You can love your country while wanting it to be better

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Anonymous #2 22h

Not while flying a flag that represents colonialism, slavery and the bombing of millions of innocents 😭

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Anonymous #1 21h

would be better if the USA flag was upside down

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Anonymous #2 21h

In fact, that’s exactly what loving your country is! Working to make it the best place it can be.

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Anonymous #5 21h

Yes by burning that violent racist flag down 🔥🔥🔥

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Anonymous #1 21h

Are you familiar with the writing of Nikole Hannah-Jones?

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Anonymous #5 21h

Yes, thought she was brilliant in 2019. 2020ish I heard her take on the American flag and very much disagreed and now I’m an actual leftist

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Anonymous #1 21h

She is brilliant, and I’d recommend reexamining your thoughts on her.

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Anonymous #5 21h

Nah she’s a liberal and I’m a Marxist Leninist. My political beliefs have veered very much to the left since 2020

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Anonymous #1 21h

She’s still correct about the flag

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Anonymous #5 21h

Most definitely disagree. America was never designed to be for us. It was always designed for white capital owners. That’s what that flag has always meant to represent. There is nothing to reclaim. We need a new flag that represents all and plays homage to the ppl we stole this country from

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Anonymous #1 8h

You can reclaim the flag and adopt it to your needs. Honestly it’s far more powerful of a message to fly it with the BLM flag

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Anonymous #1 5h

We see here in action how Liberal tendencies downplay and legitimize American imperial violence

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Anonymous #7 3h

Bro I’m just saying messaging is more effective if we do it in the name of loving our country. Don’t put words in my mouth.

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ur so embarrassing i hope you become smart one day

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Anonymous #5 3h

True. I’d say being a patriot is necessary to be a communist. However, there are two types of patriotism: there is our patriotism and there is liberal & fascistic nationalism. We must be patriots, but with the recognition that this government has never served us, with a recognition that this is a flag of imperialism, with a recognition of our class interests. Liberal nationalism forgets this

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Anonymous #7 3h

A flag represents a people, and we are that people. You’re ascribing your own thoughts onto it, and they’re not what most people see. Wrap yourself in the flag, and you’re far more likely to win. This is basic messaging strategy.

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