Flag flown upside down as sign of distress outside of US State Department building today
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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.
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The house has been burning and smoking for hours and people are still thinking that the fire just started
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Right??? Protest coordination on traditional social media is like… iffy now, at best.
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in south park he fucks illegal canadians to death, but in real life he is doing it to americans
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Imagine being the person running this up the pole at the fucking state department.
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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.
So, actually quite correct.
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let me help you.
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I love that you linked this through fucking amazon.
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very intentional on my part.
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This is gonna be in my view history, and my wife is gonna ask if I'm okay lmao
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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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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
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Eh. The majority are chillin.
This is exactly what they voted for.
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international
How does that work for a ship from a country like Cuba?
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Which of the conservative media in the US do you expect to report it?
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they didn't use maligned, monitored areas for communication.... people today should coordinate face-to-face or at worst via telephone if they haven't already exposed themselves.
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I think so.
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That's unclear but my take is that this is an expression of the distress felt by the employees, and perhaps the only possible outlet for their feelings. I suspect that it's more likely the action of one or two people rather that some kind of collectively approved signal.
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I just don't know. I'm not even American but I feel very discombobulated.
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