Comment on Council removes almost 1,000 flags from Derby streets
Paddzr@lemmy.world 2 days agoIt’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.
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.
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?