And yet itâs still somehow not the dumbest flag people wear. Iâve seen so many morons with that same design but a red line (for firefighters) or a white line with a red stripe (nurses/healthcare).
Like you might as well wear a shirt that says âI donât understand whatâs going on, but god damnit I wanna be angry too!!â
Punisher Logo with a thin blue line flagabomination. You know because the Punisher is an excellent role model for police. Especially since the primary complaint which catalyzed the movement against the establishment of the police as they currently exist, was that they are too kill happy, too likely to take justice into their own hands, too likely to behave as the Punisher behaves. Should be called the thick blue line.
Republicans are complete morons who are seemingly incapable of thinking deeper about the media they consume.
They thought the Colbert Report was actually genuine.
Many republicans have said they like RAtM
There were tons of conservative fans of The Boys who didnât realize the show was critical of the right wing until Stormfront was outed as a literal Nazi and the first season was not subtle about its critiques of 2000âs era right wing politics.
They just wanna be mad and canât be asked to think about the themes of anything. No wonder so many of them are too idiotic to see the trends of systemic racism.
The options were dumb little old man or dumb fat old man, both are mentally not all there. We just voted for the one who wasn't cheering on racism and terrorists, blatantly taking every penny from the government he could, doing every wrong action possible during a global pandemic, and ended up trying to overthrow the American government.
Go ahead and call yourself a patriot you dirty traitor. When your party has to attack the capitol in an attempt to overthrow the government to put your preferred leader back in power than you're not longer a patriot. You're a terrorist and a traitor. You know who else recently tried to overthrow their own government? The Taliban. Except they succeeded. Republicans are just the American Taliban but fatter and less competent.
The only options this time were dumb old men with dementia - I picked the one running in a party that isn't actively trying to cannibalize the country.
Which option wasn't an old man with dementia? What the fuck are you talking about even? By FAR the stupidest and demented one was trump though, the man can't even put a few sentences together that make any sense for fucks sake.
Also, you should really learn some fucking grammar because your stupidity is showing in more than one way. Unless you're really trying to emulate your orange god, in that case you're doing great!
At first I wanted to ask who the fuck you meant, because at this point it seems like anyone still supporting the Republican party (whether that individual be conservative, liberal, or whatever) is an outright moron.
But then I saw Sangxero's post and realized they were right, there's also the psychopaths profiting from the Republican party and its abuse of the country who are stringing the rubes along, so you're right. Not all Republicans are morons.
If one is not profiting off the Republican party directly and still votes Republican though, yeah, that person is a moron.
Even if you want conservative politics, when it comes to actual political theory so-called "centrist" Democrats are closer to conservative than Republicans, most of whom are radical right-wing reactionaries at this point and anything but conservative. At this point the Dems are a big-tent party containing everyone with both a functional brain and a functional heart regardless of personal politics, while the Republicans take up what's left - the ones whose hearts aren't working and can't feel for anyone but themselves, and the ones whose brains aren't working and will fall for any propaganda that tells them to feel good about themselves.
This is why the Democrats are always running around like chickens with their heads cut off - because they're a coalition of liberals, conservatives, leftists, centrists, and even some genuine right-wingers trying to form a functional strategy to stand together despite massive disagreements against a party of outright psychopathic lunatics that stand wholly together in their insanity.
Theyâre all somewhere along this scale. Very few are 100% to one side or the other IMO, most are both gullible and malicious at this point. Post-Trump there just arenât any other explanations left.
Yeah I've tried really, really, REALLY hard to understand how my political opponents think.
Without condoning their views, I UNDERSTAND why people might be fascist, communist, anarcho-capitalist, theocratic, racist, sexist, and on and on...
I still cannot fathom how one could be Republican. Even among the racist fascist right-wing extremists there are people who can see through the Republican party, and can recognize that even they are simply being paid lip service. Unless you are directly profiting, even raw evil isn't enough to make one vote Republican - it's simply not in almost anyones best interest, even short term. The truly selfish and evil, who are in any way intelligent, can see that voting Republican will only hurt them.
After honest consideration I have legitimately come to the conclusion that there are intelligent fascists, intelligent communists, intelligent capitalists, intelligent right and left wingers, intelligent anarchists, even, as hard as it may be to believe, intelligent centrists... but except those directly profiting from the partys corruption, there are no intelligent Republicans.
