Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats
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You should look closer at the wiki article. Hint: the white parts are part f the flags there.
The ones used now is only an element in most of those flags.
It would be like in the future someone would use just the stars part of the star spangled banner as a symbol for "ol'timey USA".
So, according to poles on reddit, that picture is actually from a local fascist group... guess they just prefer local instead of german nazism... which kind of makes sense, since it is supposed to be about your nations people being better then others.[DOUBLEPOST=1502912725,1502912579][/DOUBLEPOST]
NO ONE SAW THAT COMING AT ALL....
GRU/NKVD/KGB still got it, baby...
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Can you link me that? I'd like to read about it.
You should look closer at my post and notice the "any other flag with it as a device". Hint: my point remains the same.
Your analogy is wrong, as the device is rendered in its entirety when embedded in other flags. Very related: have you heard of the Union Jack?
Oh, you mean the one that's a complete opposite situation, where they made one flag out of many, to try and force unity, instead of taking an element of a flag (that was used as a battle standard at the time) and applying it to the whole Confederacy?
I mean look:
While the confederate flag would be the other way around.[DOUBLEPOST=1502914499,1502914422][/DOUBLEPOST]
I close the thread, and my history is full of HFnow, but just look for the picture on reddit, plenty of comments.
Apparently it was the green flag that gave it away: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Revival_of_Poland
he's referring to its use in the flags of Australia, New Zealand, a few Canadian provinces, and numerous others.
No, I mean as in it's use as a device in other flags, which is a direct parallel to the use of the Confederate device in other flags. There's a wealth of other examples in heraldry and vexillology, but I would have thought this one was most commonly known.Oh, you mean the one that's a complete opposite situation, where they made one flag out of many, to try and force unity, instead of taking an element of a flag (that was used as a battle standard at the time) and applying it to the whole Confederacy?
I mean look:
While the confederate flag would be the other way around.
Almost all of the additions of the confederate flag to the state flags in the Deep South were in response to the Civil Rights Era. A legislated "go fuck yourself" to the likes of the NAACP.
That's not what we're referencing (but rather uses of the Confederate flag as a device in other C.S.A. flags contemporary to it), but good to know and another good example.
Oh, ok.
But that's still the complete opposite, since, you know, they where using an existing flag to make new ones, to show subservience, when the current Confederate flag uses an element from the actual ones used by the Confederacy as the whole flag.
I'll point again to the context of why the battle flag appears as a device in all those C.S.A. flags. It was a very popular flag (at the time) on its own, and thus a valid symbol to use as short-hand. If it was hidden, transformed, or lumped up (like, say, Saint George's Cross in the Union Jack and all the derived flags, or a quarter of Spain's coat of arms) then I'd understand not seeing it as representative of the whole, but that's not the case here.
Of equal importance, can the Public fire private employers?
sourceThe article said:
The article was originally, "...may be forced to close," but it seems the guy has otherwise been being a jerk to his wholesalers, employees, etc., so this was probably enough that people were just finally done with him.
--Patrick
Ok, so looking around some more, it seems the flag design actually lost to the original CSA one, and, months later, then was adopted as a battle flag by Lee, which is why it was incorporated in the 2nd flag.
And i wasn't saying it wasn't a valid symbol, but that the reason why it's THE SYMBOL is because it was preferred by post-civil-war racists in comparison with the actual official flags of the Confederacy. And they're the ones that gave it it's current shape, as opposed to the square one that was used as a battle flag.
Look, a sack of filth using the Barcelona attack to argue for the need of a police state. How did that Franklin quote go?
Haha, remember the good ole days when they screamed that Obama was going to take all our guns and establish himself for a third term through "false flag" operations like Sandy Hook until he was literally ruling us? Ah the memories.... the wonderful memories...
Good to know their opinions can change so much when it's a different guy willing to keep out those brown people.
BTW I really love David Wong. He always has an interesting perspective on events like these since he lived both sides of the coin.
A lot of good points, but I don't think he realizes how at least one of his points cuts both ways:
Replace "heterosexual" with "homosexual" and "cheeseburger" with "veggie burger" and "vegan" with "carnivore" and you have a virtue-signalling SJW. It's exactly the fucking same but from the other side of politics. People with no grounded accomplishments latch onto whatever they can, no matter how shallow, and anybody telling them that their "identity" is meaningless will be met with hate.
Hence why Identity Politics from either side is completely stupid. Recognize and fight racism, sexism, etc, but when you define yourself or your opponent by being in an identifiable group (they're good/bad because they're white/black man/woman (flip any term either way) ), there's problems.
I identify my opponents by them being in the group "Users with a member number starting with 1". That's OK, right?
We might need a terrorism thread.
BBC- Finland stabbings: Man shot and held after Turku attacks
Several people (number unknown, but eyewitnesses say at least 2) stabbed, none known to be dead. Suspect was shot in the leg and arrested.
This video is also jumping around twitter, claimed to be of the attacker shouting "Allah Akbar":
BBC- Finland stabbings: Man shot and held after Turku attacks
Several people (number unknown, but eyewitnesses say at least 2) stabbed, none known to be dead. Suspect was shot in the leg and arrested.
This video is also jumping around twitter, claimed to be of the attacker shouting "Allah Akbar":
If you have to group people, identify them by what they say or do, not what they are born with.
And +1 funny for both yourself, me, and a number of others here being in that group, but hardly everybody who's responded so far.
Damn, Bubble looks delicious.
Yeah, i mean, remember when heterosexuality was an official mental disease up until the 80s?
Contexts? Who needs that? That's why White Pride and Gay Pride are just "exactly the fucking same but from the other side of politics."
I didn't say you could flip words in EVERY EXAMPLE and they are the same, I said THAT ONE.
You mean the one with heterosexuality?
1st example was the one going for your example, the 2nd one was just an analogy for emphasis.
The thing I don't get is that the article had nothing to do with that, so why are you trying to bring it up? David Wong was talking about "Hate Groups".
It reminds me of Trump's comments, "There were bad people on many sides", which creates a false equivalency between counter-protestors and literal white supremacists. Was Trump "factually" correct? Yes probably. Does that matter? Not really, because one side was literally hate spewing Nazi's yelling "Jews will not replace us." and "Blood and Soil", they are enemies of what we stand for as a diverse nation. If one black dude got super pissed and brought a baseball bat, we can sort of forgive his rage, as long as he does not actually use it to beat someone to death, then he is prosecuted all the same.
Yes, some people take it too far the other way, but even those groups are mostly despised by the average american. How many people do you see not rolling their eyes any time PETA appears in the news? At least PETA has not rolled over people with a car at a pig roast though, so I still wouldn't even equate them to literal Neo-Nazis.
But both sides tried, and we all know that's what's really important.
And now a stabbing in Germany, Wuppertal. One dead, one critical.
I have a feeling we are seeing a wide terror attack this week.
I wonder if maybe it won't culminate on Monday, during the eclipse, around the world. But dear God, do I hope I'm just being paranoid - it's a fairly normal state for me these days.
