Comment on The end is near

SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The flag is never supposed to touch the ground, its considered an insult to the flag and non-patriotic.

  So I’m all for it 👍

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ah, but are the nuts allowed to touch the ground? Cause I remember a whole patriot song about it.

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    • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hmm, gotta brush up on me Sack Code

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• mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  white nationalism

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• Sunnshine@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s the same as people wearing crap with the Union Jack on it.

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Can someone explain to me why someone would wear crocs with the American flag?

  They found a pair at Goodwill or some other discount site and cared more about saving a few bucks than looking stylish.

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  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s very generous of you. Given their accessory choices, I would think this person in particular paid a premium for these.

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  • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Idk, you couldn’t pay me to wear it

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• vogi@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I like that you are more confused about the crocs being american than the nuts that are hanging from them :)

  What do the nuts actually symbolize? Im so lost there.

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There has been a trend among the dumbest of the dumb rednecks to hang fake rubber nuts off the hitch on their jewelry pickup truck. They think it makes them look masculine, when it makes them look even stupider than they actually are.

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s how rednecks proclaim trans positivity. The truck wasn’t built with testicles, and then they added them, which alters the truck’s gender. How progressive.

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    • TheRealKuni@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think they’re just meant to be funny.

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      • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m just waiting for them to hang nuts on their gun

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  • inmate_p01135809@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That the person they belong to is a dick.

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• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Because their MAGA, so they have to prove it to other MAGAs so ICE doesn’t deport them.

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• Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s the same thing that happened to Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentines, Cinco de Mayo, St. Patties, insert any and every holiday here.

  Perversion of core values to turn a profit.

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• Vreyan31@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A lot of people here treat the idea of being American like it’s a sports team.

  Also, it isn’t classy. And it isn’t meant to be. It also serves to communicate that you are relatable to other non-classy people. That can mean that you are an 'easy going person who accepts people as they come" or it can mean the same “…if you are white” (and conservative).

  There was a popular show here in the 70s called the Dukes of Hazard about outlaw redneck hooligans. They drove a car with a Confederate flag on it. That kind of crass display was part of the ‘fuck you, you can’t tell me what to do’ mentality, and it caught on for the aesthetics despite being racist. But I think it also opened the door here to people doing the same thing with the American flag.

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• AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I get hanging it outside your house.

  I don’t know, isn’t that weird? Who does that? (US people, obviously, but other than that?)

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  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean that’s also a display of performative patriotism but I’ve seen that in a ton of countries (Hungary has flags everywhere). But I’ve never seen it go so far as being made into a fashion item

    (Edit: I have actually: UK during the Cool Britannia phase, although it wasn’t meant chauvinisticly there)

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