The Political Thread

[Alexa]

What irks me besides seeing the confederate flag is seeing beside the american flag because it makes 0 sense

 

[Rosie]

What irks me besides seeing the confederate flag is seeing beside the american flag because it makes 0 sense

It also barely makes any sense for CANADIANS to hold up a flag which, its defenders, say it is meant for SOUTHERN PRIDE! Yes, in the Great White NORTH of Canada.

 

[Chris]

Grim has mentioned before how people on Minnesota rep it too lol

 

[Alexa]

It also barely makes any sense for CANADIANS to hold up a flag which, its defenders, say it is meant for SOUTHERN PRIDE! Yes, in the Great White NORTH of Canada.

Other countries have adopted it as a symbol of rebellion and all, but yeah still dumb

 

[Alexa]

Grim has mentioned before how people on Minnesota rep it too lol

Yep. When I lived in Minnesota our neighbor down the road had one in his yard so

 

[Deezy]

Guess the Commonwealth flag doesn't have the same gravitas.

 

[Comrade Khan]

Other countries have adopted it as a symbol of racist nationalism and all, but yeah still dumb

 

[Alexa]

Thanks for fixing that, Jeff

 

[Comrade Khan]

Thanks for fixing that, Jeff

I gotchu fam

 

[Deezy]

When I was growing up, I only knew the confederate flag as the "rebel flag" and all my favourite rock bands had them everywhere.

 

[Alexa]

Lynard Skynyrd and Kid Rock?

 

[Chris]

When I was growing up, I only knew the confederate flag as the "rebel flag" and all my favourite rock bands had them everywhere.

I knew it as the flag the racist who drug black people behind their trucks flew....and also skynrd

 

[Deezy]

Lynard Skynyrd and Kid Rock?

I never liked Kid Rock.....only god knows why I always wanted to strangle him until his eyes popped out like Total Recall.

 

[Deezy]

I knew it as the flag the racist who drug black people behind their trucks flew....and also skynrd

Our rednecks kept their vitriol for immigrants.

Until the 90s.

 

[Chris]

Murder of James Byrd Jr. - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

the fact that this happened within my lifetime and people still say "slavery was so lomg ago get over it" absoutely disgusting. That town is like an hour or so away from where i grew up