American flag in pickup trucks

[kaylasdad99]

@anomalous1

Having a flag on your truck just means the owner is patriotic. It doesn’t make anyone an ‘asshole’ necessarily. While I think it’s kind of nice and support those that do it, I have my suspicions about the motives of some.

Believe it or not, it’s possible to be patriotic without displaying any totems of that fact at all. Personally, on a day-to-day basis, I think it’s preferable.

For instance, I seen a Ford F-450 with a huge lift kit and two American flags on the truck, driving through one of the most liberal neighborhoods in Chicago (Wicker Park-Milkwaukee-Damen) and even being conservative leaning myself, I was suspicious they had a motive for doing that. They were likely stereotyping liberals as American flag haters, just as those who assume White+Pickup Truck+Flag = “white and racist”. In this case they both may have been right in their assumptions. Just what I thought though, could’ve been completely innocuous.

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Did you just say “I SEEN a Ford F-450?” I think I have to go lie down.

[eschereal]

@FoieGrasIsEvil

Yes, and also gigantic bed-mounted exhaust pipes that spew noxious diesel smoke onto all the unsuspecting “fags” that drive Mazda Miatas and Toyota Prius cars.

There is a term for that behavior. Those who revel in it modify their trucks with a fuel-flow controller so they can press a button to make massive clouds of black smoke.

‘It’s just fun,’ says Robbie, a 25-year-old South Carolina mechanic. ‘Just driving and blowing smoke and having a good time.’