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In almost every other country other than Germany it’s very normal to see national flags flying everywhere. People on the right are starting to realise that and use it to say “they’re trying to stop us being patriotic.”

Taking flags down is only going to make that worse and create an “us vs them” mentality. What would help, is flying more flags. Fly a pride flag next to a St George’s Cross. Fly a Union Jack with a dragon in the middle. Fly the same flag as the far right, but see it to represent all the people who work to make the country what it is, no matter who they are. That’s far better than creating unnecessary divisions over something that really isn’t an issue.

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Paddzr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
It’s not about the flags, it’s where they are.

You can have as many flags in your garden as you wish.

But you may not put a flag on street lights or on dual carriage way bridge for it to fly down and cause an accident.

I don’t like the idea of people spray painting flags, I don’t like when they did it with trans flags and I don’t like it now either, but that’s not getting removed by council because it doesn’t cause the same level of risk that the council would be viable for.

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- 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Flags on lampposts isn’t seen to be an issue anywhere else. There’s also (as far as I’m aware) no reported issues of flags flying down, regardless of whether it causes accidents. Even then, if it’s not well secured, remove it or tie it properly, otherwise leave it, it’s the same amount of effort if not less than removing it.
  
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  - Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Flying a flag isn’t patriotism though, it’s virtue signalling. Virtue signalling on the behalf of racist agitators.
    
    Also, the vast majority of these flags are made from polyester or nylon, neither of which are good for the environment so why should they be tolerated to be littered everywhere? We wouldn’t tolerate bin bags being littered everywhere, but because they’re colourful bin bags it’s fine?
    
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