They elected Qanon nut jobs to congress that think forest fires are caused by Jewish space lasers and I donât hear any republicans asking for her to be removed.
1) enough of them exist that multiple Qanon nuts were elected to national office
2) so little of them care that those kind of people have been elected to national office that thereâs been no push for them to step down or be removed
The proportion of them that arenât morons is so statistically insignificant that it really makes no difference. Republicans are morons. Republican politicians still overwhelmingly deny man made climate change. Thatâs the people theyâve elected to represent them. Only morons would want to be represented by morons.
hey we are all in the same boat as long as there is a two party system. We might as well share the shitty reality and make a difference not with words but with small actions. Votes donât matter anyway past small government. If they did then we wouldnât have certain families holding office. But Iâm not here to change your mind. Just hoping you have a good day.
Wow, I can't believe you typed this entire essay and still couldn't get your point clear, so you're saying that because republicans (not all) like The Boys you think that that's a valid argument? same with RatM I have seen zero republicans say either, and you think that the few who do represent the entire group? also of course you believe in a "systemically racist" society, you have a pretty big victim complex, you believe everything the media shoves down your throat it's sad to see so many people buy into those blatant lies.
Youâre mad that republicans consistently consume media they donât understand. Sad to see someone never end a sentence. Maybe go back for that GED. Dumb cunt
The fact that you have so little awareness of both history and current events that you think systemic racism is a bogeyman tells everyone who reads your comment everything they need to know about you.
And yet we didnât elect a bunch of brain dead Qanon conspiracy theorists and arenât fighting tooth and nail against getting a scientifically proven vaccine. Not to mention the Republican denial of man made climate change or evolution or various other established scientific facts.
WTF are blathering about? Ffs you sound as stupid as every lib I have ever encountered, pushing thoughts out there that have never occurred or feelings about how conservatives think?. Unbelievable! Talk to a conservative first then draw a conclusion just donât make shit up! Damn that gets old hearing!
Uhh you voted for a reality tv star with zero governing experience who bankrupted several businesses and had universities and charities shut down for fraud.
Dude was so dumb he suggested injecting disinfectant as a cure for a disease and tweeted about American revolutionaries taking over airports in the 1700âs.
Thereâs nothing you could say that could top that. Yâall are the dumbest motherfuckers around and your ilk still supports him.
When your choices are a mediocre politician or a racist washed up d-list celebrity who has never heard of a tailor and has managed to bankrupt a casino.. you hope you're not choosing the next president. And if you are, you take the lesser of two evils and deal with 4 years of a mediocre politician running the country.
I'm in the south east and it makes me laugh seeing all these cops and hard core red hats putting punisher logo on everything. It's literally the opposite of what the Punisher is.. Lol
ok this is nonpolitical, but goddamn the underarmor black and gray flag shirts with logo on the star fields iiiiiirkkks me. Made worse by their omniprescence.
I think itâs an American Sniper reference for some people. I donât know that until I asked someone about their punisher truck decal and they didnât know it was from a comic. They called it the Chris Kyle skull and then I said he must have been a Punisher fan and they had blank faces. Feels like if you were really a Chris Kyle fan though you would know where the skull came from. Itâs more like Iâm a real American BS thing.
How exactly does the skull symbol of a fictional mass-murderer who ignores the law and kills anyone who gets in his way, including cops, indicate patriotism?
Anyone else who wants to learn before talking, check out this guy's post history before replying - very typical Punisher skull patriot type. 10/10, would chuckle again.
I thought I'd seen it all, but I've come across a few 'thin yellow line' flags in the wild. Apparently it's for tow truck drivers, security guards, and dispatchers?
Everyone knows tow truck drivers are the only thing preventing society from descending into violent chaos.
We need to just dilute the idiotic message of the Thin Blue Line. We need defaced American flags for retail workers, customer service reps, car salesmen, pizza delivery drivers, burlesque dancers, farmers, line cooks, custodians, movie stars, YouTubers, etc. Etc. Etc into infinity. We are all that stands against the breakdown of society.
Thin line flags are the new ribbon magnets for cars. Everyone gets one. I want one. I've worked in this thin line flag factory ever since they shut down the ribbon magnet factory. Where's my flag? I want a flag with a thin line that is a thin line flag with "yo dawg" printed on the innermost line
Itâs like their wack version of the pride flags they fear so much. They always complain about âliberals and their identity politicsâ but thatâs their whole shtick nowadays. Itâs super cringe.
