Ben Royce 🇺🇦Jun 14
@phoenixgee @tokensane so you bring the American flag to lefty protests like #NoKings so there is no confusion. or you fly the American flag next to the rainbow flag on your porch, same effect. if for no other reason than the pettiest of reasons: to piss off MAGA
Show threadThe Sleight Doctor 🃏Jun 14

@benroyce @phoenixgee @tokensane I'm trying to not post anything other than aerial shots of the protests, but yeah, this one guy had American flag shorts, t-shirt, hat *and* flag! Fucking legend.

I usually hate the veneration of flags (all of them) but on exactly the grounds you suggest - that it puts buzzing bees in the brains of MAGA - I approve in this specific case. 😆

Show threadBen Royce 🇺🇦

@ApostateEnglishman @phoenixgee @tokensane

if it makes MAGA cry, it's a good thing

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I was impressed by the number of #American #flags at our #protest

International observers you are entitled to dislike the #flag but domestically we must wrest the #symbol back from #MAGA

#Capitulation and #complacency towards what #bigots falsely claim as theirs is not acceptable

#NoKings #USA #US

Show threadGabriel Adrian SamfiraJun 14

@benroyce As someone looking from the outside, I can say that I do not dislike your flag.

Stay safe, film everything, keep things peaceful. Don't fall for traps. Sometimes there are plants that try to turn protests violent. Isolate/distance yourself from them.

Show threadBen Royce 🇺🇦Jun 14

@gabriel

they're driving by shouting insults and "MAGA"

ignored

Show threadToken Sane PersonJun 14
@benroyce Absolutely. Here in the #UK in the 70s and 80s the far-right National Front hijacked the Union Jack, so nobody else wanted to display it for fear of being thought an NF supporter. Thankfully those days are gone. Don't let the MAGAts do the same to your flag.
Show threadLynn McAlister UE  Jun 14
@tokensane @benroyce The
"Freedom Convoy" did that with ours for a while too, but Trump has helped the rest of us reclaim it.
Show threadK_L_CooperJun 14
@tokensane @benroyce
Show threadslotrakJun 14
@benroyce and they do not honor the flag. They plaster Donny Dollhands all over it.
https://us-flag.net/code/
US Flag Code

Show threadquixoteJun 14
@benroyce Plus, it is Flag Day. Perfectly appropriate to be waving all the flags.
Show threadBen Royce 🇺🇦Jun 14
@quixote holy crap how did i forget that. and someone with a New Zealand handle reminding me. I am ashamed
Show threadquixoteJun 15
@benroyce I lived in the US for decades. But I'd forgotten too. I saw it somewhere else today 😆 .
Show threadelminuto (punkstodon.de)Jun 15
@benroyce
Big respect, love and solidarity from germany!
Even though I personaly don't like national flags I know most US-Americans have a different relation to it. And it's good to see that so many of you are protesting!
Stay strong!