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LesDeuxBonsYeux @sh.itjust.works

1y ago

Rule for the flag

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Fellow Ameribros will get salty but this is exactly what freedom looks like.
- Freedom means won't go to jail for this, but it doesn't mean you won't get punched if you insult somebody.
  
  If you get insulted over a piece of cloth to the point where you're hurting others, you need to get a hold of yourself.
  
  Honestly if you're insulted that somebody is making a harmless joke at the expense of your country's flag you need to lighten up.
  
  That is perfectly acceptable.
- "you can't do that"
  "freedom bitch"
  "rrrrRRRRREEEEEEEEE"

Republicans already do this with their swimwear.
Guess they were ahead of the curve for once.
- For the traditional law and order crowd (not so sure now) wearing anything the US flag is unlawful until 1989 but now is still considered poor Etiquette and rarely acknowledged as such.
  
  Also, the flag code is merely suggested standards for how to care for the Flag, and not a law that citizens must abide by. To go further, there is distinction between the flag, and flag motifs. Flag print toilet paper, totally okay, flag print jockstrap, totally okay. Taking your purpose made American flag, and wearing it as a cape, not okay. Wearing an American flag print towel as a cape, totally okay.
  
  Tell that to all the 80s models in a US flag bikini.

It has other uses. Excessive use by others can identify them as people you should avoid, while flag burning is very much in the spirit of that toilet paper.

This will free my butthole.
- Free it from what?
  
  Capitalism
  
  My warm jazz
  
  Oil based lube.

I'm against this. Your butthole deserves better.
Besides, everyone knows they make fantastic paper towels due to how oil-absorbent they are.

It absorbs oil really well

They claim you have freedom of speech, and yet if you burn an american flag you get put on a terrorist watch list.
- Really?
  
  Yeah It's pretty ridiculous. There's been lots of cases of people who attended a flag burning for the fuck of it and ended up on a watch list. Even the guys who do it annually just as a statement that they can ended up on there. It's not technically illegal but the state REALLY wishes it was.

Non-american here. Why would u want to use ur flag as toilet paper anyway?
- Counterpoint: why shouldn't you?
  A flag is a piece of fabric. People who swear their allegiance to it only tell the people more powerful than them that they will do any horrific things they are told as long as it uses that exact pattern of colours. They lose their individualism.
  Know what else is a fabric? Toilet paper.
  
  Counter-counterpoint: it'll clog your pipes and ruin your septic system if you flush fabric.
  That's really the only reason not to use a flag.
  
  Toilet paper is fabric?
  
  Ahh, so the goal of this meme is to reemphasize the right to free speech and expression and to remind people not to lose their individuality by being nationalist. Fair enough.

That ink would likely irritate your anus.
- And probably both poison you and leave even more toxic shit behind than you had when you started.
- It's probably full of oil

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