More importantly, the Supremes have said that it’s protected speech, twice, I think someone said up thread. Our opinions of flag burning are pretty much moot, for or against. What Trump said he would like to see happen is clearly unconstitutional and simply red meat for his twitter followers.
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Sounds like a mixture of tax breaks and threats.
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We are discussing the tribalists that DO, though.
As I indicated, I don’t want to derail the thread any further. But so as not to be rude…
Simply put, it obviously means different things to you and I. For me it’s a symbol of the ideals, not our failures to uphold them. It’s not a tribe in the sense that it’s value isn’t predicated on exclusiveness. Rather I believe humanity is stronger when its forms of government and social ideas are diverse. I respect other nations, but the US is my home country and therefore the one I can and should have the most influence on trying to keep the baser human instincts from prevailing. I neither can nor should I have the right to tell other nations how to govern themselves, save insofar as the Earth is home to us all and issues that effect the whole globe should have global representation. But I will never support One World Government. Humans are far to tempted by power for one organization to wield that much.
I’m not sad when someone burns the American Flag, save insofar as I’m sad that they’ve allowed those baser instincts to claim it in their own view of the flag’s meaning. I do find that victory of corruption to be vile, yes. The symbol itself is just that, a symbol. Like all symbols, it’s significance derives from what it means to people.
In the book making part of my brain where I am trying to figure odds on the various potential disasters, plot twists and not-quite-disasters that are to come, I rate “Trump assassinated as a race traitor by White Supremacists” above the probability background noise.
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I would be surprised if a militia was so emboldened either.
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from The Onion:
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Naturally, he’d do that shit in Florida. Makes me despise him even more. Christ, what an asshole of assholes.
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I totally concur with every facet of your statement but this one. An overstatement by leaps and bounds. He’s just living proof, just as is Dubbya Bush, that rich white dudes don’t fail or fall down, they fall up. I still don’t believe he’s a billionaire, for that matter. He’s just had great support at bullying or cajoling people out of their money.
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Way ahead of you. Trump is stupid stupid stupid.
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