The American flag: To some it’s Old Glory. To others it’s a MAGA hat on a stick.

  • zarniwoop@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 days ago

    I’ll be real with you. That flag stood for horror beyond most people’s comprehension before maga fucked it up.

    That flag was waved during the extermination of plenty of people, it was waved when oppressing plenty of people, it was waved while killing and sterilizing and propagandizing and and and. That flag is the symbol of American hegemony, of white supremacy, of paternalistic domination. That flag was waved in Madison square garden when 20,000 people gathered for a Nazi rally. That flag was presrnt when Clinton gutted social services and signed the crime bill. That flag was ever present for Vietnam and Afghanistan and Iraq and all our wars at home in our own people.

    Trump and maga are the genital warts to the HPV we actually carry. This started before them, long before them and now we are simply seeing the outbreak come to fruition once again.

    So, no they didn’t steal that symbol. The honest take is they’re using it correctly in lockstep with American tradition. Every good this nation has done was largely done by its victims and done in spite of it not because of it.