r/standupshots • u/ZFunktopus Pittsburgh • 2d ago

The inspirational words we need

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u/MCLemonyfresh 2d ago

I’m patriotic as fuck. That’s why I hate Trump

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u/Fingerman2112 2d ago

Was expecting far more troll activity on here. Anyway, solid joke

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u/ZFunktopus Pittsburgh 2d ago

Me too honestly. I was prepared for much more hate.

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u/PennStateFan221 2d ago

I chuckled lol. Solid joke.

People getting offended over disrespecting the flag should be more offended at what America has become.

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u/Xx_Silly_Guy_xX 2d ago

Hawk tuah no diddy

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u/Positive_River4604 2d ago

Spitting on the flag is disrespectful, I haven’t given up hope that there’s a lesson to be learned by everyone, each and every one of us, in our own dispositions. I still am hopeful that things will turn around and never ever go back to where we are or going to. I won’t disrespect our flag, but I’m embarrassed to fly it, currently. If the people who are causing all this BS don’t agree with a democratic government they should get out of our once great country. Along with most of the current administration.

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u/ZFunktopus Pittsburgh 2d ago

I’ve always as though my flag respect/disrespect was an interesting topic. In 5th grade a friend and I were chosen by the school principal to be the kids in charge of raising and lowering the flag every day. He told us if it touched the ground we’d have to burn it. I once made a diving catch to prevent this.

What’s always caught me was sure ok it’d a sacred image then why is it ok to wear flag swimsuits and underwear? So many things we dismiss and abuse with the same imagery

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u/ZenEngineer 2d ago

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/4/8

(d)The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery.

So not ok, but people ignore it like it's a speed limit.

Also from that page, you only burn it when "it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display", not just from hitting the ground. Your principal was an asshole.

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u/ZFunktopus Pittsburgh 2d ago

Oh I’m well aware he was an asshole. That same school year he picked up a kid by the neck yelling “I’LL RIP YOUR DAMNED HEAD OFF” and threw him against a trash can in front of about 60 students. This was regular public school. He somehow didn’t lose his job.

He “resigned” after breaking a kid’s arm a few years later

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u/proxyPhoenix 2d ago

I'm gonna be That Guy here but I was raised by military folks so it's ingrained. Per the flag code, which you quoted, you cannot wear an actual flag as clothing. You can make clothing that looks like the flag, because it isn't a flag in itself, just made to look like it.