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[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 21 points 4 days ago (9 children)

Can someone explain to me why someone would wear crocs with the American flag? I get hanging it outside your house. But using it as a fashion item is something my european mind does not comprehend

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago

white nationalism

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The flag is never supposed to touch the ground, its considered an insult to the flag and non-patriotic.

So I'm all for it 👍

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ah, but are the nuts allowed to touch the ground? Cause I remember a whole patriot song about it.

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Hmm, gotta brush up on me Sack Code

[–] Sunnshine@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago

It’s the same as people wearing crap with the Union Jack on it.

[–] vogi@piefed.social 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I like that you are more confused about the crocs being american than the nuts that are hanging from them :)

What do the nuts actually symbolize? Im so lost there.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

There has been a trend among the dumbest of the dumb rednecks to hang fake rubber nuts off the hitch on their jewelry pickup truck. They think it makes them look masculine, when it makes them look even stupider than they actually are.

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think they’re just meant to be funny.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

I'm just waiting for them to hang nuts on their gun

It's how rednecks proclaim trans positivity. The truck wasn't built with testicles, and then they added them, which alters the truck's gender. How progressive.

[–] inmate_p01135809@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

That the person they belong to is a dick.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Can someone explain to me why someone would wear crocs with the American flag?

They found a pair at Goodwill or some other discount site and cared more about saving a few bucks than looking stylish.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 5 points 4 days ago

That's very generous of you. Given their accessory choices, I would think this person in particular paid a premium for these.

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Idk, you couldn't pay me to wear it

[–] Vreyan31@reddthat.com 2 points 3 days ago

A lot of people here treat the idea of being American like it's a sports team.

Also, it isn't classy. And it isn't meant to be. It also serves to communicate that you are relatable to other non-classy people. That can mean that you are an 'easy going person who accepts people as they come" or it can mean the same "...if you are white" (and conservative).

There was a popular show here in the 70s called the Dukes of Hazard about outlaw redneck hooligans. They drove a car with a Confederate flag on it. That kind of crass display was part of the 'fuck you, you can't tell me what to do' mentality, and it caught on for the aesthetics despite being racist. But I think it also opened the door here to people doing the same thing with the American flag.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 4 days ago

Because their MAGA, so they have to prove it to other MAGAs so ICE doesn't deport them.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It's the same thing that happened to Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentines, Cinco de Mayo, St. Patties, insert any and every holiday here.

Perversion of core values to turn a profit. It just so happens perverting American values like 'freedom' 1) makes people easy to control and 2) makes it easy to sell them shit like truck nuts for your american flag crocs.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I get hanging it outside your house.

I don't know, isn't that weird? Who does that? (US people, obviously, but other than that?)

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

I mean that's also a display of performative patriotism but I've seen that in a ton of countries (Hungary has flags everywhere). But I've never seen it go so far as being made into a fashion item

(Edit: I have actually: UK during the Cool Britannia phase, although it wasn't meant chauvinisticly there)