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Anyone else hate that the Gadsden flag has been appropriated by ultra-libertarian jingoists? It’s an awesome-looking flag with a cool history and symbolism, but I feel like I couldn’t fly it without looking like a twat.

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I feel you, i had the flag of Culpepper’s Minute Men hanging in my college dorm back in the day. Just like the Nazis before them Fascists bastardize shit they didn’t create

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The minutemen became part of the southern Army so it’s not as if the symbol was ok to begin with…

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yeah I was ignorant of that at the time, but holyshit fuck me…

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They always do

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Ultra-libertarian Jingoist? I’m as confused by that combination of words as I am the flags on the truck.

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Ultra libertarian == I’m free to be whatever I want to be despite your freedoms

Jingoist == my country is the best ever no matter what you say

“Ultra libertarian + Jingoist” == fuck you im a nationalist and don’t know civics

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Ultra libertarian == I’m free to be whatever I want to be despite your freedoms

Well, no. A fundamental of libertarianism is that one’s liberty doesn’t encroach on others’ liberty, since obviously that would be taking away liberty, ergo anti-libertarian.

If someone claims to be “ultra libertarian”—an entirely different thing—and does this, they would ironically be in direct opposition of the thing they claim to be associated with; on it’s most fundamental level, no less.

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The cool history: Are We The Baddies?

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Are We The Baddies?

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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They’re liberterian the same way hitler and the Nazi’s were socialists, or how north korea is democratic…

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Culpepper’s Minute Men

I had the Dont Tread on Me on twitter as my profile picture, I put that more than 10-15 years ago. I had to remove a couple years ago, because anyone who sees it will get the wrong idea.

Edit: also I was rewatching the movie Wind (about the American’s Cup) and the Geronimo ship had the Glasden flag on, that hasn’t aged well.

https://twitter.com/Kabutor_/status/1407103551197822979/photo/1

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And that’s why you should get this version instead!

https://a.co/d/5vVlhLE (Amazon link)

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