Comment on Why are people talking about flying a flag upside-down?

RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• snooggums@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Jan 6th insurrectionists were using it to say the country was in distress because of the “stolen election” lie.

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  • snownyte@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Funny because THEY were the ones causing the country to go in distress.

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    • FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Every accusation is an admission.

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  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And folks on the left were doing after Trump was elected to symbolize their resistence.

    Misusing a flag has always been a back and forth argument in political circles.

    It’s a nothingburger in my opinion.

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    • feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      semen sandwich

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    • snooggums@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      If you ignore contrxt, sure, but then you would look like an idiot who doesn’t understand how to read a calendar.

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      • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Are you okay? Do you need a cookie? Or possibly a hug?

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• gregorum@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Does the UK flag even have an “upside down”?

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  • Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Oh boy, you’re possibly in for a treat. I didn’t notice this for far too long either, but the UK flag is at a complete wonk:
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    It’s got rotational symmetry, but if you just flip it vertically, the thin red stripes will be the wrong way around.

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    • gregorum@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      See, that’s where I was confused. Since it has rotational symmetry, I didn’t notice, since I just took an image and rotated it— but it didn’t consider how a flag hangs from a flagpole, with one edge having eyeholes for a rope or string. This means it would be inverted, not rotated, and the stripes would be different.

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  • RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yes.

    In the upper corner of the flag nearest the flagpole, the wider diagonal white stripe should be above the red diagonal stripe. If the red is above the wider white stripe the flag is upside-down.

    www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/…/union-flag-faqs

    Even our own government screws it up though telegraph.co.uk/…/union-flag-has-flying-outside-p…

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    • gregorum@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Wow, that’s so subtle!

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  • BlueEther@no.lastname.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    very much so, just look at the corners

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• hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Some additional information on that:

  Generally, depending on the country there’s laws for that.

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_protocol

  Violating these laws can lead to varying degrees of fines and or prosecution, depending on the country and the type of country flag desecration (burning a flag is worse than getting the height of the flag on the pole wrong).

  Half mast is the more famous distress signal internationally.

  That said, Alito, even if not doing something illegal, is definitely signalling something very ominous. I agree with the experts that such an extreme degree of the appearance of impropriety is definitely gonna run afoul of supreme court ethics rules.

  But: no check of power means no executive power and that means a rule might as well be unwritten.

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  • FireTower@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Flag code in the US has no teeth. Flag burning is legal per Texas v. Johnson. Symbolizing a stance of the nation being in distressed is definitely protected speech. Impropriety is a stretch for a statement on his private property that amounts to “our country is in turmoil”.

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    • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Flag code in the US is just recommendations for citizens. I think it is only “enforced” for military personnel.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    burning a flag is the appropriate way to dispose of a flag I don’t know what you’re talking about

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• sailingbythelee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Flying the national maritime ensign upside down is an internationally recognized distress signal. A UK-flagged boat wouldn’t fly the UK flag upside down (which would be rather ineffective), but rather the Red Ensign (for civilian vessels).

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Ensign

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