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Flag flown upside down as sign of distress outside of US State Department building today (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

There’s only one way this gets stopped. And the people that would need to do it think they’ll have a ‘prime minister’ title when the dust settles and not that they’ll be chucked out a window. It’s some weapons grade stupid and apathy letting this happen and they’re just hoping that god king chooses to keep them around it’s all so pathetic

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Is this real
What does it mean?
Where are we in terms of worrying? Should I begin to start to think about worrying or something more urgent?

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[–] [email protected] 152 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Imagine being the person running this up the pole at the fucking state department.

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[–] [email protected] 372 points 1 day ago (28 children)

That seems like a very bad sign. Someone wanted a message to get out to the public, but I'm not entirely sure what can be effectively done about it. Credit to the person with the balls to send out the warning, though.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

let me help you understand.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I love that you linked this through fucking amazon.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

This is gonna be in my view history on our shared account, and my wife is gonna ask if I'm okay lmao

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

;) very intentional on my part.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It looks like this is the end.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 day ago (6 children)

The house has been burning and smoking for hours and people are still thinking that the fire just started

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Is this real? Nobody is reporting on it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It is on reddit

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm surprised they haven't pulled it the way they went ban crazy this morning.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Right??? Protest coordination on traditional social media is like… iffy now, at best.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It really makes me wonder how people were able to pull this shit off in the 50s, 60s and 70s when we can't make it happen today with everything available to us.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago

Based on white people Twitter ban this is similar to Luigi situation...

People are just overwhelming their modding ability.

It will be taken down and the opposition sentiment will be supressed in due course.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Wasn't the upside down us flag thing used by j6'ers? Are the line workers taking it back as the symbol of a stolen country for themselves, or is this Musk and crew indicating we're fucked?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

It has been used by punk bands and Anarchists waaay before that

[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 day ago

It's a sign of distress.
They were distressed, but it's only because they're sore losers and couldn't cope with Trump losing.
This is actual distress, it's appropriate this time.

[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Its nothing exclusive to J6. Its an international sign that an insurrection or coup has occurred or is occurring.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Not quite, it's an international sign that a vessel is in distress.

Then mostly right wing lunatics co-opted it to mean that our country is in distress.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

international

How does that work for a ship from a country like Cuba?

Do they hang it backward? I.e. With the red arrow pointing toward the pole?

What about Japan?

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Which they co-opted from protesters in the 60's, rallying against the Vietnam war, which they co-opted from the Revolutionary war, where (allegedly, much harder to source), the revolutionaries also flew the Union Jack inverted. Its history to mean insurrection in the US is as old as the US.

Its been used in many other instances internationally, and yes, also at sea with a much deeper history to signal distress. Regardless, the pedantry is both technically and figuratively misplaced.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago

which they co-opted from the Revolutionary war, where (allegedly, much harder to source), the revolutionaries also flew the Union Jack inverted.

If they did, I assume a half dozen vexillology enthusiasts with good eyesight got very concerned.

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[–] [email protected] 404 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I mean the US is certainly in distress

[–] [email protected] 167 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Definitely. Do we know if the people who wanted a criminal moron in charge are still cheering him on, or are they starting to catch on to the fact that his plan always was to thoroughly fuck everyone over? Well, everyone but his clique.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

in south park he fucks illegal canadians to death, but in real life he is doing it to americans

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago

They're completely caught in the misinfo and still cheering him on. Anyone getting hurt must have deserved it and if they're getting hurt it just shows how important it is to hurt the others back.

[–] [email protected] 135 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They're still cheering. No other awareness to be had

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

As long as the right people get hurt they're happy.

Republicans would shit their own pants just to make us smell it.

They're gonna be a lot less happy when they try putting armed citizens in camps and they get fucking shot.

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