Some people are so fragile. Fox News of course is saying feds have banned non US flags, of course lying to their viewers about what is actually happening.

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Wow the description of the flag in the flag code is amusingly vague: “The flag of the United States shall be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white; and the union of the flag shall be forty-eight stars, white in a blue field.”

According to the wikipedia page, the exact specification is given in “Executive Order 10834,” but strictly it only applies to flags made for and by the federal government.

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Well I’m not the federal government, so this is my flag now!

Also I’m Canadian… don’t ask why I need an American flag

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Problem: that flag has two blue fields.

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Perhaps it’s a 2D projection of a 3D tube?

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A tubular flag? 🤯

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They do this kind of thing to distract from their total lack of solutions to any real problems.

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That’s the only reason they do it. Continue the culture war over here so you don’t see me doing nothing over here.

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Exactly.

Conservatives around the world have figured out that you can win elections by focusing entirely on socially conservative wedge issues, then do whatever the hell you want once you’re in power.

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Biden’s allegedly not a conservative though.

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Pointless culture wars are all they have left because without those, some of their voters might calm down long enough to notice they haven’t delivered on a single promise to make the lives of regular Americans better when they are in power for decades.

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I gebuinenly would not be surprised if they wrote in an exception for the confederate dishtowel flag

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imagine this guy will weasel in some kind exception for the Confederate flag and the swastika flag. Republican has become just another word for traitor.

These are the same people desecrating the American flag, with the theme of factionalism, like that stupid thin blue line. So much for e pluribus union.

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any flag that represents the State, territory, county, city, or local jurisdiction in which the public building is located.

Sounds like it!

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E pluribus unum hasn’t been the US motto in a long time, unfortunately. Some knuckledraggers replaced it with “in God we trust” a while back. We ought to fix that.

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Ok. They going to remove the thin blue line flag from all the police cruisers as well? Yes that is state vs fed. Im just taking this to its logical (unlikely) conclusion. Rule for thee not for me and all that.

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Some towns were pissed off that the blue lines they painted on their Main Streets weren’t MUTCD compliant.

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