Breaking rules I agree with = crime
Breaking rules I don’t agree with = you can’t take my freedom!
That, and typical. Don’t forget typical.
Don’t forget “you better not take a fucking knee!”
There’s a premise that the Confederate Flag became not just a symbol of Southern heritage and State’s rights, but of good ol’ boy heritage and independence and freedom from government restriction.
Bolding added.
This fits very well with the appropriation of the imagery and mixing it with the Texas “Come and Take 'Em” slogan that has been taken on by the gun enthusiasts, as well as the “Don’t Tread On Me” banner. The addition of the assault rifle imagery is well in that line of thought.
Certainly there’s a large element of overt racists using it as a symbol for their ideology, but there’s subset of use by white rednecks who have been fed a new line of propaganda that the meaning of the flag is not about white supremacy, but about American values and standing up to government oppression.
Well, some of these folks aren’t for reversing all the social distancing and other safety measures, they just want to relax the stay-at-home element to allow more businesses and business types to be active so they can earn a living again. When you’re faced with being out of work, no paycheck, bills due and food running out, it’s easy to see motivation to want some relief. However, they are congregating too close together (packed against the doors is the ultimate in extreme version), and there are many who aren’t wearing masks who think the issue is more hype than real or buy in to the conspiracy line.
The folks sporting their guns and body armor is all about their “independence” motif, the “government is oppressing us”. They’re conflating the safety measures with the idea that the liberals are coming for their guns. They’re wearing their equipment to indicate they are getting motivated for more direct protest and resistance if required. There definitely is a Free Men on the Land/militia group element.
Um, feigned? How do you know she wasn’t sincere? Being fostered in the ideas by her parents doesn’t make them false for her.
For the same reason neo-nazis in Germany wave them: it’s a white nationalist symbol and Trumpism is a white nationalist movement.
We get that. We all get that. All too many of us and our neighbors are facing that very problem right now.
But smashing together in a crowd, no masks but plenty of guns, does not strike me as the best way either to protest or solve the problem, and certainly no way to keep healthy in a pandemic.
Local business owners in my area are finding new ways to run their businesses with on-line, on-phone ordering and curbside pickups. THAT’s what we need to do.
Unfortunately, some businesses by their very nature can’t be done that way - hair stylists, for example. Nail mani-pedi. Tattoo parlors. I’m sorry, but there’s no way to run those businesses without person-to-person contact. Of course, if we were in a same world the government would be actively trying to help those folks survive, even if their businesses lapse. Regrettably, we don’t live in a sane world.
Sure, but who’s dumbass idea was it to explicitly include massage parlors?
(I do not hate massage parlor workers, nor do I wish them any harm or suffering. Just to be clear.)
I saw a clip of a guy, not wearing a mask, saying that COVID was created by corporations so they could charge people for treatment. And his plan is to get it so they can do that? That’s a fucking true blue capitalist!
Some horny guy’s?
It is not a condition that encourages shrewd decisions.
I’ve seen at least one theory that Kemp deliberately included businesses like this because, if the state says it’s okay for them to work, then they can’t apply for benefits under business interruption insurance, nor (if they are workers and not owners) can they get unemployment benefits.
Wish I could find that again. Unless I read it here and already forgot I had.
The last 5 or 6 weeks have felt like an entire year has gone by, if not more.
Wisconsin says to Michigan: “Hold my beer.”
Isn’t there a couple sheriffs in Washington State that are going to not info ever the spray at home order?
You mean with disinfectant, like you-know-who extolled?
Heehee stay at home
And then there’s this Michigan state senator who wore a homemade mask that bore a resemblance to the Confederate flag. He denied that it was actually a Confederate flag, and went on to say:
I agree people should be taught about history, but to suggest that wearing symbols of oppression in non-didactic settings constitutes some sort of educational effort is laughably disingenuous. I wonder what he’ll say when he gets caught wearing Klan robes.
^I find it amusing that jackass lying sack of crap state senator actually thinks the Civil War could happen again. That’s quite the stand to take to excuse wearing that rag.
Oh look, one of North Carolina’s Branch Covidians has tested positive.
:smack:
The stupid clod doesn’t get it.
Though, thanks to her, others will.
… even if it were a Confederate flag, it represents a part of our history and we should be teaching about the “atrocities that happened during that time” so it doesn’t happen again."
Machine Elf, I took this from your most recent post, as I wanted to comment on the person who said it.
Atrocites that happened during the Civil War? Try asking my great-great-grandfather, who was incarcerated at the notorious Confederate Andersonville prison. He had intermittent health problems for the rest of his life. And the commanding officer of that prison was the only person executed for war crimes, things were so bad. Noble Confederates my ass.