Will you be waving that flag on July 4th?

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I was gifted an American flag and a flagpole when I bought my house a few years ago. I have not hung it yet, but am considering it for next week.   I still remember my parents hanging one on 6/4/76.  

What do you guys think?

I won't.

I think the left should go all in on the flag just to piss off MAGA, but no I won't be flying the flag but also I have never had a flag so not really about this year. 

I fly mine a lot. Upside down most days, but right side up when Veteran's Day or Memorial Day or D-Day rolls around. This month has mostly been the pride flag, except for D-Day and Election Day last week. In a few days, the American flag will return.

We need to reclaim our flag and what it means. They may be good at fucking things up, and claiming they are the true Americans, but they are wrong, and they can't destroy or diminish my patriotism, no matter what they think of it.  

Some flag waving days, I wear this shirt as well. Very appropriate in Utah, and becoming more so nationwide.  

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Yes, upside down.  Don't let the Right claim a monopoly on patriotism.

 

Yes. 
It will not be upside down, but I'll stand on my head... 

NOPE!​

Yes I will. Fuck tRump go America. Motherfucker hasn't intimidated me. Go United States. 

Yes I will. Fuck tRump go America. Motherfucker hasn't intimidated me. Go United States. 

Yes I will. Fuck tRump go America. Motherfucker hasn't intimidated me. Go United States. 

Yes I will. Fuck tRump go America. Motherfucker hasn't intimidated me. Go United States. 

Yes I will. Fuck tRump go America. Motherfucker hasn't intimidated me. Go United States. 

Yes I will. Fuck tRump go America. Motherfucker hasn't intimidated me. Go United States. 

I am a realist. Only the Evil Orange Orangutan could destroy what should have been a great milestone for the USA. This is a far cry from the 200th celebration. Our country is virtually unrecognizable. I cannot celebrate the shit show that America has become. It is quite unsettling and depressing. Our country will take generations to heal and get better if at all. The planet is a very sad place right now. I have no doubt that when the earth has had enough of the human species running and ruining it, it will reclaim it. I will observe July 4th by listening to as many of the July 4th performances of the Grateful Dead (one of the truly great things that mankind has produced) that I can. I believe there were 7 in total, I'll have to check my vast collection to see if I have them all. Fare thee well my fellow zoners and enjoy the day as you see fit. May there come a time again for this country where we let the good times roll. 

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

---  A.  Einstein

 

Don't think I own an american flag...    Tibetan prayer flags, which are cool even though I'm a poly-athiest.  Think i'll take a big bong rip, and blow some patriotic smoke while chanting USA USA, derka derk

I fly one in my neighborhood all summer long. I've never associated the flag with any particular political movement or party. 

We got one and flew it in those few days of unity after 9/11.

Haven't flown it since and won't this weekend.

Yes, just like everyday, up with me and down at sunset. I love the USA but not who is class president right now.

We're on holiday in Ireland. Avoiding the whole thing....

Apparently America 250 stands for the number of people going to the mall in DC for the celebration. 

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I'm sure some of you remember -- as a jr hippie in the early 70s, wearing the flag as clothes, or wearing the flag upside down on your jean jacket, could get you a lot of unwanted attention. 

(Then again, this was back when blue jeans were "illegal" to wear in public school.)

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Abbie Hoffman got arrested in 1968 for wearing a flag shirt.

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https://www.nytimes.com/1968/10/04/archives/yippie-leader-arrested-on-fl... (gift link)

I will most definitely be burning the only flag I own 
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^Star Spangled Bruce Banner....the kind of patriotism I can get behind. 

I will happily drop my pants and shake my ass at a flag. 

The only way I would fly an American flag in the last decade is under distress

We will be camping up in the Big Horn mountains in Wyoming on July 4 but got a small flag to fly at our campsite.

Some crazy kids on the tippy top of the Empire State Building today:

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WHEN THE POWER OF LOVE
BEATS THE LOVE OF POWER
THE WORLD KNOWS PEACE
 

((((((( Good Trouble )))))))

(((( huge balls ))))

the real cost of the flag independence and the politics behind it....

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Quite the contrary, on this date July 4, 2026 we have established the sovereign municipality of the New Republic of West Florida.

 

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That is gold!  The Zone in a nutshell.

I broke down, put up a temporary flagpole and a 3 ft. Old Glory, right-side up.  I won't let "them" win.

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