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[–] cmeu@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The executive branch signs bills into law. It doesn't create laws.

😢

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 hours ago

It creates laws if the other branches of government are too corrupt to stop it.

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 95 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Conservatives have the weirdest boner for flags, and against flagburning. A thing that almost never happens.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 52 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It'll probably be happening a lot more now

[–] Vupware@lemmy.zip 25 points 2 days ago

I have the urge… to buy a bunch of Made in China flags… and do some arts and crafts.

[–] MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 35 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is likely to apply more to conservatives than anyone else. Slapping words on a flag? Desecration. Using it for advertising? Desecration. Adding symbols (like guns)? Desecration. It's not going to be enforced like that, but the hypocrisy is real.

[–] n1ck_n4m3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

The whole gimmick of conservatism is to bind people you don't like with laws while exempting people you do like from the same laws. Nothing new.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The conservatives wallow in hypocrisy. These were the same assfucks that were calling themselves free speech absolutists, too.

As usual, they are absolutely full of shit.

[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

You left out the thin blue line flag.

[–] RunJun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Flag burning happens all the time, mostly done by the Scouts.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yup, 8 year old me was clearly a criminal.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I was a bit older than 8, but I learned to smoke weed in the Boy Scouts.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Ha, I wish my pack was that cool. I think the coolest thing we got to do was shoot guns and go skiing.

Also proper retirement of flags is done in a pyre. I was in boy scouts when I was a kid and we had to do it semi frequently.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 43 points 2 days ago
[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Makes me wanna start burning flags out of pure spite

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When a flag is so tattered that it can no longer serve as a symbol of the United States, it should be destroyed in a dignified manner, preferably by burning.

What about if the country is so tattered?

[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Then it should be destroyed in a dignified manner, preferably by burning.

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 hours ago

How Canadian of you.

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'd burn a flag in protest but it's not worth the price of buying a flag

[–] optissima@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

A blowtorch will effectively burn flag stickers on jacked-up pickup trucks. Not that I'm advocating such a thing.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 9 points 2 days ago

Especially with those tariffs.

[–] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago

One year? Eh I'll still do it as it is my freedom of speech.

So in other words, FUCK YOU!

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'll get some flags with the wrong number of stars or stripes and burn them. I'll also burn Confederate flags because fuck those traitors, and I'll burn pictures of Pig Boy Trump and stick pins into bloated orange dolls.

Yeah do what Disney does, the flags in the Disney parks are missing stars or bars so that they don’t have to follow the flag code

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Trump need to be targeted by the high cholesterol and sodium in this body and die.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 hours ago

He must have the world's laziest arterial plaques.

[–] BiCow@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"The Attorney General shall prioritize the enforcement to the fullest extent possible of our Nation’s criminal and civil laws against acts of American Flag desecration that violate applicable, content-neutral laws, while causing harm unrelated to expression, consistent with the First Amendment" If I am reading this correctly, all the Trump enthusiasts desecrating a flag with their diesel exhaust while speeding/road rage/DUI should all be round up. So vague in wording not even describing what desiccating the flag means...

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

All of his executive orders read like they were spit out by an LLM. Which they probably were.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 hours ago

Trump is like an LLM trained on stupid. He's a Markov process generating horse shit.

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Is there toilet paper with the US flag? I have the urge to wipe my arse with it.

[–] Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 days ago

Isn't the pedo-in-charge already doing that? Oh no wait, that's the constitution...

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

TP with Trump's face exists.

♪ There's a lot of flag burners ♪♪ Who have got too much freedom ♪♪ I want to make it legal for policemen to beat 'em ♪

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nothing unconstitutional about that.

At least for now. Won't be once it goes to the White Supremacist Court.

[–] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago