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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not a leap. It's not a hop. It's not even a step. It's standing still. Go look at any nazi white nationalist rally and you'll see dozens of those sick yellow flags in the crowd. Thru don't even attempt to hide it.

They are nazis. Period. [/quote]
I find this so insulting. [/quote]

Maybe stop feeling insulted for one minute and actually LISTEN to people. My Jewish wife has the same creepy feelings when she sees a bunch of jacked up white dudes waving the Gadsen as she does when she sees Confederatd flags in southern VA or rural MD. Especially when those people are at political rallies saying "Take our country back!"

I guarantee a solid one-third of this country is utterly repulsed by the Gadsen flag because of what it's become to those who intensely dislike "fake" Americans. [/quote]

And I get a creepy feeling when I read the op and the people defending her.  [/quote]

Maybe if the folks waving the Gadsen gave up the politics of exclusion it would make people feel safer in their presence?

And yes, the introduction of the Gadsen license plate is 100% about capitalizing on Tea Party and exclusionary right wing politics. Why wasn't the Gadsen license plate introduced in 2001, after the September 11 attacks? Or maybe in 1991, after the fall of Communism?

It has zero to do with the Marines, the colonial era, or history. It's about exclusionary politics and tribalism. Gross.[/quote]

You can't just declare its meaning and then reject people based on that.  Are you 12?[/quote]

Interesting that you have zero rebuttal to the facts I laid out.

Tell me:
"Take back our country" - from whom?
"Make America great again" - to when? Is it not great already?

The more you gaslight and pretend it doesn't mean what I claim, the more easily the rest of us see through your supremacist views. Stop bullsh#tting and feigning outrage.[/quote]

Bwahahahaha.  Sorry, lifelong liberal democrat, union supporting, child of immigrants, Medicare for all supporter here.  I also have friends who in the military, work in law enforcement, teach at Catholic universities.  I've been to gay weddings, supported a friend through an abortion and believe Planned Parenthood should be funded.  And I send my kids to Catholic school.  Political issues are complicated. People are complicated.  They are multi-faceted. A license plate choice reflects something about a person's beliefs, but not everything.   You learn about people and their beliefs by talking to them, not shunning them.  You can't say you support tolerance for all, but not people you disagree with.  And you are not the arbiter of the meaning of a license plate.

There's nothing to rebut in your argument because you're not making one.  You're declaring something as a fact when it's not.  Life is not black and white.  Adults know that. 12 year olds do not. [/quote]

Bravo, PP, bravo. Unbelievably well said. [/quote]

+1. I don't like the other pp's brand of blind, kneejerk liberalism.  [/quote]

If people don't want to get called out on their bullsh#t, they should stop bullsh#tting. It's not that hard.

Again, for the 3rd time: why didn't "patriots" rally around the Gadsen after 9/11 or the fall of Commumism? Those were actually the perfec moments for that message. The more you keep ignoring, the more the rest of us know why you fly it. It's become a symbol of exclusion in its modern use. I don't need those kinds of neighbor's living next door to me.[/quote]
Actually, I saw the flag it in the 90s. But I lived in a military community. It was not uncommon to see it on tshirts. This was long before the tea party existed.[/quote]

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