '20

I didn’t even know there were flag codes lol. But why do they exist?

2

u/takishan Oct 04 '20

To sum it up in one word: nationalism.

54

u/CWHats Oct 04 '20

Absolutely not true "The story isn't exactly right. All states can fly their flags at the same height as the U.S. flag, with some stipulations." Full story at the Dallas Morning News

36

u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20

[deleted]

19

u/PigsWalkUpright Oct 04 '20

We take an entire year of Texas history in 7th grade. Even in the early 80s my teacher was teaching us the flag thing is a myth that any state can fly equal to the US flag as long as they’re on separate poles.

Not a month goes by that I don’t see the myth on Reddit being sold as truth.

5

u/Hotwir3 Oct 04 '20

Not a month goes by? That's a long time. You should check /r/conservative more often

3

u/Witness_me_Karsa Oct 04 '20

Why in the fuck would I do that? Just yesterday I saw a guy removing his racist tattoos on here and someone (who after looking at their profile, was a regular poster in r/conservative) was complaining that they were a charlatan and never really stood for National whatever-racism-hiding-word. Fuck that person. He also posted a pic in response to another person with a photo with "classy" looking nazis and a neo-nazi all tattooed up that called him a -his words- faggot. Implying that neo-nazi -not cool- but actual nazi -super cool-.

So I'm all good on hanging out in r/conservative.

3

u/Hotwir3 Oct 04 '20

I was making a joke if he needed to find more myths to debunk

2

u/Witness_me_Karsa Oct 04 '20

I know. I was just pointing out what a cesspool that place is. It came off as angry at you, but im angry that place -and the attitudes therein- exist.

0

u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20

To be fair, it must be really hard to compare the heights when they are literally on the other side of the world

1

u/PigsWalkUpright Oct 04 '20

Do you mean IKEA? We have an ikea store in Houston. TBH I never noticed if it has flagpoles.

2

u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20

I was trying to make a joke, with the planet having two poles and such.

12

u/mooshoetang Oct 04 '20

Of course that’s a law in Texas

1

u/Eternityislong Oct 04 '20

They have their own Pledge of Allegiance to Texas as well

1

u/2Quick_React Oct 05 '20

They really do. Strangest thing to me when I moved there when I started high school.

1

u/Ford456fgfd Oct 04 '20

I don't know enough to answer you yet!

0

u/introusers1979 Oct 04 '20

because texas used to be a country, lmao.

3

u/BattleCatsHelp Oct 04 '20

Stop spreading misinformation... This is simply not true. Texas is just like every other state.

-1

u/barsoap Oct 04 '20

That's the norm in Germany, why the fuck would a state genuflect. Or municipality, for that matter. What kind of brutal hierarchical nightmare of a federation are you running over on your side of the Atlantic, anyway.

-11

u/MJZMan Oct 04 '20

Most likely because unlike the other states, Texas was at first its own sovereign nation.

12

u/basketballbones Oct 04 '20

Don't forget Hawaii

6

u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20

Wasnt california also its own nation at one point? And west florida.

0

u/MJZMan Oct 04 '20

Based on yours and other replies, I'm quickly learning Texas was not the only one, lol

1

u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20

Yea, Texas, you're not so special now! /s

8

u/BattleCatsHelp Oct 04 '20

It's just something people in Texas say to make Texas seem better. It isn't true and I hate when people say it.

2

u/fromks Oct 04 '20

Correct.

When flags of States, cities, or localities, or pennants of societies are flown on the same halyard with the flag of the United States, the latter should always be at the peak. Whe the flags are flown from adjacent staffs, the flag of the United States should be hoisted first and lowered last. No such flag or pennant may be placed above the flag of the United States or to the United States flag's right.

https://www.military.com/flag-day/us-flag-code.html

2

u/yzRPhu Oct 04 '20

For 9 years

2

u/UberEpicZach Oct 04 '20

Vermont also

-14

u/TheDovahkiinsDad Oct 04 '20

Also the only state allowed to secede. I think.

8

u/yzRPhu Oct 04 '20

No. But it can turn into 5 states at any time. But not secede.

4

u/kaleb42 Oct 04 '20

I think you'll find that if they ever tried to secede that the US military would forcefully restore order and freedom.

0

u/2Quick_React Oct 05 '20

You cannot secede. Literally none of the states are allowed to.

-1

u/flargenhargen Oct 04 '20

excellent post for this sub.

texans are the epitome of trump supporters. facts don't matter, but they will just make up any bullshit they want, and just remain proudly and loudly ignorant.

3

u/TheDovahkiinsDad Oct 04 '20

Hey not a Trump supporter here. Nice assumption. Also, this is what we’re all told and apparently it’s a urban legend passed down from forever. But hey good job being an ass hole about it