Damn that'd be a cool ass flag to fly. Too bad I see the wrong kind of people flying it off the back of their elevated coal rollers.
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2025
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I feel like you could straight up show this to a certain type of person, and they'll think it's cool as hell because they'll think it represents how something like "the border wall" will ensure their "freedom".
Yep. They just want to appear more menacing. Doesn’t matter that there are actual people suffering from the menace this symbolizes.
Yeah, this is gonna go viral for all the wrong reasons. 🤢
Sickeningly true...
Literally, my immediate thought process when I saw this earlier today:
- "Yeah, ain't that the fuckin' truth."
- "Hmm. To sticker the car window or no—"
- "Wait, shit."
- "Aw, maaan. They're just gonna add this to their hur-dur-Punisher pile o' shit"
- "Just ...Fuck this timeline."
Also: called it. 🤮
Yeah, predictable, like how sith always choose red.
Don't even get me started on the low-effort BS that Lucas glued that chroma lore together with.
Instead, check out the Radiolab ep on the evolution of rods & cones (title?), and how "blue" is the most recent addition to human vision. It's widely agreed that "red" was one of the first, and how that ties into early religiosity (ie. blood cults, etc.) is super interesting. 🤓🤘🏼
Humans have always had blue vision. Blue was the last primary colour named
Those two sentences are at odds.
No they aren't. "Naming" and "seeing" are two radically different words that mean radically different things. In ancient China, for example, there was no word for green or blue. Instead there was a single word that covered both: 青. (In modern linguistics such terms are called "grue".) You'll find similar things in many other cultures' linguistic history (some even extending to today!).
It doesn't mean they couldn't see the difference. All you have to do to disprove that is look at ancient painted beams in China and see the clearly delineated green and blue segments in complex patterns. If they literally couldn't see blue, this would not exist, yet oddly it does. In fact all they did was classify things differently from modern English. (Today they have 绿 and 蓝 for green and blue respectively, using 青 only for colours like turquoise or the colour of blue-green algae. This is, however, very recent: literally 20th century. The characters have existed for a long time, but were used as shades of 青 for most of that history like we use "sky" and "navy" as shades of blue.)
Trying to claim that they literally couldn't see blue because they named it differently and categorized things differently is risible on the face of it. This would be like me claiming you couldn't tell the difference between sky blue and navy blue because in English they're both called "blue". It takes literally seconds of thought to figure out that this claim is bullshit using just your own language and colour differentiation as the evidence.
FFS. Breathe. Also, go find the episode, then maybe I'll sift through this yarp.
Translation: "I'm too lazy to back up my bullshit."
Buh-bye.
There's not much blue in the world other than sea and sky, and those have their own names
And if you'd taken the moment to listen to said episode, you might be a little more aware of the context — but who expects that of rando anons these days. 🫣
Yes. Who'd expect a random anon to do more than vaguebooking an episode without links and then using that as "proof".
You utter berk.
Aw. 😚
The number of people who believe that ancient civilizations couldn't see blue is truly scary to me.
Perhaps it's meant to be flown upside down?
Needs 13 dicks in a circle to finish it off.
Whoa who the hell came up with that? That's good fucking design.
I don't how to say this without sounding like a dick. Do we really need yet another trendy version of the American flag right now? Every time something shitty happens a new flag emerges. Never a time when something good happens a flag comes out or it's just the standard flag. How many other countries do this? Yeah, I know, maybe the US should quit doing shitty things, but still I genuinely want to know what other countries make trendy flags every time some shit happens.
Embrace tradition. Fly Mark Twain's proposed flag 
it is more common here because flying the flag, in general, is far more common than in most places. The US takes flag waving seriously, so it is perfectly fit for redesign in protest.
Wait, what are the other trendy flags?
This is a legitimate question, the only other flag I can think of that gained popularity is the thin blue line version of the American flag.
You swap the blue in that flag for red and it’s “pro firefighters”. Green is “first responders/EMT”. Pretty sure I’ve seen a thin grey line as well, but I’m not sure of the origins.
Oh ok, I think I’ve seen those too.
Fwiw I don’t really see these widespread where I am, in Ohio. Except for the many bootlickers that fly the thin blue line one, the others are relatively rare in my experience.
So they aren’t that trendy at least. Not nearly as much as slapping the American flag on some other symbol like the punisher skull.
The origins of the thin blue line was when black lives matter started it with the black and white flag. This is what I mean by trendy flags. The intent it to show symbolism but the symbolism is lost when all you had to do was put a blue line over one of grey lines and say "blue lives matter" then paint a red line and say "Fire fighter lives matter" or even a yellow line for just first response dispatch (911) in general. Then whoever makes them make a ton of money because they end up on the same trucks running a punisher skull which makes no sense. I mean I knew I was going to get down voted but my intent was to see what other country actually does this.
No other country that I know of has as great a flag fetish as the USA, except maybe their illegitimate hellspawn the Zionist entity.