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In reply to the discussion: Protesting is Great. BUT WHY carry Mexican Flags? This will not gain supporters... [View all]
Scrivener7
(57,157 posts)137. Maga people don't give a shit if American soldiers
shoot at Mexican flags. It's exactly what they wanted when they voted for him and this is us obliging them.
If they saw those same soldiers shooting at a sea of American flags, it would scare the crap out of them.
Someone in this thread told me, "This isn't marketing." They're wrong. It's ALL marketing.
My message is DO what will further our goals, not theirs.
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Protesting is Great. BUT WHY carry Mexican Flags? This will not gain supporters... [View all]
Radical Lutheran
Jun 2025
OP
Puerto Rico is a US Commonwealth, big difference, on edit, unincorporated territory of the USA
Shellback Squid
Jun 2025
#3
LBGQT obviously isn't another country. Are these protests in support of the country of Mexico??
still-prayin4rain
Jun 2025
#27
Trump has threatened to bomb Mexico, the flags support Mexico. It's not that hard to see why they bring them
Blues Heron
Jun 2025
#53
California once belonged to Mexico. Los Angeles was founded hundreds of years ago by the Spaniards....
Hekate
Jun 2025
#19
"Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's minds &
Ping Tung
Jun 2025
#21
Both of us are making it about the flag in this conversation. It's a conversation about the flag.
Scrivener7
Jun 2025
#48
We are both aware of how he got elected, and we both mourn it. We both protest to support the Hispanic community.
Scrivener7
Jun 2025
#50
So, right now there is a choice. We Democrats can either bemoan what is happening and blame each other, or we can
Scrivener7
Jun 2025
#60
We have to agree to disagree on the best way to move our mutual goals forward.
Scrivener7
Jun 2025
#97
It's dumb, but there are just always going to be brainless agitators in every crowd.
Wingus Dingus
Jun 2025
#35
If it is RW waving them, why don't the legitimate protesters seize and destroy them ?
MichMan
Jun 2025
#108
Trump has threatened to bomb Mexico - of course the mexican flag will be flown at protests
Blues Heron
Jun 2025
#54
It's also like people conveniently forgot about the January 6th rioters beating police officers with American flags.
Basso8vb
Jun 2025
#75
How kind of you to join the site and tell everyone how to properly fight authoritarianism
AStern
Jun 2025
#71
At least I didn't sign up and start an OP telling the site that they're doing it all wrong.
AStern
Jun 2025
#87
It's just another freaking flag. I'm a Lutheran and I don't get mad at the Germans, Nowegian, Swedish flags ...
marble falls
Jun 2025
#73
If you don't want to fight each other, just support the protestors and not tell them what you don't like.
Cuthbert Allgood
Jun 2025
#112
Celebrating St Patrick's day is one thing, but flying an Irish flag isn't going to gain supporters.
Cuthbert Allgood
Jun 2025
#103
People are pissed, they aren't thinking, plus these are spontaneous, no one is leading
CanonRay
Jun 2025
#109