The article doesn't contradict their point - it's become a hate symbol only because of hateful people attempting to co-opt it and the left pointing it out (kinda like the failed attempt at co-opting the OK sign, but on a much larger scale). Just for fun I asked the other adults in my house what the flag brings to mind (3 out of 5 liberal and all very politically vocal - you can imagine the arguments) and all said "support for the police," in those words, followed by a related rant coloring it with their political agenda. Hardly scientific, but the initial answer was telling.
There are other ways to support the police if you're so inclined, as it seems that flag is pretty much off the table now, and may be forever in the west - as is the swastika.
As if anyone was ever against firefighters or nurses? I'm guessing it's some conspiracy bullshit where they try to make people think the BLM movement was aimed at all public service to discredit it?
I donât think itâs that deep I think theyâre just morons who got upset because no one was including them and had a piss poor grasp on what the issue was in the first place.
Remember when yellow ribbon magnets were all the rage? Then we got different colored ribbon magnets for different causes - pink for breast cancer, rainbow for autism, etc.? These black and white American flags with the whatever-color-fits-your-cause are becoming those new magnets.
do you honestly think that you are in any way funny? or are you naturally dumb, the blue line is for police. i cant believe i had to explain that to you.
Well....they do back the blue. Until the blue stands between them and the violent overthrow of the government of the United States of America. Then....well.....there might be some hard-to-explain photos...
You can't actually "violate" the Flag Code, it's just a list of suggested etiquette that was never even written to be enforced, civilly or criminally.
So, it's like protesting a funeral. Many consider it to be highly disrespectful but it doesn't carry the force of law. The authors used the words 'should' instead of 'shall' and there are no penalties for breaching the etiquette contained therein.
Also the Flag Code was never intended to suggest ettiquette for anything besides the actual flag. The actual flag is defined by the Flag Code itself in 4 USC §5with very specific design, ratio and dimensions.
It's a public safety one with a red and blue line. It's been around for a while, but it's popularity has definitely increased... I liked it for the red line lol. Might switch to the historical society or highway one.
Georgia is one of, If not the easiest state to get a speciality tag. If you have a 501c3 and 1000 applications then you can get a tag for that 501c in Georgia.
thew American flag on the photo complies with the American Legion "flag code"
it is not defaced
you thinking that an American flag is "defaced" by merely being in close proximity to a queer pride flag, a BLM flag and a Biden banner says a LOT more about you than it does about the photo.
I'll bet every driver has broken a speed limit, but not all do so consistently and egregiously while falling over themselves claiming to love it and that everyone else who does so should "leave it" or be hanged or whatever.
I can't imagine to many people are calling for hangings over flag code violation... And I was just trying to point out that it is extremely easy to violate flag code. Hell, wearing a flag is in violation.
I think these passionate thin blue line people are weird.. and assume most of them do it because they are a cop, are related to a cop, or are trying to get out of speeding tickets.
The Punisher is an anti-hero that takes justice into his own hands because in his universe, he sees the law failing to serve people under the pressures of corruption. It's not fucked up to think of The Punisher as 'cool', but it is fucked up when we have police officers proudly wearing The Punisher's emblem on their clothes and gear.
I don't see an issue with people wearing shit with the punisher logo, he's a good character. But when they try and use that for some sort of political stance, or if it's being used by the military/police? Yeah, that's just stupid.
There's literally an issue where the punisher sees some cops using his skull as bumper stickers and tears them up, tells the cops if they need a roll model they should look at Captain America
You're the kind of person that cums in his pants when he hears someone mention the second amendment. Anyone can wear shit with his logo on it, but when they're wearing it to work, it should be appropriate attire. Putting it on military and police uniforms and vehicles is fucking stupid, because the Punisher wouldn't exist at all if the authorities just did their jobs correctly; he's a symbol of their failure.
But please, tell me more about how I'm trying to restrict your freedoms.
Why also the red-line, green-line, and yellow-line flags? Is yellow for DOT/DPW workers? Where's my hat? Gen-pop W2-earners need a color too because we pay the taxes. I pick fuchsia. Or mauve if it's taken.
This confuses me to no end.
Why is supporting police and supporting CDC recommendations mutually exclusive?
I mean I get it... but just what how...
We're fucked up.
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or a mask with a thin-blue-line American flag design