American Flag In Front of House ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s a bit threatening, it’s become a symbol for maga and hateful behavior. I avoid anyone with a flag on their house or car. Sad they took our flag away from all of us

MAGA is flying flag upside down like Alito's wife.

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Bigger the flag the more guns in the house is my rule of thumb.🤷‍♂️

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s a bit threatening, it’s become a symbol for maga and hateful behavior. I avoid anyone with a flag on their house or car. Sad they took our flag away from all of us

MAGA is flying flag upside down like Alito's wife.

My super lefty neighbor flies his flag upside down.

[Anonymous]

I love this country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love this country.

So do I. Therefore, I am devastated and enraged about what is happening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:America is no better than a third world country.

In fact, it’s worse!

What third-world countries have you spent any significant time in to make this comparison.

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I live in a neighborhood in VA with a lot of very high ranking Naval officers and a lot of retired officers. Flags are featured prominently in our neighborhood, as were signs for Biden last November. So for me, I think of the flags as a reflection of military pride/support, but I understand others have different connotations, which makes me sad. If you've ever attended a military retirement ceremony and heard My Name is Old Glory I would hope you realize what the flag actually stands for. It makes me sick that people think one group has commandeered the flag for their values. My friend lives in Charlottesville and said the flags she sees make her sick, but I'm guessing they're flying next to Trump signs. So I get it, but it still makes me mad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s a bit threatening, it’s become a symbol for maga and hateful behavior. I avoid anyone with a flag on their house or car. Sad they took our flag away from all of us

Do you hear yourself? People like you are the WORST. I'm entirely anti-Maga, never voted for Trump, hate everything he is doing, but I'm not stupid or hypocritical enough to judge someone for having a flag flying at their house. You're an idiot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks. I do appreciate everyone's perspective, and the fact that you shared it. This is pretty much what I expected, but wanted to get this temp check anyway and feel I've benefitted from it.

My love of our flag and my desire to continue to fly it is in conflict with my desire to avoid anyone looking at our home and thinking "MAGA" or anything even remotely adjacent. I think the bottom line for me is that it does feel jingoistic -- at least for me -- in the current climate. So I'll take it down. I really need to do something anyway, the flag is faded enough that I can't really leave it in it's current condition even if I were to want an American flag there. (The "No trespassing" thing is definitely coming down, lol. No one is going to trespass back here anyway, so I find it weird that the prior owners of the house felt the need to put that there.)

Maybe it's a good filter for making friends because I'm very liberal but would refuse to be friends with someone who would assume someone was MAGA just because they had an American flag flying.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We have an American flag. We live in a pretty liberal area and no one has ever said anything to me about it. Never had a negative “repercussion” (package not delivered, repairman refuse to come to the door, etc).

If someone assumed I’m MAGA due only to my flag, I feel like I wouldn’t want to know that person anyway. I’m trying to think of a scenario where that would happen. Maybe a parent comes to drop off their kid for a play date and refuses to let them come in due to the flag? A roofer comes to do a repair and refuses my money because I have an American flag? Honestly I would really care…

I would never say anything to you about it. I would just wonder things quietly to myself.

And then just do PP a favor and stop associating with her because no one wants to friends with someone who would wonder quietly about that to themselves. I mean, if PP gives off no other Trump indications, you're really just going to mutter about her because of the flag alone? Seriously?

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Anonymous wrote:Unfiltered -- what is your response to someone flying an American flag outside of their house? What associations do you have? What assumptions do you make? Is your reaction positive? Negative? Complex? Do you make assumptions about their politics?

We moved into a new house that sits on five wooded acres, and it has a very long driveway and you can't see it from the road, and at the entry to the driveway is an American flag hanging on a tree, and beneath it a "Do Not Trespass" sign. It was there when we moved in. Our house is very hard to find, and whenever an uber comes, or a someone doing work on the house or whatever, they truly cannot find our house, but if I explain there is a flag at the driveway it really helps them find us. So. We've kept it there for now. Looked at replacing it with seasonal flags, but they don't make a lot of those for the kind of flagpole we have.

It's always 1) Boomers 2) People who are Not College Educated

I know a bunch of Gen X Navy Captains and Admirals who would respectfully disagree with you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate how MAGA has co-opted the American flag.

I remember, after September 11, how so many of us flew American flags in solidarity.

I will also say that I am not thrilled how LGBTQ has co-opted the rainbow. A friend’s young daughter was scared to wear a rainbow on her shirt because of what other people would read into it.

It’s exhausting.

Well your friend missed a real teaching opportunity there and how sick that she's making her daughter a pawn in her hatred. Wear a rainbow shirt and people will read what into it? That she's gay? Who cares? That she's pro-LGBTQ+? Who cares? Tell your friend to stop raising a little bigot.

[Anonymous]

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That sends a very clear message that you have a gun and you’re itching to use it. If there was any doubt about the flag, the no trespassing sign confirms you’re eager to kill.

You people need to take a field trip out to rural America. It actually means people can't hunt on your property, not that you're going to shoot them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
That sends a very clear message that you have a gun and you’re itching to use it. If there was any doubt about the flag, the no trespassing sign confirms you’re eager to kill.

You people need to take a field trip out to rural America. It actually means people can't hunt on your property, not that you're going to shoot them.

No one should be allowed to personally own land.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s a bit threatening, it’s become a symbol for maga and hateful behavior. I avoid anyone with a flag on their house or car. Sad they took our flag away from all of us

MAGA is flying flag upside down like Alito's wife.

My super lefty neighbor flies his flag upside down.

They are a disgrace then.