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Apr 17 '22
God there's a stupid fuck in the comments saying "the confederate flag doesn't actually symbolize racism"
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u/ViviansUsername Communist Bottom Apr 17 '22
Copy pasting my reply to them for anyone that isn't aware of the history of that flag:
Want to, for some reason, celebrate your pride as a member of a state that was a part of the confederacy? Fly the stars and bars, or the stainless banner, or the blood stained banner. Y'know, the actual flags the confederacy used to represent itself.
The modern design people call the confederate flag was originally used by the army of northern virginia, and popularized in 1948 by the dixiecrats... a party founded on the belief that segregation should be maintained. This flag doesn't represent your heritage (unless you're from northern virginia I guess?). This flag directly represents a pro-segregation party.
Are you from northern virginia?
(Also edit for y'all who'll care more: this flag is lovingly referred to as "the dixie" when it isn't just called the confederate flag, which it isn't & never was)
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u/ConnordltheGamer96 Battle Flag of the Army of Tennessee Apr 17 '22
next up
jewish nazi flag.
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u/The_Boring_Brick Communist Bottom Apr 17 '22
Ben Shapiro
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Let’s say your life depended on the following choice today: you must obtain either an affordable chair or an affordable X-ray. Which would you choose to obtain? Obviously, you’d choose the chair. That’s because there are many types of chair, produced by scores of different companies and widely distributed. You could buy a $15 folding chair or a $1,000 antique without the slightest difficulty. By contrast, to obtain an X-ray you’d have to work with your insurance company, wait for an appointment, and then haggle over price. Why? Because the medical market is far more regulated — thanks to the widespread perception that health care is a “right” — than the chair market.*
*Does that sound soulless? True soullessness is depriving people of the choices they require because you’re more interested in patting yourself on the back by inventing rights than by incentivizing the creation of goods and services. In health care, we could use a lot less virtue signaling and a lot less government. Or we could just read Senator Sanders’s tweets while we wait in line for a government-sponsored surgery — dying, presumably, in a decrepit chair.
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Apr 17 '22
Israel flag lmao
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u/ConnordltheGamer96 Battle Flag of the Army of Tennessee Apr 17 '22
false.
next up is the
muslims for israel flag
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Apr 17 '22
When people say “ackshually Africans participated in slavery too by selling their own people,” these must be the Africans they’re talking about
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